Posted by Ben @ 04/20/2003 09:09 AM PST

the new Broadway Radio Show will go up this afternoon and it's another holiday show -- no, it's not Easter, it's ARBOR DAY!

Posted by Donald Feltham @ 04/20/2003 09:15 AM PST

happy holidays to all.

I know you will all be devasted but I will not be able to join in on the chat tomorrow night.

But Bruce and I are hard at work adding adding adding (that's three addings for those that are counting) to www.brucekimmel.com.

New on the site are pages for "Weekday Heroes" an award winning documentary that Bruce wrote and directed for KABC. There is even a two minute excerpt from the documentary for all those to see.

Also: "Playboy On the Air" originally produced for the pay cable channel Nicklelodeon. Just kidding. The Playboy Channel.

and can't forget Murphy's Law of Golf a 30 minute short that is available on video. It stars Tom Poston among others.

There is also Carl Reiner's Good Heavens. Bruce appeared in one of the 13 episodes that ran on ABC.

These are up on the site and can be accessed through Bruce Kimmel Bio page.

Also coming soon will be The Girl With Something Extra a John Davidson TV classic.

Posted by Michael Shayne @ 04/20/2003 09:27 AM PST

BK, I think the reason nobody posted yesterday was because everyone was at the mall. It must have been because the malls are closed today for Easter. But the malls were PACKED!

I cannot discuss Trading Spaces since last night was a bunch of repeats. I hate repeats!

Posted by Jennifer @ 04/20/2003 10:15 AM PST

Lovely weather so far...but storms will be coming in for Easter here in Indiana.

Watching some television, and working on my blocking/choreography for this week's South Pacific rehearsals! What fun - and not the BEST cast I have ever had, but enthusiastic nonetheless, so I will do my best. After all it will all be over on June 14!

I cannot find the Original Cast Cd for AIDA anywhere around here - so I have ordered it online. Yes it will come to me through the mail. I am sad that none of the stores I visited including Karma had a copy in stock.

Westerns....what a lovely genre. I liked the Western COUNT THREE AND PRAY with Van Heflin and Joanne Woodward and Nancy Kulp and the lovely Allison Hayes.

Rio Bravo and The Searchers and True Grit - own them all and watch them all the time.

The Western Channel is a great addition to our satellite lineup - and can always be counted on for a couple of hours of fun.

Posted by Jrand52 @ 04/20/2003 10:28 AM PST

Well, consarned if I didn't up and forget it was Easter - I was so busy being Wester I forgot Easter. Well, bowl me over with a pork chop, happy Easter everyone. So, everyone was at the mall yesterday, eh? Is that where everyone was. The mall. And I suppose everyone was at the mall all night, too. A mall and the night visitors, eh? I think not. Perhaps I should have gone to the mall. Instead, I went to an anime store and got two import versions of Miyazaki DVDs with enhanced anamorphic transfers, unlike the Studio Ghibli box set I've been watching, none of which are enhanced and all of which are wanting, quality-wise. Methinks this box set is a bootleg is what methinks.

Posted by bk @ 04/20/2003 10:54 AM PST

Dear Jennifer: Where do you live that the malls are closed on Easter Sunday?

I vividly remember the Blue Laws of South Carolina when I was growing up. Stores did NOT do business on Sundays or religious holidays.

One of those vivid memories surrounded the first cracking of those laws when it was decided that movie theaters could be open in the "afternoons" on Sundays/religious holidays (not in competition with churches, dontchaknow) -- and my mother grudingly allowing me and three cousins to go to a Sunday afternoon showing (this was the early 60s) of "Journey to the Center of the Earth" at one of my hometown's second-run theaters.

I had NO idea that any area of the USA still had anything closed on Sundays.

I was saddened by Jason's news yesterday about Ms. Peters' difficulty with "Gypsy." Does anyone know if this is one of those things in which the star -- knowing she's not right for a role -- HAS to continue because all the financing was raised because of her?

Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 04/20/2003 10:56 AM PST

Dear suave and esteemed BK,

Happy Easter at the old corral, but watch out for flying sty animals.......personally I wouldn't want to be bowled over by a pork chop; I'd rather be laid low by a latke. Hossanah!

Posted by MusicGuy @ 04/20/2003 11:17 AM PST

Well, my photography efforts of yesterday were well appreciated today in church. I had found a cave and several lovely crosses for my slide presentation during the Easter service this morning. That is how I spend my time, folks. All so someone will notice me. Pathetic, aren't I?

Posted by Laura @ 04/20/2003 11:46 AM PST

Yesterday, I was errant and truant as well as truant and errant. Last weekend, I had to help my sister take several trees' worth of cut branches to the local landfill. The reason/excuse for my errant and truantness yesterday is that I had to help my dad do the same thing. Then I went out and about and didn't get back till real late.

