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Well, you've read the notes, the notes were thankfully not late, and now it is time for you to post until the late cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: PHENOLOGY!
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Hello.
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I seem to be all alone.
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'night
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First post after DR Jane!
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T.O.D.
I don't believe I have any embarrassing latenesses.
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First post after TCB, Jane, and BK!
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Name dropper!
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Name dropper!
Every chance I get!
;D
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Great flyer, BK!
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Is the top portion your poster?
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Topic of the Day:
Not counting theatrical latenesses ::) , a few years ago, I was supposed have an early meeting with one of the book vendor reps for the library. I totally forgot and didn't set my alarm clock correctly. I woke up to my phone ringing and it was one of my staff calling asking if I was coming to the meeting that started five minutes earlier. :o I JUMPED out of bed, threw on some clothes (and didn't take a shower) and RUSHED to work. Fortunately since I live so close, I got there in about five minutes and it was all good. The rep was very understanding.
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Today, I have to go back to my sister's to put up more light fixtures and put in a couple of faucets. Hopefully, it won't take another 12 hours because I have new lines in Hairspray that I need to memorize. We open on Thursday!
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Today, I have to go back to my sister's to put up more light fixtures and put in a couple of faucets. Hopefully, it won't take another 12 hours because I have new lines in Hairspray that I need to memorize. We open on Thursday!
How do you think the show is coming along?
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Today, I have to go back to my sister's to put up more light fixtures and put in a couple of faucets. Hopefully, it won't take another 12 hours because I have new lines in Hairspray that I need to memorize. We open on Thursday!
How do you think the show is coming along?
It's coming. We'll be ready. It would be better, of course, if we had an extra week or even a second weekend of performances, but it'll be what it'll be.
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So you wouldn't recommend Thursday night's performance?
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So you wouldn't recommend Thursday night's performance?
It wouldn't be my first choice. ;)
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So you wouldn't recommend Thursday night's performance?
It wouldn't be my first choice. ;)
That is very diplomatic. Of course, I wouldn't fight I-5 on Thursday or Friday night, especially for a 7:00 p.m. curtain.
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So you wouldn't recommend Thursday night's performance?
It wouldn't be my first choice. ;)
That is very diplomatic. Of course, I wouldn't fight I-5 on Thursday or Friday night, especially for a 7:00 p.m. curtain.
Fortunately, we have two, count 'em, TWO matinees!
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George, what day did you post the poster for the show?
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George, what day did you post the poster for the show?
Thursday (http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?topic=5090.msg1141062#msg1141062):
(http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t127/georged55/Hairspray%20flyer_zpskgvr6ajr.jpg)
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I hope I survive it all! Because we're rehearsing around the existing schedule of the Olympia Film Society in their theater, our tech rehearsals on Sunday through Wednesday are all from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm! Some adults can't be there. I'm on a hiring committee and have interviews all day Tuesday, so I can't be there that day, but I can come late to work on the other days.
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Why do you have an opening act for a musical?
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I hope I survive it all! Because we're rehearsing around the existing schedule of the Olympia Film Society in their theater, our tech rehearsals on Sunday through Wednesday are all from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm! Some adults can't be there. I'm on a hiring committee and have interviews all day Tuesday, so I can't be there that day, but I can come late to work on the other days.
That's crazy.
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Why do you have an opening act for a musical?
I have no idea. I was never told, and I don't remember even hearing anything about it. :-\
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I hope I survive it all! Because we're rehearsing around the existing schedule of the Olympia Film Society in their theater, our tech rehearsals on Sunday through Wednesday are all from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm! Some adults can't be there. I'm on a hiring committee and have interviews all day Tuesday, so I can't be there that day, but I can come late to work on the other days.
That's crazy.
I know, right??
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Well, good night, George.
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Good night, Tom. I need to go, too. My tablet battery is down to 5%.
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But before we go...
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It's Page Two! :D
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Have a good day, all!
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Nicely done.
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Wow! page 2 before 7:30 am on a Saturday!
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It's going to be a great posting day. I know it.
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I can;t guarantee it, but I know it.
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Thanks, John G and George, for your kind comments last night.
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Maybe I should thank you guys separately so it will be more posts.
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So thanks, John G!
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And also thanks to George!
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Good morning!
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Good morning, all!
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I'm hoping to go into City Center today and see Joshie, but I won't know for certain until I talk to him.
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Continued Mega Health Vibes to our DR JRand55! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Good morning, all.
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That is still such amazing news about DR Elmore's adopted son.
