You watch your phraseology!
Ye gods!
Good Morning, Ron.
What I want to know is, what is JoseSPiano doing up at 5:01 a.m., est?
Has JoseSPiano gotten up out of bed?
Or...has JoseSPiano just rolled in from a night on the town?
Now... What are you still doing up, DR Ron Pulliam? I just don't ever recall you being a part of the late-night denizen crowd.
"Well, what's the matter? You wanted the truth, didn't ya?
Now look - I'm bigger than you are, and you're gonna stand there and get it all, so you might just well stop wigglin'."
I can, of course, imagine recent productions changing it to the more PC and less-controversial "Ye gads" to appease the pentecostal-minded.
I couldn't make myself any plainer if I'se a Quaker on his day off.
Back when? Re: the censors?
You mean in the late 50s on Broadway?
Or in 1962 on film?
I assure you, Zaneeta goes through the entire film squealing "Ye gods".
Jose, is there an IHOP or Waffle House anywhere near you where you could go for breakfast?
Hmmm... I think there is an IHOP down on 125th. However, there are a slew of 24-hour diners that I would consider first. But, I'd have to say, a double order of hash browns "scattered, smothered, covered, chunked, topped, diced, peppered, and capped" would make for some mighty fine eatin' right now. :)
With onions?
...from The Waffle House that is. (re: hash browns).
And a little known fact... A friend of mine who actually went to Waffle House University told me that, technically, a waiter could not call out an order - and all orders are called out - for hash browns "with everything"/"all the way". He/she is to stand on the "order line" and say, "hash brown, scattered, smothered, covered..." -And I've actually been in some Waffle House locations where that protocol is followed and enforced.
Mister Sand Man...
Send Me a Dream...
Make it a pint of vanilla ice cream...
I don't believe I've ever eatne any Waffle House hash browns.
Are they crispy on the outside and tender on the inside?
Hmm.. So you'd rather have a pint of vanilla ice cream than someone with "wavy hair"?
;)
If they're cooked properly. *I usually ask for them extra-crisp, that does the trick.
Have you ever had any with onions cooked in them?
And just FYI:
Scattered = spread out on the grill
Smothered = with onions
Covered = with cheese (usually a slice of American cheese)
Chunked = with diced ham
Topped = with chili
Diced = with diced tomatoes
Peppered = with jalapeno peppers
Capped = with mushrooms - I believe this is a semi-recent addition to the toppings possibilities.
And, apparently, according to the menu, there are thousands of ways to have your hash browns. ;) -Or maybe just hundreds.
AUGHGHGHGHGHGHGHGH!
Curses!
And I have to say it's been a good while, a year maybe two, since I've eaten at a Waffle House - or it's sister restaurants Omelet House and Pancake House. But when I was on the road... You always knew what you were getting when you stepped into a Waffle House.
And, strangely enough, I don't believe I've ever had a waffle at a Waffle House. Go figure.
Do you like sausage, too?
Got any sausage stories to torture me with?
Well... I was thinking, in a few hours I would...
Brown up some Bob Evans sausage in a pan. Then set aside the sausage, and drain off all but two tablespoons of the drippings/fat. Add two tablespoons of flour to the pan. Cook that over medium heat until well combined and "cooked". Then add about three cups of milk to the pan. Cook that until thickened. Season with a couple of generous grinds of black pepper. -No salt since there's usually enough in the sausage. Add the crumbled sausage to the gravy. Simmer for a bit. Then serve that over biscuits.
Is that a good story?
We may be on our way to a record Sunday!
Don't ask.
You're all just dreaming this.
I am NOT up a mere four hours after I logged off.
I'ts not humanly possible.
Perhaps you are robot RLP. 8)
I still don't like TOOTSIE.
And now...NOW....after I have already made my assigned calls and visits - the FUNDRAISING COMMITTEE has changed the Contribution Levels!!!
Surely you can make up the difference out-of-pocket!
;)
Provide the guilty persons with your list and let THEM inform the hoped-for contributors that more is needed. (I presume the desired contribution amount was increased).
Sorry I missed the Music Man discussions last night.
"He left River City the li-berry building, but he left all the books to her!"
And the word of the day is: CHIMERICAL!Casey would waltz
These days, River City would have made hay with the building, and said to heck with the books.
"He left River City the li-berry building, but he left all the books to her!"
Miser Madison?
Am I having a cynical morning?
Good morning, all! I wondered at all the posts and I should have known it was DR Jose waxing enthusiasic about sausage. My first suspicion was that DR DakotaCelt had gone off the deep end over Matt Ashford.
Yep, I'm thinking right now about dragging out THE MUSIC MAN on DVD. Tonight, as a part ofd her Christmas gift, I'm taking goddaughter Charlotte to THE FANTASTICKS, a show she's never seen. when it colsed at the Sullivan Street Theatre, she gave her dad hell for never taking her to see it, so tonight's the big night. I am looking forward to it for two reasons: spending time with her before she vanishes next year to college and every time I see THE FANTASTICKS, I'm eighteen again.
