Mr. Seymour, Production Manager Quotes in Topsy-Turvy (1999)

[giving notes after a dress rehearsal]

Gilbert: Your performances were, on the whole, promising, which is more than can be said, alas, for that of the sliding doors. One of which might have thought it was in Japan, but the other was apparently stubbornly laboring under the misapprehension that it was on holiday in Yorkshire.

[laughter]

Richard Barker: Where was the man, Mr. Seymour?

Mr. Seymour, Production Manager: Rest assured, Mr. Barker, that tomorrow night he will be with us in Japan.

[Seymour, the stage manager, fills in Lely's part during a rehearsal]

Mr. Seymour, Production Manager: [reading from the script, over-acting] Oh, but it's too late! I'm a dead man, and I'm off for my honeymoon.

[Barrington falls about laughing]

George Grossmith: Uncanny, is it not?

Gilbert: Mr. Seymour, please inform Mr. Lely that his services will no longer be required.