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Well, you've read the notes, the notes were notes, and now it is time for you to post until the Saturday cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: VELLEITY!
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Good morning. It is way too early to be up.
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It's forty minutes later, and it still seems too early to be up. :)
Lots of tax-office stuff, as usual on a tax-season Saturday, but I am determined to get to see FINIAN'S RAINBOW tonight as scheduled. If it weren't a limited run, I'd just wait until after tax season, but it's this weekend or never for seeing that.
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So what did you think of the Oscar winning performance in Vicky Christina Barthelona?
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Great news about the SEESAW release, which I will buy....since so many people hear enjoy it...I cannot a imagine that I will not.
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Today is of course a work day.
DR JOSE I hope you are feeling better today. DR BEN is in Wisconsin!
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Good Morning!
I'm up, I'm up... And, yes, DR JRand, I am feeling better. Thank you.
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Good to see that DR Ben made it safe and sound to Wisconsin.
Hi, Ant!!
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Y.W.
Off to work, oh well.
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Good TOD
Something i will have to go back and look it over but I think and a lot of people will agree (Even though I wasn't there) that 1939 was a very good year
I have seen the following over the years
Gone With The Wind
The Wizard of Oz
Goodbye Mr. Chips
Mr. Smith Goes To Washington
Wuthering Heights
Ninotchka
Stagecoach
Dark Victory
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Young Mr. Lincoln
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Women
Destry Rides Again
and others that I know are good but I have never seen
Intermezzo: A Love Story
Of Mice and Men
Only Angels Have Wings
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
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I'm off to work too day. It's a choreography brush-up rehearsal. All day. In other words, I should be able to check in here and post throughout the day. ;)
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OK...
Laters...
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But I think I will have to go with 1964. This was the first year that I was taken to a movie theater to see a movie which was Mary Poppins and over the years I have seen many of the other films that came out in 1964
Mary Poppins
My Fair Lady
The Pink Panther
The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao
Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte
Zorba the Greek
Becket
Night of the Inguana
Topkapi
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
Dr. Strangelove
From Russia With Love
Goldfinger (I think this came out the same year)
Fail Safe
and
The Pumpkin Eater (I have never seen this)
Seance on a Wet Afternoon (I think I have seen this)
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Good morning, DRs.
I have dropped off Zach for his quarterly grooming. That undercoat gets so thick, and he starts to look very shaggy by the time his next appointment rolls around.
Tonight, the synagogue where my DH plays is hosting a cabaret night featuring Jonathan Schwartz, who still carries the banner for American Standards with his weekend radio shows on WNYC and XM Satellite. He is also the son of composer Arthur Schwartz. The Steinway piano for this evening's festivities is from our very own living room - it was picked up yesterday morning and shall be returned to us next week.
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Saturday morning greetings! I am waiting for a call from AppleCare, which I scheduled last night, for help transferring my iTunes library to my new computer. Last night I thought I also needed help moving my Safari bookmarks and my email address book, but figured that out myself using a flash drive.
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God morning, all! I slept 11 hours last night, and I'm feeling ready to kick ass. At noon, I'm meeting a bunch from the Castrecl for lunch on 50th and Broadway (I think that's right; I'll check before I walk down) and then tonight I'm seeing Encores! production of FINIAN'S RAINBOW which I look forward to enormously; the reviews this morning were glowing, and I sat in tears through the orchestra reading because the score is so glorious.
Beyond that, I'm tidying the mess left from 6 days of total work and no housekeeping, and tomorrow morning I'll mop and do laundry. I think after luncheon, I'll run down to Toyland for some vocal score edits. Tomorrow, besides th laundry, I've got a lot of rewrites on my main report to accomplish.
BK, not all the VICKI CRISTINA BARCELONA reviews were raves; the NEW YORK magazine review disliked the movie and had your complaint: twenty-somethings talking like 70 year-old men. I can still remember the early 1980s when actors in the Drama Book Shop spoke reverentially about auditions for "Woody's new project." Oy!
And I just booked the Hotel Rouge for my 3-day trek to the Orchestration Symposium in DC at the Library of Congress. Hooray! I may possibly be on a panel but nothing's settled yet.
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I suppose I'm up - again very early. But really, sixteen posts?
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I suppose there's a danger in my touting Seesaw so much, but I do love it so - others may not.
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Jrand, I thought Penelope Cruz was okay, but I think I saw performances that I liked better, although I can't remember what they were. And I really did not like the actor who played the husband of Rebecca Hall - I liked her okay and Scarlett's character was just too annoying for me to like her much.
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Favorite year for movies?
1939, of course.
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I have a very long day today with lots of things to do; I suppose I should get started.
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I want coffee. Or a diet coke. Both of which I gave up for Lent.
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BTW: I liked VICKY CHRISTINA BARCELONA.
:P
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Of course you did.
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Looks like it will be another summer-like day.
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The transfers in the Warner Archive program are getting a bit of a lambasting - can't contribute yay or nay since mine haven't arrived even though my order has said "shipped" since last Tuesday.
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Haven't heard a peep from my editor about today - so I hope he doesn't think that he'll write me at nine and say be there at ten. I told him he had to give me warning and that it had to be early.
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Greetings from dance rehearsal...
DR DAW - Is Jonathan Schwartz singing? Playing?
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And the word of the day is: VELLEITY!
And The Song Of The Day Is: WITH A LITTLE BIT OF LUCK
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Has to be 1939...a few of my favs from that year Michael didn't mention:
Gunga Din
Beau Geste
Four Feathers
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Tarzan Finds A Son
The Light That Failed
Another Thin Man
It's A Wonderful World
Midnight
Drums Along the Mohawk
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DR elmore - Oh! The Hotel Rouge. Very nice. That's a Kimpton property, isn't it?
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Tiiiired.
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DRs FJL and elmore - Oh how I wish I could see FINIAN'S RAINBOW this weekend too. I love me some Kate Baldwin. Clap a little louder for me.
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I'd like to see Finian's Rainbow - then again, I'd like to see an Encores show period - the only one I've ever seen is Chicago and that was long after its Encores appearance.
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DR elmore - RE: The Orchestration Symposium - When is it? *And how many panels do you think Larry Blank will not get asked to do? ;D
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Shockingly, I think I may have to order yet more shipping boxes on Monday - don't want to be caught short, although it only takes one day for them to get here.
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Hello, everyone.
I have nothing to report.
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Good morning!
We're still gray here, and rain and thunderstorms are predicted for later. I think we have some clearing tomorrow. I'm ready for it.
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Hello, everyone.
I have nothing to report.
You could report that you're on your way to LA - but nooooo, you keep saying dates you'll be here and then you're never here. That's MY report.