DR JRand56, I'm sorry about your Dustin Hoffman feelings; I've always liked him as an actor, and in the several times I've actually been in his company - once in Drama Book Shop, several times when he was rehearsing DEATH OF A SALESMAN, and I helped his production company with his research on MERCHANT OF VENICE - I've found to be intensely shy, intensely kind, very charming, and sly. The cold, unemotional Peter Hall production of MERCHANT also featured Twiggy's husband Leigh Lawson, Nathaniel Parker, Michael Siberry and Ben Browder, and I thought Dustin was quite wonderful. Someday, I hope I'll get a chance to tell you in person about the behavior of the various and sundry people involved in the DEATH OF A SALESMAN revival.
Look at all the ears this morning!!
Now...if Elmore will wax a little.....
Grand Prix Ice Skating Final on ESPN2 today....and I will be gone!
That's Eulalie McKecknie Shinn to you!
DR Elmore - I hope you and Charlotte have a delightful time today!
What time? And who's skating?
Starts at 5 pm EST....but the finale is at 7 pm EST, on ESPN2...my paper doesn't give any details.
This plum is too ripe!
...As long as it isn't saying "tear-y" instead. Your poor sheets!
(My mattress warmer is very erudite and absolutely would use the word "tarry").
As long as it isn't saying "tear-y" instead. Your poor sheets!
DR Ginny, whoever would have guessed in the 1970s that THE FANTASTICKS and its creators would figure so heavily in my future life? I am certain there's a profound comment to that effect in THE MUSIC MAN, so I can write off the viewing today as a research item.
*looks around*
Is this page seven?
Do all these lovely people know about the production you directed here in your hometown? And that in it you cast me in the role that was suited perfectly to my singing talent - The Mute?
Well, I guess I'll have to listen to both of those cast albums while dismantling Christmas today! ;)
I have a "habit" of shouting out "Shipoopi!" in rehearsals at the end of a dance number. Whether it's the "Shipoopi" or The Music Man or not. ;)
LOL DR ELMORE.
Allison always said she wanted to tackle George Bernard Shaw's St Joan onstage...and I am sure there would have been an audience for that!
...On the other hand, I've never eaten pancakes at an IHOP!I remember when the International House Of Pancakes opened, in Taluca Lake, back in 1958. I loved their Silver Dollar pancakes, and later fell in love with their Swedish pancakes (with lingonberry butter).
...
And for the perfect accompaniment to that pain perdu...Come now, DR Jose! We both know you would much rather make the mixture closer to 50/50!!!
Sprinkle slices of thick-cut bacon with a mixture of brown sugar and cayenne - about 1/2 teaspoon of cayenne to a 1/2 cup of brown sugar - or to taste. Arrange slices on a wire rack. Cook in the oven at 450 until done.
Bon Appetit!
6:23am EST - *Be sure to check Page Four for the actual recipe. ;)
But, I'd have to say, a double order of hash browns "scattered, smothered, covered, chunked, topped, diced, peppered, and capped" would make for some mighty fine eatin' right now. :)
I got up to get my paper. Last week's Sunday paper was apparently too much of a temptation to one of the residents of this here condo....or....a visitor of one of the residents.
The Mute is a VERY important role. I missed The Mute in the movie version.
We had the same problem with our paper. We finally set up a hidden camera and caught the guy on tape!
That'll teach 'em to mess with people who know about filmmaking!
Good morning, Jeanne! Hope you had a pleasant evening and are bright-eyed and bushy-tailed for the day ahead.
I do believe my left eye wants to get more sleep now.
DR CILLA LIZ - a couple of suggestions for the stains:
CLR - since they are recent.
Lighter Fluid - used carefully and not WITH the CLR.
Good Morning, Edisaurus!
...every time I see THE FANTASTICKS, I'm eighteen again.
Oh, what a cynical morning
Oh, what a cynical day
I've got a crotchety feeling
Nothin' is goin' my way
Oh what a cynical day
Ok, I have to confess, I really don't like the Music Man. Maybe I'm just Iowa stubborn...
I was okay with Dustin Hoffman until RAIN MAN. His one-note over-praised performance really turned me off to him on that movie
DR Ginny, whoever would have guessed in the 1970s that THE FANTASTICKS and its creators would figure so heavily in my future life?
Aren't most autistics pretty one note anyway?
Anybody gonna join me to follow Grease: You're the One That I Want which starts tonight?
Isn't Ms Marshall lucky she has the public to cast her show for her?
I do like most of the songs in The Music Man. I think I may just be extremely sick of it, everyone has to do it here. One summer there were 3 productions of it within a 25 mile radius and within 2 weeks of each other.
Will we do any worse than those who cast that Matthew Broderick TV version of The Music Man? The best performance in that was Middletown-native Debra Monk as Mrs. Paroo.
It was actually the most difficult role I've ever had, because I had no lines to which to attach my blocking. But, out of our 4 performances, I was 7 for 8 catching the plums - without my glasses!
