Topic: BLAME IT ON THE BOSSA NOVA (Read 60352 times)

Cason · « **Reply #150 on:** August 13, 2007, 11:12:32 AM »

Quote from: singdaw on August 13, 2007, 08:31:32 AM

***MEMORIZATION VIBES***[/size][/color]
for DR JRand56!!

I detest memorization, and it gets harder and harder for me every year...

If anyone has any methods that work for them, please let me know!!

I guess a semi-photographic memory isn't something you can go and buy, is it?

singdaw · « **Reply #151 on:** August 13, 2007, 11:14:05 AM »

Quote from: Cason on August 13, 2007, 11:12:32 AM

I guess a semi-photographic memory isn't something you can go and buy, is it?

No, darn it!

There would be a fortune to be made, there!

Cason · « **Reply #152 on:** August 13, 2007, 11:14:13 AM »

Quote from: Adriana Patti on August 13, 2007, 08:46:31 AM

I had to be to survive being cast as leads when I was a sophomore, the seniors would have eaten me alive if I wasn't perfect.

You are perfect - no matter what those seniors might have told you!

Nice to see you too, Miss Patti - can't wait until it's here in the Big Apple!

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #153 on:** August 13, 2007, 11:17:59 AM »

Quote from: singdaw on August 13, 2007, 10:36:47 AM

You could mix things up a bit and play the music from Sondheim's "The Cookie Chase"...

Wonder if anyone would notice?

Well, with Susan Kikuchi* teaching the combination... I'm sure she'd notice. And I also don't want to risk the wrath of Jerome Robbins' ghost.

Susan Kikuchi was in the original production of Flower Drum Song as a child - and, consequently knows Baayork Lee too. Her mother, Yuriko, was in the original production of The King & I, and directed the 1977-8 revival. Susan then supervised the choreography for the 1996 revival - which our very own BK recorded.

Living Broadway History - Gotta Love It!

Ginny · « **Reply #154 on:** August 13, 2007, 11:20:53 AM »

Quote from: singdaw on August 13, 2007, 11:12:28 AM

Thanks, DR Ginny! This book got a terrific write-up in the NY Times Book Review about a month ago, but I forgot to mention it here. My copy arrived right before I went out of town, but I didn't get to it yet.

LOL, DR Singdaw - that's what I'm reading, the July 22 edition of the NYTBR. See, I have a lot of ketching up to do myself!

Cason · « **Reply #155 on:** August 13, 2007, 11:24:24 AM »

Quote from: JoseSPiano on August 13, 2007, 10:30:10 AM

Well... While the potential Eliza's are being taught the Chase... -And it turns out we had a bigger turnout this afternoon then expected... So I may be here later than 2:30, DR Cason... In any case...

I was just talking to one of the interns here who works over at Mamma Mia!. Apparently, the crazy weather last week really took its toll on the cast there - and elsewhere. At one point over the weekend, there were 13(!) understudies/stand-bys/subsitutions on for one of the performances. They had to resort to two(!) xerox inserts to get everyone listed!

To bad the weather couldn't have done the same for Bukowsical!

Cason · « **Reply #156 on:** August 13, 2007, 11:27:27 AM »

Oh, by the way, I'm back from Brooklyn. Managed to find the dancewear place I was looking for and found a pair of tap shoes (I, of course, up and left mine in LA and didn't realize it until I was about halfway on my drive to Arizona). I was listening to the Brain CD and when it hit the Brain Tap, immediately I smacked myself on the forehead...

Jeanne · « **Reply #157 on:** August 13, 2007, 11:29:50 AM »

Quote from: Miss Karen on August 13, 2007, 10:48:35 AM

We met in college in 1973 as freshmen (Baylor in wacky Waco, Texas). He was born in St. Louis (but his folks were from Texas, as were mine -- his dad was an ex with the phone company so they moved to Little Rock and then back to St. Louis during his youth). He's a DR (the doc kind, not a dear reader -- that's why I thought I had entered a medical site at first when I saw all the DRs here) -- an internist with the VA hospital here. He's the smart one (left-brain) and I'm the creative one (right-brain). He likes to be in the background, so jokes that he's the executive producer of all of my, and Cason's, creative endeavors (but it's no joke -- he really is!). He's witty, clever, cute as a button and deserves sainthood for putting up with me all these years. He likes to play golf, scuba dive -- and he's great in the kitchen or at the grill. He's an animal lover, too -- adores our dog Deuce (a mutt we got at the pound -- part black lab, border collie, etc., and we're pretty sure coyote cause he's a wild man -- but in the funny, charming way...opps, this is supposed to be about DH, not DD). Come to think of it, DH can be a wild man too -- in the funny, charming way ...

Thanks, MISS KAREN, for telling us a bit more about the right side of your avatar.

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #158 on:** August 13, 2007, 11:31:25 AM »

Quote from: Ginny on August 13, 2007, 11:07:40 AM

From my book review perusings, something that may interest some DRs:

Must be Part One of the Bush Dynasty - Jeb hasn't run for president yet, and his son, Geopre P. is still in the wings.

der Brucer

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #159 on:** August 13, 2007, 11:34:04 AM »

Quote from: Cason on August 13, 2007, 11:12:32 AM

I guess a semi-photographic memory isn't something you can go and buy, is it?

