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Astonishing Finds at Pickwick Club

I have been spending a bunch of time on the Pickwick Club Forums. I have found some great jems that i thought I would share. Some of the Fans were wondering when the sheet music was going to come out. One of them got proactive and posted the sheet music that she had for Astonishing.
 
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Little Women Fans

I thought I would start of blogging by putting some of the best of conversations from the Pickwick Club forums. The conversation by fans about what to call themselves caught my eye. It was started off by Millie Dillmount she put forward examples from other musicals.

• Rent - Rentheads
• Thoroughly Modern Millie - Millie Geeks or Moderns (?)
• Brooklyn - Brooklynites (I think)

and wondered if the fan community should come up with a name like.

• Little Women Geeks?
• Littlites?

Here are some of the other examples

JoMarch proposd: SuttonFansandthereforewewantLittleWomentosucceedfans

BroToJo proposed: The MARCHing Band

Millie Dillmount proposed: Pickwicks, Little Women Fans and Marchers

littlewomenfan#1: Marmee's Girls

The question was raised about where the reference to Pickwick comes from.
Mary Jo the moderator of the forum put this explanation forward and proposed another interesting name.

In the book the March girls have a family newspaper they called "The Pickwick Portfolio", and when the girls got together to compose their paper they called themselves "The Pickwick Club", after Dickens.

Louisa May Alcott was apparently a huge Dickens fan; the club was taken from his book/serial "The Pickwick Papers" (which I have never read). From what I gather the Pickwick Papers was a social satire full of funny Dickens characters complete with Dickensian names, written when he was fairly young. It's apparently hysterically funny, at least for its time....just haven't got around to reading it, yet.

For a name--how about the "Blood 'n' Guts Brigade"? BnG's, for short. That would REALLY make people go ".....huh?"

This kind of freaked some of the young women on the forum out and faded out as an option.


LilBecky2Shoes proposes something sister-like that means united like "Five Forever" since that is what the show is all about anyway. Since there are guy fans, though, I'm not sure they'd like being called sisters (some might!) so maybe we can work something out... I think the Pickwick Society is good for people who have actually read the book and know the story.. but for people who are just fans of the musical, they're not going to get it, and since this is a fan "society" for the musical more than the book, it should reflect that...

Maybe something based on a song from the show? I'm trying to think outside the box of the regular "fan stuff" but I'm not too creative at 9:30 am!


It seems that the community settled on Pickwicks. Feel free to use the comments field to comment on this more.