Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on January 26, 2020, 12:19:11 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes had music and laughter, and now it is time for you to post until the music and laughter cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: EFFICACY!
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First post after BK.
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Just before I went to post the notes, the computer just shut down - freaky and weird. Just a little pop-up that said "Your computer shut down because of a problem and will restart automatically." It did, but I will never understand why it does that kind of thing.
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Just before I went to post the notes, the computer just shut down - freaky and weird. Just a little pop-up that said "Your computer shut down because of a problem and will restart automatically." It did, but I will never understand why it does that kind of thing.
That is just weird. My computer (fortunately) has only shut down when there's an update that needs a restart, but I have the option to not have it restart until I'm ready. I would hate to have it restart when I'm in the middle of several things, like I am right now.
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Congrats on the very successful Bernstein concert, BK! :D
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To continue from last night...I had otherwise seen Bette's character Delores Del Lago's last name spelled: de Lago, deLago, De Lago and Delago, and I wanted to have it spelled correctly. I don't know if Del Lago is really the way that Bette preferred to spell it, but it was the only commercially released product that I found that showed any spelling of the name. I can't find my DVD right now, so I don't know if that even has it on it, but since I've burned the Blu-ray, it is what it is.
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~~~Vibes for One Huge Miracle for BK That Is Really Needed!!~~~
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Well, I must be off. I did NOT get enough sleep this morning, so I need to get much more today. 8)
Have a good day, all!
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Good morning, all!
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After a day of doing little, my legs are starting to feel as though they want to work again. I have another quiet day today and tomorrow I have physical therapy. Tuesday is pre-colonoscopy day, so I will be confined to home, and Wednesday morning is the event. I need to remind Joshie, since he will pick me up aftewr the procedure.
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DR JohnG, I wish you'd come to Manhattan and do my laundry.
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DR JRand69, I enjoyed your chart. It seems I am the year of the Dog. That chart bodes well for 2020 so I hope that means the Ohio property finally sells, I start working more regularly, and that the Orange Slug Squatting in the White House gets put out.
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The Triumph of Love seems a million years ago, but it was a landmine of bickering and betrayals. It had two tryouts: Baltimore Center Stage (I think) and then the Yale Rep before Broadway. The composer did not want the orchestrator Margo Lion and the lyricist were pushing on him, and he wanted me. He contacted me after he felt the "orchestrator," who's quite good with rhythm charts, wasn't working out, but Ms Lion continually rejected me and put me down. She was quite ugly. Once I was out of the picture, the original orchestrator quit, and I do not remember who took over. It wasn't Bruce Coughlin.
Then, when the show went to Yale, the MD, Patrick Brady, called me to work on it, but I was committed to something else, and that was the end of my involvement. After the Yale production, three actors were dropped by Ms Lion in and replaced by F. Murray Abraham, Betty Buckley, and Kevin Chamberlin. I know two of them, and they are still bitter about it.
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And there was a lot more warfare and betrayal going on as well behind the scenes, one of the reasons there are songs by other writers.
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After I tidy up, I plan to spend the day doing very little. I'll work on my taxes for a bit, maybe watch something.
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Good morning, all.
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It’s Tech Sunday, and miracles are welcomed here, too, as I somehow pull this one off with a damned head cold that I didn’t have until late yesterday afternoon.
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The second Elmer concert sounds wonderful. Congrats to BK, and here’s to more miracles.
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That’s one hell of a story, DR Elmore.
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Well, I will probably not be online again till late tonight or maybe even tomorrow morning.
Good Sunday vibes for all!
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It’s Tech Sunday, and miracles are welcomed here, too, as I somehow pull this one off with a damned head cold that I didn’t have until late yesterday afternoon.
Break a leg!
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That’s one hell of a story, DR Elmore.
I didn't want to go into the other battles on The Triumph of Love which did not affect me, like why other song writers ended up working on the show.
