Topic: THIS WILL BE A VERY NICE HOUSE (Read 12142 times)

bk · « **on:** September 12, 2004, 12:26:04 AM »

Well, you've read the notes, you've pontificated on the notes, the notes have pontificated on you, and now it is time to post until the cows, in all their splendor, come home.

William F. Orr · « **Reply #1 on:** September 12, 2004, 03:59:14 AM »

Me first! Me first!

2 ½ SPLENDIFEROUS VIBES TO MR. GRANT GEISSMAN!

Up early for my weekly shopping before there are lines at the Stop 'n' Shop. Angel Jim's son will be over this morning to mow our lawn, since our DR gear shift conked out this summer.

Ave atque vale omnis!

Noel · « **Reply #2 on:** September 12, 2004, 05:16:50 AM »

Yesterday, Panni said her cheerleading outfit was at the cleaners and asks "What should I do?"

Answer: Find new cleaners. The ones you have are taking far too long!

Panni · « **Reply #3 on:** September 12, 2004, 05:32:10 AM »

Good advice, Noel!

A quick shower and I'm off the help out with the 5 K Walk to raise money for Ovarian Cancer Research. They've given us rather unattractive (and potentially HOT - not sexy, but heavy) teal shirts to wear. But it's for a good cause, so off I go. Will report later. (I'm also going to a memorial service at the DGA this morning - so I'm not sure if I'll have time to check in between the two events.)

Jason · « **Reply #4 on:** September 12, 2004, 06:24:05 AM »

Sad news: Mr. Fred Ebb has passed away at the age of 72.

www.broadway.com

William E. Lurie · « **Reply #5 on:** September 12, 2004, 06:54:01 AM »

Where in tarnation is everyone?

We saw LA BOHEME at City Opera last night:

Take a woman born in Chili and a man born in Cuba, let them play impoverished French lovers but sing in Italian, put it all on a stage in New York City and you have Opera.

The singing was excellent, the staging was fine... the only thing I can say negative is that as good as the Mimi was, she was the typical opera singer and in her last act nightgown she looked like Tracy Turnblad, not a woman on the brink of death.

Off to Jersey to see OF THEE I SING.

bk · « **Reply #6 on:** September 12, 2004, 07:32:52 AM »

Well, I'm up at seven-thirty. I've been up since seven. So much on my mind. So much still to do. Now, where in tarnation IS everyone? You'd think this was a Sunday morning or something.

Matt H. · « **Reply #7 on:** September 12, 2004, 07:38:05 AM »

Sad about Fred Ebb. He certainly has contributed some wonderful lyrics to the Broadway stage, and his passing will certainly leave a void.

I guess CABARET will be his monument followed by CHICAGO, but I really love THE HAPPY TIME and KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN.

Wonder if we'll see some productions of THE VISIT and OVER AND OVER (is that the name of their musical version of Wilder's play?)

Matt H. · « **Reply #8 on:** September 12, 2004, 07:39:54 AM »

Now that I have rehearsals in the evenings, my TV watching will be curtailed for awhile. Tonight I'll have to DVR the season finale of SIX FEET UNDER, for example.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #9 on:** September 12, 2004, 08:14:58 AM »

Ah bientot, Mr Ebb!

Jrand73 · « **Reply #10 on:** September 12, 2004, 08:17:06 AM »

Okay...okay....hmmmmmmmmmm

Great BK Picture, DRMICHAEL SHAYNE. And all the DR's should visit the Bruce Kimmel site if they haven't done so lately....new DR's and lurkers should especially check it out.

http://www.brucekimmel.com/

Sunday....Panni is running....MR BK is moving. DRLAURA is sending me a surprise!

Our show went well last night, too! Great audience and great fun to be in a hit show....and doing comedy.

DRMATTH now that you mention it, my first color television was a Panasonic and it lasted for YEARS!! So I have good feelings about my new Panasonic DVD player. So far, so good!