Anybody gonna join me to follow Grease: You're the One That I Want which starts tonight?
LOL DR ELMORE.
Allison always said she wanted to tackle George Bernard Shaw's St Joan onstage...and I am sure there would have been an audience for that!
Question: In the last Broadway version, did they use that song and others exclusively from the movie?
Has no one watched the behind-the-scenes extra on the DVD? Most unseemly!
Actually it's not one of my favorite things, but I had fun editing it! WB left me completely alone and didn't have any changes.
I didn't have a DVD player when this was released so I've never watched the BTS. (The company gave me a copy on Laserdisc, but I didn't have a player, so I gave it to a friend who did.)
Maybe I'll open the DVD I bought a few years ago and finally watch it!
DR ELMORE,DR Jeanne, my love for THE FANTASTICKS goes back to 1964, my 17th summer. I had discovered THREEPENNY OPERA and it was the last production for the season at Cincinnati's Playhouse in the Park, directed by Word Baker, who directed THE FANTASTICKS and was then director of the Playhouse. In the Programme there was a note that THE FANTASTICKS would be added to the season and open the following week (the Macheath, Polly, and one of the gang had all been Off-Broadway replacements in the show and this would be THE FANTASTICKS' second appearance in Cincinnati; in fact, the old Playhouse had the same seating arrangement as The Sullivan Street Theatre). I knew nothing of the show, but the Tom McElfrish (??) review in the Cincinnati Enquirer was titled "Life Is Just A Bowl Of Charades" and I was intrigued, so I bought tickets for the same friends with whom I'd seen THREEPENNY OPERA. The first Saturday of September 1964, about a week before my 18th birthday, I saw Act One of THE FANTASTICKS, bought the recording at intermission, saw Act Two, and went home to play the recording several times before morning. Within a month, I owned the vocal score, and within two months, I played it every day in a rehearsal studio at Miami University. Between 1964 and 1972, I played harpsichord (harpists cost too much) for one production, saw three or four others including an over-produced revival by Word Baker as a Christmas treat in the huge new Playhouse in the Park theatre, Sometime around 1978, I finally directed the show and ended up playing the Old Actor because I couldn't find another, and DR Ginny played The Mute, because DR Ginny doesn't have the vocal chops to play Luisa. DR Ginny is an adequate singer but one of the finest actresses, amateur or professional, I've ever worked with.
For those of us relatively new to HHW, could you fill us in? Or maybe some other H/K would do so in your honor?
DR elmore - It wasn't all about sausage. I mentioned a baguette too. ::)
Ron, I don't mean to get personal, but just what do you do when one eye wants to sleep and the other does not?
Thoughts on THE MUSIC MAN:
As a kid, we had one of those paperback books that would come out that had all the lyrics, dialogue and pictures from the Broadway show. My dad memorized the whole opening train sequence. "Yes sir. Yes sir. The piper pays you!"
Aaaargh!
I gets me patch out and wears it!
Good Morning! Good Afternoon!
I'm up! I'm up!
And so is (was?) DR Ron Pulliam.
;)
I have a book exactly like that with photos from the movie.
I have a book exactly like that with photos from the movie.
DR Jeanne, my love for THE FANTASTICKS goes back to 1964, my 17th summer. I had discovered THREEPENNY OPERA ...and I am both privileged and extremely lucky that a purchase of four tickets on a whim to see a show in August 1964 led to such wonderful friends.
DR Elmore: My college did "The Fantasticks" the first semester of my Junior Year (1968). As a theater major, I was required to meet the audition requirement of preparing a song to sing.
I was not a singer, had never had to do anything other than "blend" with other voices in anything.
My song was "What Kind of Fool Am I?" During my audition, my right arm went numb. After the last note I left the theater, certain that would be that and that I'd be working backstage in some manner.
I was called back to read for Matt and had to learn three of Matt's songs for the callback.
I got the part. It was the best thing that had ever happened to me in my life up to that time (and, in many ways, since).
...It was the best thing that had ever happened to me in my life up to that time (and, in many ways, since).
And WHERE is Mr BK?
Won't he be surprised when he does show up?
T We used that song as part the pre-ceremony music for our wedding.
And what does the parrot perched on your shoulder think of this drag? :)
Thanks, CLR can etch if you're not careful, so I sprayed on more Clorex Clean-up with Bleach and let it sit. They are fading, so I think I'll just keep doing that every day or so and see if they totally disappear
Ron, did you see my question about BART last night?
And WHERE is Mr BK?
Yes, and I meant to say something about it, but the "The Music Man" stuff and Jose talking about food got me off track and chased it plumb out of my head.
I have taken, and still do take, BART.
DR JRand - Just a clarification - and only because I had one actor who would really milk this line - and I loved it!
Eddie! That's Eddie's clarionette!
ahhh...
Do they have safegaurds in the case of earthquakes?
BTW, I blame JOse for giving me the munchies!
Won't he be surprised when he does show up?
Holy moley on rye - I thought my eyes had deceived me when I saw ten pages at this hour. I tell you this: Soon we will be the most popular site on all the Internet. And what postings!