In 1998 I was working on restoring the original 1938 scores for The Boys from Syracuse for the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization and Encores! when Charlie Harmon who was working with Leonard Bernstein's publishing company asked me to orchestrate On the Town for Central Park. I had to turn it down because of my other commitment, and I recommended Bruce Coughlin since I knew he had done other work for the Bernstein company. That was how Margo Lion heard his work and asked him to orchestrate The Triumph of Love for Broadway. A year later, Charlie asked me to orchestrate Candide for the National Theatre of Great Britain and I accepted. Charlie went on vacation, and when he returned, he had to tell me that Bernstein's business manager Harry Kraut had replaced me with . . .
Bruce Coughlin.
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Show business!
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Congrats to MR BK & Co on the Bernstein Soiree....I love "Where's Jack?" and used to play the LP all the time.....
Miracle vibes!!!!
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Hell vibes for DR CHAS SMITH.
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DR ELMORE is a dog and I am a tiger....interesting.....yes the Chinese horoscope for us is interesting for the year....
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Congrats on the very successful Bernstein concert, BK! :D
DITTO.
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~~~Vibes for One Huge Miracle for BK That Is Really Needed!!~~~
DITTO!
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After a day of doing little, my legs are starting to feel as though they want to work again. I have another quiet day today and tomorrow I have physical therapy. Tuesday is pre-colonoscopy day, so I will be confined to home, and Wednesday morning is the event. I need to remind Joshie, since he will pick me up aftewr the procedure.
Yay regarding your legs and good vibes for today and tomorrow.
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DR TCB I hope you are able to see your friend today.
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Memo to self: pick them up and put them away! Never leave newly purchased rolls of toilet paper on the floor while Stella lives here.
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My morning tasks are over, and I'm gong to lie down on the heating pad.
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I'm up, I'm up - maybe four hours of sleep and certainly a terrible night. I didn't know what was happening, frankly, but I could not fall asleep, I had extreme discomfort and then it turned into a full-blown allergy attack, which was weird because I'd taken a twenty-four hour Claritin-D early in the day that should have still been working. I took another and eventually I fell asleep. Not quite sure how I'll get through this day and I'm really irritated that after rehearsal I have to kill four hours and go back to record what in essence is thirty seconds of stuff.
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Memo to self: pick them up and put them away! Never leave newly purchased rolls of toilet paper on the floor while Stella lives here.
;D
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Bruce I hope your day improves.
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Vibes for MR BK.
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Sad: Kobe Bryant is dead....
Sadder: ALL of the Jenner-Kardashians are still alive
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Sad: Kobe Bryant is dead....
Sadder: ALL of the Jenner-Kardashians are still alive
LOL!
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Back from a really good run-through. Only about four calls for lines. I gave notes, added a couple of tiny bits of business, and came home. I have to be back in three hours, but won't be there too long. I'm gonna sit on the couch like so much fish and hopefully doze off.
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Sad: Kobe Bryant is dead....
Sadder: ALL of the Jenner-Kardashians are still alive
:(
;D
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That is very sad about Kobe Bryant & his young daughter dying in a helicopter crash.
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That is very sad about Kobe Bryant & his young daughter dying in a helicopter crash.
I'd just read that, too. :(
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After a day of doing little, my legs are starting to feel as though they want to work again. I have another quiet day today and tomorrow I have physical therapy. Tuesday is pre-colonoscopy day, so I will be confined to home, and Wednesday morning is the event. I need to remind Joshie, since he will pick me up aftewr the procedure.
Good news about your legs, Larry!
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The Triumph of Love seems a million years ago, but it was a landmine of bickering and betrayals. It had two tryouts: Baltimore Center Stage (I think) and then the Yale Rep before Broadway. The composer did not want the orchestrator Margo Lion and the lyricist were pushing on him, and he wanted me. He contacted me after he felt the "orchestrator," who's quite good with rhythm charts, wasn't working out, but Ms Lion continually rejected me and put me down. She was quite ugly. Once I was out of the picture, the original orchestrator quit, and I do not remember who took over. It wasn't Bruce Coughlin.
