Topic: THE TELLER OF TALES (Read 28828 times)

Dan (the Man) · « **Reply #30 on:** August 10, 2004, 07:20:51 AM »

Terrific JA pics, DR MS!

Has anyone heard from DR Elmore?

MBarnum · « **Reply #31 on:** August 10, 2004, 07:21:44 AM »

Hansel and Gretel would likely be my favorite fairy tale. I don't know why...I think it was that Gingerbread house that intrigued me. I also liked the story of the 5 Chinese Brothers.

Some of my favorite books as a kid were THE CONTENTED LITTLE PUSSY CAT by Ruth Keller, THE COLOR KITTENS, SUZY THE SQUIRREL, and RAGGEDY ANN AND ANDY'S PLEASE AND THANK YOU BOOK.

Dan (the Man) · « **Reply #32 on:** August 10, 2004, 07:31:05 AM »

Page Two Dance:

Jrand73 · « **Reply #33 on:** August 10, 2004, 07:37:02 AM »

So which one is Hugh Jackman and which one is Anthony?

Jrand73 · « **Reply #34 on:** August 10, 2004, 07:37:54 AM »

Hopefully we will get DRJOSE's rundown on the WHAT IF performance last night.

Did you get your laughs, JOSE?

Jennifer · « **Reply #35 on:** August 10, 2004, 07:45:48 AM »

That dance it making me dizzy!

George · « **Reply #36 on:** August 10, 2004, 08:15:51 AM »

Wonderful pictures from NY!! I'll definitely post pictures from the PNW HHW Get Together in a couple of weeks!

As for fairy tales, I've posted about this before, but growing up, my sister and I had a book called "Hilda Boswell's Treasury of Children's Stories." I think it was originally published in the late 60s or early 70s. It was my favorite. It has some not so well known stories illustrated by Hilda Boswell. I thought I had lost the book but I found it while I was moving this past April. My favorite was a story called "Through the Fire," about a sickly boy who helps the prince of the rain and the princess of the fire (or that could be backwards) who are in love with each other. They can never touch because the fire princess would evaporate up the water prince or the water prince would put out the fire princess. Anyway, the boy is taken to someone who has the annswer (and this magical person does) and the princess and the prince are able to live happily ever after! For his help, the boy is given a magic belt that, when he puts it on, it disappears and he becomes healthy and strong for the rest of his life. All of the stories have happy endings.

Here's a picture that I found on eBay (and cropped):

S. Woody White · « **Reply #37 on:** August 10, 2004, 08:21:02 AM »

Great photos!

TOD: A fave author of children's books (or, maybe, young adult, or 'tween, or something) was Edward Eager. He would take a group of young people, quite ordinary, and give them some magical thing, which in turn would send them on magical adventures.

I've always particularly liked his first four books, Half Magic, Knight's Castle, Magic By the Lake, and The Time Garden. (A neat twist: the heros and heroines of the second and fourth books are the children of the heroines and hero of the first and third books! Yes, they all tie together!)

While running through Steven Suskin's Opening Nights on Broadway, putting all his basic info into a database for I-haven't-decided-what-use-later, I ran across Eager's name a couple of times. Earlier in his career, he had been a lyricist for a couple of Broadway shows: Dream with Music (1944), which he wrote with composer Clay Warnick, and The Liar (1950), with composer John Mundy. For the latter, Eager co-wrote the book with Alfred Drake.

Eager may never have been a big Broadway name, but I'm glad to say his books for young readers are still in print!

bk · « **Reply #38 on:** August 10, 2004, 08:30:51 AM »

We could possibly extend one week more, but then the theater is booked. We should only be so lucky. The song order is as follows:

ACT ONE
We'll Do a Revue Company
Show Me (the Mary Rodgers song, not the Lerner and Loewe song) Alet
What if Bock and Harnick had written A Chorus Line Company
Times Like This Tammy
Something Paul
At the Same Time Tammy and Ryan
What if Irving Berlin had written West Side Story Company
A Little Lift Susanne
Millions of Men Paul
What if Alan Menken and Howard Ashman had written Phantom of the Opera Company
When You're Waiting For Love Alet
Joshua Noveck Tammy
Parsley Ryan
The Yiddish Sondheim Company

ACT TWO
What if Rodgers and Hammerstein had written Assassins Company
I Don't Need You Ryan
What if Frank Loesser had written The King and I Ryan and Paul
A Slight Neurotic Susanne
Foolin' Ourselves Paul and Ryan
What if Frank Loesser and Jerry Herman had written Sweeney Todd Company
Simply Tammy
Better Susanne
Broadway Coming Attractions Company
Chinese Food in Bed Ryan
If I Can't Take it With Me Alet
What if Stephen Sondheim had written Bye Bye Birdie Company
We'll Do a Revue (reprise) Company

Jrand73 · « **Reply #39 on:** August 10, 2004, 08:31:32 AM »

I am eating a Maple Bun. It is very good.

Where is DR Jose so we can hear all about his What If experience?

Jrand73 · « **Reply #40 on:** August 10, 2004, 08:33:42 AM »

The show sounds like so much fun.

No Guy Haines appearance huh?

