Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on March 30, 2020, 12:16:36 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes were weary, and now it is time for you to post until the weary cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: TRANSLITERATE!
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Glad George liked In My Mind's Eye. Re how good the two actresses are playing blind. Early on, the adult actress just got it right - absolutely perfect. So, I made Peyton study what she was doing and she did and then it was all easy. When the real blind kids came in to record the voices tormenting Patty at a party, I watched them very carefully, and we did everything right. Doug kept trying to tell me we had to use a cane and I kept saying no, you wrote a headstrong girl who has slight sight. He bought it and brought it to rehearsal. He really wanted it in the first scene with the male teacher and I said "Have you read your play?" The first thing that happens is he doesn't know she's blind - if she has a cane, well, game's up. Then he wanted me to use it in the dancing transition where Patty, in her prom dress, goes to the old guy's house. That staging and lighting was magical and there was no way I was going to muck it up and both actresses hated the idea of a cane, so eventually we got our way and he came to love it that way because in a memory play you're dealing with subjective memories and poetry.
Ask any other questions. I will say that none of the mirroring I do with both actors on stage at the same time in the same costumes is in the script. I just found it really confusing when the older would play the younger and vice versa and I knew the audience would, too. I puzzled over it for a while, then tried it at the end of act one, having both onstage and it was beautiful and I then added it to every scene and thankfully it was helpful to understanding what was going on. I was very proud of that.
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Shortly I will shower and go to bed.
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Good morning to all
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Tod: I agree that original is the best. And I am sure the best of the best will be hard to choose. I’d have to look up the titles
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Good morning, all!
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I know it's the last Monday of the month, but I don't know much else this morning.
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Annabelle is chirping and trilling this morning. That's something she does when she's really content or happy, so that cheered me right up.
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I slept rather poorly. I had a long dream at The Drama Book Shop at Christmas time. I had given the owners tickets to see Al Carmines' Promenade. Greg Petroff, who received ther book shipments when I worked there, was up for an audition and he was wandering about singing something. I remember the owner's wife asking me about the mail and some employees decorating a Christmas tree.
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I wish I had some plans for today, but I will see where the day takes me. Not too far, I'm guessing.
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Monday morning greetings! Don’t know why I’m up so early, but here I am...
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DR Jane, my book group was an audio-only call, but some of the same people met a few nights later for a board meeting on UberConference. On that some had both audio and video and others, like me, were audio only.
Tomorrow I’m meeting with another book group in Google Hangouts and I’ll let you know how that goes.
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Good morning, all.
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I remember sitting through Year of the Comet in the theater. Dreadful movie.
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Kitty cleanup finished. I have litter to dump, recyclables to go to the basement, and a bed to make before I get breakfast.
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I have several bills I need to pay and mail today as well. I guess there's more on my plate today than I imagined.
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As soon as I finished cleaning the litter, before I assembled the litter box, Stella jumped in to have a pee. As soon as she finished, I scooped it up - the clumping litter turns it into a hard ball of litter - and dumped it in the bag with the other litter, When she turned to burry it, it wasn't there. She was quite confused.
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TOD1:
The men
Jean Gabin
Raimu
Phillippe Noiret
Yves Montand
Daniel Auteuil
Jean-Paul Belmondo
Gerard Depardieu (half of the time)
Maurice Chevalier
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TOD 2:
Les femmes
Jeanne Moreau
Isabelle Huppert
Catherine Deneuve
Fanny Ardent
Marion Cotillard
Isabelle Adjani
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Isn't Caitlyn Jenner TRANSLITERATE?
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Nice day with temps in the 50's......and no rain.
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So the social distancing has been extended until April 30....at least that's what I read.
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Good morning, all.
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BK, thank you for clarifying those things. I remembered you saying you were finding solutions for this or that, and now it all makes sense.
A cane? No wait, I have it. How about using supertitles (“BLIND PERSON”) or a voiceover to make sure the audience gets it?
