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[DearReaderLaura]

Jed, please know we will all be thinking about you today. We want a full report.

[William F. Orr]

Before I run off to teach my computer class, I want to make sure I don't Wussburger the live long day, so let me give a big

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for all of you who wished a Happy Birthday to my DR by proxy, Joe, and especially DearReaderLaura whose California Condor was a delightful birthday present.

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[Panni]

JMK - Great news about Gabe!

[Jane]

From JoseSPiano last night “OK, enough talk about ticks.  After my possible diagnosis of Lyme disease last week”  Once, according to my blood work, I had a possible diagnosis.  Is the blood test more accurate now?  

SWW when Keith came home yesterday I had his assistance with my problem & felt much better afterwards.

BEEKAY welcome.  Come on in and keep Tomovoz company.

And welcome atess who signed in this morning.

[bk]

Welcome ten GUESTS.  Come join us in our countdown to 40,000 posts.  Additional topic of the day: What is your favorite opera and favorite ballet?

[Panni]

Nellie - Elsa Lanchester
Emile - Boris Karloff
Bloody Mary - Tor Johnson
Liat - Maria Ouspenskaya
Lt Cable - Bela Lugosi
Luther Billis - Charles Laughton

(Choreography by James Whale)

[Jed]

DR Jed,
Forgive me, but your latest chronicle had me in stitches.

Oh please, laugh away, one and all, all and one.  Goodness knows I am!!!  This entire production has had a disconcerting Waiting for Guffman-esque feel since day one, so now I get to be like Corky going on for Johnny Savage!  Nothing left to do but laugh, laugh, laugh.

[Jed]

Nightmare SoPac casting... Loving the suggestions so far, particularly Stritch as Liat.  Ha!  Going off JMK's post, I think I'd have to cast myself as Emile's young son, Jerome.  That is, of course, unless JMK wants to reprise his prized role.

Opera... Carmen

I don't really know from ballet.

[William F. Orr]

Nellie:  Madonna
Emile:  Tony Bennet
Cable:  Justin Timberlake
Bloody Mary:  Carol Channing
Liat:  Britney Spears (did everyone hear the rumor that she tried to push to become the next Bond Girl, and Ms. Broccoli laughed at her?)
Billis:  Eddie Murphy

[TCB]

FOX TELEVISION

presents

SOUTH PACIFIC

featuring

Nellie:  Melanie Griffith  
            Emile:  Alec Baldwin
 Bloody Mary:  Roseanne
                Liat:  Jennifer Lopez
        Lt. Cable:  Ben Affleck
              Billis:  Harvey Firestein
         Stewpot:  Bruce Vilanch
The Professor:  Sean Hayes

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[Jay]

Nellie - Elsa Lanchester
Emile - Boris Karloff
Bloody Mary - Tor Johnson
Liat - Maria Ouspenskaya
Lt Cable - Bela Lugosi
Luther Billis - Charles Laughton

(Choreography by James Whale)

I see dead people.

[Jane]

Elmore3003 and Panni hope you feel better by the end of the day.

JMK-great Gabe news!  

RPL I like your idea of the note & tipping ahead of time.  I am a bit curious that it works since more than not I find the maids at hotels don’t speak English.

Not to forget Jed-    You should be happy since you have made so many people laugh today.

[William F. Orr]

Opera:  Turandot except the last two scenes, which Pucini never set and are decidedly inferior.

[MBarnum]

Joseph Cable -  Ray Ramano

Luther -  Andy Dick

Emile  -  Simon Cowell

Nellie  -  Jessica Simpson

Bloody Mary   -  Rosie O'Donnell

Stewport  -  Emmanuel Lewis

[Panni]

Favorite Opera - Don't have one favorite - but have a few special ones - DER ROSENKAVALIER, THE MAGIC FLUTE, MADAMA BUTTERFLY, LA BOHEME, DON GIOVANNI, AIDA, HARY JANOS (Kodaly)
Ballets - Again, can't pick just one - ROMEO AND JULIET, SWAN LAKE, SLEEPING BEAUTY, GISELLE, THE NUTCRACKER (just because it's the very first thing I ever saw in the theater - when I was two - what a thrill!)...and I like some of the "modern" stuff, Robbins (FANCY FREE), Tharp (PUSH COMES TO SHOVE), Balanchine, etc...

[Panni]

Jane - Thank you, I'm fine.

[Panni]

And PORGY AND BESS is an opera, (although it never comes instantly to mind when the word "opera" is brought up) - so I'll add it to my list.

[Panni]

According to my calculations we're only 88 posts (after this 87) from 40,000!

[Jay]

Too many favorite operas to list.  If I had to say just one, I'd cheat and pick Wagner's Der Ring des Nibilungen, which is really a cycle of four operas.  Four really long operas.