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I was supposed to get VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA to review on Blu-ray. It was assigned to me, but Lionsgate never sent it, so I haven't seen it. After reading the mostly good reviews, I was looking forward to it, but it didn't come, and now I'll just wait for it to show up on paycable.
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I was supposed to get VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA to review on Blu-ray. It was assigned to me, but Lionsgate never sent it, so I haven't seen it. After reading the mostly good reviews, I was looking forward to it, but it didn't come, and now I'll just wait for it to show up on paycable.
I don't think it's Lionsgate. As I recall it's from Genius.
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My work project today will be KING BABY, a stand-up comedy act from Jim Gaffigan that's premiering on Comedy Central tomorrow night and the DVD to be released on Tuesday. He's usually pretty funny (and a fine actor when he does roles on various TV shows, not always comedies), so this should be a pleasant way to spend an hour this evening.
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I was supposed to get VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA to review on Blu-ray. It was assigned to me, but Lionsgate never sent it, so I haven't seen it. After reading the mostly good reviews, I was looking forward to it, but it didn't come, and now I'll just wait for it to show up on paycable.
Whatever. It never made it to me.
I don't think it's Lionsgate. As I recall it's from Genius.
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DR elmore - Oh! The Hotel Rouge. Very nice. That's a Kimpton property, isn't it?
Yep!
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Quite a disappointing showing from our young female figure skaters at the world championships, and it's not looking promising for us to have three women represent the US at the Olympics next year. After the short program, our ladies ranked 7th and 14th, so neither will be skating in the final tier of skaters. We have to hope they both do very well and that some of the top ladies have meltdowns that will allow our girls to pull up enough to qualify us for three placements on the Olympic team.
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DR elmore - RE: The Orchestration Symposium - When is it? *And how many panels do you think Larry Blank will not get asked to do? ;D
May 6 and 7, and I would not be surprised to see Mr Blank there. I actually suspect he'll be on a panel about Irwin Kostal since he was Larry's mentor.
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bk certainly made a grand case for 1962 as a wonderful film year (let's not forget THE MUSIC MAN and GYPSY were part of that year), and no one can argue that 1939 and 1964 were filled with wonderful films.
I also love 1948:
THE SEARCH
TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE
HAMLET
THE SNAKE PIT
JOHNNY BELINDA
JOAN OF ARC
THE RED SHOES
I REMEMBER MAMA
SITTING PRETTY
SORRY WRONG NUMBER
KEY LARGO
RED RIVER
THE NAKED CITY
A FOREIGN AFFAIR
THE PALEFACE
ROMANCE ON THE HIGH SEAS
EASTER PARADE
THE PIRATE
PORTRAIT OF JENNIE
ALL MY SONS
CALL NORTHSIDE 777
COMMAND DECISION
MR. BLANDINGS BUILDS HIS DREAM HOUSE
THAT LADY IN ERMINE
FORT APACHE
RACHEL AND THE STRANGER
WHEN MY BABY SMILES AT ME
THE EMPEROR WALTZ
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I'm awake. Last night for cutting it loose with Footloose is tonight. Today is a First Communion Mass for one of my schools and then a stumble through of The King and I Once again, I'm ignorant about movies so I can't comment on the TOD.
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Good Morning!
TOD: I am tempted to go with 1939, because it's pretty hard to top those movies, but I'll think about it.
I'll be back......
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DR elmore - Oh! The Hotel Rouge. Very nice. That's a Kimpton property, isn't it?
Yep!
Cool! So you might get a goldfish in your hotel room, and gummy teeth and a joy-buzzer in your "mini-bar" tray. :)
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Just bought Illya Darling
Looking forward to getting it
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BK what are the dates again for the Nudie Musical reading?
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The transfers in the Warner Archive program are getting a bit of a lambasting - can't contribute yay or nay since mine haven't arrived even though my order has said "shipped" since last Tuesday.
Which may be why they are loathe to release screeners to review sites. They have said they will release *one* title to each site who contacts them.
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Running a little behind this morning, so I must head down now to check the mail and start on lunch.
WBBL.
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My favorite year for movies?
Any year which featured a release from Alfred Hitchcock, of course.
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For me, 1958 was a wonderful year from films...just imagine a year filled with movies like:
EARTH VS THE SPIDER
ATTACK OF THE PUPPET PEOPLE
HOT CAR GIRL
ATTACK OF THE 50 FT WOMAN
HONG KONG CONFIDENTIAL
WOLF DOG
THE RESTLESS YEARS
NIGHT OF THE BLOOD BEAST
QUEEN OF OUTER SPACE
HIGH SCHOOL HELL CATS
ZIMBO
and so many more...the only year that comes close in such goodness is 1957.
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LA NEWS
CityBeat closure silences more critical voices in the arts
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/03/los-angeles-cit.html (http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/03/los-angeles-cit.html)
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For me, 1958 was a wonderful year from films...just imagine a year filled with movies like:
EARTH VS THE SPIDER
ATTACK OF THE PUPPET PEOPLE
HOT CAR GIRL
ATTACK OF THE 50 FT WOMAN
HONG KONG CONFIDENTIAL
WOLF DOG
THE RESTLESS YEARS
NIGHT OF THE BLOOD BEAST
QUEEN OF OUTER SPACE
HIGH SCHOOL HELL CATS
ZIMBO
and so many more...the only year that comes close in such goodness is 1957.
A "best of" list I can virtually guarantee you'll see nowhere else. :)
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But you left off The Party Crashers, which I find personally devastating.
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The Nudie reading is June 15 and 16.
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At long last page three.
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Back from the long jog.
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PAGE THREE "THE OFFICE" DANCE!!!
(http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00719/David_Brent_719543a.jpg)
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Is Jonathan Schwartz singing? Playing?
I think he's bringing an accompanist and singing. And maybe discoursing.
The cantor at the synagogue wants to sing some Gershwin, so the DH will accompany her.
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Will there be nudity on June 15 and 16?
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Well, I'm doing my bit to stimulate the economy, too. I've bought a new car. The dealership is trying to acquire new-ish cars to resell, so they made me an offer I couldn't refuse. I'm replacing my 3 year old Toyota Camry [50,000+ miles] with a brand new Camry. And keeping the same payment.
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DR Ginny - I hope AppleCare is able to walk you through the transfer of your iTunes library. I would have chimed in yesterday, but I got sidelined by my 4-hour malady. -It is sort of a simple procedure, but it's also one of those things that if you don't check all the right boxes and keep track of where is and will be going, it can get a little convoluted. -Do you have an iPod? That makes things much easier. Otherwise, too many cables and/or CDs can be involved.
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Well, I'm doing my bit to stimulate the economy, too. I've bought a new car. The dealership is trying to acquire new-ish cars to resell, so they made me an offer I couldn't refuse. I'm replacing my 3 year old Toyota Camry [50,000+ miles] with a brand new Camry. And keeping the same payment.
