Topic: PLAN B (Read 23490 times)

bk · « **on:** July 08, 2004, 12:01:43 AM »

Well, you've read the notes, you know what Plan B is, you know what the topic is, so now it is time to post until the Plan B cows come home. Tell us what you think of Plan B, too.

bk · « **Reply #1 on:** July 08, 2004, 12:04:31 AM »

For those who guessed The First Nudie Musical - good guess, but it would have been totally impossible to put a show like that together in four weeks. Too big a cast, too big a production for the Hudson space.

Tomovoz · « **Reply #2 on:** July 08, 2004, 12:07:31 AM »

Can we order the DVD and Cd of the show yet? Sounds like a fun time for all.

Ann · « **Reply #3 on:** July 08, 2004, 12:07:59 AM »

Well, I am sorry that it's not Nudie, but it still sounds like a fun project!

S. Woody White · « **Reply #4 on:** July 08, 2004, 12:10:12 AM »

I'm going to need some time to think about hotels, and hotel rooms that I've been in...uh, stayed in.

bk · « **Reply #5 on:** July 08, 2004, 12:10:57 AM »

There might just BE a CD - it would depend on several factors in terms of the songs, especially the What Ifs.

S. Woody White · « **Reply #6 on:** July 08, 2004, 12:11:28 AM »

I'm wussburgering. Nite.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #7 on:** July 08, 2004, 12:12:47 AM »

Wonderful idea is Plan Be....and I only wish I were in LA to be your choreographer! Hehehehe.

DRJOSE....will this be his LA Onstage Debut?

All will be revealed in the next post!

Jrand73 · « **Reply #8 on:** July 08, 2004, 12:13:37 AM »

The television actress who wanted to take the place of Miss Dorothy Kilgallen is none other than:

Agent 99 - Miss Barbara Feldon! $:-\$

Panni · « **Reply #9 on:** July 08, 2004, 12:14:28 AM »

I'll be there with bells on for opening night! (Might distract the performers, but I always wear bells on opening night.)

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

Take Barbara, I hear she is still available for opening nights.

George · « **Reply #11 on:** July 08, 2004, 12:17:29 AM »

Bruce, it sounds like a WONDERFUL idea! And I REALLY hope you do do at least a CD!! (mainly because I don't think that Ill be able to come to California to see it...as much as I would love to.)

[move=right,scroll,6,transparent,100%]Break (proverbially only) Many Legs!![/move]

Now I must go to sleep...and dream about getting up at 5:30 so that I can be at my friend's house by 6:45 to drive her to the airport. Ugg.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #12 on:** July 08, 2004, 12:17:48 AM »

Congratulations on a great decision MRBK. It sounds great!

Jrand73 · « **Reply #13 on:** July 08, 2004, 12:18:40 AM »

time for bed!

bk · « **Reply #14 on:** July 08, 2004, 12:21:38 AM »

Welcome seven GUESTS. We're talkin' about Plan B from outer space.

Panni · « **Reply #15 on:** July 08, 2004, 12:27:28 AM »

Interesting hotel - Morgan's in New York. "Created" by Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager. TINY rooms, but quite unique. I'm trying to remember now if I'm getting it mixed up with the Palladium, also in NY. One of them used to be a flop house -- and some of the flop house denizens still live there, mingling with the Jet Set in the lobby.
I think it was at the Palladium, with its unbelievably small but ever so trendy rooms that I was feeling incredibly depressed for some reason I can't now recall, and said to a friend on the phone, "I'd jump out the window, but it's so tiny I can't fit through."

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #16 on:** July 08, 2004, 12:28:54 AM »

OK... The laundry is done! The packing is done! Now I'm just making sure I haven't forgot anything important... So...

I've just been taking it easy tonight while I've been packing. I've been in this type of situation before: "Hey, can you be here tomorrow?" And I was. So...

Needless to say, I'm running more or less on adrenaline right now. However, I'm guessing there was some sort of "reason" for me sleeping in the past few days - even after getting up early - but then deciding to go back to bed. Thankfully, I'm a night owl. So...

OK - Time for me to finish up here.

I'll post my hotel horror stories and happy stories once I'm up in Fairfax - and after I've had a chance to get a few hours of sleep.

Until then...

Panni · « **Reply #17 on:** July 08, 2004, 12:29:03 AM »

Why can't it be "Plan P" for Panni?

Panni · « **Reply #18 on:** July 08, 2004, 12:31:03 AM »

To bed, I guess. I'll dream of Plan P and how wonderful "What If..." will be. Must tune my bells.

Panni · « **Reply #19 on:** July 08, 2004, 12:32:52 AM »

Safe trip, Jose!

Tomovoz · « **Reply #20 on:** July 08, 2004, 01:32:31 AM »

Most interesting hotels - quaint ones of the European variety. Narrow staircases and tiny rooms but centures old and delightful. Favourite would be one in Assisi.
Of Hotels somewhat more grand - the Montreaux Palace was luxury with old world charm.

Worst hotel by far - the Rose Court in London (near Marble Arch) Disgusting and the service so very bad . Most interesting in Engladd was one in Yorkshire, We booked in to the Attic room (the John Peel Room) - Colin had to stoop all the time to avoid hitting beams - and he is not tall. We didn't notice until the morning that the hotel was used in many episodes of "All Creatures Great and Small" - the village of Askrigg.

Sometimes it is the service and staff I remember. We stayed at Hotel in Quebec and it seemed to be not usual to have Australians as guests there - all those questions about kangaroos.