I don't know ballet nearly as well as opera.  Faves include Romeo and Juliet and Swan Lake, the latter whether it is choreographed traditionally or as by Matthew Bourne.

[MBarnum]

Hmmm...I don't know many operas by name, but I enjoy listening to them.

For ballet's probably Swan Lake is my favorite in that I love the music.

[MBarnum]

BK, was transcribing the interivew I did with Kenny Miller and he talks about you (I had forgotten all about that)!

Of course he calls you Bruce Himmel, but I will make sure you name is spelled right in the article! LOL!

[elmore3003]

DR Jed,  send photos!  If you're Abel.

Hee hee hee!

Favorite operas:
RAKE'S PROGRESS
CARMEN
RISE AND FALL OF THE CITY OF MAHAGONNY
DON GIOVANNI
NOZZE DI FIGARO
PETER GRIMES
ALBERT HERRING

Favorite ballets:
NUTCRACKER
SWAN LAKE
SLEEPING BEAUTY
COPPELIA
FANCY FREE
PETRUCHKA
Balanchine's SERENADE
SLAUGHTER ON TENTH AVENUE

[Jed]

SLAUGHTER ON TENTH AVENUE

No, I live on Buchanan Avenue, not Tenth.

[William E. Lurie]

Just a suggestion --- and before anyone complains I admit that I am just as guilty as everyone else --- but can we do our stunt casting without Nathan, Rosie and Harvey who have been mentioned in just about every stunt casting we've ever had.  That makes it too easy.

[TCB]

Does anyone know when Danise is leaving for New York?

I wanted to tell her one thing about the Milford Plaza.

**NOTE TO DANISE:  Although 99% of all the rooms at the Milford are very nice, they have one or two rooms on each floor that I am sure must have originally been linen closets.  I think that they usually push them off on the latecomers, but it wouldn't surprise me if they tried to pass one off on some sweet, innocent single woman on her first trip to New York.  If they try to give you a room that requires you to go out in the hall to change your socks -- Be assertive.  Tell them the room is totally unacceptable.  If they tell you there are no other rooms available on that day, tell them you will expect to be moved the first thing the next day.  They gave me one of those rooms one time, they didn’t get away with it, nor have they ever tried it on me again.  I am only telling you this, Danise, because you are such a sweet person, and I don’t want anyone to take advantage of that sweetness.

[Jay]

Just a suggestion --- and before anyone complains I admit that I am just as guilty as everyone else --- but can we do our stunt casting without Nathan, Rosie and Harvey who have been mentioned in just about every stunt casting we've ever had.  That makes it too easy.

That still leaves Lea, Carol and Britney, though.

Indeed, the list of the usual suspects is a long one!

[bk]

Who is Kenny Miller and Why Is He Talking About Me?

RLP: Have you seen joecaps' latest?  Check out the West Side Story CD thread - he is now saying that WSS in its roadshow engagement in NY had no intermission.  This, of course, is nonsense.  It played twice a day, just as it did in LA and it had an intermission just as it did in all its two a day roadshow runs.  

[Ron Pulliam]

1. Why did they announce group A one after another?  I thought it was the stupidest thing they've ever done.  The whole excitement of it is having them put alternate contestants in each group.

2.  How on earth are people voting?  Either the power voters are going crazy, or people have no clue who they like.

By leaving Group B seated, Ryan/producer/director was trying to create doubts in our minds....meaning if he left them seated then the standing group MUST be the low vote-getters.

But I doubt anyone was fooled...two of the bottom three belonged there.  I'm not sure Jasmine should have been in there since I thought her performance was second best of the Estefan debacle.  But I was certain she was safe, and she was.

As far as voting is concerned, people are apparently voting correctly this week.  

[Ron Pulliam]

Who is Kenny Miller and Why Is He Talking About Me?

RLP: Have you seen joecaps' latest?  Check out the West Side Story CD thread - he is now saying that WSS in its roadshow engagement in NY had no intermission.  This, of course, is nonsense.  It played twice a day, just as it did in LA and it had an intermission just as it did in all its two a day roadshow runs.  

Surely someone can find an ad for this one that shows two performances daily.

[George]

Hey, does anyone have a URL for a *decent* review of the Universal Monster Legacy set?  I am seeing such divergent opinions (surprise, surprise), I'd like to see something definitive.  BK, maybe you'd like to tackle this one on the DVD site?

I don't know if a review for this specific title is on the site, but I like www.dvdjournal.com for reviews.  They are very thorough and even-handed in their reviews.  It's one of the first places I go when I'm looking for info about DVDs...not necessarily thee first, but one of the first.