Then, when the show went to Yale, the MD, Patrick Brady, called me to work on it, but I was committed to something else, and that was the end of my involvement. After the Yale production, three actors were dropped by Ms Lion in and replaced by F. Murray Abraham, Betty Buckley, and Kevin Chamberlin. I know two of them, and they are still bitter about it.
Oh, my! :o
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And there was a lot more warfare and betrayal going on as well behind the scenes, one of the reasons there are songs by other writers.
I didn't know that.
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Memo to self: pick them up and put them away! Never leave newly purchased rolls of toilet paper on the floor while Stella lives here.
:))
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Good afternoon, all.
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Parasite was outrageously good. And the audience loved it.
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Elmore, I will gladly do your laundry. For a price.
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I shall now be on my way back to the theater, then I have to get something to eat - I'm thinking maybe I'll got to Jerry's and take home something.
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Parasite was outrageously good. And the audience loved it.
I think Keith & I are in the minority not liking this.
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Parasite was outrageously good. And the audience loved it.
I think Keith & I are in the minority not liking this.
Was it too violent for you?
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No. It was about horrible people and I would rather have not watched them.
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No. They weren’t too nice.
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All except the rich family’s daughter.
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Parasite was outrageously good. And the audience loved it.
Cool. I want to see that.
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No. It was about horrible people and I would rather have not watched them.
Interesting. I wonder how I'll feel about them. :-\
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Well, what are we waiting for??
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3hree!!!
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The Grammys sure had some wardrobe oddities tonight.
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Billy Porter’s lampshade hat was a hoot.
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Watched a few flicks, starting with Fritz Lang’s secret Beyond the Door.
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Joan Bennett really looked like she was wearing Hedy Lamarr’s old hair.
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Then it was Harold Lloyd and Bebe Daniels in the daffy Busting into Broadway, a really funny silent film.
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Finally I started Anna and the Apocalypse, a British zombie Christmas musical. Very good cast, well photographed and sung. A genuine surprise.
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That didn’t get us much to page four.
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But it was a series of posts.
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Where is everyone?
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We can’t all be in Florida with Vixmom.
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The weather was sunny and warm today. High in the 70s.
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Sure didn’t feel like January.
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November was colder here than either December or January.
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I may even trim my roses early.
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This Wednesday I get to usher for Finding Neverland.
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That show may have the worst, at least the blandest, score I’ve ever heard.
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I’m surprised it hasn’t become known as tge Harvey Weinstein musical.
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He produced it, fired the first authors, replaced them with dullards and left the world with a giant yawn of a show.
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I almost hope I get a bad area.
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Hello, 0 guests!
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What’s the dullest musical you’ve ever seen?
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I never cared for the score of Maggie Flynn, though I know it has its fans.
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Carol’s exhusband, Gene, worked the show and name his parrot Maggie Flynn.
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I wonder what happened to Maggie after Gene died.
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I don’t care much for It Should Have Been You either.
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Frankenstein the Musical was so dull I haven’t removed the plastic wrap from the disc.
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Scandalous is right up there.
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Golden Boy of the Blue Ridge made me blue.
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And Metropolis sucked. Even with the excellent vocals of Judy Kuhn.
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Four.
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I’m outta here.
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Time to listen to something better, like Bed and Sofa.
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Where is everyone?
I actually took a shower and went out today. I went to Panda Express for dinner, and then Costco. I ended up buying a pair of pants from Costco, just because.
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I'm now back home consolidating a bunch of video files that I recorded from my DVR onto my computer for the purposes of potentially making Blu-rays.
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I have files on a few different flash drives, so I want to get them all in one place and free up the space on those flash drives.
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Since they're all on USB2 drives, they go slow...much faster than USB1 of course, but slower than USB3.
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The weather was sunny and warm today. High in the 70s.
Here in Tumwater, it's been raining off and on most of the day.