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T.O.D.
Back when I was doing plays at the Penthouse Theater (theatre-in-the-round) at the University of Washington, I missed a cue once; left the other actor standing alone on stage.
I was chatting with another actor in the dressing room. The sound was piped in. Suddenly, there was silence. (Oh, s**t!)
The audience could hear me running around the circle because the dressing room was on the opposite side of the theater from where I made my entrance.
Nothing like that ever happened to me again. I learned my lesson.
BTW: Also in that cast was Rod Whitaker (Trevanian), who would write THE EIGER SANCTION, which starred Clint Eastwood in the movie adaptation.
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Nice first Amazon review for JACKIE GOES TO DIXIE:
"Michael Druxman’s witty, inventive new novel, JACKIE GOES TO DIXIE, is one very funny, fast-moving yarn, full of unexpected, entertaining twists and appealing characters! I love it that I didn’t feel as if I’d read this one before." -- Thomas B. Sawyer – Author, former head Writer of MURDER, SHE WROTE
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1629331686
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1. Sleeping through a fellow student's 1:00 pm recital for which I was the accompanist. Oops. I ran the three blocks to the school to find out if I was still alive. What's still amazing to me, to this day, is that it didn't matter. No one was in the least upset. Recital was rescheduled, and nobody gave a flying...well, anything. Some of those little recitals were really minor and informal affairs.
2. Years later, sleeping till 15 minutes before start time for Saturday morning auditions for a show. The theater was 30 minutes away. I threw on my clothes and didn't drive -- I flew low, arriving at least fifteen minutes late, only to find the others were just arriving, too, and no auditioners had shown up yet.
Well, at least I'm "lucky."
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One would think there have been other near-disastrous or just plain embarrassing instances of being late. And I'm sure there have been, but they don't come to mind. It's the music-related stuff that stays with me.
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I just blew off going to the library sale. This one hasn't been as good for me as it used to be -- which I'm saying in spite of my own slogan, "remember, no two are alike". But I need to spend the time doing more important things today. I'm happy with the decision, and I shall look forward to the next few of these, all of which are better, as a rule.
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Today os the birthday of our building's super-duper super Val.
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Good morning to all
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Happy Birthday to Val, the super super!
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BK
Curious why there aren't more performances per week. Is it the size of the theater and equity rules?
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Saturday. I am having a respite from my pills and radiation! It seems very nice.
HOWEVER today I am taking Precious to the vet for her annual shots and checkup. She does NOT know yet....but she will soon. I have brushed her teeth and will give her a nice hair brushing in a bit.... She will know something is up when I put on my shoes....
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Great flyer!
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I once picked up a friend for a rehearsal....it was being held downtown in Indy instead of at the theatre.... And of course there was NO PLACE to park.
We were there ten minutes late and called out in front of the whole company.....it was most humiliating....
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Good morning, all.
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Oh no! Not the shoes!! Run!!! Run!!!
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I try not to remember the details of humiliating incidents. I learn the lesson and hope to move on. That said, the clock in my car is set 10 minutes in advance. Maybe it's from my journalism days of doing everything on deadline.
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Three!
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Backbeard is beginning to gallop from a fun summer NYMF project to a nightmare. It's becoming more frustrating than it's worth at thsi point. When I stop having fun, you cannot pay me enough, and they are not paying me enough at this moment.
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Why do you have an opening act for a musical?
I wondered about this.
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Happy Birthday to Val, the super super!
Ditto.
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DR Jrand, enjoy your day off from your treatments.
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Saturday morning greetings! Richard and I are going this afternoon to see WONDER WOMAN.
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After hearing the Moonshine & Mistletoe tracks, my friend Simon Greiff, whom I met when he was in the London premiere of Sondheim's Saturday Night, recommended his recording of Van Winkle to me. It's by an American writer now living in London and quite nice, although I think her plot may be more convoluted than it needs.
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Good Morning
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TOD - I freak out about being late. Especially if it's after work and I come home between work and rehearsal/show. I try not to go near the bed or the couch if I know I don't have a lot of time! I have taken naps where I've set my alarm, and that seems to work but there's nothing worse than a "bad" nap in the middle of the day!
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I fell Sleep moments after my last post last night and slept until 9 this morning
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After a shower I made a lovely breakfast, poached eggs, sausages, broiled tomatoes, toasted multigrain bread and of course a lovely pot of tea for Vixdad and myself
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After eating and cleaning up the kitchen I went to get my hairs cut
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And now I am home and I must Get Things Done
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Happy Saturday to one and all
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Also to all and one
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TOD None come to mind at the moment but I am sure there were some
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Saturday morning greetings! Richard and I are going this afternoon to see WONDER WOMAN.