I happen to love the device of having two or more of the same character on the stage. The costuming is the perfect touch. Not to mention (so I’m mentioning it), Peyton and Kait Haire are perfect together.
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BK, thank you for clarifying those things. I remembered you saying you were finding solutions for this or that, and now it all makes sense.
A cane? No wait, I have it. How about using supertitles (“BLIND PERSON”) or a voiceover to make sure the audience gets it?
I happen to love the device of having two or more of the same character on the stage. The costuming is the perfect touch. Not to mention (so I’m mentioning it), Peyton and Kait Haire are perfect together.
They really were great together. There was a believable mother-daughter relationship in both the joy and the frustration.
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T.O.D.
Maurice Chevalier...for obvious reasons.
https://www.amazon.com/Chevalier-One-Person-Play-Two-Acts/dp/1469952718/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1331326931&sr=8-2
Brigette Bardot...for other obvious reasons.
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Les Hommes
Jean-Pierre Aumont
Raimu
Louis Jourdain
Daniel Auteuil
Jean-Paul Belmondo
Vincent Perez
Gerard Depardieu
Maurice Chevalier
Jean-Hugue Anglade
Pierre Brasseur
Jean-Pierre Cassel
Jean-Louis Barrault
Jean Marais
Les femmes
Jeanne Moreau
Isabelle Huppert
Catherine Deneuve
Micheline Presle
Francoise Rosay
Isabelle Adjani
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Good morning!
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Three hours of sleep so far. Going back to bed. Today's extreme stupidity, a new meme saying to tip your server for delivery and pick-up because it's the right thing to do. I had to explain that it's automatically applied when you order from ANYWHERE because there is no touching allowed on delivery and pick-up. You get a choice of what percentage but 10% is automatic. And then some idiot comes in and says what I'm saying isn't true. And THIS is why Facebook should go away and never come back in the form it's in.
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Two!
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Wow. It feels like such a Monday.
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Doug kept trying to tell me we had to use a cane and I kept saying no, you wrote a headstrong girl who has slight sight. He bought it and brought it to rehearsal. He really wanted it in the first scene with the male teacher and I said "Have you read your play?" The first thing that happens is he doesn't know she's blind - if she has a cane, well, game's up.
That would be a roll your eyes moment ;)
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Annabelle is chirping and trilling this morning. That's something she does when she's really content or happy, so that cheered me right up.
:)
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DR Jane, my book group was an audio-only call, but some of the same people met a few nights later for a board meeting on UberConference. On that some had both audio and video and others, like me, were audio only.
Tomorrow I’m meeting with another book group in Google Hangouts and I’ll let you know how that goes.
Thank you. I am curious as I want to suggest this to our book group. With my hearing it would probably be useless for me but others might enjoy it.
When is your Google Hangouts meeting?
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Annabelle is chirping and trilling this morning. That's something she does when she's really content or happy, so that cheered me right up.
:)
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As soon as I finished cleaning the litter, before I assembled the litter box, Stella jumped in to have a pee. As soon as she finished, I scooped it up - the clumping litter turns it into a hard ball of litter - and dumped it in the bag with the other litter, When she turned to burry it, it wasn't there. She was quite confused.
;D
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Three hours of sleep so far. Going back to bed. Today's extreme stupidity, a new meme saying to tip your server for delivery and pick-up because it's the right thing to do. I had to explain that it's automatically applied when you order from ANYWHERE because there is no touching allowed on delivery and pick-up. You get a choice of what percentage but 10% is automatic. And then some idiot comes in and says what I'm saying isn't true. And THIS is why Facebook should go away and never come back in the form it's in.
Stupid though they are trying to be thoughtful.
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For those using Instacart it seems the workers are striking until the company does more to protect them from the coronavirus.
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Bruce one of the things the Instacart people are asking for is a tip.
"Hazard pay — an extra $5 per order and defaulting the in-app tip amount to at least 10% of the order total."
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I looked it up and currently they only get 5%.
