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The other day we decided last minute to attend the school play at Benjamin's school.  The play's  title was completely unfamiliar and I wasn't expecting much, though it being a Christian school I knew it would be appropriate for children, however  About two minutes into the first scene I got the funniest feeling I knew the play, and then five minutes in I was sure of it, but it wasn't quite the same.  It reminded me very much of "Hello Dolly"  --  but in the following scenes no matchmaker was to be found.  At intermission I checked out the program and sure enough, "On the Razzle," the name of the play was the English version of the original German play which both "The Matchmaker" and "Hello Dolly" were based upon.  Gone was the music and instead it was rife with spoonerisms and puns and other wordplay, most of which went directly over the heads of anyone under the age of fourteen, and some of which went over mine as the amateur dramatists tended to rush their lines occasionally.  The script can be read in part at "google books" and was cleaned up a little for production at a Christian school, but it was enjoyable.