This morning I baked "Potato Gratin" (from a real recipe, not a box) for the family get-together at my sister's house. She doesn't have enough oven space or time to cook all that she wants to cook, so I volunteered (um, actually I was drafted) to cook it at my place. It would have been less stressful if it hadn't taken a half-hour just to slice the potatoes. I had no real potato slicer and had to use a wire cheese slicer. Cutting it with a knife just didn't work at all for me. Oh well. It's almost out of the oven and TODAY will be a binge eating day for me!

Happy Easter and/or Bunny Day (or whatever one wishes to do today)!!

Posted by George @ 04/20/2003 12:13 PM PST

Well it's a lazy Easter Sunday here in Florida. Not too much is going on, but I didn't want that to stop me from posting - because we must not all get bitchslapped from here until next Tuesday. That would be unseemly.

I did watch the majority of Fantastic Voyage last night...that was fun

Posted by Craig @ 04/20/2003 12:14 PM PST

Well, I wasn't at the mall yesterday; but I was downtown doing a little trading of old dvds and cds at a wonderful little shop called Eides. Well, it used to be a little shop, packed to the gills with comic books and old magazines, but now occupies three stories of prime property just at the edge of downtown Pittsburgh. It was a lovely day for a drive, and I happened upon three of the five Cole Porter dvds being released on Tuesday: KISS ME, KATE, LES GIRLS and SILK STOCKINGS. all I have to say is, if this is the way that Warner is going to handle the M-G-M musicals from now on - hurry up! I want my MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS! Most excellent dvds!
What a great place to spend Saturday afternoon! They even have Scarlet Street magazine prominently displayed, and they assured me it is one of their best selling magazines. For more info on Eides, click on my name.
Today we did the Sunday Brunch at Damon's, and a good time was had by all. Then we took a nice little drive to enjoy the flowers of spring, the buds on the trees and all things vernal.
Hope everyone is having a pleasant sunday - - a great day to be in the park with George, or to be on an island in the Seine.

Posted by td @ 04/20/2003 12:21 PM PST

Ron, I grew up in SC and remember well that NOTHING was open on Sundays. There were many heads shaking when one of the movie theaters in town finally decided it was going to open on Sunday.

Why I pulled it off the shelf today, I don't know, but I watched the laserdisc of PENNIES FROM HEAVEN today, and it is SO depressing. Maybe it was the talk about Bernadette Peters. Anyway, the movie has so many good things about it, but I just don't think it quite worked overall. Steve Martin certainly did well, and it was a pelasure seeing Tommy Rall and Christopher Walken tapping away.

About Bernadette, I'm really not surprised to hear about her vocal trouble in GYPSY. She was frequently hoarse during SUNDAY IN THE PARK and SONG AND DANCE, too. Or maybe pollen is just getting to her. I'll follow the fate of GYPSY with interest. BTW, I never thought she was good casting for it.

Posted by Matt H. @ 04/20/2003 01:17 PM PST

Just read that Spielberg and Jim Carrey are planning on remaking The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty..

hmmmmmmm

Posted by Craig @ 04/20/2003 01:40 PM PST

I live in Montreal. Stores are definitely all closed Easter Sunday. Although markets and some grocery stores are open. And pharmacies are open.

Posted by Jennifer @ 04/20/2003 01:55 PM PST

Easter Sunday: My State (Victoria) came into line with the Australian States yesterday and only business that employed less than 20 people were allowed to open - exceptions in tourist areas. Small business find its difficult enough to survive anyway - as a representative said - "we have only three days a year where we really have a choice top open or not". I'm with them. We can do without the large chain stores for a day or two. So many small businesses are run by families who get so little time to be together.
For the most part I still ignore the fact that shops are open Saturday afternoon and Sundays. I've never really seen the need - more so now when supermarkets are open 24 hours a day. We still don't have movies or sport on Good Friday, Christmas Day and for the morning of Anzac Day (next Friday). Anzac Day is our national day of rememberence and is the closest Australians en masse ever come to being patriotic. I suspect some of the more radical antiwar people will make some "statements" on Friday. They don't seem to realise that rememberence is not supportive of war nor glorification. I am very anti war but my most moving experiences have been attending dawn services here and in Northern France and Belgium to pay tribute to those who have given their lives. When you see thousands of graves with "a soldier known only to God" as the inscription,or graves that give ages of those who fought in WWI it cannot help but make you feel so sad at the loss and the futility.

Enjoy the PEACE of Easter Sunday.

Posted by Tom from Oz @ 04/20/2003 02:03 PM PST

Danny Kaye's "Mitty" was a fine Kaye vehicle but, as I remember it, not too faithful in spirit or detail to Thurber's original story. I wonder what Spielberg and Carrey have in mind.