Michael · « **Reply #41 on:** August 10, 2004, 08:36:50 AM »

Quote from: JRand53 on August 10, 2004, 07:37:02 AM

So which one is Hugh Jackman and which one is Anthony?

Hugh Jackman is the one standing next to Martin Mull

Jennifer · « **Reply #42 on:** August 10, 2004, 08:37:41 AM »

BK, can you tell us how the What If numbers are performed. Does each person say a line or do they all sing them all?

Matt H. · « **Reply #43 on:** August 10, 2004, 08:42:10 AM »

Thanks for the pics from NYC, DR Michael. It makes me feel closer to all of you seeing you in a spot I also know so well.

Matt H. · « **Reply #44 on:** August 10, 2004, 08:46:31 AM »

I'd have to say PETER PAN was my all-time favorite fairy tale. It's fascinated me ever since I first saw the Disney movie (must have been 5 or so), and all of the other incarnations of it have always charmed me.

S. Woody White · « **Reply #45 on:** August 10, 2004, 08:47:17 AM »

Time to get ready for work. Later.

Interesting song line-up, BK.

Matt H. · « **Reply #46 on:** August 10, 2004, 09:07:10 AM »

The revue looks like a very good time. I will be very unhappy if it doesn't produce a cast recording. And that post card would make for a gorgeous CD cover.

MBarnum · « **Reply #47 on:** August 10, 2004, 09:14:27 AM »

Michael Shayne, those pics from NY are great! What fun you guys must have had! I am envious! But we will soon be having our own HHW get together in the Port of Land, Oregon! And it will be splendid with DRs galore!

MBarnum · « **Reply #48 on:** August 10, 2004, 09:17:11 AM »

Quote from: bk on August 10, 2004, 08:30:51 AM

We could possibly extend one week more, but then the theater is booked. We should only be so lucky. The song order is as follows:

Well, darn! I was hoping to be able to attend and seeing Mr. Paul Haber in the flesh! Perhaps he would be willing to re-enact the whole show for me when I am down!

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #49 on:** August 10, 2004, 09:51:16 AM »

Quote from: Matt H. on August 10, 2004, 08:46:31 AM

I'd have to say PETER PAN was my all-time favorite fairy tale. It's fascinated me ever since I first saw the Disney movie (must have been 5 or so), and all of the other incarnations of it have always charmed me.

I like them, too....except for "Hook."

It's amazing to me the number of films Robin Williams has made in which he's sucked the life right out of them.

"Mrs. Doubtfire" being the exception...

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #50 on:** August 10, 2004, 10:04:31 AM »

Quote from: JRand53 on August 10, 2004, 03:51:25 AM

And yes thanks for correcting me DR RLP....it was David AMRAM who wrote the score for The Manchurian Candidate.....original!

Well, gosh....I sure didn't want it come off as a correction...just as a push toward remembering what you'd misremembered....

Jay · « **Reply #51 on:** August 10, 2004, 10:07:32 AM »

Congrats on the successful dress! We can all feel your growing enthusiasm, Dear BK. Looking forward to Thursday's opening!

Jay · « **Reply #52 on:** August 10, 2004, 10:14:26 AM »

My favorite book from when I was a child is "What Do You Say, Dear?" by Sesyle Joslin, with illustrations by Maurice Sendak.

Good manners were important to me even at that young age.

bk · « **Reply #53 on:** August 10, 2004, 10:35:44 AM »

Each What If is different - sometimes they are group numbers, and sometimes there are solos. The choreography was getting big laughs last night.

bk · « **Reply #54 on:** August 10, 2004, 10:41:15 AM »

Adelphia has been down for the last two hours. Finally able to get on the Internet but it's fairly sluggish.

Panni · « **Reply #55 on:** August 10, 2004, 11:00:49 AM »

I only have two words to say: "Adelphia Blech!"
Not only could I not access HHW, but I couldn't google info I needed for my writing. May I once again say "Blech!"

On a happier note... Great photos from NY!

Charming Page Two Dance.

(So many typos! Blecccchhhh!)

Dan (the Man) · « **Reply #56 on:** August 10, 2004, 11:49:10 AM »

What childrens' books have y'all discovered and fell in love with in your adulthood?

When I was in college a friend gave me a copy of Who Needs Donuts by Mark Alan Stamaty. I love this book! Stamaty's illustrations are like something out of Mad Magazine in that there is something funny to look at in almost every square inch of the page. I lost my copy to my nephew when he was about six or seven. I hope I can get it back from him someday.

Dan-in-Toronto · « **Reply #57 on:** August 10, 2004, 12:19:57 PM »

"Billy Had A System" was either the first or one of the first books I picked out and borrowed from the library. I was so taken by it that I borrowed it over and over again. My parents breathed a huge sigh of relief when I finally moved on to something else.

MBarnum · « **Reply #58 on:** August 10, 2004, 12:20:50 PM »

Dan The Man, I recently purchased some Raggedy Ann and Andy story books for my grand-neice that are reproductions of the originals from the early 1900s...the illustrations are beautiful and the adventures of those two dolls and their buddies are a lot of fun! Almost Wizard of Oz like.

There have been a few others that I have picked up for her as well that are really nice.

Jennifer · « **Reply #59 on:** August 10, 2004, 12:20:51 PM »

Where is everyone today?

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