I hope you enjoy it as much as we did.
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We expect a full report from DR GINNY.
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Precious is now legal for another year and registered and confirmed with the government.....she does have glaucoma in her right eye, so drops were prescribed....she also has some special shampoo....
And with all of her injections and special goods....we still spent $54 less than the lady in front of us with her cat.
There was also a beautiful blonde sharpei there with a bandaged leg.....I love those doggies....
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I hope the drops work.
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Three a week is what this theater can sustain.
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I'm up, I'm up - six hours of sleep.
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Of course the alarm worked today.
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Nice first Amazon review for JACKIE GOES TO DIXIE:
"Michael Druxman’s witty, inventive new novel, JACKIE GOES TO DIXIE, is one very funny, fast-moving yarn, full of unexpected, entertaining twists and appealing characters! I love it that I didn’t feel as if I’d read this one before." -- Thomas B. Sawyer – Author, former head Writer of MURDER, SHE WROTE
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1629331686
Very nice, Druxy!
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Today os the birthday of our building's super-duper super Val.
A Very Happy Birthday to Val!
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Saturday. I am having a respite from my pills and radiation! It seems very nice.
HOWEVER today I am taking Precious to the vet for her annual shots and checkup. She does NOT know yet....but she will soon. I have brushed her teeth and will give her a nice hair brushing in a bit.... She will know something is up when I put on my shoes....
~~~Continued Vibes of All Kinds for Jrand!!~~~
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Precious is now legal for another year and registered and confirmed with the government.....she does have glaucoma in her right eye, so drops were prescribed....she also has some special shampoo....
And with all of her injections and special goods....we still spent $54 less than the lady in front of us with her cat.
There was also a beautiful blonde sharpei there with a bandaged leg.....I love those doggies....
~~~Eye Vibes for Precious!!~~~
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Well, I must leave and go to my sister's to do whatever needs to be done.
Until later.
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But before I go...
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4!!!!
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Thank you DR GEORGE and DR ELMORE and all other Dear Readers.
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Nice first Amazon review for JACKIE GOES TO DIXIE:
"Michael Druxman’s witty, inventive new novel, JACKIE GOES TO DIXIE, is one very funny, fast-moving yarn, full of unexpected, entertaining twists and appealing characters! I love it that I didn’t feel as if I’d read this one before." -- Thomas B. Sawyer – Author, former head Writer of MURDER, SHE WROTE
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1629331686
Very nice, Druxy!
I agree.
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After hearing the Moonshine & Mistletoe tracks, my friend Simon Grieff, whom I met when he was in the London premiere of Sondheim's Saturday Night, recommended his recording of Van Winkle to me. It's by an American writer now living in London and quite nice, although I think her plot may be more convoluted than it needs.
Is it worth a listen or two? I see it's on amazon. Kermit Goell, whom I knew from my Catskill days, once wrote a musical of the same tale.
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Nice first Amazon review for JACKIE GOES TO DIXIE:
"Michael Druxman’s witty, inventive new novel, JACKIE GOES TO DIXIE, is one very funny, fast-moving yarn, full of unexpected, entertaining twists and appealing characters! I love it that I didn’t feel as if I’d read this one before." -- Thomas B. Sawyer – Author, former head Writer of MURDER, SHE WROTE
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1629331686
Very nice, Druxy!
Congratulations!
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I've been trying to take a nap for an hour now and the phone keeps interrupting.
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Back from an omelet and a bagel, picking up dry cleaning, and picking up a small package. Work session should be in about an hour.
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After hearing the Moonshine & Mistletoe tracks, my friend Simon Grieff, whom I met when he was in the London premiere of Sondheim's Saturday Night, recommended his recording of Van Winkle to me. It's by an American writer now living in London and quite nice, although I think her plot may be more convoluted than it needs.
Is it worth a listen or two? I see it's on amazon. Kermit Goell, whom I knew from my Catskill days, once wrote a musical of the same tale.
I liked it.
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Hello, everyone.
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Another hot day here. We had a lovely, cool, spring, until a week or two ago. Now it's hot. Yuck. Age has not improved my ability (or inability) to tolerate hot weather.
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Well, i'm becoming an old softie.