Mr BK will have a LOT of posts to catch up on, won't he? Or is he just sitting there like dead herring in the moonlight? :)
Things are moving very fast now, Jeanne.
What's the opposite of a bitch-slap, BK?
This could end up a record day.
As long as I can sneak in a nap here and there, I'm game.
Mr. Hoffman has certainly irritated me in the past (his performances) but he's done some very good work. I think one of the reasons he's so good in Tootsie, is because his Michael Dorsey, an actor no one will hire or work with because he's so "actorly" and difficult, is very much who he is.
Haven't you already set the posting record?
I love Hermione's underscoring!
Memorable line from Gene Shalit: "Hoffman is great in his TOOTSIE role."
Love the watch the mouths of the CAST during that song in the movie, DR RLP. Not everyone knows the lyrics!!! And couple of them are always late during "Trouble."
That's Ray Heindorf's underscoring.
Hermione is merely the beneificiary.
:)
Ancient songwriting lecture joke:
You know, when it comes right down to it, there are really only four basic kinds of songs in musical theater
1. I'm in love
2. I wish I were in love
3. I'm glad I'm not in love
4. Shipoopi
For a second there, I thought you were DR JOSE just ending a post. :D
My favorite underscoring is in the dance during "Marion the Librarian"...when Marion starts dancing...and especially after she does her noisy steps on the table and then steps off and the strings take over.
It's sheer heaven!
While walking past Madison Square Garden last night, there was a group of guys in gals...
Not that I would know from such things, but I wonder if anyone here has stories about tangoing at the Anvil.
You New Yorkers! That would never fly in the conservative South!
There is/was another cousin of WH down south called Huddle House. That was kind of good. Anyone know if that is still around?
Which DVD? "The Music Man"?
Now I MUST watch the movie.
Remember back in the old days when you could only watch it when some Television Programmer decided to show it on a Sunday afternoon....and how you waited ALL week for Sunday so you could see it...commercials and all. And then somebody wanted to watch something else... :-\
Wasn't Huddle the second daughter in Fiddler?
I was wondering why New Yorkers didn't think anything of that myself, DR EDISAURUS. :o
No, that was Mittle.
Actually, I know I dreamed about it. I used to wonder if anyone would ever make it possible for a record player to show, via a projector in the tone arm, a video of what was playing on any given album.
HH still has a large presence here in Georgia. There's also a similar thing called the Waffle King.
I was waiting for TCB.
...I think the last DH performance I enjoyed ...
Boy, weren't you ahead of your time!
I was waiting for der B.
I was waiting for der B.
Gosh, I kinda doubt it. I'd imagine several folks posted more than 100 times on some of the record days of HHW.com.
I was "into" soundtracks and I used to stare at a record as it played and try to imagine the scene from the movie that the music accompanied. That thought led to wishing a little projector would pop up and show me the scene as I listened to the music.
I can't have been alone in doing this.
Angel collection cleared from the piano and shadow box and packed away - Check!
DS Rob will be quite surprised, because the angels have been on display since before Christmas 2005. Every time he'd come home for a 2006 holiday, he'd tease me about the Easter angels, the Memorial Day angels, the Fourth of July angels, the Labor Day angels, the Thanksgiving angels.
For years, Dobbs House provided the Delta in-flight meals...and they were great.
My DH worked there for about 2 months as a summer job. (His dad used to work for Delta.)
He just told me some horrible stories I won't repeat here.
...but I wonder if anyone here has stories about tangoing at the Anvil.
I was "into" soundtracks and I used to stare at a record as it played and try to imagine the scene from the movie that the music accompanied. That thought led to wishing a little projector would pop up and show me the scene as I listened to the music.
I can't have been alone in doing this.
That can take a while.Want a Snickers?
I think I shall watch the documentary on Music Man today.
I was "into" soundtracks and I used to stare at a record as it played and try to imagine the scene from the movie that the music accompanied. That thought led to wishing a little projector would pop up and show me the scene as I listened to the music.
I can't have been alone in doing this.
Ye gads, indeed! So much to read!
Boy wont some of the HHWers on teh west coast be surprised when they come to the forum!
Are you sure you want to share these intimate details ::)
Do you realize that by putting them away, you are terminating a special thing you have with him? Even if it was in jest, I'm certain he's going to miss those angels...and the holiday references that were created for them.
PAGE 13 AT 11:30 AM??We were bored and we came out to play early!
the entire city is under a boil advisory.
I will share those, but I draw the line at the Dobbs House stories. Some things you DON'T want to know!
Projected revival:
"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolfe" with Donald Trump and Rosie O'Donnell
der Brucer
ROTFLMAO!!!!
DR ELMORE, perhaps with a good director, she could have been better, but then, can you imagine someone else you would rather see set on fire at the end of an evening?
What about the folks who didn't call early this morning and who went ahead and consumed the water?
ketchup on everything! :o
Not that I would know from such things, but I wonder if anyone here has stories about tangoing at the Anvil.
