Good morning, all! I slept very well, but I had a scare when I got out of bed this morning: there was blood all over my leg, and my first reaction was BED BUGS! NOT AGAIN!! After some panic, I realized I was still bleeding which put me into another scare: HEMORRHAGE! After a panic of sorts between 6:30 and 7am, while I debated dressing and taking a taxi to St Luke-Roosevelt Hospital, I determined that a blood blister I was unaware of must have exploded. Thank God I had gauze and adhesive tape. All now seems to be good, although I am moving cautiously.
DR George, I got my copy of MAN WITH A LOAD OF MISCHIEF as well yesterday. I really love this show. I had see Alice Cannon, who plays the Maid, as Luisa in the very first production of THE FANTASTICKS I ever saw and as Polly in THREEPENNY OPERA at the Playhouse in the Park. When I moved to New York, I saw her in a fantastic production of THE CAT AND THE CANARY directed by Roderick Cook. I remember talking to John Clifton during my Drama Book Shop days; he was a very nice man.
DR Iris, your explanation for Bravo's showing a whole evening of THE PATRIOT may be correct, but this is the second night in the past few weeks they've pulled this crap. Once every six months might be a grievous error, but two showings a night is an insult to humanity.
So, unless I bleed to death today, my plans are work on the Disc 4 notes and making a trip to midtown to pick up a score at the stage door of ANYTHING GOES. I think on the way back, I will stop at the Metropolitan Opera shop and buy a couple of the Teresa Stratas DVDs now being released singly from the large James Levine 16-disc set last year.