I just received this reissue of an album Mary Martin did for Disney records 50 years ago, and it's really wonderful. It includes as well three tracks from her Disney "Sleeping Beauty" album. The Camarata arrangements are really beautiful, and when she got into the chorus of "Lavender Blue" after the verse, I completely fell apart. The song's from 1949, and it's clearly dredging up memories of family from that period of my life, but i've been a mess all afternoon.
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I started some laundry early. That's done now. I did some cleaning, too. It's too warm to do anything more.
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I'm accustomed to Barbara Cook singing Lavender Blue. I'll see if I can listen to Mary Martin on Amazon.
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Congrats to Druxy.
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TOD:
I haven't had any latenesses that were so embarrassing, but a couple times I didn't show up at all and that was the most embarrassing. I was attending college at UC-Irvine, and I was taking a choreography class and we had a project to choreograph something for a group of at least four people. Someone asked me to dance in her project, I learned it, rehearsed it and she told me the date and time she had to present it to the teacher. I didn't show up because I simply forgot, and there were no cell phones then. She grabbed another girl (who happened to be the best dancer in the program) taught her the choreography in about 10 minutes and was still able to present it to the teacher. I felt soooooo bad. I also missed a final exam once, but the teacher let me make it up.
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I was shopping for a new alarm clock for Mark because we don't use cell phones and I was tired of changing the alarm all the time depending on if it was a weekday or weekend. Finding alarm clocks with dual alarms for the different days of the week used to be really easy - Timex made a couple different models, but now everyone just uses their cell phones, so they're practically impossible to find. But I did find one on Amazon and I love it. It's never once not gone off. And it still keeps the time even if there's a power outage. It's the iTOMA Alarm Clock Radio, Dual Alarm, Auto Time Setting, Digital FM Radio, Snooze, Auto Dimmer, Cell Phone Charger, Auxiliary Input and Bluetooth speakers. Noticed that it's an alarm clock, but they added all this crap to use with your cell phone, so you can somehow justify having both.
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I'm accustomed to Barbara Cook singing Lavender Blue. I'll see if I can listen to Mary Martin on Amazon.
Barbara Cook is one of the absolute greatest, but the song doesn't knock me over and tear out my heart as much as
Mary Martin's recording.
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Well, i'm becoming an old softie.
I just received this reissue of an album Mary Martin did for Disney records 50 years ago, and it's really wonderful. It includes as well three tracks from her Disney "Sleeping Beauty" album. The Camarata arrangements are really beautiful, and when she got into the chorus of "Lavender Blue" after the verse, I completely fell apart. The song's from 1949, and it's clearly dredging up memories of family from that period of my life, but i've been a mess all afternoon.
I'm accustomed to Barbara Cook singing Lavender Blue. I'll see if I can listen to Mary Martin on Amazon.
Barbara Cook is one of the absolute greatest, but the song doesn't knock me over and tear out my heart as much as
Mary Martin's recording.
Barbara Cook's rendition makes me cry. I'll need to hear Mary's.
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Up from a nice nap.
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Saturday morning greetings! Richard and I are going this afternoon to see WONDER WOMAN.
I hope you enjoy it as much as we did.
We enjoyed it very much. Afterward we went to Red Robin for a late lunch/early dinner and now I'm about to settle in with my knitting and audiobook.
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Well, my afternoon has gone to hell very quickly. My printer is dead from a paper jam so severe I will never remove the clog. So, I had to order a new one. i hope it arrives quickly.
And the goddam Ohio property taxes are due in 14 days.
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DR Elmore, Richard just had to buy a new printer, too.
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DR Ginny I am glad you enjoyed WONDER WOMAN :)
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Didn't have the patience for subtitles tonight. So, I've started watching a forgotten piece of nonsense called "The Prize." Great cast with Paul Newman, Edward G. Robinson and more having a fine time, plus a fun score by Jerry Goldsmith.
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DR Elmore, Richard just had to buy a new printer, too.
Well, until I'm paid for the Guys & Dolls and the NYMF show, I'm treading water, dammit.
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Didn't have the patience for subtitles tonight. So, I've started watching a forgotten piece of nonsense called "The Prize." Great cast with Paul Newman, Edward G. Robinson and more having a fine time, plus a fun score by Jerry Goldsmith.
I'm on a Judi Dench kick, so I'm watching Mrs Brown, I think.
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It's chicken salad for dinner. Perfect for a really hot evening.
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I saw a post on facebook by someone who said her first job was at the Bruin Theater when TO SIR WITH LOVE was showing. Keith & I were working at the theater then and can't remember her. I have 4 mutual friends, all of whom went to Hamilton High.
