Replies: 57 Unseemly Comments
First post. Huzzah!
Posted by Jrand52 @ 05/20/2003 09:23 AM PST
1. If Ever I Would Leave You
2. Make Someone Happy
3. Everything's Coming Up Roses
4. I Could Have Danced All Night
5. Some Enchanted Evening
6. The Music of the Night
7. The Party's Over
8. If He Walked Into My Life
9. Not A Day Goes By
10. Hey, There
11. Soliloquy
12. The Impossible Dream (The Quest)
These are probablly, without looking, fairly similar to what I previously posted.
Posted by steveg @ 05/20/2003 09:29 AM PST
The host for the Tonys will be Hugh Jackman. Presenters include Matthew Broderick, Tyne Daly, Joey Fatone, Laurence Fishburne, Danny Glover, Lynn Redgrave, Vanessa Redgrave, Christopher Reeve, Sarah Jessica Parker and Barbara Walters. While all of these people (except Barbara Walters) have appeared or will appear on Broadway at one time or another, it's interesting to note that none of them are exclusively or even primarily stage actors.
I was very late to chat yesterday because I was seeing a reading of a new play with music about the one and only Florence Foster Jenkins. It was very funny and Alma Cuervo as Mrs. Foster Jenkins was wonderful (but way too young) and Jack Lee as her accompianist Cosme McMoon was also quite good (but a little too old). I have not heard so much laughter in a theatre since NOISES OFF or LEND ME A TENOR. If you are not familiar with the subject, see yesterday's notes for a description of who Mrs. Foster Jenkins was.
I'm glad you enjoyed my trivia question. It is most interesting to me that everyone who submitted an answer knew every part and that some people who often enter didn't try to guess. I suppose if you knew one portion you knew the whole thing but unlike other questions that have been used, the whole key was knowing one of the first six parts which would then make the rest of the question much easier.
Posted by William E. Lurie @ 05/20/2003 09:32 AM PST
Still working on my list...
You are right, Bill...if you could get one part of the Unseemly Trivia Question, you could get the rest. Took me awhile. Congrats to Matt H!
I know a couple of songs that will be on my list:
Everything's Coming Up Roses - Gypsy
Twin Soliloquies - South Pacific
Posted by Jrand52 @ 05/20/2003 09:45 AM PST
Click on my name. Scroll down to find the Dialetizer - put haineshisway.com into the search cell, and you can read this column in redneck, Swedish, Elmer Fudd, or a couple of other dialects. Watch out for popups, but funny!
Posted by Jrand52 @ 05/20/2003 09:52 AM PST
Hmm... Since I was not yet aware of this website the last time this was done, this will be my first list...
-And in not particular order of preference - the numbers are just for my reference:
1) Finishing the Hat
2) Our Time
3) My Brother Lived In San Francisco
4) On the Willows
5) Bring Him Home
6) Some Other Time
7) All the Things You Are
8) Dreams of Heaven (Three Guys Naked from the Waist Down)
9) Come To Me, Bend To Me
10) I Chose Right
11) Stop and See Me (Weird Romance)
12) Some People
Hmmm.... Of course, this list could change later... even later today.
Posted by Jose C. Simbulan @ 05/20/2003 09:56 AM PST
DialeCtizer - that is.
Posted by Jrand52 @ 05/20/2003 10:04 AM PST
There are eight songs on my last list that are also on my list above. The correct date in the archive is 5/13/02, but notes #189 is correct.
Posted by steveg @ 05/20/2003 10:12 AM PST
Brent Barrett returns to CHICAGO on June 2. According to the ABC listing this is a Monday so when CHICAGO is dark, so it is probably June 3. And since CHICAGO is dark Mondays this should not affect Brent's appearance on June 9 in "Broadway By The Year - 1960".
If you want to see Brent opposite Melanie Griffith Johnson Banderes, she begins July 11; if you would rather not see her, you still have 5 weeks to catch Brent before she joins the cast.
BK - The Percy Faith "L'il Abner" is being released on CD 6/24.