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MEGA VIBES FOR FORMER DR SWISHY SARA'S MOTHER!
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Freyja was fun yesterday during our video chat. They have an app with images babies like and turned it on while we were chatting. I don't know about other babies but Freyja certainly likes it.
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While we were talking I mentioned my disappointment we still hadn't seen a good face forward view of her smile and both dimples at once.
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Think morning Kate sent us a wonderful action clip she put together from 5 photos, ending with a super cute smile :)
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That is so sweet DR JANE.....we are one day closer to the time you get to hug that baby!!!!
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Nothing is happening here and that's okay.
My brother and I are going to the WalMart Old Folks party in the morning at 6 a.m. I need some bananas and water......some ground beef for a meatloaf if available.....and some TP for my sister is available.....and some vodka.....at least April only has 30 days.
Newspapers.com is offering 30 Days free if you rejoin using the code NEWS.....so I may do that tomorrow. Of course I will leave again before the 30 days are up.....but don't tell them.
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I always like to find new Allison Hayes and Frances Farmer contemporary news and then look at this and that for family news...
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Thanks for the heads up on newspapers.com, DR Jrand69. My first thought is always "does that include the premium ones"? Which naturally are the ones I most want, so it probably doesn't. But I'll check it out and go through some others, anyway.
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Well, I got in with my old login, but all I see is their usual 7-free-days offer. I followed that link, and there's no place to put a code to get the 30 days. Unless it's AFTER giving them my credit card info. I don't want to find myself with only the seven, so I'm backing out of there and I'll see if I can figure it out. Let me know if you succeed.
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Too true to be funny.
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Instacart has the 5% tip built in - it's automatic and can't opt out of it. You can leave more but I've tried to do that and they make it almost impossible - so the strike is probably a good idea - it should be at least 10% of the total order with an easy to choose option to add on to it if you're happy. But that's not what these boys were talking about - they were talking about curbside pick-up - and they're telling me that in their city the servers can get stiffed and I don't get it, frankly and, as always, ask for proof, the name of a service or restaurant where I can see this, which they conveniently NEVER provide.
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I'm up again. Three hours this morning and an additional four after a while.
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I guess I'll try to at least finish this essay and then I can take a break, then finesse. Does anyone have the Harold Prince on Directing book? I have it but heaven knows where it is. If so, if someone could send me anything to do with the early part of the Cabaret creation it would be helpful. Pretty sure I've got most of that right, though.
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Today’s Weill is Down in the Valley.
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I guess I'll try to at least finish this essay and then I can take a break, then finesse. Does anyone have the Harold Prince on Directing book? I have it but heaven knows where it is. If so, if someone could send me anything to do with the early part of the Cabaret creation it would be helpful. Pretty sure I've got most of that right, though.
Is that Conversations with Hal Prince?
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I have something called Harold Prince: From Pajama Game to Phantom of the Opera and Beyond.
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That is so sweet DR JANE.....we are one day closer to the time you get to hug that baby!!!!
That is a good way to look at it as the end goal keeps getting farther away.
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Today’s Weill is Down in the Valley.
Which recording?
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Could be conversations with Harold Prince. But I finished it (about thirty words under 1500), and already have futzed and finessed and added and subtracted, moving things around constantly so that the forward momentum is there as well as clarity. I'll look at it again a little later. I wouldn't mind a couple of review quotes - I have Walter Kerr, but I know there are others that were in the tour souvenir program - if anyone has any quotes, send 'em to me.
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Today’s Weill is Down in the Valley.
Which recording?
With Marion Bell and William McGraw. RCA Victor Orchestra and Chorus.
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Three!
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Well, I almost adopted Woofer today. Two years old, 40 lbs, and as soon as I knew he was good with cats, I planned to fill out an application. I asked my animal rescue friend Suzanne to check on him. Well, somebody beat me to him, and I still don't know how he relates to cats.
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Today’s Weill is Down in the Valley.
Which recording?