I can barely stand Carrey's "persona," the annoying, shallow, predictable self-caricature he invented about ten years ago (and which has of course made him millions). It should be interesting to see whether he'd respect a director with Spielberg's clout, and either "put a lid on it," or come up with something new.

Posted by Sigerson Holmes @ 04/20/2003 02:18 PM PST

Craig: Spielberg's been making "Walter Mitty" noises since the early '80s (I guess I could have phrased that better, but you know what I mean). Maybe it'll happen, and maybe it won't.

Jrand: Karma Records! What a wonderful name (Oh, a Music Man reference). Tell me, are the Karma Record stores all still head shops?

I had no idea a western had ever been made with both the 50 foot woman and Jane Hathaway. Will wonders never cease.

Ron: Actually, more places are closed on Easter Sunday than you'd think. For instance, the big grocery store down here, Publix, is closed, in addition to Wal-Mart and Target (I assume all of them nationwide).

We watched our brand spanking new DVD of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory today (widescreen), and it was great. I couldn't believe how sharp and vivid the print looked compared to our pathetic tape. I can hardly wait to listen to the commentary, too -- they got all the grown-up Wonka kids together to create it! Fun, fun. :)

Posted by Lulu @ 04/20/2003 02:32 PM PST

Re Bernadette and hoarseness - if she's got hay fever like I've got hay fever at the moment, then I feel sorry for her. I've sneezed me a river today, I can tell you. I've been gardening on the balcony today (if that isn't an oxymoron), putting out the summer plants - which of course means that we'll have frost now!

Most of our shops were closed today. When a new act to allow Sunday trading came into being a few years ago, big shops were only allowed to open for 6 hours on a Sunday, whereas small shops could open all day. However, on Easter weekend, shops aren't allowed to be open on Easter Sunday AND Easter Monday. There is some logic there, I guess...
Happy Easter everyone!

Posted by Allan @ 04/20/2003 02:42 PM PST

LOL Lulu. Karma is less a destination shop - but there are still Grateful Dead posters and clips available in the case in the back. And if you don't like incense...don't breathe.

Posted by Jrand52 @ 04/20/2003 04:00 PM PST

Allan: Geraniums in the window (winder!)? My favourite R & H score and musical and movie is of course "Carousel". "I sneezed a river over you" doesn't really have that romantic ring does it?

I ventured into our garden today to gather chesnuts. Too warm though to do the Mel Torme bit.

Posted by Tom from Oz @ 04/20/2003 05:14 PM PST

I used to live in Montreal and remember as a young child the influence the church had on the province of Quebec and Duplessis and Union Nationale party (if I remember my history) helped keeping the province backwards. The city was closed tighter than a ___. (You fill in the blank) Stores closed on Sunday. Thursday and Friday allowed to stay open until 9pm. Saturday had to close at 5pm. Monday through Wednesday stores opened to 6pm.

Posted by MDS @ 04/20/2003 07:06 PM PST

Hey, guys! Happy Easter...Good Passover...Good Sunday...whatever you choose. Hope everyone has had a good one. I went to Easter dinner at my bosses' house in Long Island. It was nice to have some real food (flank steak, mashed potatoes, carrots, green beans, asparagus [which I actually ate] and great desserts) and the company was wonderful as well. I got a sunburn on half of my face (the half that was facing the sun outside) so that should prove to be interesting for my OKLAHOMA! callback tomorrow.

Speaking of auditions, I'm afraid I had to turn one place down today. The Northern Lights Playhouse in Wisconsin wanted me for the King in KING & I, Daddy Warbucks in ANNIE WARBUCKS and two other leading roles, but they were only offering to pay me $100/wk for the three weeks of rehearsal and $220/wk for the remaining weeks of performances (through August 31.) Now, I don't know anyone who can live on that kind of money. I know its summerstock, but come on! I'd be playing four leads for nearly no money! And the guy sounded insulted when I said I couldn't afford to do it. Oh, well.

I saw "A Mighty Wind" the other day. I highly recommend it. Its not quite as funny to me as "Guffman," (its close, but not quite) but I think its better than "Best in Show." And the soundtrack is fantastic!

Sorry if I disappointed anyone with my review of GYPSY last night. I just told it like it was. I think she must have been sick...that's the only explanation I can think of. Her name is over the title, so I guess the producers pressured her into thinking she had to go on...or maybe it was a self-induced obligatory performance. I dunno...

Posted by Jason @ 04/20/2003 08:33 PM PST

Bruce, did George Chakiris mention meeting me the other night? :>)

Posted by kerry @ 04/20/2003 09:58 PM PST

I saw the first preview of GYPSY, and Peters (an actress I generally dislike) turned in a good performance, and sang quite well. I ended up liking her much more than I'd expected to (I bought the ticket because I wanted to see GYPSY, not because I wanted to see her). So maybe she's tired, or maybe she's sick.