Posted by William E. Lurie @ 05/20/2003 10:17 AM PST
Brent Barrett returns to CHICAGO on June 2. According to the ABC listing this is a Monday so when CHICAGO is dark, so it is probably June 3. And since CHICAGO is dark Mondays this should not affect Brent's appearance on June 9 in "Broadway By The Year - 1960".
If you want to see Brent opposite Melanie Griffith Johnson Banderes, she begins July 11; if you would rather not see her, you still have 5 weeks to catch Brent before she joins the cast.
BK - The Percy Faith "L'il Abner" is being released on CD 6/24.
Posted by William E. Lurie @ 05/20/2003 10:18 AM PST
Didn't mean to post twice but the first time I got the "This Page Can't Be Found" message.
Posted by William E. Lurie @ 05/20/2003 10:19 AM PST
Every Day A Little Death
The Road You Didn't Take
Mirrors and Shadows (Lola)
Soliloquy
Twin Soliloquies
There's Always One You Can't Forget
And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going
Don't Rain On My Parade
Children of the Wind
Wheels of a Dream
In Lily's Eyes
Meadowlark
Posted by Allan @ 05/20/2003 10:34 AM PST
12 most favortie musical theatre songs:
1. Mame
2. Hello, Dolly
3. Look What Happen To Mabel
4. The Best of Times
5. Love Changes Everything
6. With One Look
7. Put On Your Sunday Clothes
8. Children of the Wind
9. Empty Chairs at Empty Tables
10.Circle of Life
11.Being Alive
12.Times Like This
All of these songs posses the "chill" factor and the "tear" factor. It's a good rating system, don't you think?
Posted by Matthew @ 05/20/2003 10:41 AM PST
WEL - that's the same damn reason yesterday's double notes happened - I got that stupid "This page can't be found" thing and I refreshed and voila. Damn them, damn them all to hell.
Posted by bk @ 05/20/2003 10:57 AM PST
Oh my goodness me! Get out your pointy party hats! Haul out the ham chunks and cheese slices! We must be prepared to dance the Freddy and the Watusi until the cows come home!
Did our illustrious and sinewy BK forget what day it is? Can it possibly have slipped his mind?
ˇˇˇ'APPY LIZA DOOLITTLE DYE!!!
Posted by William F. Orr @ 05/20/2003 11:06 AM PST
I washed me fyce and 'ands before I came, I did.
Posted by Jrand52 @ 05/20/2003 12:52 PM PST
No Particular Order
Stop Time (Big)
New Words(1,2,3,4,5)
The Story Goes On (Baby)
I'm Flying
On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever)
Jenny (Lady in the Dark)
Lost In the Stars
The Bus From Amarillo (Best Little...in Texas)
Something Special (Secret Garden Concept with Barbara Cook)
Our Time (Merrily We Roll Along)
Love Look Away (Flower Drum Song)
Perfect Strangers (Drood)
Posted by Michael Shayne @ 05/20/2003 01:05 PM PST
I was so thrilled to log on and find that I had luckily won the trivia contest! Thanks to WEL for submitting it and to BK for finding my name in his electronic hat. I feel like I've really become a part of the family now!
Boy, I can name a lot more than 12 favorite show tunes, but the ones that come to my mind at this second:
1. "Losing My Mind"
2. "Not While I'm Around"
3. "If He Walked into My Life"
4. "Love, Look Away"
5. "There Won't Be Trumpets"
6. "Starting Here, Starting Now"
7. "Bring Him Home"
8. "Move On"
9. "In Praise of Women"
10. "I Don't Want to Know"
11. "On the Right Track"
12. "Yes"
Posted by Matt H. @ 05/20/2003 01:44 PM PST
Jrand52 - just looked at your Dialectizer - very funny! I recommend everyone does it and then look at the lists of everyone's favourite songs in Cockney - I cried laughing!
Posted by Allan @ 05/20/2003 02:07 PM PST
All right, where in tarnation IS everyone? I thought my eyes were deceiving me seeing only eighteen count them eighteen posts. How can we ever be the most popular site on all the Internet with the continual errant and truantness going on these days? Let's get some postin' goin' on, shall we?