Remember the RCA color TV ads? The little cartoon guy would jump in the air and say: "Wow! I've seen color tv! RCA Victor color TV!!" It was so cute. So we immediately went out and bought a color tv - from Sears - so we could watch BONANZA!

MR BK - is your new house a "ranch" style or does it have more than one level? Are you changing house styles, that is going from multi to single level or vice versa? Do you or any of the DR's have a preference?

We lived in many houses when I was growing up and most of them had two stories.....but now I have lived in a "ranch" style house for nearly 35 years, and I love it!

bk · « **Reply #11 on:** September 12, 2004, 08:17:48 AM »

Mr. Ebb, while not always brilliant in later years, was a class act - his lyrics for Cabaret are perfection.

Now, might I ask where in tarnation IS everyone? I still haven't been able to score the Alias box set - and now it will probably have to wait until after the move.

bk · « **Reply #12 on:** September 12, 2004, 08:20:17 AM »

I don't know that I've ever seen just ten posts by eight-eighteen.

Now, what are our favorite Ebb lyrics? I love:

"For the sun will rise, and the moon will set,
And you learn how to settle for what you get,
It will all go on if we're here or not
So, who cares? So what?"

Jrand73 · « **Reply #13 on:** September 12, 2004, 08:23:12 AM »

I love so much of Mr. Ebb's work - and his words play directly to emotions...but a sweet song that works perfectly in its place and is charming as well.....It Couldn't Please Me More from CABARET.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #14 on:** September 12, 2004, 08:29:36 AM »

"Everybody loves a winner
So nobody loved me.
'Lady Peaceful' 'Lady Happy'
That's what I longed to be.
All the odds are in my favor.
Something's bound to begin.
It's gotta happen, happen sometime.
Maybe this time, I'll win!"

Any lyricist who can be hopeful AND defeatist in the same song - oh heck in the SAME line - knows how to write for a character! And Liza Minnelli sang this song for all it was worth, wrapped it up and put it to bed!

Noel · « **Reply #15 on:** September 12, 2004, 08:46:48 AM »

At risk of sounding like I'm in denial, I don't believe Fred Ebb is dead. There's nothing about it on Google News...

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #16 on:** September 12, 2004, 08:57:16 AM »

Quote from: Matt H. on September 12, 2004, 07:38:05 AM

Wonder if we'll see some productions of THE VISIT and OVER AND OVER (is that the name of their musical version of Wilder's play?)

Indeed it is was.

NYPL reports:

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Recently Kander and Ebb contributed to a new musical, Curtains, and have worked on regional tryouts of Over & Over (an adaptation of Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth) and The Visit (Terrence McNally's adaptation of the play by Friedrich Dürrenmatt).

Playbill comments:

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Kander and Ebb's Skin of Our Teeth Musical Looking for Regional Production
By Robert Simonson
February 6, 2003
Skin of Our Teeth, the John Kander, Fred Ebb and Joseph Stein musical based on Thornton Wilder's play about the indomitability of mankind, is casting about for a staging somewhere outside New York."We just finished a revision and demo on it," Kander told Playbill On-Line Feb. 5. "We need to have a regional production."
…
The musical, once titled Over & Over, got off to a rocky start with a 1999 Signature Theatre staging in Arlington, VA. (Among other things, star Bebe Neuwirth abruptly quit the show and was replaced by Sherie René Scott.) The writers went back to the drawing board and in spring 2002 presented a Barre-directed reading at Manhattan Theatre Club. "We were all very happy with the reading," Stein previously told Playbill On-Line.
"We changed the name to something very original," Stein quipped. "We call it Skin of Our Teeth, the Musical, without the original 'the.' People say that's what [the show] is anyway, so I said, 'The hell with it!'
…
"The Virginia version was — I hate to use the word 'fiasco' — but I think it was badly mishandled," Stein said. "Characters were added which I felt were unnecessary. It just didn't work properly, but we saw what was wrong, and I think we fixed it."
A character, Lulu Shriner, was added to the story in Virginia, where Dorothy Loudon played her. She does not figure into the rewrite.
…
Over & Over had a reading in spring 1998 in New York City under Schaeffer's direction, with Michele Pawk as Sabina. Bernadette Peters played Sabina in an earlier reading, not associated with Signature.