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The Grammys sure had some wardrobe oddities tonight.
I'm recording it, but I haven't watched it, yet.
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Billy Porter’s lampshade hat was a hoot.
Can't wait to see that!
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Gratuitous Post #100! :D
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Finally I started Anna and the Apocalypse, a British zombie Christmas musical. Very good cast, well photographed and sung. A genuine surprise.
That looks like fun! I wonder if there's a stage version. ;)
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Well, there isn't...yet...but there is a novelization (https://www.amazon.com/dp/1250318807/). ;D
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This Wednesday I get to usher for Finding Neverland.
That show may have the worst, at least the blandest, score I’ve ever heard.
Hopefully, seeing it live will improve...something about it.
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He produced it, fired the first authors, replaced them with dullards and left the world with a giant yawn of a show.
How rude! >:(
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What’s the dullest musical you’ve ever seen?
I don't know...my standards are pretty low. ::)
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I don’t care much for It Should Have Been You either.
I liked that CD. But maybe I just liked the idea of the story.
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Frankenstein the Musical was so dull I haven’t removed the plastic wrap from the disc.
I saw that live in Seattle before it went to Broadway and had a great time.
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See post #105, if necessary.
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Scandalous is right up there.
I did not care for that CD.
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And Metropolis sucked. Even with the excellent vocals of Judy Kuhn.
That does have one good song, "You Are the Light." I sang that as part of an AIDS benefit, so it has great sentimental value for me.
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Time to listen to something better, like Bed and Sofa.
That is a good one...kinda strange, but good.
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Well, there isn't...yet...but there is a novelization (https://www.amazon.com/dp/1250318807/). ;D
Oh, my goodness! There's also a soundtrack (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07JK2FNCQ/)! I think I need to get this!
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Where is everyone?
I actually took a shower and went out today. I went to Panda Express for dinner, and then Costco. I ended up buying a pair of pants from Costco, just because.
I have never had good luck finding clothes at Costco. I did buy a pair of earrings once when they had a special line of jewelry for the day. They were more fun and casual then the jewelry I normally see there.
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Tonight we watched Motherless Brooklyn. Unlike Bruce it kept our interest right from the beginning. As the story progressed it kept getting better.
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Where is everyone?
I actually took a shower and went out today. I went to Panda Express for dinner, and then Costco. I ended up buying a pair of pants from Costco, just because.
I have never had good luck finding clothes at Costco. I did buy a pair of earrings once when they had a special line of jewelry for the day. They were more fun and casual then the jewelry I normally see there.
I rarely buy clothes from Costco, but I know that for pants, they just have to be the right size and they'll fit.
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I am very difficult to fit. I wouldn't buy pants but I have looked at other clothing.
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Recording was really fun, as it turned out. We got some blind kids to do it (the show is about a legally blind girl) and I found them wonderful and so positive. We're going to try and have them come to the show. The show is a talking play and while the visuals I've made are nice, they'll understand the play just from hearing it.
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Recording was really fun, as it turned out. We got some blind kids to do it (the show is about a legally blind girl) and I found them wonderful and so positive. We're going to try and have them come to the show. The show is a talking play and while the visuals I've made are nice, they'll understand the play just from hearing it.
That's really cool, BK. Hope they can go and hope they enjoy it!
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Doug has been insistent that the girl at either age should be seen using a blind cane and I've been resistant to it. Most of the scenes are in locations she knows well, so it doesn't make sense. It finally boiled down to her first scene as an adult on her first day of teaching school. But as I told him today, he has written the scene in such a way that if she walks in with a cane there's literally no scene to play. And I think he finally "got" it and saw I was right. He just wanted the audience to instantly know she's some kind of blind, but they do - you have to trust that the audience is not dumb, plus they'll certainly know it in the first thirty seconds because we find out for sure when a male teacher she goes to talk to discovers it.