Stays in France at old hotels have been wonderful too. Amazing service - well beyond the expected - and very limited French on my part and often even more limited English by the staff.

A family run hotel in Prague was a real delight and we will stay at a private hotel in London later this year, run by a British/Cypriot family. We stayed there last time and my sister has also stayed there.
There are advantages to not being able to afford to stay in upmarket hotels.

Jane · « **Reply #21 on:** July 08, 2004, 04:03:38 AM »

Tomovoz-funny dream. I wish I were dreaming right now. I can’t sleep due to my cold. I need to be alert today and sleep would really help.

Lately Echo has been begging for us not to give her all the vitamins and oils we have her on. They seem to be working but tomorrow we will drastically reduce them and hope for the best.

Jennifer, no analyzing dreams like Ann’s, I just enjoy them.

SWW if no one here knows for sure I can ask some of my kosher friends, but my first reaction is no. Do you make onion soup as well as onion jam? Did you miss my request for a good recipe?

Bruce Plan B sounds fun and exciting. Best of luck with it!

I’m going to try and get a couple of hours sleep now.

Tomovoz · « **Reply #22 on:** July 08, 2004, 04:17:21 AM »

Good sleep vibes Jane.
Count kangaroos.

Noel · « **Reply #23 on:** July 08, 2004, 04:46:18 AM »

What If sounds SO wonderful, I'm simply consumed with jealousy. Denis Markell just became a father last week. Of the four writers mentioned, one I met in First Grade or thereabouts, one when she was in high school, one at the BMI workshop and the other when she was fresh out of college and looking for a collaborator. And, unlike those three-named songwriters everyone so often names, Goldrich & Heisler and Markell & Bernstein are the real deal. Something, by the latter may be the funniest song ever written. And if Alet sang Taylor, well, it would certainly come from the heart.
But I'm sure you've thought of this. Any chance you'd listen to some submissions?

Dan-in-Toronto · « **Reply #24 on:** July 08, 2004, 05:33:05 AM »

BK,

It's hard not to be caught up in the excitement of What If - A Musical Revue. I'm already humming the opening number.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #25 on:** July 08, 2004, 05:34:58 AM »

Good Morning!

I'm safe and sound in Fairfax, and in about an hour I shall be making my way to Dulles. Hopefully, the afternoon storms will hold off until the afternoon - they had plenty of delays yesterdays due the storms (yesterday).

Best hotel - The Crown Towers in Melbourne, AUS. Truly a luxury hotel. Well, actually the whole Crown complex is a luxury city-within-a-city. What I found most appealing is that even though the hotel is definitely priced for those on expense accounts and with more money than they know what to do with, the service never felt stuffy. I felt very welcomed, and the staff was very easy going. I especially liked the fact that they left a different type of "mint" on my pillow each night I was there - chocolates, nougats, mints, etc. -And the casino wasn't bad either!

Worst hotel - Hmmm.. On my one and only bus and truck there was one horrendous Motel 6 in new Mexico, as well as some ---Lodge place in Michigan - there was a drug bust in the parking lot almost each night we stayed there!!!

OK - I need to check on some other things before heading out....

Next post will be from LA!!!!!

"California here I come..."

Elan · « **Reply #26 on:** July 08, 2004, 05:36:18 AM »

VERY exciting news! Sorry I'm stuck here on the right coast, but break legs (preferably those of the fershluginner idjits who denied you the rights to your original choices).

Elan · « **Reply #27 on:** July 08, 2004, 05:38:30 AM »

I'm also gonna start thinking of "What If?" - type songs. Quick batch off the top of my head:

"Second Thoughts" from Is there Life After High School
"It Would Have Been Wonderful" from A Little Night Music
"The Moment Slipped Away" by Christine Lavin

Dan-in-Toronto · « **Reply #28 on:** July 08, 2004, 05:54:10 AM »

I stayed at New York's Summit Hotel several times. It was designed by Morris (the high priest of high kitsch) Lapidus and the building would have looked more at home in Miami Beach. But the location was perfect - walking distance from everywhere, right at the subway, across the street from the Waldorf Astoria, and relatively quiet at night. I also was able to use a discount coupon found in one of those coupon books you buy from the same coworker who sells you stale chocolate bars for his kid's school. I liked the staff too, and the coffee shop served great cheesecake.

What I remember most, though, is my weekend with Laura, a friend who guilt-tripped me into taking her to New York. (Laura herself has quoted her own mother as saying that Laura is too neurotic to travel with.) Although she was "dying to see the city," Laura was perfectly content to stay in the room and watch TV. One evening after a walk I returned to find that I could not get into the room. The key worked, but the door wouldn't open. A security guard came to my rescue. Laura had pushed every piece of furniture against the door before falling into a deep sleep.

William E. Lurie · « **Reply #29 on:** July 08, 2004, 06:16:39 AM »

BK - Great idea. But you should also appear in it or at least do a cameo appearance. I've always loved revues and hope there is a CD... at least a "limited edition" sold on this here site.

The hotel that sticks in my mind is the worst hotel I have ever stayed in. When I moved back to NYC about 8 years ago I was travelling with two friends and a dog. We arrived in Atlantic City late on a Saturday afternoon and knew we wouldn't get to NYC in time to finish the paperwork at my new apartment so I could move in, so we decided to stay in AC and finish the trip in the morning. The only problem was that no hotel allowed dogs except one motel on the fringe of town that was not even fit for a dog, let alone a human. We had no choice, and nobody got any sleep. Needless to say we got a very early start on Sunday morning. It's a few people who probably shouldn't have a dog in the first place that spoil it for everyone.

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