der Brucer

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #17 on:** September 12, 2004, 09:01:56 AM »

Jose's Lament

From a press review of Side by Side:

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All these are individual performances, but the real success comes from how these skilled performers, and their two (uncredited) pianists perform together.

der Chronicler of Anonimity Brucer

bk · « **Reply #18 on:** September 12, 2004, 09:20:14 AM »

I'm thinking about going to the gym this morning, so I can be all buff and toned with abs and buns of steel for our matinee today.

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #19 on:** September 12, 2004, 09:35:08 AM »

Quote from: bk on September 12, 2004, 09:20:14 AM

I'm thinking about going to the gym this morning, so I can be all buff and toned with abs and buns of steel for our matinee today.

Too late - you already had your chance with "Frontiers".

der Brucer (with abs and buns of tin)

Jrand73 · « **Reply #20 on:** September 12, 2004, 10:34:15 AM »

Isn't that strange? DRNOEL is correct, the news doesn't seem to be anywhere else on the net....even at Reuters Stage news. Hmmmmmmmm....but the Broadway.com obit is still there....hmmmmmmmm

Jrand73 · « **Reply #21 on:** September 12, 2004, 10:34:36 AM »

Mr BK do you know a songwriter named Steve March?

Jrand73 · « **Reply #22 on:** September 12, 2004, 10:37:29 AM »

Here is an article about Mr Cole Porter that was in the Indianapolis STAR today.

http://www.indystar.com/articles/2/177726-4832-047.html

Elan · « **Reply #23 on:** September 12, 2004, 11:31:17 AM »

I'll always love "Sometimes a Day Goes By" from Woman of the Year, and the medley version on "The World Goes 'Round."

Cabaret is wonderful, but I personally believe it can only be truly appreciated in the original Hebrew

(There are few things more surreal than the last lyric of "If you could see her through my eyes" in Hebrew, unless it's looking at the CD of the Israeli cast and realizing that you're in possession of a Japanese import of an Israeli recording of an American musical set in Germany... how's that for intercontinental culture?)

Jane · « **Reply #24 on:** September 12, 2004, 12:11:33 PM »

Emily let us know how your aunt is.

Tomovoz I’m glad the party was as good as it could be.

Panni how was was the walk this morning?

Jane · « **Reply #25 on:** September 12, 2004, 12:25:34 PM »

JRand-a hit show, how exciting.

I have always been fond of two story houses, now I like one level with open spaces. I have never been a big fan of ranch style houses. Our second home in Michigan was one, very Californian with a pool in the back yard. Eastern like it had a beautifully finished full basement. I liked that home very much.

bk · « **Reply #26 on:** September 12, 2004, 12:30:18 PM »

Steve March, the son of Hal? I don't know him personally.

bk · « **Reply #27 on:** September 12, 2004, 12:31:29 PM »

Twelve-thirty and we're not even past page one. Well, we'll probably achieve our new all-time low at this rate, but I say fiddle-e-dee, who cares anymore.

bk · « **Reply #28 on:** September 12, 2004, 12:33:02 PM »

I shall be on my way to the theater soon, but I don't see anyone to keep the home fries burning. However, it would be most unseemly, in my opinion (IMO, in Internet lingo), to let the home fries go out. There is a chance I'll be staying after the show to begin rehearsing the new number - if so, I won't be here for the beginning of chat, but don't let that stop you from beginning a lively and sparkling chat without me.

George · « **Reply #29 on:** September 12, 2004, 12:34:34 PM »

Very sad to hear about Fred Ebb.

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