![]() ![]() Scheduled to begin shooting in August 2003, funding floundered just before production began. Initially a screenplay Idle had written for himself to direct, then titled Remains of the Piano, the film was planned around an ensemble cast including Idle, Geoffrey Rush, Anjelica Houston, Orlando Bloom, Neve Campbell, Tim Curry, Michael York, Patrick Stewart, Catherine O'Hara, Billy Connolly, Julian Sands, with a cameo appearance by Robin Williams. ![]() When the Reverend Whoopsie discovers the Piano on a beach, a plot is set afoot that can be solved only by Dick, and the incomprehensible Scottish sleuth Inspector McGuffin, who with the aid of Sergeant Ken Russell finally reveals the identity of the Houndsditch Mutilator. Centred on a young man named Dick who is studying philosophy and gynaecology at Oxford his two cousins - Emma, an emotionally repressed English girl, and her kleptomaniac sister Helena and their dipsomaniac Aunt Maggie, who all live together in Kensington in a large, "rambling, Edwardian novel". The story of the decline of the British Empire through the eyes of a Piano. ![]() What About Dick? is a musical comedy and a parody of classic radio plays and period dramas such as Merchant Ivory Productions and Downton Abbey. 26 April 2012: Orpheum Theatre, Los Angeles ![]()
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