With Marion Bell and William McGraw. RCA Victor Orchestra and Chorus.
I had that on LP. I also had the Decca recording with Alfred Drake.
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Well, I almost adopted Woofer today. Two years old, 40 lbs, and as soon as I knew he was good with cats, I planned to fill out an application. I asked my animal rescue friend Suzanne to check on him. Well, somebody beat me to him, and I still don't know how he relates to cats.
I am glad he found a home. I really worry about your having a dog. Even a 40 pound dog can cause you to lose your balance when walking them, and how can you afford the vet bills? I know your heart is in the right place.
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Could be conversations with Harold Prince. But I finished it (about thirty words under 1500), and already have futzed and finessed and added and subtracted, moving things around constantly so that the forward momentum is there as well as clarity. I'll look at it again a little later. I wouldn't mind a couple of review quotes - I have Walter Kerr, but I know there are others that were in the tour souvenir program - if anyone has any quotes, send 'em to me.
Walter Kerr seemed to think Jill Haworth not only cast herself, but also costumed herself!!!
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Well, I almost adopted Woofer today. Two years old, 40 lbs, and as soon as I knew he was good with cats, I planned to fill out an application. I asked my animal rescue friend Suzanne to check on him. Well, somebody beat me to him, and I still don't know how he relates to cats.
I am glad he found a home. I really worry about your having a dog. Even a 40 pound dog can cause you to lose your balance when walking them, and how can you afford the vet bills? I know your heart is in the right place.
Well, it didn't happen, so I don't plan to worry about it.
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Could be conversations with Harold Prince. But I finished it (about thirty words under 1500), and already have futzed and finessed and added and subtracted, moving things around constantly so that the forward momentum is there as well as clarity. I'll look at it again a little later. I wouldn't mind a couple of review quotes - I have Walter Kerr, but I know there are others that were in the tour souvenir program - if anyone has any quotes, send 'em to me.
Walter Kerr seemed to think Jill Haworth not only cast herself, but also costumed herself!!!
Actually, Kerr places the blame solidly on Prince.
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Find me some quotes.
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Mexican food wasn't so great today and too much of it - I thought two beef tacos and four little chicken taquitos would be just right, but the taquitos were anything but little and I feel completely gross now.
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Find me some quotes.
Here's the review.
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/theater/82958835.pdf
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DR Freddie how is Skip today?
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Had an interesting takeout tonight. Half-dozen excellent potstickers. A large order of soggy but flavorful fries, spicy chicken that I need to bake a little longer and and excellent chocolate cake. I have the chicken and a salad for lunch tomorrow
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Watching a rather odd Sacha Guitry film called The Pearls in the Crown. There's a woman in not just blackface, but her whole body is covered and she's wearing little more than a couple of well-placed shells -- and a snake. If someone wants to kiss her, they also have to kiss the snake.
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Steven Suskin's book of review quotes, "Opening Night," goes up only to Fiddler, so Cabaret is not included. The only quotes I may have would be in the CD booklet. And those would be likely be nothing but "must-see," 'brilliant," whatever.
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Send ANY quotes my way.
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Suddenly we're having light posting? We know everyone is home.
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Finally have the Carol Christmas video on the computer. Any interest? I'm not sure why it was taped so early in the run - we added a major speech for the leading lady three weeks into the seven week run, which means this was taped on our second weekend, which explains why the audience is a little smaller because as of week three word of mouth kicked in and we were pretty much full for the rest of the run.
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Finally have the Carol Christmas video on the computer. Any interest? I'm not sure why it was taped so early in the run - we added a major speech for the leading lady three weeks into the seven week run, which means this was taped on our second weekend, which explains why the audience is a little smaller because as of week three word of mouth kicked in and we were pretty much full for the rest of the run.
Yes! That would be great! :D
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Yes, BK. I would like to see Carol Christmas!