And the one other scene is when she goes to visit her old man friend by walking to his house - that, at least made sense, but I tried it and it just doesn't look good. In fact, I'd say it harms what we're doing. He wrote a lovely play, a memory play, and so everything is filtered and diffused as she listens to cassettes of herself talking, an aural diary, and we see the scenes as she remembers them. And my point all along is that nothing should be "real" but "remembered". So, we have three realistic set pieces - a couch, a teacher's desk, and her bay window where she records. And I wanted those realistic because they are the touchstones of her life. Everything else comes out of darkness into the light, and everything is delineated by light. That's been my take on this from day one and it really works and he loves it. So, the cane is, thankfully, gone.
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I may even trim my roses early.
Is that a euphemism?
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Good evening.
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I’m sorry, but I have been in Florida with vixmom.
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What’s the dullest musical you’ve ever seen?
That is a tough one, but THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD ranks right near the top.
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Where is everyone?
I actually took a shower and went out today. I went to Panda Express for dinner, and then Costco. I ended up buying a pair of pants from Costco, just because.
I thought you had never eaten at Panda Express?
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Hi, George.
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Hi, Tom.
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Hi, George.
Hi, Tom.
Jinx! :D
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Hi, George.
Hi, Tom.
Jinx! :D
Pretty damn close.
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Yup!
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George, wasn’t it you that asked me how I liked Panda Express?
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So, I think the next Blu-ray (or two) that I'm going to make is of the TV miniseries from three years ago, "When We Rise."
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No Jane, I didn’t get to see my friend today.
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George, wasn’t it you that asked me how I liked Panda Express?
It might've been me. I like Panda Express and actually went there today. :) So, how do you like Panda Express?
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We texted a couple of times.
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We can’t talk on the phone because he is totally deaf. He was a music teacher.
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"When We Rise" is eight hours (including commercials), so I may need to split it over two discs. We'll see how large the files sizes are once I put them into the Blu-ray burning software.
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We can’t talk on the phone because he is totally deaf. He was a music teacher.
That's too bad. :( What happened?
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So, I think the next Blu-ray (or two) that I'm going to make is of the TV miniseries from three years ago, "When We Rise."
Is that the one about the bread maker?
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Recording was really fun, as it turned out. We got some blind kids to do it (the show is about a legally blind girl) and I found them wonderful and so positive. We're going to try and have them come to the show. The show is a talking play and while the visuals I've made are nice, they'll understand the play just from hearing it.
This sounds great.
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So, I think the next Blu-ray (or two) that I'm going to make is of the TV miniseries from three years ago, "When We Rise."
Is that the one about the bread maker?
No. :))
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George, wasn’t it you that asked me how I liked Panda Express?
It might've been me. I like Panda Express and actually went there today. :) So, how do you like Panda Express?
I guess it wasn’t you that asked, because the person who asked, had never been there. I like Panda Express. It is better than Safeway.
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No Jane, I didn’t get to see my friend today.
I am sorry.
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When We Rise (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5292622/reference) is "A chronicled re-telling of the gay rights movement in the United States, beginning with the Stonewall riots in 1969."
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We can’t talk on the phone because he is totally deaf. He was a music teacher.
This is sad.
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There was also a documentary about the miniseries that was broadcast, When We Rise: The People Behind the Story (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6618456/reference), but I didn't know about it, so I wasn't able to record it.
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We can’t talk on the phone because he is totally deaf. He was a music teacher.
That's too bad. :( What happened?
He is literally allergic to everything. It has gotten worse over the last twenty years. He played Barnaby Tucker, when I played Cornelius in HELLO, DOLLY!
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We can’t talk on the phone because he is totally deaf. He was a music teacher.
That's too bad. :( What happened?
He is literally allergic to everything. It has gotten worse over the last twenty years. He played Barnaby Tucker, when I played Cornelius in HELLO, DOLLY!
Oh, my goodness! I can't imagine that.
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...being allergic to everything, not playing Barnaby against your Cornelius. ;)
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And now...
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PAGE SIX WHEN WE RISE DANCE!!
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