Bruce, you are one of the 4 mutual friends. Usually when I ask you don't have a clue but I shall give it a try again. How do you know Hali Burton?
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Of course the alarm worked today.
Is it's possible that the alarm works and you just sleep through it sometimes?
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The ending of this movie, The Prize, is so hilarious that I can't quite believe how bad it is. A doctor rips out a lamp cord and creates the means of jump-starting Edward G. Robinson's heart. He immediately sits up and wants to go to claim his Nobel Prize.
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Five!
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I'm told the show was a little sloppy technically last night. Really irritating and silly mistakes - and unfortunately a reviewer in attendance - hope we don't get called out for being amateur. I hate when that stuff happens - it's inexcusable at this stage. One actor, who literally has about three lines and some thumping to do, zoned out, didn't thump and screwed up an entire beat, which the actor onstage who reacts to it didn't handle all that well, according to that actor. I may send out an e-mail shortly. Also, since there was only half a house last night, I'm going to lay down the law that they must let me know the box-office reservation numbers for every performance - had I known it was light I could have filled it up - especially as a reviewer was there. Not smart folks.
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Today was so busy - I thought I'd be able to relax a bit, but nope. Kay ran the act for me - with changes I didn't know about. They're fine, but her redos of some of the patter were without point and not doing the job that patter needs to, and she's not really performing yet. So, I rewound to the top once it was done, revised patter, put back patter that was more focused, added a few things, trimmed a few things and got the structure just right. So, that will help for the next time through, which is Tuesday.
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Then the work session for Levi. The music is in such disarray it's nuts. Plus in my revision, I've done a lot of routining how the songs fit with the dialogue. We were supposed to have charts on everything by now, but the idiot that was given that job didn't do one damn thing - so we took it away from him and gave it to the usual guy - why that didn't happen in the first place is unknown to me. But he couldn't do it by Monday - so the MD did as much as he could do. I just want to be able to play through stuff, but you can't play the demos as they don't reflect at all what I've done to the show and score. So, today we got through the long opening - and the MD will now put all that together, as it's very complicated. We then worked our way through act one and I gave everything an arrangement and routine and I think I'll be able to sing through it roughly for the reading. We'll do the same for act two on Monday prior to the reading. There isn't that much new material in act two so it will be easier.
But the author of the book was so sloppy in typing that he consistently left out lyrics - so infuriating - I had no way of knowing that when I had the script retyped and which I then went through and cleaned everything up - amateur night, but we'll get it all fixed up.
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I've moved on to The Hollywood Revue of 1929 with Joan Crawford singing and doing the Charleston. Some of it is very tired and dated. Some is charming.
Buster Keaton as well as Laurel and Hardy are expected to show up sooner or later.
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Good night, all.
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Good evening.
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I was busy all day, and yet I didn't accomplish anything.
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There is a major power outage in the San Fernando Valley. I am guessing Bruce is without power.
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http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-power-explosion-20170708-story.html
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Good evening!
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Facebook is very quiet tonight as I have many friends that live in the Valley.
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Back from this evening's performance - half a house, which, for me, is inexcusable. They need to start reporting the box-office numbers to me the morning of the show, so I can do something about filling the house - these people. It was a mostly good show, but sloppy, and I don't allow that, so notes are going out shortly. Much too much was slightly off - consistency in this kind of play is everything. And the murder was so "careful" that it was stupid. I choreographed it to be violent-looking and shocking and tonight it was slow motion and terrible. And the actor who drives it was completely unaware, which is a real problem. So, I'm entrusting our stage manager to keep his eye on things because after tomorrow I probably won't see it for a couple of weeks.
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Sorry about the evening.
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You have power :o
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A very lazy day today.
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I did make it to the store for some cranberry juice.
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I have been too tired to place an order for Safeway delivery.
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I read the power had been out for awhile in West L.A. I hope DR Jeanne has power.
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Health vibes to DR Jrand!
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Peace and happiness vibes to all my HHW friends!
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John, how are you feeling?
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Tomorrow my friend Betzy and I are doing brunch.
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I hope I have the energy to run some errands after brunch.
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I'm home.
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Hi, Tom.
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Today, I installed new light fixtures in my sister's soon-to-be-(hopefully!)-sold house.
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I started to swap out the kitchen faucet (I've done that kind of thing before), but the kind of kitchen sink that my sister has made it too difficult for me to do.
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She has a plumber coming anyway, so she'll have that person install the new faucet.
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Hi, George.
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PAGE SIX DANCE!!