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I've been enjoying Seth Rudetsky's shows online. He has a lot of Broadway stars and others, who are in their homes, of course. He's also having reunions of casts of shows such as Frasier and Taxi coming up. You can watch live at 2 pm and 8 pm every day or watch later on youtube:
starsinthehouse.com/
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Actually, the Taxi reunion was on tonight and can be seen on youtube.
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I would love to see Carol Christmas
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The only review quoted in the CD booklet for the OBC is Walter Kerr calling Jill Haworth the "one wild wrong note." No quotes in "Colored Lights." Plenty of reviews of the movie online.
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In Stanley Richards' Great Musicals of the American Theatre, Vol. 2, he includes in his intro:
Richard Gilman of Newsweek: "'Cabaret' is serious, which is to say it accepts the premise that mature themes aren't inimical to the musical genre. It is also fun in a salty, grown-up way--sensual elaborate, honest and yeasty, full of accurate perceptions translated into share and savory theater."
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Richard Watts Jr., New York Post: "It is the glory of 'Cabaret' that it can upset you while it gives theatrical satisfaction. It is disturbing, provocative, meaningful, believable and highly entertaining."
Two quotes without attribution were fused together. I don't know if they're from the same review:
"A scintillating unconventional musical play" that employs "a colorful explosion of wit and intelligence. Here is a musical of unusual distinction."
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I've been enjoying Seth Rudetsky's shows online. He has a lot of Broadway stars and others, who are in their homes, of course. He's also having reunions of casts of shows such as Frasier and Taxi coming up. You can watch live at 2 pm and 8 pm every day or watch later on youtube:
starsinthehouse.com/
They look good. I watched one (Judy Kuhn) and just haven't had time for others.
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I'm watching an interview with Hitchcock that's one of the extras from Rebecca. I watched the movies months ago, but never watched all of the extras. They're wonderful, and yes, they make me want to watch the picture again.
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Found this on amazon.com:
Richard Gilman of Newsweek says, "Cabaret is serious, which is to say it accepts the premise that mature themes aren't inimical to the musical genre. It is also fun in a salty, grown-up way - sensual, elaborate, honest and yeasty, full of accurate perceptions translated into sharp and savory theatre."
Richard Coe of the Washington Post writes, "With that totality at which our musical stage is so adept Cabaret evokes the bizarre atmosphere of Berlin when the Nazis were breaking the thin crust of a dream world. Hal Prince...again has created an imaginative fascinating musical drama."
Richard Watts, Jr. of the New York Times declares, "It is the glory of Cabaret that it can upset you while it gives theatrical satisfaction It is disturbing, provocative, meaningful, believable and highly entertaining."
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DR Jane, my book group was an audio-only call, but some of the same people met a few nights later for a board meeting on UberConference. On that some had both audio and video and others, like me, were audio only.
Tomorrow I’m meeting with another book group in Google Hangouts and I’ll let you know how that goes.
Thank you. I am curious as I want to suggest this to our book group. With my hearing it would probably be useless for me but others might enjoy it.
When is your Google Hangouts meeting?
Tomorrow at noon. We're discussing Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar as part of Miami University's observation of Women's History Month. I read it back in the '70s and have been re-reading it today.
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Funny, but Richards says that Watts was from the Post. The Amazon quote, from the hardcover Cabaret, says he was from the Times.
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Four!
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DR Jane, my book group was an audio-only call, but some of the same people met a few nights later for a board meeting on UberConference. On that some had both audio and video and others, like me, were audio only.
Tomorrow I’m meeting with another book group in Google Hangouts and I’ll let you know how that goes.
Thank you. I am curious as I want to suggest this to our book group. With my hearing it would probably be useless for me but others might enjoy it.
When is your Google Hangouts meeting?
Tomorrow at noon. We're discussing Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar as part of Miami University's observation of Women's History Month. I read it back in the '70s and have been re-reading it today.
How does it hold up? I was recently thinking of re-reading it.
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This is Jill Haworth's obituary with Hal Prince thoughts on the Kerr review.