I can hardly wait to find out what you're referring to! ;)
GUYS IN DOLLS - that's the title of....oh, never mind
DR JRand56, I'm sorry about your Dustin Hoffman feelings; I've always liked him as an actor, and in the several times I've actually been in his company - once in Drama Book Shop, several times when he was rehearsing DEATH OF A SALESMAN, and I helped his production company with his research on MERCHANT OF VENICE - I've found to be intensely shy, intensely kind, very charming, and sly. The cold, unemotional Peter Hall production of MERCHANT also featured Twiggy's husband Leigh Lawson, Nathaniel Parker, Michael Siberry and Ben Browder, and I thought Dustin was quite wonderful. Someday, I hope I'll get a chance to tell you in person about the behavior of the various and sundry people involved in the DEATH OF A SALESMAN revival.
Heindorf is one of three credited orchestrators (Gus Levene is another, can't remember the third). But, he's also the conductor and music supervisor, and the sound has that famous Heindorf Warner's sound. They are great orchestrations, whoever did them.
Jeanne, did you get my email yesterday?
Sir, the entire city of Lansing is under a boil alert!
Is that from something?
:)
ewww that's a growner...
More like War of the Roses errr interesting hairdos!
Just before 2pm (that's 6 - count 'em 6 - hours later) we got recorded telephonic message alerting us to the boil advisory. What about the folks who didn't call early this morning and who went ahead and consumed the water?
The Book of Job?
der Brucer
The Book of Job was later extended into a musical: "Working"
You will be my bruise!
Ya know....that haircut/do that Rosie sported after her show went off the air....that Mohawk-thingie with severe Lesbianic overtones/undertones/middletones -- Rosie's got no business criticizing ANYone's hair.
Looks like there will be a run on lances.
Ewwwwww....
10 posts to 7000!
Anybody gonna join me to follow Grease: You're the One That I Want which starts tonight?
Can you imagine trying to quote this much great dialogue from any of today's musicals?
I thought they renamed it Pooptown.
It's the bitch of living!
Anybody gonna join me to follow Grease: You're the One That I Want which starts tonight?
And one formica
Man these pages are whizzing by!
Who? Who?
Sounds like England...maybe because the food is so blah. They would put ketchup on spaghetti!
Umm...I actually used to do that, myself. ::)
Didn't Irving Berlin rhyme "tarry" with "marry" in "Annie Get Your Gun"?
Aren't most autistics pretty one note anyway?There's a class of autistics that comes to the store about once a week, usually on Thursdays, with their teachers, learning how to shop. I get a kick out of helping them out, and most of them seem to get a kick out of this total stranger smiling, talking with them, and treating them like normal people. As a group, they're quite shy and unsure of themselves, but very nice.
...
Shortly I shall be on my way to Miss Joan Ryan's house to sing through material for a couple of hours.What kind of material?
I watched the rest of "Life After Tomorrow" last night. It was very interesting and well-put together. But I couldn't help but feel the lack of Andrea McArdle. I saw her in a few clips but there were very few mentions of her. BK, any insight as to why she wasn't included? I've never seen the show, but I have always thought of her as the definitive "Annie". And I never knew Sarah Jessica Parker was an Annie!
Ok, ok, you people have forced me to put THE MUSIC MAN into my NETFLIX queue.
Dustin Hoffman-Hey, Marni Nixon can do just about anything!!!
I had kind of written him off, but thought he was great in I HEART HUCKABEES.
I like him in several older movies, but am always surprised at how much of his dialogue has to be dubbed in.
I thought I remembered a second Hardy mystery from THE MICKEY MOUSE CLUB, but in talking with someone yesterday about it, I talked myself out of it saying that maybe I was confusing it with the second SPIN & MARTY serial.
Anyway, I'm hoping Disney will release this one in another year or so. I'd love to have both of them.
DR Cillaliz: Every time I've ever met someone from Iowa I've always told them I've never been there but that I've heard so much about it that there are several places I'd like to visit.
Inevitably, the person will ask, "Where"?
And I reply:
"Oh...Dubuqe, Des Moines, Davenport, Mashalltown, Mason City, Keokuk, Ames, Clear Lake...yes, I'd like to give Iowa a try."
More often than not, I'll get a smile and a chuckle. But there is the occasional glassy-eyed stare.
Did you select the Robert Preston one or the Matthew Broderick one? Both are available on DVD.
Did you select the Robert Preston one or the Matthew Broderick one? Both are available on DVD.
The Robert Preston version, MattH.
Hello, fellow Dear Readers. My, you have all been busy!
Ok, ok, you people have forced me to put THE MUSIC MAN into my NETFLIX queue.
Was Sarah Jessica Parker playing Annie when the show closed in January, 1983? If so, DH Richard and I might have seen her, and Harve Presnell (be still, my heart) as Daddy Warbucks, when we were in NYC for the week between Christmas 1982 and New Year's 1983. Unfortunately, I cannot find my Playbills from the 8 shows we saw in those 7 days, so cannot verify my hunch.