Posted by bk @ 05/20/2003 02:07 PM PST
Just got my SILK STOCKINGS dvd - if I remember correctly the vintage short subjects were not well-received here on HHW, but what about Cyd's featurette, Cole Porter in Hollywood?
Posted by Jrand52 @ 05/20/2003 02:41 PM PST
Sorry, BK, for not posting earlier. I've been sitting on the front stoop, waiting for the UPS delivery guy to come making deliveries. We're expecting a large delivery of books from Barnes and Noble. That, plus the UPS delivery guy has legs that take advantage of those brown shorts.
What, you might ask, are we expecting from Barnes and Noble? We are expecting a ton of...COOKBOOKS! 'Tis true, my ever-lovin' der Brucer went to our favorite Barnes and Noble Bookstore and found a heap of cookbooks that he thought looked interesting and filled with recipes he wants me to try. Then he went on-line and ordered them all. He also ordered SONDHEIM ON MUSIC for me, as a bribe to go through each and every one of those cookbooks. This was a good thing, since the Sondheim book hasn't been available at the bookstore, but it really wasn't necessary, since I'd have waited on the front stoop anyway. The UPS delivery guy's legs really do take full advantage of those brown shorts. *grin*
So, excuse me while I get back to the front porch and wait for those legs...uh, books.
Posted by S. Woody White @ 05/20/2003 02:51 PM PST
Oh, before I forget, I'm bothered by something in Mr. Lurie's comments about the Tony Awards presenters. Did he really mean to imply that there is something WRONG with actors earning a living other than on the New York City stage? Because most actors do. They either act on film and on television, or they work on productions outside of NYC, or they wait on tables or do other non-stage work. I think working places other than on the NYC stage is a good thing for these actors. Like everyone else, they should get the chance to pay their bills.
Posted by S. Woody White @ 05/20/2003 02:59 PM PST
Wow! So few posts! What's going on???
My twelve favorite showtunes (in no particular order) are:
1) Music of the Night (Remember, there's no groaning here at HHW.com)
2) And I'm Telling You I'm Not Going
3) Empty Chairs at Empty Tables
4) Rose's Turn
5) Your Daddy's Son
6) If I Loved You
7) All That Jazz
8) All the Wasted Time
9) Lily's Eyes
10) Giants in the Sky
11) Not While I'm Around
12) Total Eclipse of the Heart
(kidding)
12) You'll Never Walk Alone
Posted by Jason @ 05/20/2003 03:08 PM PST
The task of choosing 12 songs is daunting to me....but I am working on it....
Jason - do you have my address for the cd's?
Posted by Jrand52 @ 05/20/2003 03:13 PM PST
And This Is My Beloved
Not A Day Goes By
There But For You Go I
Our Children
Losing My Mind
Loving You
Finishing The Hat
Dear One
Some People
Gifts Of Love
Posted by Tom from Oz @ 05/20/2003 03:16 PM PST
Yes, I do...I just haven't had a chance to send them out yet...
Posted by Jason @ 05/20/2003 03:18 PM PST
And for the other two:
Tell Me On A Sunday
Will He Like Me
(OK. I thought it was ten and not twelve). I suspect the first two were in my first list. It probably depends on what I have been playing lately and my particular mood.
Posted by Tom from Oz @ 05/20/2003 03:21 PM PST
Thanks, Jason. 8-D
Posted by Jrand52 @ 05/20/2003 03:51 PM PST
What I meant is that the ONLY presenters are people known for things other than Broadway. There are many actors who do only (or primarily) stage but they don't get to present because nobody outside of NYC knows them. By all means have the people who are known outside of theatre circles present, but let's have a couple of people who may not be known West of the Hudson but work on a regular basis in theatre since the Tonys are allegedly about theatre. A mix of the two types of actors would be ideal, but to leave out people known mainly for stage is as wrong as if the current presenters were eliminated because they do not do stage exclusively.
Posted by William E. Lurie @ 05/20/2003 03:59 PM PST
Geez, when I suggested a
revival of this topic, I'd forgotten
just how difficult it is to pick out
just 12 songs! As always, the
list that follows is as of this
moment, and would very
possibly be some different
tomorrow (or even later today).