Was this the same car that was just in the accident? *And probably should have been declared "totaled" instead of being repaired? ;)
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Is Jonathan Schwartz singing? Playing?
I think he's bringing an accompanist and singing. And maybe discoursing.
The cantor at the synagogue wants to sing some Gershwin, so the DH will accompany her.
"Yom, you is my Kippur now, you is, you is...."
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And now for something completely different... And very moving and inspirational... *And I'm sort of surprised I didn't come across this before today.
Karl Paulnack To The Boston Conservatory Freshman Class (http://greenroom.fromthetop.org/2009/03/11/karl-paulnack-to-the-boston-conservatory-freshman-class/)
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T.O.D.
1939. Elmore and I were both sixteen and dating at the malt shop, or at the movie palaces in town. A wonderful year for great films with the exception of that stinker - GWTW.
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Was this the same car that was just in the accident?
The very one! I didn't have any regrets. :)
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I did tell the dealership about the accident, but they didn't seem to mind. I'm sure they won't be telling any prospective purchasers about it, either. :-\
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I did tell the dealership about the accident, but they didn't seem to mind. I'm sure they won't be telling any prospective purchasers about it, either. :-\
They're required to. Carfax and all.
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I have Bernadette Peters Sondheim ETC and think of getting Sondheim ETC ETC. Does anyone know what the correct show order is when combining for albums together?
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I just spoke with DakotaCelt. She has left Fargo and is safe.
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Very good news. Thanks for keeping us in the loop, Laura DR. :)
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Does anyone know what the correct show order is when combining for albums together?
I had that list and printed it out at one time. Darned if I know where it is now, though, when I need it. Sorry! :-\
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I have Bernadette Peters Sondheim ETC and think of getting Sondheim ETC ETC. Does anyone know what the correct show order is when combining for albums together?
If you join the Playbill.com club (for free), you can click HERE (http://www.playbill.com/celebritybuzz/article/65190.html) for an article about the whole concert. It's from 1996, so that's probably why you have to join their "club"...to get archived articles. I made a complete 2-disc recording, also!
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At one point in the concert, there are three songs that the article says are in a specific order, but one of the CDs (I forget which) has them in reverse order. I left them in that reversed order so I didn't have muck around with that and they were otherwise all together anyway.
See below. :)
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Well, I'm doing my bit to stimulate the economy, too. I've bought a new car. The dealership is trying to acquire new-ish cars to resell, so they made me an offer I couldn't refuse. I'm replacing my 3 year old Toyota Camry [50,000+ miles] with a brand new Camry. And keeping the same payment.
Congrats on the new car, DAW! In June, my car will be 11 years old! :o
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Or...I could just post the order that I had saved!
ACT ONE (order according to the booklet essay):
1. Overture (1)
2. We're in the Money / Pennies from Heaven (2)
3. If You Were the Only Boy (in the World) (3)
4. Broadway Baby [1]
5. No One Is Alone [2]
6. Sooner or Later [3]
7. Unexpected Song (4)
8. I Never Thought I'd Break (7)
9. Other Lady (6)
10. The Hills of Shiloh / Faithless Love (5)
11. Making Love Alone [4]
12. Time Heals Everything [5]
13. Raining in My Heart [6]
14. Some People [7]
ACT TWO:
1. (They Asked Me Why) I Believe in You (8)
2. Johanna [8]
3. Happiness [9]
4. Hello Little Girl / Any Moment [10]
5. There Won't Be Trumpets [11]
6. Later (9)
7. You Could Drive a Person Crazy [12]
8. Not a Day Goes By [13]
9. With So Little To Be Sure Of (10)
10. Children Will Listen (11)
11. Being Alive [14]
12. Move On [15]
13. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (12)
The songs in italics are from the first CD and the songs in BOLD are from the 2nd CD. The numbers in the brackets or parentheses are the track numbers from the respective CDs. As you can see on the first disc, starting after "Unexpected Song," the CD reversed the song order as they were listed in the article. I don't know if the article listed them in the wrong order or if they really switched the order for the CD. Either way, I kept those songs in the CD order for my complete version:
7. Unexpected Song (4)
8. The Hills of Shiloh / Faithless Love (5)
9. Other Lady (6)
10. I Never Thought I'd Break (7)
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Will there be nudity on June 15 and 16?
Need to buy some opera glasses before you go?
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Quote from Dan the Man yesterday:
I think a better title would have been "The Last Site I Recall Seeing Before I Blanked Out and Came To at the Sink Washing the Blood Off My Hands".
ROTFLMAO!
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T.O.D.
1939. Elmore and I were both sixteen and dating at the malt shop, or at the movie palaces in town. A wonderful year for great films with the exception of that stinker - GWTW.
GWTW a stinker? Darlin, the only stinker when we were at the malt shop in 1939 was that attack of gas you had after too many onion rings!
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T.O.D.
1939. Elmore and I were both sixteen and dating at the malt shop, or at the movie palaces in town. A wonderful year for great films with the exception of that stinker - GWTW.
GWTW a stinker? Darlin, the only stinker when we were at the malt shop in 1939 was that attack of gas you had after too many onion rings!
Well, if you had sprung for a cheeseburger instead of a side order of onion rings; I might not have gotten gas!
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Well, I must leave and go to work for a couple of hours. This evening, I will be ushering for the touring production of ... wait for it ... Gilligan’s Island – The Musical (http://www.washingtoncenter.org/season/season_detail.asp?event_id=1005)!
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Well, I must leave and go to work for a couple of hours. This evening, I will be ushering for the touring production of ... wait for it ... Gilligan’s Island – The Musical (http://www.washingtoncenter.org/season/season_detail.asp?event_id=1005)!
Until later!
Be afraid, be very afraid!
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At one point, Barry William (who played Greg on "The Brady Bunch") and Dawn Wells (Mary Ann in the TV series and all the made-for-TV-movies of "Gilligan's Island") were playing Thurston Howell III and Lovey Howell (respectively)! I don't know if they're still in the tour, but I'll find out tonight. :D
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Well, I must leave and go to work for a couple of hours. This evening, I will be ushering for the touring production of ... wait for it ... Gilligan’s Island – The Musical (http://www.washingtoncenter.org/season/season_detail.asp?event_id=1005)!
George, will you be ushering for ALTAR BOYS (or possibly altaring for USHER BOYS?)
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PAGE 4 GILLIGAN'S ISLAND DANCE!!
(http://www.connietalk.com/gilligans-island.jpg)
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Well, I must leave and go to work for a couple of hours. This evening, I will be ushering for the touring production of ... wait for it ... Gilligan’s Island – The Musical (http://www.washingtoncenter.org/season/season_detail.asp?event_id=1005)!
George, will you be ushering for ALTAR BOYS (or possibly altaring for USHER BOYS?)