The Robert Preston version, MattH.
I prefer the Preston one
I have many stories about "activities" at the Anvil, which I will gladly NOT share 8)You are going to have to elaborate, dear. You know what happens when I get curious about something. :o
der Brucer
PS The ones about the Meat Rack are better!
When Shirley Jones got to "Being in Love," and I do prefer "My White Knight" in its various permutations, I thought about the story of Meredith Willson's mother in his book on the show (Why isn't that great book in print?) BUT HE DOESN'T KNOW THE TERRITORY.
Was Sarah Jessica Parker playing Annie when the show closed in January, 1983? If so, DH Richard and I might have seen her, and Harve Presnell (be still, my heart) as Daddy Warbucks, when we were in NYC for the week between Christmas 1982 and New Year's 1983. Unfortunately, I cannot find my Playbills from the 8 shows we saw in those 7 days, so cannot verify my hunch.
Excuse me if this was mentioned, but I don't feel like going through 17 pages to see if it was because probably half through I will forgotten what I was looking for.
When I first got the cast recording to THE MUSIC MAN, I played "My White Knight" constantly. It has always been my favorite song from the show, so you can imagine how upset I was when "Being in Love" was used in the movie.
I've always heard that the parts of "My White Knight" that aren't a part of "Being in Love" were actually written by Frank Loesser (who was one of the producers of the original Broadway show), and that Willson rewrote those parts so the entire score would be by him. Any truth to this?
Well, duh! Who doesn't? The Matthew Broderick version should be sold in rolls in your grocery's toilet paper aisle.Not in MY grocery's toilet paper aisle. We's a classy joint, we is!
Cilla - Thanks. I'm very happy about not putting off preparing my taxes this year. It's been many years since I haven't gone on extension, and I'm hoping everything comes through from outside sources so that I won't have to extend this year.
Skip's return is also about 90% done - just slotting in some minor additional info as it comes in towards the end of the month, or at the very l;astest by the end of February.
Today I stocked up my little refrigeratior under my desk at work. I case of bottled water and a 12 pack of diet coke all fit in it. I also stocked up on my microwavable soups and oyster crackers.I can hear it now. "Excuse me, Cilla, but do you have the brief on that bottled water case handy?"
So the office is clean, files organized, shredding shredded, fridge stocked, miscellaneous bureaucratic nonsence completed....cool beans. What a great way to start the year.
I can hear it now. "Excuse me, Cilla, but do you have the brief on that bottled water case handy?"
I've always heard that the parts of "My White Knight" that aren't a part of "Being in Love" were actually written by Frank Loesser (who was one of the producers of the original Broadway show), and that Willson rewrote those parts so the entire score would be by him. Any truth to this?
Boo was feeling left out, so she posed for this shot
Ancient songwriting lecture joke:
You know, when it comes right down to it, there are really only four basic kinds of songs in musical theater
1. I'm in love
2. I wish I were in love
3. I'm glad I'm not in love
4. Shipoopi
What if You're the One That I Want tanks, ratings-wise. Will they still do the Broadway show?
Loesser published the score to THE MUSIC MAN, and he hated the original version of "My White Knight" because he thought it should be a ballad and not the loose soliloquoy it originally was. Willson kept revising it, I gather: the version Barbara Cook sings on the Carnegie Hall concert recording is different from the number as she supposedly sang it on opening night in New Haven and as it's published in Willson's book. I don't know if Loesser took the material and reshaped it himself or if he bullied Willson into doing it, but I gather the number as it opened on Broadway is Loesser's attempt to turn it into a formal Broadway ballad. I got that much about it from Jo Loesser.
I suspect "My White Knight" was both an attempt to write something for an Oscar nomination and to rid himself of possible bad feelings about the original number.
There's still more to the story of "My White Knight."
That picture put one h * E * double hockey sticks of a grin on my face!
Hopelessly...
Well, just hopeless. :-\
I don't dislike Shirley Jones, I just didin't think she was so great in Carousel and Oklahoma. It is Robert Preston who I used to not like as much...but I saw him recently on WHAT'S MY LINE or some such old game show and he was so funny and charming that I changed my mind about him.
There's something I'm surprised no one has yet asked today...
Exactly how much does one Grecian urn?
Fir and fur are homonyms. In the NW "for" and "four" would be in the same list I guess.
I do find it interesting - and at least none of us is from New Zealand.
<y supper is preparing itself right now.
A potato is baking in my toaster overn.
A N.Y. strip is relaxing in a bath of olive oil, pepper and kosher salt until it attains room temperature.
I may or may not prepare a vegetable.
No RLP, I have never seen VICTOR, VICTORIA.
Look, whaddaya talk, whaddaya talk, whaddaya talk...
I see all kinds of folks logged in, but they all must be watching "Operation Crossbow," too.
Where the frell is Jose?
Am I gonna have to get out my cell phone and track him down?
AAAAGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!
What an unfortunate tag-line.
AAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!