In alphabetical order:
Aldonza (...La Mancha)
A Little Priest (Sweeney Todd)
Chavaleh (Fiddler)
Color & Light (SITPWG)
Hello 12... (A Chorus Line)
I Don't Know His Name (She
Loves Me)
It's a Perfect Relationship
(Bells Are Ringing)
Luck of the Draw (Violet)
Now/Later/Soon (ALNM)
Rose's Turn (Gypsy)
Time Heals Everything (Mack
and Mabel)
Tonight quintet (WSS)
Now to look at my old list...
Posted by Jed @ 05/20/2003 04:37 PM PST
Only 5 of my 12 are the same
as last year's list.
Posted by Jed @ 05/20/2003 04:39 PM PST
Well, slowly but surely we are the little engine that could. I think I can, I think I can, I think I can...
We must get out of the doldrums
We need some soul drums
Let's get out the ol' drums
And rat-a-tat-tat way, post-wise.
Posted by bk @ 05/20/2003 04:40 PM PST
As everyone knows, lists like these are so subjective and can change from moment to moment. Here are only some of my favorite show tunes (but I'm stopping at 12 for the sake of the topic). Also, since I had not yet discovered this site when last year's list was the topic, I can't go back to before (a Ragtime reference) and so here are my choices for the first time (a Zorba reference) in alphabetical order:
Back To Before - RAGTIME
A Boy Like That/I Have a Love - WEST SIDE STORY
I Dreamed a Dream - LES MISÉRABLES
A Little Priest - SWEENEY TODD
Loving You - PASSION
Meadowlark - THE BAKER'S WIFE
Move On - SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE
Opening Doors - MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG
So Many People - SATURDAY NIGHT
Tell Me On a Sunday - TELL ME ON A SUNDAY / SONG & DANCE
Tonight (Quintet version) - WEST SIDE STORY
You're Gonna Love Tomorrow & Love Will See Us Through - FOLLIES
There are way too many to even think that these are my top 12. I just stopped when I reached 12.
Posted by George @ 05/20/2003 05:08 PM PST
Sorry, WEL, but your arguement doesn't work. If the goal of the Tony awards is for the theater of NYC to congratulate itself, then why bother the rest of us with a national broadcast? The bulk of the nation really doesn't have a reason to care any more.
If the goal is to get people from the NYC stage exposure nationally, then giving them presenters spots is also self-defeating. Presenters cannot capture an audience's attention simply by presenting; their job is to take what persona they have from other work and use that persona to throw the spotlight on those receiving the awards. If the presenters have no recognized persona on a national level, then that spotlight might as well have a one-watt bulb inside. Again, no one in the national audience is going to care.
For that matter, receiving the award doesn't do the actor or actress much good, if all that is seen on the telecast is someone dressed in a borrowed tux or gown saying thanks to mom and dad. If the national audience has no idea WHY the award has been won by that person, there is no reason to care. The embarassment last year wasn't really that Elaine Stritch was given the bums rush, but that most people watching only got to see the bums rush without getting to see her perform! Who was that broad? They never got to find out!
The most important parts of the Tony awards is the presentation of the talent, not the awards themselves. The late Michael Jeter for example, when he won his Tony for Grand Hotel, was a fantastic performer and caught everyone's attention with his dance. Within a week, he'd been added to the cast of Evening Shade, which led to everything else he was able to accomplish. Another example, Lillias White, was a spotlight grabber during her solo bit in "Brotherhood of Man" from H2S, and I still can't understand why she hasn't received the attention she deserves. But too often these days the presentation of segments from the nominated shows is squandered on chorus numbers, where no individual gets the chance to break out from the crowd.
The Tonys are the best advertisement Broadway has. It's too bad Broadway is too infatuated with itself to use that advertising time wisely.
Posted by S. Woody White @ 05/20/2003 05:28 PM PST
Oh, the errancy and truancy
today! Not a single post from
any of our Arizona Dear
Readers? And what of
Professor Orr? Or Ann? And
we haven't heard from Lulu for
a few days. Come home,
Hainsies and Kimlets, come
home!