Yes! ;D
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PAGE 4 GILLIGAN'S ISLAND DANCE!!
(http://www.connietalk.com/gilligans-island.jpg)
Wow, they really look like the original cast!
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PAGE 4 GILLIGAN'S ISLAND DANCE!!
(http://www.connietalk.com/gilligans-island.jpg)
Wow, they really look like the original cast!
Plastic surgery...every one. ;D
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Well, I must be going.
Be back later!
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No nudity in the Nudie reading - although we'll suggest it.
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Back from proofing the book whilst breakfasting at Du-Par's. I didn't think it was possible to ruin poached eggs, but the lumpen bricks that I ate certainly proved me wrong. I also had a short stack but only ate about one and a half pancakes. I had, of course, already done the long jog.
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I must now work on the Seesaw liner notes.
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T.O.D.
1939. Elmore and I were both sixteen and dating at the malt shop, or at the movie palaces in town. A wonderful year for great films with the exception of that stinker - GWTW.
GWTW a stinker? Darlin, the only stinker when we were at the malt shop in 1939 was that attack of gas you had after too many onion rings!
Well, if you had sprung for a cheeseburger instead of a side order of onion rings; I might not have gotten gas!
Just call me a chinchy bassa!
I'm back from a great luncheon with some very very very sparkling prizes and I've decided to do the laundry this afternoon. The beautiful weekend weather has all the crazies on the street and thankfully out of the laundry room.
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No nudity in the Nudie reading - although we'll suggest it.
And, if you're lucky, someone might take you up on the suggestion!
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We are having wetness this weekend here in Rehoboth Beach.
All four dogs have gone outside, and come back inside wet.
And they've all visited der B in his room immediately upon coming back in.
::)
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Once again today, we've had rain on and off, mostly on. It's never been hard, driving rain, just soft and rather constant. In the summer, it would probably be welcome. In early spring, after three previous days of it, a little tiresome.
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I watched this week's CSI: NY while I ate lunch. An OK episode about an Indian tribe slowly losing its members who retained the old tribal traditions. Not much mystery to it, though.
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Amid a flurry of afternoon phone calls, I also managed to watch last night's DOLLHOUSE. It was for me an irritating episode, and I'm giving up on the show. One fewer hour to worry about recording and watching.
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When I go back down, I'll start on KING BABY and should be able to squeeze in watching some skating later tonight. My watch an NCIS episode from the season two boxset also if there's time.
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I was looking over the database der B and I have for our DVD/BD collection, to try to get a handle on "favorite years", but the column for the year films have come out seems to be all mucked up.
Bleh. So much for an easy research tool.
I've got some repair work to do.
That and laundry.
::)
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Thanks for the Bernadette sleuthing, DR George!! :)
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PAGE 4 GILLIGAN'S ISLAND DANCE!!
(http://www.connietalk.com/gilligans-island.jpg)
Here's that Woody Allen YELLOW again!!
(See, notes are red! I mean ... read!!) :)
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If I had to chose a Peters, it would be Roberta! ;)
But then, nobody's asking me! :)
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It's Been Raining,
Raining In My heart!
Where Are My ... Rubbers?
Don't leave home without them! ;)
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Teedum! ... td! ...
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Heading down now to get to today's work project and then should have plenty of time to watch some things for fun, too.
WBBL.
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Good morning / Good afternoon everyone.
Just put on The Creature Wasn't Nice cd, to listen to while I catch up on posts.
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thanks for reminding me I need to call the theatre about tickets for June 15 and 16
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Last year and the year before , I bought tickets to everything in pairs.
Someone always went with me, but it became such a pain, that this year I'm going by myself
to everything.
I ended up always being the driver, and driving on their schedule of when to leave and when to come home.
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I like to be early to walk the neighborhood, and stay after the show to say hello if I know someone.
My butthead friends, didn't care.
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Or as Rose recently said , they just don't want to get off the couch and get outside.
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must now clean the apartment.
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I just spoke with DakotaCelt. She has left Fargo and is safe.
Luckily, I have seen that they think the flood waters have now peaked, so let's hope so.
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PAGE 5 DANCE!!!!!
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I think it's time for a nap before I step out again tonight.
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Here's an interesting question.
[I don't believe it has been asked before. Or, if it was, I'm not aware of it.]
Did Frank Sinatra really win an Academy Award for FROM HERE TO ETERNITY?
???
I'm asking because I just watched a clip on YouTube (see below) of Mercedes McCambridge announcing him as the winner, and she never looks in the envelope.
That's just as I remembered it when I watched it on TV over 50 years ago.
Anyway, take a look for yourself:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z03GIcNDV9Y&feature=related
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Shall we dance?
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I think it's time for a nap before I step out again tonight.
Let's step out! Let's step out! <blah blah blah> dance about!!
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Well, I'm doing my bit to stimulate the economy, too. I've bought a new car. The dealership is trying to acquire new-ish cars to resell, so they made me an offer I couldn't refuse. I'm replacing my 3 year old Toyota Camry [50,000+ miles] with a brand new Camry. And keeping the same payment.
Oh, my, I thought a new computer was stimulating! Congratulations, DR DAW!
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DR Ginny - I hope AppleCare is able to walk you through the transfer of your iTunes library. I would have chimed in yesterday, but I got sidelined by my 4-hour malady. -It is sort of a simple procedure, but it's also one of those things that if you don't check all the right boxes and keep track of where is and will be going, it can get a little convoluted. -Do you have an iPod? That makes things much easier. Otherwise, too many cables and/or CDs can be involved.
DR Jose - yes, it took 3 phone calls (2 Brads and 1 Nicole), but my iTunes library is now installed on my MacBook. We did use my iPod as an external hard drive and it's fully restored, too.
I am very impressed with AppleCare. For the final steps, I went online, stated my problem, and my phone rang almost immediately (it was Nicole).
Hope you're feeling better!
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DR Laura - thank you for the update on DR DakotaCelt. Glad to hear she's out of harm's way.
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Got a few packages, but NOT the ones that are WAY overdue. Listening to a potential upcoming Kritzerland project - I really have to think about this one, as it's very interesting but not a typical release. It does feature a score, but there's a lot of talking over it - still, it's quite interesting and good.
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Must deliver the last of the Seesaw materials now.
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Or as Rose recently said , they just don't want to get off the couch and get outside.
Stop! Stop taking picutres!
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Had myself a very lazy day. Did some decluttering, some reading, some web surfing and now I'm going to watch the news and play with my iTouch.
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Any DRs planning on turning your lights out at 8:30 tonight?
EarthHour (http://www.earthhour.org)
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Back, and have typed up five pages of notes for my Cabaret Workshop Monday night, which means I'm probably finished with work for the day. Earlier I finished my Seesaw notes, and will peruse them two or three more times and then send them off tonight.