And I second the recommendation of "A Mighty Wind". It's wonderful.

Posted by Stephen Farrow @ 04/20/2003 10:54 PM PST

I'm finally out of the car! What a day this has been! (A L&L reference.)

Well... I guess I should start with yesterday...

The closing of Hair went very well. We still had some sound issues, but after "accepting" them, the show went smoothly. And I had fun last night. Well, more fun. One of the highlights of the evening was the extended drum solo during the Trip - my drummer inserted most of "Wipe Out" during the George Washington sequence. Got a lot of laughs and applause. I also decided to embellish here and there too during some of the underscore. *It's amazing how recognizable "Over the Rainbow" is. ;-)

Since it was Easter weekend, a lot of the kids were heading home for the holiday, so there was no real cast party. However, one of the girls did host a nice little get together for those people who weren't rushing off with and/or to their families. I stopped by for a little bit, made the rounds, then said my goodnights since I had to be up early today. Today...

Basically, today was: Wake up. Drive three hours to Roanoke. Play Beauty & the Beast. Drive three hours back to Richmond. When I headed out for dinner with some friends around 7:30, I realized that it was only 7:30 AND I had driven six hours today already! At least the weather was nice, and I caught up on some CDs and NPR programs during the car ride.

*It was also a day of bad lines for me. Waiting in lines that is. First the McDonald's Drive-Thru was "re-routed" since the delivery truck was parked in front of the order window. Then I ended up waiting five minutes for my order since the hash browns had just been put in the fryer. -At least they were nice and hot. Then when I filled up the gas tank, the clerk accidentally rang up the wrong amount of gas that I had bought. So... after he had to call the manager on duty... and then she had to call the regional office since she didn't know how to properly void the transaction out of their system... Of course, the other clerk knew how to void it out, but since she was not properly authorized to do so... At least they were very kind about the whole situation. -And they already had some of their Easter candy marked down! *I went to a Sheetz... I really like their cookies - and they make a nice raisin-filled one. Oh, and the final "line" of the day was waiting for my paycheck... "Oh, I don't have access to the room where your paycheck is... Let me call someone to let me in..."

The matinee went very well. So well, in fact, that the assitant didn't realize there was a sub in the pit. :-)

Well, I made it back to Richmond, and headed out for a nice dinner with some friends, and then some TV... And now I'm here.

*I was actually thinking during my drive: Thank you, bk, for providing this forum for all of us to express and share our opinions, thoughts, random musings, details of our daily routine, etc. It's like a communal "blog".

Well, I'm due for some sleep... Goodnight.

Posted by Jose C. Simbulan @ 04/20/2003 11:23 PM PST

Reading some of the above about stores closing has reminded me of what it was like when I lived in Finland about a thousand years ago. They were so hung up about alcohol there that, whenever there was a holiday coming up (like Easter) they would close the state-owned alcohol shops on the Wednesday before, so you couldn't get any alcohol from the Thursday before Easter until the Tuesday after. Or rather you couldn't get any alcohol legally. This incredibly intelligent way of dealing with a problem (not) ensured that the hooch-makers did wonderful business at this time of year.

Posted by Allan @ 04/21/2003 01:07 AM PST

Calling all Hainesie/Kimlets! I need your positive vibes starting here, starting now...my callback for OKLAHOMA! is in a couple of hours (10 a.m. to be exact) and I'm hoping that you'll each be able to send a few vibes my way. I'd greatly appreciate it!

Posted by Jason @ 04/21/2003 05:23 AM PST

Re: malls in Montreal.

They are open sunday, but only noon - 5pm, mon-wed 10am-6pm, thurs-fri 10am-9pm, sat 9-5pm.

I find the noon part on Sunday really annoying. And the 5pm closing on Saturday horrendous.

Posted by Jennifer @ 04/21/2003 05:28 AM PST

Most malls in NYC were open Easter. The only holdover here from the days of the "Blue Laws" is liquor stores which are not allowed to be open on any Sunday. Supermarkets which sell beer and wine (the only alcoholic beverages they are allowed) can't sell them before noon.

You can get drunk at a bar on a Sunday and then drive home, but you can't buy booze to drink in the safety of your own house. Does this make any sense?

(Not that it matters to me, but a couple of years ago when New Year's Eve was a Sunday my friend had to give a boozeless party because he was expecting to buy it the day of the party.)

Posted by William E. Lurie @ 04/21/2003 05:57 AM PST

Jason,

My clock says 9:45 as I read your latest message, so I hope I'm not too late.

Good vibes comin' at'cha!

Posted by Dave @ 04/21/2003 06:37 AM PST

Jason,
You have ALL my good vibes! Use them.

Posted by Kerry @ 04/21/2003 08:45 AM PST