Well, dear readers, did you know, for example, that there’s got to be a morning after? Yes, you heard it here, dear readers, there’s got to be a morning after and we won’t be searching anymore. I know this thanks to a motion picture entitled The Poseidon Adventure, whose soundtrack I’m currently listening to as I write these here notes. It’s quite a good score by Mr. John Williams, and it features a song entitled The Morning After. It’s amazing what you can learn from a song, isn’t it? If it weren’t for this song I might not know that there’s got to be a morning after or that we won’t be searching anymore. I’m so happy that as of this morning (the morning after I write these here notes) I won’t be searching anymore. And now I am listening to the Original Broadway Cast Recording of The Music Man – I normally listen to the soundtrack, which I love, especially the orchestrations. But the cast album is fun. I’m playing the second CD release of this cast album, the Angel Broadway release. There was an earlier release and I know I have it somewhere and I want to find it. Because what they did for these Angel reissues was center all the singers, where in the original LP and first CD release, they were all over the stereo spectrum, which is fun and I like. Also, I want to see if it sounds as bad as this one in terms of low mastering and to see if it has this much reverb, which it probably does. I can’t wait to hear Shipoopi, the real Shipoopi and not the shameful rewritten lyrics that the new revival uses. I shall luxuriate in their politically incorrect sentiments circa 1911 or thereabouts. And the oh so sensitive woke generation can take the woke new lyrics and shove them up their collective trombones. Plus, I learned a valuable thing from Shipoopi – a girl who’ll kiss on the very first date is usually a hussy. What a score it is. Can you imagine, this show AND West Side Story in the same season. But oh those movie orchestrations, and even the chorus numbers have so much more life on the soundtrack, but you can’t fail with that Warner Bros. orchestra. But wouldn’t it be fun to get in a time machine and see The Music Man on Broadway with Robert Preston and Barbara Cook? It would have been so much fun to hear Trouble for the first time. And Pert Kelton, just perfection and thankfully in the film. I may have to whip out the movie.
Yesterday was a productive day. I got eight hours of sleep. That was productive. Once up, lots of e-mails to answer, telephonic conversations to have, including one with lovely Liz Callaway about a little project I’m thinking about for later in the year. Who knows – we shall see. Then I did a quick bank visit to deposit a little check. I came home and ordered the “lunch” portion of the bow tie pasta with chicken, garlic, and other goodies from the Cheesecake Factory. It got here in about twenty-five minutes and it was really good – but I could have used the normal-sized version – this was only about four ounces of pasta – but goooood.
After that, I buckled down, Winsocki, and wrote my three big sequences for the project with David Wechter. He’d e-mailed me to say he’d finished his scenes. But I didn’t seen them. We work on a “live” document in One Drive and whatever we write we both see immediately. So that was weird. I let him know I’d finished my stuff, but he couldn’t see my stuff. So, something was wrong somewhere. I immediately cut and pasted everything I’d just written into another document, just for safety’s sake. My viewing of the document said “saving” – it should not say that because the saving is automatic and happens instantly when we type. I ultimately quit Word and the relaunched – same thing. But then I got a little error thing that asked if I wanted to fix some issues – by this time David and I were on the phone. So, I clicked yes to fix, and it gave me three things to fix – all slug lines for my new stuff. And then I noticed that auto save was OFF instead of ON. So, I turned it on and voila, suddenly David’s stuff appeared, and my stuff appeared for him. One of us must have shut auto save off accidentally – that’s all I can think of, but at least all’s well that ends well.
That all took a lot of time. Then I tried to watch some stuff, but wasn’t in the mood, so instead I listened to The Poseidon Adventure and learned that there’s got to be a morning after, and now The Music Man is coming to a close.
Today, I’ll be up by ten-thirty, then after I do my morning stuff, I’ll drive over to the dealer where I got my new motor car, and they’ll put in the light that was going out, and then they’ll check the tire pressure, which appears to be low. They don’t have the navigation module yet, which is odd – so, hopefully they’ll give me an ETA on that. After that, I’ll come home, get something to eat, hopefully pick up some packages, and then at seven we have our meet-and-greet and begin learning songs.
Tomorrow is more of the same, but there’s a chance our choreographer won’t be with us after telling us she would – she’ll definitely be with us on Saturday. If she’s not there tomorrow night, I’ll re-stage the opening number and a couple of other numbers I did. I’ll be able to pull up the videos on YouTube so that will make it easier.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, be up by ten-thirty, go to the dealer for my light and tire pressure fixes, hopefully pick up packages, eat, and then have our first get-together for L.A. Now and Then. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s Ask BK Day, the day in which you get to ask me or any dear reader any old question you like and we get to give any old answer we like. So, let’s have loads of lovely questions and loads of lovely answers and loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, secure in the knowledge that there’s got to be a morning after and that we won’t be searching anymore.