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Any DRs planning on turning your lights out at 8:30 tonight?
EarthHour (http://www.earthhour.org)
Well, since I'll be at the theater ushering, the lights in my house will be off, anyway. Does that count? :)
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Oh my goodness! It's snowing!!
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Last year and the year before , I bought tickets to everything in pairs.
Someone always went with me, but it became such a pain, that this year I'm going by myself
to everything.
I ended up always being the driver, and driving on their schedule of when to leave and when to come home.
You can often get great seats when you are only looking for a single
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Good Evening!
...And now that the choreographers have had their time - and their say - any further brush-up rehearsal wills be VOCAL ones, Thank You Very Much!!
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Hmmm... My previous post really does need to be said out loud and with the proper inflection. Anyhoo...
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DR Laura, thanks for the update on Dakota
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I still have about 30 or so measures of music to "fully" teach, and we have two weeks of rehearsal before we go into tech. Plenty o' time! No worries.
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DR Laura - thank you for the update on DR DakotaCelt. Glad to hear she's out of harm's way.
DR Laura, thanks for the update on Dakota
DITTO!
:)
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DR Ginny - I hope AppleCare is able to walk you through the transfer of your iTunes library. I would have chimed in yesterday, but I got sidelined by my 4-hour malady. -It is sort of a simple procedure, but it's also one of those things that if you don't check all the right boxes and keep track of where is and will be going, it can get a little convoluted. -Do you have an iPod? That makes things much easier. Otherwise, too many cables and/or CDs can be involved.
DR Jose - yes, it took 3 phone calls (2 Brads and 1 Nicole), but my iTunes library is now installed on my MacBook. We did use my iPod as an external hard drive and it's fully restored, too.
I am very impressed with AppleCare. For the final steps, I went online, stated my problem, and my phone rang almost immediately (it was Nicole).
Hope you're feeling better!
Good to hear.
And, yes, I'm feeling much, much better.
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Just finished watching Forget-Me-Not Lane, which I quite enjoyed. At intermission, I went back and re-read BK's notes for that day and some of the posts. I had the same experience with a Netflix copy as DR DAW described. No sound when using a DVD player and TV, but it worked fine on my old eMac.
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If I had to chose a Peters, it would be Roberta! ;)
But then, nobody's asking me! :)
Didn't Roberta Peters appear on an episode of "Columbo" - or some other detective series - during the 1970's? I seem to remember her singing "Sempre Libera" in a recital setting (with a pianist).
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Just finished watching Forget-Me-Not Lane, which I quite enjoyed. At intermission, I went back and re-read BK's notes for that day and some of the posts. I had the same experience with a Netflix copy as DR DAW described. No sound when using a DVD player and TV, but it worked fine on my old eMac.
Before I came to work today, I went to my garage to see if I could (quickly) find my CD(s) of Bernadette Peters' live concert that Michael S. was asking about. I couldn't, but I did find my DVD of "Forget-Me-Not Lane"! I'll definitely check it to see if mine has the same problem. I have to admit that, for as long as I've had it, I haven't watched it yet. ::)
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I don't know about Portland, Oregon (or Wisconsin for that matter), but it is snowing in Tacoma, Washington.
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Listening to Diana Krall's just about to be released new CD, Quiet Nights. Beautiful charts by Claus Ogerman and production by Tommy LiPuma, but this woman puts me to sleep. She just thinks that this breathy thing is so sexy and it's so boring after one song - she flatlines every song - no variety, no nuance, no color, just breath and trying to do what far lesser singers did so effortlessly - singers like Astrud Gilberto and her ilk. Her phrasing is so weird - just not a fan. How these people cross over and sell albums is really a mystery to me and always has been. It's a real 60s album without any of the soul - strictly paint by numbers instead of an original painting.
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Too bad TCM isn't showing WAIT UNTIL DARK tonight. It would have been a good night for it.
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Listening to Diana Krall's just about to be released new CD, Quiet Nights. Beautiful charts by Claus Ogerman and production by Tommy LiPuma, but this woman puts me to sleep. She just thinks that this breathy thing is so sexy and it's so boring after one song - she flatlines ever song - no variety, no nuance, no color, just breath and trying to do what far lesser singers did so effortlessly - singers like Astrud Gilberto and her look. Her phrasing is so weird - just not a fan. How these people cross over and sell albums is really a mystery to me and always has been. It's a
real 60s album without any of the soul - strictly paint by numbers instead of an original painting.
I have to agree--I've never been a Krall fan. I've tried a number of times, but I just find her uninspiring.
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So, I had lousy poached eggs and one and a half pancakes - what else to eat is now the question. I did proof another forty something pages - I must say this book has one of my favorite characters that I've ever created - he just makes me laugh and laugh and just when I think I can laugh no more, I laugh again.
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Listening to Diana Krall's just about to be released new CD, Quiet Nights. Beautiful charts by Claus Ogerman and production by Tommy LiPuma, but this woman puts me to sleep. She just thinks that this breathy thing is so sexy and it's so boring after one song - she flatlines every song - no variety, no nuance, no color, just breath and trying to do what far lesser singers did so effortlessly - singers like Astrud Gilberto and her ilk. Her phrasing is so weird - just not a fan. How these people cross over and sell albums is really a mystery to me and always has been. It's a real 60s album without any of the soul - strictly paint by numbers instead of an original painting.
Totally agree too!
If I want "breathy", Peggy Lee did it better, and she knew about phrasing!
Miss Krall should stick to piano playing!
Not only she bores me but her voice irritates me!
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Mel Tormé, where are you??!
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But then, I'm an old bag! ;)
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"Lousy Poached Eggs?"
Ain't that an Hoagy Carmichael song? :D
(You Leave Me Breathless!)
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Listening to Diana Krall's just about to be released new CD, Quiet Nights. Beautiful charts by Claus Ogerman and production by Tommy LiPuma, but this woman puts me to sleep. She just thinks that this breathy thing is so sexy and it's so boring after one song - she flatlines every song - no variety, no nuance, no color, just breath and trying to do what far lesser singers did so effortlessly - singers like Astrud Gilberto and her ilk. Her phrasing is so weird - just not a fan. How these people cross over and sell albums is really a mystery to me and always has been. It's a real 60s album without any of the soul - strictly paint by numbers instead of an original painting.
BK, have you heard recent CDs of either Janis Siegel or Cheryl Bentyne? They're the two women of The Manhattan Transfer and they have talent and skill as musicians...they're not just singers. I highly recommend checking both of them out. :D
Of course, I'm biased. ;) I've been a fan of TMT since I was in high school and have seen them in concert many times, the last time was just a couple of weeks ago!
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And now, it's time for me to leave work, go home for a bit of dinner and then Gilligan's Island - The Musical!
Until later!