Jill Haworth, Original Sally in ‘Cabaret,’ Dies at 65
By Bruce Weber
Jan. 4, 2011
Jill Haworth, a British-born film ingénue in the 1960s who made her only Broadway appearance as the original Sally Bowles in “Cabaret,” died Monday at her home in Manhattan. She was 65.
The police confirmed her death, attributing it to natural causes.
A petite, strikingly pretty blonde (she wore a dark wig on Broadway), Ms. Haworth was just 14 when she was signed to appear, along with Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint and Sal Mineo, as a displaced Jew in “Exodus” (1960), Otto Preminger’s grandiose adaptation of the Leon Uris novel about the birth of the state of Israel.
She made three films in France and then two others with Preminger, “The Cardinal” and “In Harm’s Way,” before auditioning for “Cabaret,” along with more than 200 other actresses, and winning the part of Sally, the lovably intemperate lass who sings for her supper at a decadent nightclub in Weimar-era Berlin.
Julie Harris had played Sally in the John Van Druten play “I Am a Camera,” on which the musical drew for its source material (along with the Christopher Isherwood book “The Berlin Stories,” on which the play was based). Liza Minnelli would make the role indelibly hers when she starred in the 1972 film, directed by Bob Fosse.
For Ms. Haworth, the role would be the high point of her career. Just 21 on opening night and with scant stage experience, she had never before sung a note professionally. The reviews were not overly kind, and one in particular was a damning declaration by Walter Kerr in The New York Times.
“ ‘Cabaret’ is a stunning musical with one wild wrong note,” Kerr began, later naming Ms. Haworth as the clunker and calling her “a damaging presence, worth no more to the show than her weight in mascara.”
Harold Prince, who directed the musical, recalled in an interview Tuesday that Ms. Haworth was remarkably steadfast and mature after the drubbing. She played the part for nearly two years and “never laid the weight of that on anyone,” he said. “We just loved her.”
“They underestimated her,” Mr. Prince said of the critics. “Sally Bowles was not supposed to be a professional singer. She wasn’t supposed to be so slick that you forgot she was an English girl somewhat off the rails in the Weimar era. When Jill came in and auditioned, she nailed it right away, walked that line. That’s what we wanted, and that’s what she delivered.”
Valerie Jill Haworth was born, according to many online sources, in Sussex, England, on Aug. 15, 1945. Her parents, who divorced when she was a girl, were well-to-do. Her father was a textiles magnate who also drove racing cars; her mother trained as a ballet dancer, as did Ms. Haworth.
“Society looked down on me for becoming an actress, but I don’t miss society, ” she told the gossip columnist Earl Wilson in 1965, adding that in America she acceded to a change in the pronunciation of her name. “I can’t get anyone here to pronounce it ‘Hahworth.’ Just as long as they don’t spell it H-a-y.”
Information about her family, including survivors, wasn’t immediately available.
Following “Cabaret,” she appeared in a handful of horror movies and in television series including “Mission: Impossible,” “Bonanza” and “Baretta.” But her career never regained the upward path on which it had begun.
“She was ‘let’s have a good time,’ ” Joel Grey, who starred as the master of ceremonies in the original “Cabaret,” said on Tuesday. “She had a wild abandon about herself and her life. I understood why Hal chose her. She was so Sally Bowles.”
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Funny, but Richards says that Watts was from the Post. The Amazon quote, from the hardcover Cabaret, says he was from the Times.
I'm pretty sure Douglas Watt was at the Daily News while Watts was at the Post.
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Send ANY quotes my way.