No, but a pornographic memory is something some of us have been born with!

der Brucer

...and nutured over the years

elmore3003 · « **Reply #160 on:** August 13, 2007, 11:35:47 AM »

Quote from: Ginny on August 13, 2007, 11:07:40 AM

From my book review perusings, something that may interest some DRs:

My order should hopefully arrive from Amazon.com today,

Miss Karen · « **Reply #161 on:** August 13, 2007, 11:36:33 AM »

Quote from: Cason on August 13, 2007, 11:27:27 AM

Oh, by the way, I'm back from Brooklyn. Managed to find the dancewear place I was looking for and found a pair of tap shoes (I, of course, up and left mine in LA and didn't realize it until I was about halfway on my drive to Arizona). I was listening to the Brain CD and when it hit the Brain Tap, immediately I smacked myself on the forehead...

Blame it on the Bossa Jose!

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #162 on:** August 13, 2007, 11:39:05 AM »

DR Cason - They do sell tap shoes in Manhattan.

Adriana Patti · « **Reply #163 on:** August 13, 2007, 11:39:12 AM »

Quote from: Cason on August 13, 2007, 11:24:24 AM

To bad the weather couldn't have done the same for Bukowsical!

Maybe the bad weather will mysteriously push certain cast members down the stairs...

Miss Karen · « **Reply #164 on:** August 13, 2007, 11:39:15 AM »

"I hear thunder, sir!" (Boo-Key reference) Rain, yeaaa! A monsoon cloud is overhead.

Adriana Patti · « **Reply #165 on:** August 13, 2007, 11:40:00 AM »

Quote from: Cason on August 13, 2007, 11:27:27 AM

Oh, by the way, I'm back from Brooklyn. Managed to find the dancewear place I was looking for and found a pair of tap shoes (I, of course, up and left mine in LA and didn't realize it until I was about halfway on my drive to Arizona). I was listening to the Brain CD and when it hit the Brain Tap, immediately I smacked myself on the forehead...

awww

Miss Karen · « **Reply #166 on:** August 13, 2007, 11:41:11 AM »

Quote from: Adriana Patti on August 13, 2007, 11:39:12 AM

Maybe the bad weather will mysteriously push certain cast members down the stairs...

... or cause the door to jam to their dressing room right before curtain call ....

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #167 on:** August 13, 2007, 11:41:30 AM »

DR Cason - Or... Couldn't you have had someone in L.A. send you your shoes?

-Or did you just want new shoes? And/or just want to go to Brooklyn?

Cason · « **Reply #168 on:** August 13, 2007, 11:44:40 AM »

Quote from: JoseSPiano on August 13, 2007, 11:41:30 AM

DR Cason - Or... Couldn't you have had someone in L.A. send you your shoes?

-Or did you just want new shoes? And/or just want to go to Brooklyn?

It just would have been more of a headache that it was worth (including sending my apartment keys through the mail...), plus these shoes were affordable - the place in Brooklyn was nice and had them specifically - and I just thought a day out would be nice.

Miss Karen · « **Reply #169 on:** August 13, 2007, 11:45:36 AM »

Quote from: Jeanne on August 13, 2007, 11:29:50 AM

Thanks, MISS KAREN, for telling us a bit more about the right side of your avatar.

The right side -- or stage left

-- side of my avatar goes by Terry.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #170 on:** August 13, 2007, 11:54:55 AM »

DR Cason - Do you want to meet up for dinner? I should be done here by 4:00. We could meet up in Times Square, maybe walk around a bit, and then get something to eat. No Reservoir required. But maybe a Levain cookie. And some Grom Gelato.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #171 on:** August 13, 2007, 11:55:32 AM »

OK - Time to concentrate fully on the task at hand.

Laters..

Cason · « **Reply #172 on:** August 13, 2007, 11:58:04 AM »

Quote from: JoseSPiano on August 13, 2007, 11:54:55 AM

DR Cason - Do you want to meet up for dinner? I should be done here by 4:00. We could meet up in Times Square, maybe walk around a bit, and then get something to eat. No Reservoir required. But maybe a Levain cookie. And some Grom Gelato.

Sounds perfect. Just let me know when you are all done - and we can take it from there!

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #173 on:** August 13, 2007, 11:58:58 AM »

Quote from: JoseSPiano on August 13, 2007, 11:54:55 AM

DR Cason - Do you want to meet up for dinner? I should be done here by 4:00. We could meet up in Times Square, maybe walk around a bit, and then get something to eat. No Reservoir required. But maybe a Levain cookie. And some Grom Gelato.

And tonight you could take him to Spash to show-off the sequined dance-belt he just bought in Brooklyn.

der Brucer

singdaw · « **Reply #174 on:** August 13, 2007, 12:01:03 PM »

Quote from: Cason on August 13, 2007, 11:58:04 AM

- and we can take it from there!

We'll take Manhattan-
The Bronx and Staten Island, too!

FJL · « **Reply #175 on:** August 13, 2007, 12:10:20 PM »

Have we already done the Chincy Bossa line? If we did, it's worth repeating.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #176 on:** August 13, 2007, 12:10:49 PM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on August 13, 2007, 11:35:47 AM

My order should hopefully arrive from Amazon.com today,

Well, it didn't!

Ginny · « **Reply #177 on:** August 13, 2007, 12:15:08 PM »

DR Elmore - sorry you didn't get your Gershwin book today. Do you have something else good to read on the train tomorrow?

singdaw · « **Reply #178 on:** August 13, 2007, 12:18:37 PM »

Quote from: FJL on August 13, 2007, 12:10:20 PM

Have we already done the Chincy Bossa line? If we did, it's worth repeating.

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Ginny · « **Reply #179 on:** August 13, 2007, 12:31:39 PM »

And another, from the June 18 issue of Publishers Weekly:

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