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If I had to chose a Peters, it would be Roberta! ;)
But then, nobody's asking me! :)
Didn't Roberta Peters appear on an episode of "Columbo" - or some other detective series - during the 1970's? I seem to remember her singing "Sempre Libera" in a recital setting (with a pianist).
I don't believe that Roberta Peters ever had a pianis.
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If I had to chose a Peters, it would be Roberta! ;)
But then, nobody's asking me! :)
Didn't Roberta Peters appear on an episode of "Columbo" - or some other detective series - during the 1970's? I seem to remember her singing "Sempre Libera" in a recital setting (with a pianist).
I don't believe that Roberta Peters ever had a pianis.
A pianis? Never!
Not even a penis! :o ;)
Only a ... Peters!
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Ah, Janis Siegel ... Cheryl Bentyne!!! Yes! That's singing and swinging and ...
Just great!
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If I had to chose a Peters, it would be Roberta! ;)
But then, nobody's asking me! :)
Didn't Roberta Peters appear on an episode of "Columbo" - or some other detective series - during the 1970's? I seem to remember her singing "Sempre Libera" in a recital setting (with a pianist).
I don't believe that Roberta Peters ever had a pianis.
She may had it removed!!
And now Dino at the piano!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov-56bUTtRw&feature=related
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV2-YGGn0y4
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I believe that Janis Siegel is one of the people who voted to give me the Jazziz Vocal Jazz award I won several years ago. Though it may have been one of the New York Voices. I know that Jon Hendricks was.
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Just finished reviewing a pretty lame older British sitcom called HALLELUJAH and discovered in my research that its star, Thora Hird, was Mel Torme's mother-in-law.
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I can't, John, you already are!! ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrfk8weTWTM&feature=related
Sometimes I wish my name were ... Ruthie! :)
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Any DRs planning on turning your lights out at 8:30 tonight?
EarthHour (http://www.earthhour.org)
Since we had an "Earth Week" back in September, we think we'll pass tonight.
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And he sings too! (Oh, a Victor, Victoria reference!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAA1WW0Qpcw&feature=related
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A few days ago, people were talking about Zingerman's in Ann Arbor. How about a
BAKE-cation (http://www.bakewithzing.com)?
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...Of course, I'm biased. ;) I've been a fan of TMT since I was in high school...
Heck, I think you've been a fan of TMT since back when Tim Hauser still had hair!
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...Of course, I'm biased. ;) I've been a fan of TMT since I was in high school...
Heck, I think you've been a fan of TMT since back when Tim Hauser still had hair!
Not to mention Gayelord!! ;)
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I remembered that when I worked on La Cienega Blvd., the actor who played the Captain on Gilligian's Island owned a restaurant on the next block. I saw him almost every week tending to the plants at the front of the restaurant.
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finished my apt., cleaning for the day.
anyone know how to keep it dust free, so my kid does not draw in it when she comes over.
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François is back?
What happened to Irma la Douche?
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EARTHOUR I'll turn the light off for an hour. 8:30PM local time.
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Does SweetIrma really live in Paris, France?
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after EARTHHOUR, I think I'll watch Risky Business, picked it up just for fun a couple of days ago.
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Good evening everyone. Till later.
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François is back?
What happened to Irma la Douche?
Well, do you want him to be FRONT?! :o
Irma is taking a shower (Douche!) now! ;)
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Does SweetIrma really live in Paris, France?
Me, I do!
I don't know about her though!
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Good evening everyone. Till later.
The only Till I know is Till Eulenspiegel! ;)
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A few days ago, people were talking about Zingerman's in Ann Arbor. How about a
BAKE-cation (http://www.bakewithzing.com) ?
I think to have the link work, the "?" should be separated from the "n"! I think!
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Bingo!
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And a new Page!
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Finished watching an absolutely and horrifyingly unfunny "comedy" mockumentary called Pittsburgh. Talk about misguided.
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PAGE 4 GILLIGAN'S ISLAND DANCE
(http://www.connietalk.com/gilligans-island.jpg)
Wow, they really look like the original cast!
Just writing about Bob Denver on my blog today. We did PLAY IT AGAIN, SAM at the Mansion Dinner Theatre in Odessa, Texas, eons ago.
http://poguespages.blogspot.com
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Good Evening!
I had a very nice nap. Er.. I mean "Earth Hour". ;)
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Was it DR DtM who asked about the violin fingering double for John Garfield in HUMORESQUE.
Anyway, Cary Grant's harp playing in The Bishop's Wife was a double exposure/process screen shot, I think.
Oscar Levant wrote in one of his books, that when filming on HUMERESQUE - The difficult violin technique was done in a tight shot, with one violinist handling the bow and another the fingering - their arms thrust through a specially built tuxedo....and he played a dummy piano while a famous female pianist played the notes offscreen so that he could keep time.... After a couple of shots, Levant stood up and announced: "Jesus Christ, we sound great. The five of us ought to go out on a concert tour!"
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So MR BK is listening to a score that has a lot of talking.....that's exactly the way I hear EVERY cd I play at my house.
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What an interesting evening I've had tonight.
I began by watching an episode of NCIS from the second season box set. NCIS stumbles on a Mafia body dump filled with corpses. Not much mystery but a fun episode.
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Next I watched KING BABY, the Jim Gaffigan comedy special that premieres tomorrow night on Comedy Central before the DVD (with extended footage) comes out on Tuesday.
It was very funny. I like his reserved, quiet kind of clean stand-up. He doesn't eat the audience or go for the jugular like some other comics do.
He does five or six minutes on just the topic of bacon, and it's hysterical. I thoroughly enjoyed the set.
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Then I watched the bonus features on the disc. This included three episodes from his animated web series and four episodes of his faux-nature series.
There were several interviews (one was a half hour with an XM-Sirius radio/video DJ), and a series of comic promos for his last two stand-up tours sponsored by Comedy CEntral.
Much of this stuff was very entertaining to watch.
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Afterwards, I came upstairs and wrote up the review, but I didn't post it since I was on a timetable trying to time viewing perfectly to tonight's figure skating coverage.
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When I went back down, I had time to watch one more NCIS episode, this one concerning attempts on the life of a female marine and her family. I figured out the murderer (well, the surprise one) before the identity was revealed. Good show for the regulars, especially Tony (Michael Weatherly).
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Then I watched the finals of the ladies' figure skating world championship. Rachel Flatt was able to skate her way into fifth place thanks to a good performance from her and mediocre to poor performances from two of the ladies in the top tier. The lovely South Korean skater blew the rest of the group away, however, making it not much of a contest. Still I enjoyed it.
I was FURIOUS with NBC for not showing Alissa Cizny's free skate, especially since they commented that she had done so well. (She came up from 14th to 11th place.) And, the show had 10 minutes to spare at the end where Dick Button and Michelle Kwan had to improvise comments just to fill in time. Alissa's performance could have been shown then.