From the back cover of the Broadway souvenir program (autographed by 4 of the 5 principals - no Jill Haworth):
"'Cabaret' is a scintillatingly unconventional musical." Nadel, World Journal Tribune
"'Cabaret' is a fine musical with wit, spirit and intellingence." Newman, NBC-TV
"'Cabaret is such a good, brassy, marvelously melodic smartly decorated fast-moving musical." Harris, CBS-TV
"A colorful explosion of with and intelligence...a musical of unusual distinction." Lewis, Cue
"'Cabaret' is. flashy, gay, tuneful, lively musical." Jack Gaver, United Press International
"'Cabaret' is one of the most exciting, imaginative and effective musicals to come to Broadway this year or any other." Cooke, The Wall Street Journal
"'Cabaret' is both brilliant and remarkable. A bright, handsome and steadily entertaining show. Wild, hysterical fun and sex. It is the glory of 'Cabaret' that it can upset you while it gives theatrical satisfaction." Watts, Post
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DR Jane, my book group was an audio-only call, but some of the same people met a few nights later for a board meeting on UberConference. On that some had both audio and video and others, like me, were audio only.
Tomorrow I’m meeting with another book group in Google Hangouts and I’ll let you know how that goes.
Thank you. I am curious as I want to suggest this to our book group. With my hearing it would probably be useless for me but others might enjoy it.
When is your Google Hangouts meeting?
Tomorrow at noon. We're discussing Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar as part of Miami University's observation of Women's History Month. I read it back in the '70s and have been re-reading it today.
How does it hold up? I was recently thinking of re-reading it.
It's a pretty easy read and moving quickly. I just read in The Week that Tim Gunn from Project Runway considers it his go-to coming-of-age novel. He says it's "simultaneously beautiful and tragic, uplifting and haunting...a spiritual catharsis."
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Good evening.
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One of the ladies from church who lives about a half mile away called and asked if I wanted some beets from her garden. So I walked over and brought home about a dozen beets with the greens still attached.
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I cooked the beet roots in the air fryer and washed the greens. I made a salad for my daughter and included some of the beets. Tomorrow I will cook some of the greens.
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Starting to watch the various auditions for the unnamed main character in Rebecca. Anne Baxter is incredibly young and can seem shy, but she's also steelier than Joan Fontaine. Definitely not right for the part.
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Thanks for the quotes, very helpful.
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Here's A Carol Christmas - this was taped during the second week before we'd put in a few changes on week three, including a long speech for Carol after the nightmare sequence, because I felt one line wasn't doing what it needed to do and we had to give her a way to get to that line. Doug wrote a good speech, Hartley and I finessed it and in it went. Anyway, you'll get the idea. Would love to hear what you think.
https://youtu.be/2LRMqTFeZXs
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Now I'm up to 1499 words. :) We'll see how I feel tomorrow, but I'll turn it in tomorrow afternoon, a day early.
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Hi there
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We’re watching Apollo 13 for maybe the 25th time
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It is so well done, even after seeing it so many times that we can practically recite all the lines, having lived through the actual event and knowing exactly how it ends, it is still nerve wracking
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Today was very busy at work, I guess with everybody home they had nothing to do but call
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I didn’t get any watching done this evening. Back to it tomorrow. In fact, I think I can make tomorrow a SHIP OF FOOLS night.
And then back to some Robert Altman.
And yes, I’d be glad to have a go at A CAROL CHRISTMAS.
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I've watched the auditions for the main character in Rebecca. Fontaine was correct choice, but Margaret Sullivan also showed very well, in that Shop Around the Corner kind of desperation she did so well. I didn't care for Vivien Leigh, who was colorless in two separate auditions, one with Olivier. The worst, though was Loretta Young, who was too extroverted for the part. Instead of being shy or reticent, Young acts more like someone who's been caught at something and is conniving to find a way out. That was more Rebecca than wife No. 2.
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Good night, all.
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Gratuitous Post #111! ;D
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Watching a rather odd Sacha Guitry film called The Pearls in the Crown. There's a woman in not just blackface, but her whole body is covered and she's wearing little more than a couple of well-placed shells -- and a snake. If someone wants to kiss her, they also have to kiss the snake.
:))
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DR Jane, my book group was an audio-only call, but some of the same people met a few nights later for a board meeting on UberConference. On that some had both audio and video and others, like me, were audio only.