This afternoon I shall be seeing "Dream Girls". I've only ever played the OBC recording a few times! The only songs I can remember are "That one!!!!!","Steppin' to The Bad Side" and "One Night Only".
My supper is preparing itself right now.
A potato is baking in my toaster overn.
A N.Y. strip is relaxing in a bath of olive oil, pepper and kosher salt until it attains room temperature.
I may or may not prepare a vegetable.
Hmm... If you sprinkle some powdered, dried porcini mushrooms on it, you could have a Bistecca a la Fiorentina. And if you haven't selected a vegetable, if you have some broccoli rabe...
I used to prepare vegetables for a living.
Of course, the play is different...but when you play a train conductor ("River City...next station stop River City") and a townsperson ("Trouble, Trouble, Trouble")("Shipoopi, Shipoopi, Shipoopi") ya don't need to know more than the lyrics.
Hmm... I've never really thought there was much of a difference between the stage original and movie versions of The Music Man. Different, yes, but not divergently so. Or something like that.
-Maybe I should have taken a nap too. ;)
Jose, would they have a pianist at this beginning stage of auditions?
Ron, a few months ago that was the subject of one day's posting - the fact that I felt 1962 was the equal if not the better than 1939. And if you search it, you'll see those lists, which are incredible - as a year of great cinema, it really is hard to top 1962.
We watched "Random Hearts" last night. I wonder if the source material was a bad as the screenplay.
Why the "stars" bothered is beyond me.
I confess I have never heard a song by "Beyoncé" or for that matter by "Pink". There's seem to be a world out there that I have not found time to discover!
So, is this anything like a real audition?
OH!
MY!
GOD!!
BK - You HAVE to watch the final two minutes of "You're The One That I Want". (The previews for next week's episode - which covers the New York auditions.) *Although, it could already be old news to/for you.
So you recognize someone...or more than one someone?
It it someone we know?? Huh? Huh?
I was wondering if it was an Equity and/or Equity Candidate call....until I watched a few minutes.
It just makes me remember all those hours of seeing misguided and deluded people even out here in the hinterlands...
I loved the photo DR Laura...was it a hawk?
I was wondering if it was an Equity and/or Equity Candidate call....until I watched a few minutes.
It just makes me remember all those hours of seeing misguided and deluded people even out here in the hinterlands...
Thank goodness.
And you really should see it, though.
;D
did anyone else think they saw Juliana Ashley Hansen from the millie tour on the preview for the new york auditions? i could have sworn it was her!
Argh!! I keep losing this post!
Okay, first of all, I want to thank one and all and also all and one for the wonderful feel better vibes I recieved. You really are a special group of people. I am feel much better after two days of resting and using the pain killers, and I should be okay to work tomorrow. There is still a fair amount of tenderness in my abdomen, but that's to be expected.
Now, on to our exciting news! As of this afternoon, we received word that the seller has verbally accepted the offer we made on the house in Tacoma! This means that unless she changes her mind before faxing the paperwork in tomorrow, we have a house! I'm so excited, it's really a beautiful place for Jed and I to be. I can see us being there for many years. Here are a few shots so you can get the idea of the place.
First, our kitchen. The cupboards hanging over the island have been taken out for more space.
Is anyone doing the Blockbuster version of Netflix? I'm thinking it would be a lot more convenient for me because you can take them in and exchange them or mail them in, but I'm concerned they don't have the selection that Netflix does
Hmm... I've never really thought there was much of a difference between the stage original and movie versions of The Music Man. Different, yes, but not divergently so. Or something like that.
-Maybe I should have taken a nap too. ;)
How long is this show, anyway? An hour?
The biggest change is moving "Shipoopi" to the Ice Cream Social. Of course, Susan Strohman's revival, set in the tiny village of River City, did the same thing and no critic remarked on it.
Looks like it's south of Atlanta, I don't think Edi is south of Atlanta.
Whew! -Where are you getting your breaking news?
Someone please tell me the GREASE mystery or I will bust.
Of course the mystery may mean absolutely nothing to me.
Someone please tell me the GREASE mystery or I will bust.
Of course the mystery may mean absolutely nothing to me.
I was thinking maybe it was someone from this site that we would be seeing tonight.
DR Cillaliz "spoiled" it earlier.
And my roommate just had a flurry of text messages between her and another friend.
I hope you mean Spoiled in a good way....I could always delete it
So, how did she do? I haven't heard a peep from her since I asked her to audition for the kids show, which was back in November. She's gone from my A list to my F list, because she did not call me when she was here for Christmas, as she said she would.
Nah, it truly is public knowledge by now, so... -Well, at least for the East Coast contingent.
Doesn't anyone read BK's posts?
Bk followed up your post Cillaliz with post 667 mentioning her name. Some people seemed to have missed it and thus the solution to the "mystery"
And speaking of dancing... Is anyone watching that "Dirty Dancing" reality show?
-I'm not.
I prefer the Preston one
Ugh! Just when I thought TV could not get more annoying... The Boardroom on "The Apprentice".