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Looks like my work project for tomorrow will be the Blu-ray of DOUBT. I'm really looking forward to seeing this movie.
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Sure glad I got my yard work done yesterday as it rained and rained today!
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Just splurged a little at Border's with my 40% off coupon and the storewide 30% off sale (though someone just posted to CASTRECL that in their neck of the woods it's 40% storewide). The CD collection is pretty lamentable now, but I found some old Riverside things that I got for around $8 a pop, plus I picked up some of the Glenn Gould Columbia stuff on a lark and some Bach just because it was there. :)
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On the Warner's Archive titles, I get the MOD listings, those are Movies on Demand. But what does the EST-MOD label mean?
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Got one Bollywood movie watched today...JAILOR (1958) starring Sohrab Modi, Kamini Kaushal, Geeta Bali, and my new favorite Bollywood actor Abhi Battacharaya.
(http://us.st12.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/nehaflix_2048_159355735)
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I started watching MAIN PYAAR KYUN KIYA, a 2005 comedy that is just too awful for words. I am going to skip the rest of the film and just watch the musical numbers...it does have some good songs.
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Got one Bollywood movie watched today...JAILOR (1958) starring Sohrab Modi, Kamini Kaushal, Geeta Bali, and my new favorite Bollywood actor Abhi Battacharaya.
(http://us.st12.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/nehaflix_2048_159355735)
I was thinking of you not once, but twice, today, Mike. I'm reviewing the BD of The Story of India, the recent PBS doc with Michael Wood. Lots of Bollywood film clips, used ironically at times. But I also got the BD of Saawariya as my first freebie from Sony Rewards. I had reviewed the SD-DVD ages ago but had gotten rid of it in the meantime. The BD looks fabulous, but it has a really funny English soundtrack--instead of a dubbed version, it's people reading the subtitles while the original Hindi soundtrack still plays in the background. IIRC, the DVD only had the original soundtrack.
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JMK, our BORDERS CD section is just barely there anymore.
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Someone reading the subtitles? That is just bizarre.
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Guess I'll head downstairs to bed now.
Good night!
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I've done the notes and now have three hours to relax and do nothing, as I'm not in the mood to watch a DVD.
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Or...I could just post the order that I had saved!
ACT ONE (order according to the booklet essay):
1. Overture (1)
2. We're in the Money / Pennies from Heaven (2)
3. If You Were the Only Boy (in the World) (3)
4. Broadway Baby [1]
5. No One Is Alone [2]
6. Sooner or Later [3]
7. Unexpected Song (4)
8. I Never Thought I'd Break (7)
9. Other Lady (6)
10. The Hills of Shiloh / Faithless Love (5)
11. Making Love Alone [4]
12. Time Heals Everything [5]
13. Raining in My Heart [6]
14. Some People [7]
ACT TWO:
1. (They Asked Me Why) I Believe in You (8)
2. Johanna [8]
3. Happiness [9]
4. Hello Little Girl / Any Moment [10]
5. There Won't Be Trumpets [11]
6. Later (9)
7. You Could Drive a Person Crazy [12]
8. Not a Day Goes By [13]
9. With So Little To Be Sure Of (10)
10. Children Will Listen (11)
11. Being Alive [14]
12. Move On [15]
13. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (12)
The songs in italics are from the first CD and the songs in BOLD are from the 2nd CD. The numbers in the brackets or parentheses are the track numbers from the respective CDs. As you can see on the first disc, starting after "Unexpected Song," the CD reversed the song order as they were listed in the article. I don't know if the article listed them in the wrong order or if they really switched the order for the CD. Either way, I kept those songs in the CD order for my complete version:
7. Unexpected Song (4)
8. The Hills of Shiloh / Faithless Love (5)
9. Other Lady (6)
10. I Never Thought I'd Break (7)
Thank you for taking the time to post this. Very kind of you.
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I didn't quite do Earth Hour. I left one light on so I could read. I did turn off the TV though. I don't think people here did it. When I looked outside there were lots of lights on
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Our Borders is also cutting our cd and dvd stock dramatically. I believe we'll be one of the stores carrying basically the top twenty-five. :(
PITTSBURGH, the mockumentary is, as far as THE MUSIC MAN is concerned, a documentary; the rest is dreadfully unfunny, but, as a Pittsburgher, the on location shooting is fabulous.
I wish I were in NYC to see FINIAN'S RAINBOW.
I watched the Blu-Ray of DR. NO tonight. Wow.
It's been four years to the day that dad died.
I'm singing a memorial service tomorrow morning. ("Because He Lives" and "Precious Lord, Take My Hand").
A luncheon for thirty-PLUS people will follow at our house.
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I finished reading The Soloist tonight. It was a very good book and it was great to read it right after seeing Mr. Ayers and Mr. Lopez on 60 minutes
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one hour for EARTHHOUR went by quickly. the building was really quite, all apartments were dark, across the street mostly also. Up on the Mulholland hills NO.
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FINIAN'S RAINBOW in a word: spectacular.
What a brilliant piece of whimsy and social commentary. The idiot poster on AllThatChat who complained the book was "creaky" once again showed what small minds adolescent know-it-alls reared on too much of the new school of musicals possess. I'd kill to see a new show with the wit, bite, commentary and fantastic score of FINIAN's RAINBOW. The only drawback was the usually wonderful Mr Philip Bosco who failed rather spectacularly as the bigoted senator who must become a black man to find his humanity. Surely they saw better character actors for the Huey Long role? I think Walter Bobbie might have been fantastic casting. He's funny.
Otherwise, a great cast and topnotch direction from Warren Carlyle, who is - I think - the real thing at Encores! and not a fraud like Susan Shulman or Kathleen Marshall.
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Dear Francois, A long time ago, I spent a week in Paris. In a little hotel by the Opera House, it was the first time I realized how wonderful it was to walk home in middle of the night after seeing a show. In LA we just get in our cars.
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There was a nice article in the local paper today about DR Samantha's (not to be confused with DR Sam) DBF. He's the first person who is graduating from the Wind Turbine Technology program at the local community college to transfer into the University of Iowa's new wind based engineering program. DR Samantha is planning to go there with him.
http://www.esthervilledailynews.com/page/content.detail/id/503044.html?nav=5003
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Dear Cillaliz and DR Samantha, nice article.
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Well, I guess I'll go watch my movie.
Hope everyone has a wonderful Sunday.
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DR Sam, DR Samantha is my niece. She went to an HHW gathering with us to see The Brain from Planet X in New York. She doesn't post often, but does ask how everyone is doing when I see her.
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I finished reading The Soloist tonight. It was a very good book and it was great to read it right after seeing Mr. Ayers and Mr. Lopez on 60 minutes
:)
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Well, I guess I probably should have just kept napping after Earth Hour earlier tonight, so...