Posted by Jed @ 05/20/2003 06:26 PM PST
I forgot to mention...I got a preview copy of the AMOUR cast recording. Its FANTASTIC! Reminds me of why I liked the show so much. It also reiterates that it is one of the best shows to open this season (not that there was much competition.) Too bad it didn't run just until VAMPIRES opened. It surely could have picked up business then.
Posted by Jason @ 05/20/2003 06:26 PM PST
DR Jed -- OK, I'll admit it...I've been reading on & off today, and I have been veritably flummexed in trying to come up with my list of 12 songs!!
I have so many that I love dearly, and I feel like if I leave one out, it will be crushed.
There, you didn't know that I was such a loon, did you. I'll post more later.
Posted by MusicGuy @ 05/20/2003 06:41 PM PST
DR Jason -- Can you give just a very short description of AMOUR..for us heathens out here in the wasteland? Pretty please?
Posted by MusicGuy @ 05/20/2003 06:42 PM PST
DR S Woody -- please check your email.....thanks.
Posted by MusicGuy @ 05/20/2003 06:44 PM PST
MusicGuy - I most certainly
understand the difficulty of
picking 12 songs. But since
when have we here at HHW
been bound by the daily topic?
We need off-topic posts,
incoherant musings, anything
to bring our Dear Readers out
of the woodwork (not that the
woodwork isn't a lovely place
for a brief visit).
Posted by Jed @ 05/20/2003 06:47 PM PST
You sure you want me to post, even if off topic? Ok. I got the oil and other various and sundried fluids changed in the car -- and I took the minister to the airport. There. Now you know how thrilling my day was today.
Posted by Laura @ 05/20/2003 07:07 PM PST
And I feel much better now,
Laura. Thank you. :-)
Posted by Jed @ 05/20/2003 07:17 PM PST
I had a net meeting scheduled, but it was on Eastern Standard Time and I am on Central Time, so I started to sign on...in Mountain Time and missed the whole thing. So I will have some nice emails waiting for me at the office in the morning.
Posted by Jrand52 @ 05/20/2003 07:41 PM PST
I cannot even begin to pick my 12
faorite showtunes, so I will not try.
I am doing my senior project these
days: Wow, mailings and data entry
are exciting! Not really, but much
better than school!
I don't have anything else to say.
Sniff.
Posted by Hapgood @ 05/20/2003 08:11 PM PST
I know I didn't contribute my 12 favorite songs last year so here goes:
1. Losing My Mind-FOLLIES
2. Sailing-A NEW BRAIN
3. Til There Was You-MUSIC MAN
4. Not a Day Goes By-MERRILY WE
ROLL ALONG
5. Yellow Drum-GRASS HARP
6. Bring Him Home- LES MISERABLES
7. Moment With You-SATURDAY NIGHT
8. You Could Drive a Person Crazy
COMPANY
9. I Never Do Anything Twice-SIDE
BY SIDE BY SONDHEIM
10.Wherever He Ain't-MACK & MABEL
11.She Touched Me-DRAT THE CAT
12.You Gotta Have a Gimmick-GYPSY
Posted by Dennis Clancy @ 05/20/2003 08:18 PM PST
I only had one song from my last year's best list: Jenny (Lady In the Dark)
Posted by Michael Shayne @ 05/20/2003 08:31 PM PST
I Have the Room Above Her
Color and Light
Pretty Lady
Ten Minutes Ago
What Did I Have That I Don't Have
Finishing the Hat
I Won't Mind
When
Fathers and Sons
Another National Anthem
You Are Beautiful
Something from The Last Five Years...I can't decide which
THAT WAS SO HARD! It seriously took me about forty five minutes...I kept revising and changing and rethinking and clicking and arrrrghhhh, twelve is a tiny number. As everyone before me has said, those are not my twelve favorites, they're just the twelve after which I stopped.
Posted by Anna @ 05/20/2003 09:24 PM PST
Wow, what a difference some practicing will make! ;-)
I did some re-wood-shedding of my 1776 book last night - just shy of three hours(!) - and some more this morning - mainly Act 2. And tonight's show went very well. Second night is always easier anyway, since it's not so much the "adrenaline run" as the first night. But the extra practice helped to take some of the edge off the proceedings.
