Well, dear readers, hold your hats and hallelujah, we’ve got some celebratin’ comin’ to ya. Yes, you heard it here, dear readers, we’ve got some celebratin’ to do. Why do we have some celebratin’ to do you might ask and I might tell you because why should I, bk, withhold such things from you? As it so happens, we’ve got two count them two Hainsies/Kimlets birthdays to celebrate here at haineshisway.com. Yes, Virginia, make it a double. In no particular order, those birthdays belong to dear reader Jrand52 and dear reader Jose. So, we must all put on our pointy party hats, our colored tights and pantaloons, we must break out the cheese slices and the ham chunks, we must dance the hora and perhaps the locomotion and we must party until the cows come home. Let us give a big haineshisway.com birthday cheer to dear readers Jrand52 and Jose. Let us shout it to the highest hill or the lowest brow. On the count of three: One, two, three – HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR READERS JRAND52 AND JOSE!
I have one question: If there is a count of three is there a duke of two? Or an earl of four? Just asking.
What a swell party this is. We must party all the livelong day and all the livelong night. Our partying must not abate. We must not sing The Party’s Over. We must flit about like mad sprites or, at the very least, like mad canada dry ginger ales. What fun we shall have – eating, drinking and being merry madcaps. Yes, Virginia, we will have merriment and mirth and laughter and legs right here at haineshisway.com. And to anyone who says nay we say phut. Yes, we say phut to any naysayer.
I do believe that preorders for Jeepers Creepers are available from Scarlet Street. We will have sound clips and a link to the order page, but if you want to order it before we have said clips and link, just go to www.scarletstreet.com.
Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below so we can keep this party on its toes.
Isn’t this a sparkling party we’re having? I, myself, am stuffed to the gills with cheese slices and ham chunks. Are you? I have already danced the hora and the mashed potato, and I am now dancing the lambada.
Well, blow me over with a linguini noodle, but we had many correct answers to what I thought would be a totally baffling Unseemly Trivia Contest question. But, then again, we have the most intelligent dear readers this side of bacon. Here was the question:
This play started life in a college. This play then played off-Broadway. This play played a brief engagement on Broadway and toured. For the most part, the Broadway cast and the tour cast were one and the same, but the off-Broadway cast was totally different. This play was turned into a motion picture flop, which starred two people who had starred in classic Broadway musicals – neither of these people were in the play. The author of the play went on to write the books for at least two musicals – one played Broadway, one didn’t. The play’s director was known for directing classic Broadway musicals. In its off-Broadway incarnation, the play in question featured an actress in a supporting role who would soon thereafter star in two beloved musicals. In its Broadway and tour cast, its supproting male lead would go on to star in a hugely successful long-running 90s television series (still on the air, I believe), and its leading lady was a beloved performer who’d been on Broadway and appeared in two hugely successful musical films – one original to the screen, and the other an adaptation of a classic Broadway musical. Whew!
Name the play.
Name the author and two of his musicals.
Name the leading lady of the limited Broadway run and tour.
Name the male lead of the limited Broadway run and tour
Name the two stars of the motion picture version of the play
Name the director of the play.
Name the featured actress in the off-Broadway version
And here are the answers:
Oh, Dad, Poor Dad, Mama’s Hung You in the Closet and I’m Feelin’ So Sad.
Arthur Kopit – Phantom and Nine (or High Society or Wings)
Hermoine Gingold
Sam Waterston
Rosalind Russell and Robert Morse
Jerome Robbins
Barbara Harris
Our High Winners were JMK, Michael Shayne, Noel Katz, Jed, MattH, Sigerson Holmes, Dave, and Steveg. We have put all those names into our handy-dandy Electronic Hat and our Highest Winner has been chosen randomly by said Electronic Hat. And that Highest Winner is Sigerson Holmes. If he will send me his e-mail address we will send him a sparkling prize. Congratulations to one and all and also all and one.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must work all the livelong day, and then must come home and write and watch a DVD. Today’s topic of discussion: Charles Strouse is one of my favorite composers – what are your favorite melodies by Strouse, with and without Mr. Adams: I’ll start – Once Upon a Time, One Boy, Bye Bye Birdie (from the film), almost all of Rags, You’re Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile, Tomorrow – the rest I’ll leave to you, dear readers. Let’s have loads of lovely posts for me to read whilst I am slaving away slavishly all the livelong day.