Tomorrow I’m meeting with another book group in Google Hangouts and I’ll let you know how that goes.
Thank you. I am curious as I want to suggest this to our book group. With my hearing it would probably be useless for me but others might enjoy it.
When is your Google Hangouts meeting?
Tomorrow at noon. We're discussing Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar as part of Miami University's observation of Women's History Month. I read it back in the '70s and have been re-reading it today.
I look forward to hearing about it.
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Starting to watch the various auditions for the unnamed main character in Rebecca. Anne Baxter is incredibly young and can seem shy, but she's also steelier than Joan Fontaine. Definitely not right for the part.
Joan Fontaine was perfect.
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I've watched the auditions for the main character in Rebecca. Fontaine was correct choice, but Margaret Sullivan also showed very well, in that Shop Around the Corner kind of desperation she did so well. I didn't care for Vivien Leigh, who was colorless in two separate auditions, one with Olivier. The worst, though was Loretta Young, who was too extroverted for the part. Instead of being shy or reticent, Young acts more like someone who's been caught at something and is conniving to find a way out. That was more Rebecca than wife No. 2.
This is interesting.
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What's interesting is page four.
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Why has everyone abandoned us? Is something going on? We know you're all home and we've been having such lovely posting days which, believe it or not, are helpful - not for the site - but for everyone here. Someone 'splain it to me, please, before I get unruly.
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I don't know about anyone else, but I've been working on setting up and burning a Blu-ray of the musical, The SpongeBob Musical!: Live on Stage that was shown on Nickelodeon.
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Well, we're finally close enough for the...
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PAGE FIVE DANCE!!
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:D
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I also had been working on a employment reference for a former employee.
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She had to leave work last year because her husband got a really good job in California (too good to pass up), and she put me down as a reference.
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The person who sent the very short questionnaire actually sent it last week to my work e-mail (of course).
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I just checked it for the first time since earlier last week. :o
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I rushed off my answers and explained that our building was closed, so I really hope it's not too late.
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I didn’t get any watching done this evening. Back to it tomorrow. In fact, I think I can make tomorrow a SHIP OF FOOLS night.
And then back to some Robert Altman.
And yes, I’d be glad to have a go at A CAROL CHRISTMAS.
I have always loved SHIP OF FOOLS. It is one of my 10, all-time favorite films.
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And on the subject of loving things, I love Stouffer’s Meatloaf. I have never had the individual dinner, I always buy the “Family Size” package, with the six to eight meatloafs in gravy. I usually get two dinners and maybe a meatloaf sandwich out of it. I serve it with mashed potatoes, or maybe, rice.
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I have to call the vet tomorrow.
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I hope the weather isn’t too nasty tomorrow.
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What happened to all the other posts we have been having lately?
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U N D E R P A N T S
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I must get back to my reading.
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Hi, Tom.
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One more post.
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Good night, kids!
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Good night, Tom.
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I have to call the vet tomorrow.
Is Nicky ok?
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I have to call the vet tomorrow.
~~~Vibes for Nicky!!~~~
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Ditto on those vibes for Nicky!
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Hi, Jane.
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Hi George.
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I should try and sleep.
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We are going senior shopping at Safeway tomorrow morning.
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I should try and sleep.
Me, too...but I know I won't just yet. ;)
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We don't have to leave until 8:00.
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I should try and sleep.
Me, too...but I know I won't just yet. ;)
But you will wake up later than I will.
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We are going senior shopping at Safeway tomorrow morning.
Have you been senior shopping before? I don't remember if you've mentioned it or not.
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I should try and sleep.
Me, too...but I know I won't just yet. ;)
But you will wake up later than I will.
True...very true.
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Keith went last week before I got up.
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six!!
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He went to Fred Meyer. We are hoping Safeway has fewer people.
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'night.
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My friend Margo has gone to some local (of course) senior shopping times.
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If I am lucky.
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Good night, Jane. And good luck with the senior shopping!
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Thanks.