Well, dear readers, I have been having so much fun playing The Pediatrician and the Randy Vicar all the livelong day and night. Now, tell the truth – many of you dear Hainsies are sitting there scratching your collective heads (no mean feat) and thinking, “The Pediatrician and the Randy Vicar? Just what in tarnation is he going on about now?” And you are thinking that because some (not all) of you have been truant and errant, not necessarily in that order. So, you will have to use the Unseemly Archive Button and go back and read this weekend’s notes to find out what in tarnation I’m going on about.
I was very excited to see that we had an Unseemly Donation this morning, and to that lovely person I offer a hale and hearty thanks. Your Unseemly Donations will allow us to add handy-dandy improvements and new features to this here site, for example, an interactive version of The Pediatrician and the Randy Vicar.
We have a High Winner in our trivia contest. This week we only had three people actually try to guess the answer to the question, so this means that the question was very hard or we had many errant and truant Hainsies this weekend. Speaking of errant and truant, my errant and truant and quite disgusting fingernail on my right pinkie, the one that I smashed in a drawer in the Doubletree Hotel in Manhattan last September, is hanging there like so much fish and it is making me nauseous. Whatever shall I do. It is ready to come off, is completely loose at the left side and the back, but is tenaciously attached at the right. I want to yank the mother right off, but will that hurt? Will that be good or bad, hanging nail-wise? If there are any manicurists out there, or anyone who knows how best to get this grody thing off my pinkie, please post it below in the Unseemly Comment Box so I can get this damn unseemly thing off me. Also, if someone could please tell all of us why my pinkie is called a pinkie rather than a yellowie or a greenie, we’d all be ever so appreciative.
Well, let’s announce our trivia contest High Winner and Subsequent Winner, shall we? But first, you know the drill – first we must all click on the Unseemly Button below, so that we can be whisked off to Triviaanswerland.
Here is the trivia question that was asked on Saturday morning, for those who were errant and truant:
For the pre-Broadway tryout of this 60s musical, the ingénue role was played by a newcomer who was fired on the road. Although she subsequently returned to Broadway in non-musical roles she is best known as an Oscar-nominated film actress. Her replacement for the Broadway run of the show had no prior Broadway credits and no traceable subsequent ones either. For the First National Tour, the role was an early one for a musical star who eventually won a Tony for her best known role. Name the musical, the character and the three actresses described above.
And the answer is: The show was A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. The actress who was fired on the road (in the role of Philia) was Karen Black. The actress who replaced her was Preshy Marker. And the actress who did the role in the first national tour was none other than Miss Donna McKechnie. Congratulations to our High Winner, Mr. Michael Shayne, and our subsequent winner, who is batting 100%, Paul Fairie. If Mr. Michael Shayne will get us his handy-dandy address, we, in turn, will send him his handy-dandy prize.
This fingernail on my pinkie is grossing me out, dear readers. If any of you saw the way it looked I’m quite certain you would vomit. I received a nice surprise in the mail, another residual check from The Faculty – some kind of showing in Spain. This check was for $0.01. It was originally for $0.02, but I have to split it with my writing partner, David Wechter. Speaking of David Wechter, we hope to have a very rough draft of our brand spanking new musical comedy done by the end of January. I’ve already written the first few scenes and numbers, and now David picks up from there and writes the next three or four scenes, and I do the ones that follow those. This system of splitting up the scenes (after we’ve already plotted and outlined everything – and discussed the content and tone of each sequence), works very well for us.
I think I shall frame my $0.01 residual check. I was going to cash it and go out to dinner, but I think it would be more fun to have it as a souvenir, don’t you? Can one of you dear readers please come over and rid me of this infernal fingernail? I shall not be able to eat supper if I have to look at this thing all day. It was fine when the damn nail was attached to the damn pinkie, but now it’s three-quarters off, one-quarter on (that’s a dollar, for those who are good at addition) and it is just blechh. I hate to keep going on about it, but it always seems to be in my field of vision. Yesterday, I was going on about “it” for quite some time, and “it” was always in my field of vision. “It” was the star of these here notes yesterday, and it was a stellar turn by “it”. Perhaps we should title these here notes, It Came From BK’S Notes II.
Don’t forget to tune in to Mr. Donald Feltham’s very special The Broadway Radio Show this week – Donald picks his favorite cast albums from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, and he assures me there are many controversial and surprising choices.
Well, it’s back to The Pediatrician and the Randy Vicar for me, dear readers. I do hope someone will post the easiest way for me to remove the vomititious hanging fingernail from my otherwise lovely pinkie. In the meantime, I must write a musical and finish editing my very own novel.