STOP THE KVETCHING!!!!!
I am going to watch at least the beginning of the Grease show, since it will be interesting to see what auditions are like.
You who know will have to tell me if this is what auditions are like.
Argh!! I keep losing this post!
Okay, first of all, I want to thank one and all and also all and one for the wonderful feel better vibes I recieved. You really are a special group of people. I am feel much better after two days of resting and using the pain killers, and I should be okay to work tomorrow. There is still a fair amount of tenderness in my abdomen, but that's to be expected.
Now, on to our exciting news! As of this afternoon, we received word that the seller has verbally accepted the offer we made on the house in Tacoma! This means that unless she changes her mind before faxing the paperwork in tomorrow, we have a house! I'm so excited, it's really a beautiful place for Jed and I to be. I can see us being there for many years. Here are a few shots so you can get the idea of the place.
First, our kitchen. The cupboards hanging over the island have been taken out for more space.
OH!
MY!
GOD!!
BK - You HAVE to watch the final two minutes of "You're The One That I Want". (The previews for next week's episode - which covers the New York auditions.) *Although, it could already be old news to/for you.
It's curtains for you DR GEORGE....curtains!!!
Well, I've passed 7000, and an easy and non-stressed crossover it was.
More re: the grease show.
discussion of tonight's show.
...But they will never choose hte 40 yr old. I really did not like him and cannot see him in this role at all (playing a 17 yr old???).
DR Ron, it's the Philadelphia Eagles in football.
The Phillies are their baseball team.
It is POURING down rain here. It's been raining on and off all afternoon, but this is SERIOUS rain. Glug!
When it's performed in local productions, this line is almost always changed to the towns in the area
I think I have taken to this program rather quickly.
Boo was feeling left out, so she posed for this shot
Due to the influence of our own DR Edisaurus, I have been adding documentary films to my NetFlix queue...a few I even moved to the top of my queue.
Right now I am watching SHANGHAI GHETTO which is about European (and some Arab) Jews who left their homes in the late 30s to flee the Nazis, leaving by boat to the only place that would take them...a very poor section of bustling Shanghai, China.
Hmm... If there's gonna be this much editing and built-in, built-up drama... I don't think I'm gonna make it to the final rounds. :-\
Hmm... If you sprinkle some powdered, dried porcini mushrooms on it, you could have a Bistecca a la Fiorentina. And if you haven't selected a vegetable, if you have some broccoli rabe...
That was as bad a move on the Academy producer's part as the nonsensical presentation of music from the Oscar-nominated scores that Debbie Allen choreographed for tap dancers the year that "Schindler's List" won.
After HORSES, I shall watch THE MUSIC MAN - beginning with DR EDSAURUS' documentary....which I haven't watched for many years.
Tornadoes near Atlanta, people trapped in homes....EDI, please check in as soon as you can!
Amy has her old house in Marietta and I think the new one is near Buckhead (I could be wrong about that) and if memory serves me right they are both north or at least the northern part of the city...I'm guessing a little
All this talk of Robert Preston, and nary a mention of his final screen performance in The Last Starfighter.
Actually, when we discussed her auditioning for the kids show, I now remember that she said something about being "up" for an ABC show - is that this?
Shayne - there's no video on that link.
It's back. Click HERE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYdTxIKe4UM). :)
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Started watching Lagaan but, you know, it's four hours long, so I think I'll save it for tomorrow evening.
But what strikes me so significantly, not just with this, but in general, is that our western society has devolved significantly into a society in which true talent gets dismissed in favor of "adequate."
A South American scientist from Argentina, after a lengthy study, has discovered that people with insufficient brain and sexual activity read their e-mail with their hand on the mouse.
Don't bother taking it off now, it's too late
Well, I believe I'm going to take advantage of my current state of drowsiness and head to bed. -I'm just not in the mood to get to bed just as the sun is starting to come up again. ;)
Goodnight.
Is there an easy place on the Internet to see what's being released tomorrow on DVD?
It makes me wonder if resistance is futile.
I fear Der Brucer has nodded off. That or his been distracted by something he cannot share with us.
Perhaps some late-night denizen will accept the gauntlet and continue to post until 3 a.m. or 4 a.m.
Actually, I could be wrong - we might just make it - about ten more posts in the next twenty minutes would do it.
We may even enter the top ten in our "views" category - that one's much harder to get into to, but we're very close.
BK, I always check DVDVerdict.com
Now George is gone!
Did we ever get the lowdown on just which windows got the new curtains?
This was also a record day for "hits" - some other yokel was bragging last week that in one day he'd had over 2000 hits. Wow. Today we had (thus far) 6,300 hits.
This was also a record day for "hits" - some other yokel was bragging last week that in one day he'd had over 2000 hits. Wow. Today we had (thus far) 6,300 hits.
No...I'm still here (a Sondheim reference!) I put up the curtain rod over the back sliding glass door. I still need to put up the curtain rod here in my TV/computer room and the curtain wires for my loft bedroom. That's going to be a little trickier.
Be careful, lest...
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