One Last Warning to Those Who Try to Stand in My Way

One Last Warning to Those Who Try to Stand in My Way is the changed name of the noble VFD play The World is Quiet Here, by Linda Rhaldeen (an anagram of Daniel Handler).

The play was stolen by Count Olaf Al Funcoot, who changed the title to the "vaguely threatening" title. The new play replaced the opening number "Let the Bell Ring" with a song reflecting Count Olaf's overly self-admiring personality, "Introducing a Very Handsome Man". Also, the final song was replaced with a number as threatening as the play's title, called "Place All Your Valuables on the Stage or Something Dreadful Might Happen to You".

The lead actress in One Last Warning is Esmé Squalor, who replaced Beatrice Baudelaire in the main role.

Lemony Snicket was a theatrical critic at the time this play was changed, and he was very bitter towards it, in part because Beatrice, who he was engaged to at the time, was replaced by Esmé. He wrote an article in The Daily Punctilio about it and was fired because of the article. Snicket called the new play "a dastardly plot", because it was, and criticized Esmé's performance:

"This Esmé cannot act. She cannot sing. And she cannot whistle Mozart's Fourteenth Symphony, as the play - the original play, that is, The World is Quiet Here - requires...I left the theater in disgust."