Goodnight.
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Time for me to get some sleep too. I'm feeling much better after sleeping over 10 hours last night, but it's getting late and tomorrow I want to clean house and then go to a multicultural fair in the afternoon.
Night
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OH!...
From Playbill.com:
ON THE RECORD: Wright and Forrest's (and Rachmaninoff's) Anya and Forbidden Broadway Goes Rehab (http://www.playbill.com/news/article/127763.html)
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Nice review.
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As has been the case repeatedly since yesterday, I'm listening to Two For The Seesaw. Cannot get enough!
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I'm still full from that big Subway sandwich I ate at five-thirty.
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I've been working my way through the slim Arthur Laurents book, On Directing, or whatever it's called. I must say, I am not enjoying it and I would hate working for him if I was an actor.
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I got some nice things in the mail today all the way from India. As some of you know I am a big fan of Bollywood (!) and I have even begun collecting Bollywood movie memorabilia. It is quite difficult to find posters and such that are in good condition as the humidity and heat tends to turn old paper products to dust after so many years....but I have lucked onto a couple of people in India who have scoured the countryside (and their basements) for some nice items for me.
And here are a few of them that just arrived...
From the 1920s and 1930s...
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While I got a couple of packages in the mail, I did NOT get any of the way overdue stuff.
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Listening to an Elliot Goldenthal composer promo - he's very good, but, you know, after listening to Previn it's all just so much fish.
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Where in tarnation IS everyone?
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Page nine, where art thou?
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Where thou art?
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Art, where the HELL are thou?
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From the 1940s.....
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Well, I am here and I am showing art.
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Then I watched the finals of the ladies' figure skating world championship. Rachel Flatt was able to skate her way into fifth place thanks to a good performance from her and mediocre to poor performances from two of the ladies in the top tier. The lovely South Korean skater blew the rest of the group away, however, making it not much of a contest. Still I enjoyed it.
I was FURIOUS with NBC for not showing Alissa Cizny's free skate, especially since they commented that she had done so well. (She came up from 14th to 11th place.) And, the show had 10 minutes to spare at the end where Dick Button and Michelle Kwan had to improvise comments just to fill in time. Alissa's performance could have been shown then.
They could easily have done without several of the ladies' skates. They did, however, show Lysacek's gold medal men's performance in its entirety in the show's final five minutes.
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The 1950s.........
(http://i370.photobucket.com/albums/oo146/mbarnum/bollywood%20posters/scan0005-2.jpg?t=1238306658)
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A fun looking mythological film....
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We're STILL on page eight?
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My favorite era of Bollywood films....the crazy 1960s....
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And the Bollywood version of HERCULES
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You know, Michael...every one of those pictures could be its own post.
I'm just sayin'.
;)
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I am just now beginning to appreciate 1970s Bollywood...
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Well, since we're (finally) so close...
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PAGE NINE BOLLYWOOD DANCE!!
;D
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Or...I could just post the order that I had saved!
ACT ONE (order according to the booklet essay):
1. Overture (1)
2. We're in the Money / Pennies from Heaven (2)
3. If You Were the Only Boy (in the World) (3)
4. Broadway Baby [1]
5. No One Is Alone [2]
6. Sooner or Later [3]
7. Unexpected Song (4)
8. I Never Thought I'd Break (7)
9. Other Lady (6)
10. The Hills of Shiloh / Faithless Love (5)
11. Making Love Alone [4]
12. Time Heals Everything [5]
13. Raining in My Heart [6]
14. Some People [7]
ACT TWO:
1. (They Asked Me Why) I Believe in You (8)
2. Johanna [8]
3. Happiness [9]
4. Hello Little Girl / Any Moment [10]
5. There Won't Be Trumpets [11]
6. Later (9)
7. You Could Drive a Person Crazy [12]
8. Not a Day Goes By [13]
9. With So Little To Be Sure Of (10)
10. Children Will Listen (11)
11. Being Alive [14]
12. Move On [15]
13. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (12)
The songs in italics are from the first CD and the songs in BOLD are from the 2nd CD. The numbers in the brackets or parentheses are the track numbers from the respective CDs. As you can see on the first disc, starting after "Unexpected Song," the CD reversed the song order as they were listed in the article. I don't know if the article listed them in the wrong order or if they really switched the order for the CD. Either way, I kept those songs in the CD order for my complete version:
7. Unexpected Song (4)
8. The Hills of Shiloh / Faithless Love (5)
9. Other Lady (6)
10. I Never Thought I'd Break (7)
Thank you for taking the time to post this. Very kind of you.
You're welcome...but it took no time at all. I made my own complete CD with a booklet right after the second CD was released, and saved the original Word document and Playbill article link. I just went right to it, copied it all and posted. :)
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The 1980s however, well...what can I say....
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Nice review.
Very nice. :)
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Good evening. I just returned from a lovely soiree. Other guests in attendance include a count, an astronaut, and a few generals.
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The Count, The Astronaut, and A Few Generals - that's the title of my next novel.
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So...earlier tonight, I ushered for a touring production of Gilligan's
Karaoke Island - The Musical. ::) Well...the actors were pretty good. Their voices were for the most part, very good (Ginger was probably the weak link, vocally, but she wasn't bad at all). Otherwise, everyone had great energy (especially Gilligan). The Professor was VERY good looking without being too distracting. ;)
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Before the show, I talked with the house manager and she said that their original contract was to have two live musicians and the rest of the "band" be canned. She said that at some point within the last couple of months, they (the tour producers) said that there would be no live musicians! Judy (the aforementioned house manager) said that the general manager of the Washington Center got in on it and the two live musicians were in the pit. I must say that it probably didn't help much. The "orchestrations" were very simple and not very interesting, at all. With canned music, you'd think that it would sound fuller...more exciting...better...but no. An evening of not-so-good karaoke on a shoestring budget does not a good show make.
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Otherwise, the songs and script...what can I say about the songs and script...amateurish. I guess it fit with the intellectual level of the original TV show, but I really wish that it was much better than the TV show. There was not a lot of reaction from the audience during the first act other than polite applause, although there were a couple of funny moments (not more than a few out-loud laughs). At the beginning of the intermission, the audience in the lobby was somewhat quiet which indicated to me that "if you don't have something nice to say, then don't say anything." I'm sure some people left and didn't come back. But during the second act and the curtain call, there seemed to be more applause/laughs...but it just didn't "feel" right. To me, it really seemed like they brought in their backstage crew to help the rest of the audience laugh. It just didn't feel natural. :-\
Those are just my observations. One person's opinions. No one else's. Just my 2¢.
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And don't get me started on the alien. No kidding...there's a green alien from another planet in the show...it's literally a no-brainer. :P
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Gratuitous Post #250.