Of course, since our John Adams, Lewis Cleale, was on an Amtrak train that got detained and delayed due to a "suspicious looking package", his understudy, Mark Aldrich, went on. -And that "pressure" kind of focused the rest of us. And we had a great show, and a great audience. Adams opening mini-monologue got lots of laughs.
-Jrand - If I could get a tape of this production for you, I would, since you seem to be having "problems" with William Daniels - which I understand. It really is a nice production here at Ford's. *And lots of reading time too in the pit!
-S. Woody - I, too, have a nice UPS man. It really takes a special man to make that brown color work for him! And, actually, I have a nice FedEx man too - and that's a more flattering uniform! -And just how many cookbooks did you order? Maybe we could compare notes.
-And, DR Laura - You got to drive a minister to the airport? -I'm jealous!!! ;-)
And to top it all off - Since I'm back in Fairfax at my parents' house, I have the cable modem. Wireless too! YIPPEE! Let the downloading begin!
Posted by Jose C. Simbulan @ 05/20/2003 09:47 PM PST
Damn these computers all to hell!! I had my song list almost done.....must have bumped a key wrongly, and the whole thing got dumped. AArrrggg!!
I'll try again...
1. All The Things You Are
2. Bess, Oh Where's My Bess
3. Twin Soliloquies
4. If He Walked Into My Life
5. Nobody Else But Me
6. Out Of My Dreams
7. Hello Young Lovers
8. Just In Time
9. If I Loved You
10. Look Over There
11. This Nearly Was Mine
12. What I Did For Love
Those are not in an order of preference, and I apologize to all of the wonderful pieces that elude my brain at the moment.
Posted by MusicGuy @ 05/20/2003 09:48 PM PST
I got the e-mail, MusicGuy! Thanks!
Posted by S. Woody White @ 05/20/2003 09:48 PM PST
Interesting to see all the mentions of "Finishing The Hat".I guess it strikes a chord with many of us - not necessarily those of us gifted musically (which I am most certainly not).
Good to read that DR Laura is ministering to the needy.
Posted by Tom from Oz @ 05/20/2003 10:00 PM PST
12 songs, huh? In no order, here goes...
1.The Road You Didn't Take (Follies)
2.With You On My Arm (La Cage)
3.Best of Times (La Cage)
4.Tea for Two (No, No, Nanette)
5.At the Ballet (Chorus Line)
6.We Kiss In a Shadow (King and I)
7.If Mama Was Married (Gypsy)
8.Being Alive (Company)
9.Little Things You do Together (Company)
10.Wonderful Guy (South Pacific)
11.When the Children are Asleep at Night (Carousel)
12.Moonshine Lullaby (Annie Get Your Gun)
Now, I'lll go back and check last year's list
Posted by Kerry @ 05/20/2003 10:02 PM PST
Well, half of them were the same. I still like last year's list and now wished I'd remembered those. But it all depends on themoment, right? Ah well...
Posted by Kerry @ 05/20/2003 10:05 PM PST
I am simply too tired to post twelve favorite show tunes, having had such a busy day. All that fluid changing, you know.
Posted by Laura @ 05/20/2003 11:37 PM PST
I've said it before and I'll say it again. There should be two Tony Shows - an award show on PBS and a variety show on CBS. The CBS show could present musical numbers from all shows currently playing (and perhaps scenes from plays) and be the marketing tool that they are trying to turn the awards themself into and the other can be a more dignified awards show (on the order of the PBS portion from previous years) that will appeal to those of us who watch for the awards themself. You can have your cake and eat it too.
End of an era: Texaco has announced that at the end of the 2003-04 season it will no longer sponsor the Saturday afternoon Metropolitan Opera radio prodcasts which they have been sponsoring since 1931.
Posted by William E. Lurie @ 05/21/2003 06:17 AM PST
Note to Jose: Just to rub it in, I get to pick up the minister at the airport on Saturday. So now you can be really jealous.
Posted by Laura @ 05/21/2003 06:45 AM PST
