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[John G.]

Four!

[John G.]

Hello, 1 guest!

[FJL]

Hello, 1 guest!

I wonder if that 1 guest was me.  I was just looking at HHW from another computer where I wasn't;t signed in. 

[John G.]

Then, hello, Fred!

[John G.]

Wow. The defection scene in The White Crow is really tense.

[John G.]

Good night, all.

[vixmom]

My body suddenly seems unable to digest food while I am conscious

[vixmom]

Every time I eat I fall asleep

[George]

Happy Birthday to George's daddy!

Thanks, Vixmom!

[George]

Congratulations to MR BK on his Indiego Success!

Ditto!!

[George]

#100!!

[George]

Today, I'm taking the day off from work.  It's my dad's 81st birthday and we're all going to go to my parents' house to celebrate.

Happy 81st birthday to your father 🎂🎁🎉

Thanks, Jane!

[George]

Feel better vibes for the DF of DR George!

Thanks again, Jane!

[George]

Happy birthday to George’s dad!

Thanks, John!

[George]

Today, I'm taking the day off from work.  It's my dad's 81st birthday and we're all going to go to my parents' house to celebrate.

I hope it's a great day for your family, DR George!

Thanks, Larry!  My dad was pretty tired from yesterday, but for the most part it was a pretty good day.

[George]

X-rays accomplished.  The entire shebang and bus rides took me about 90 minutes.  Tomorrow I may spend the day at City Center with Joshie.  I need to call him and confirm.

Good test result vibes!

~~~Ditto!!~~~

[George]

Happy birthday to George's father!!!

Thanks, Fred!

[George]

Good news, Ginny.

Ditto!!

[George]

Happy Birthday to DR George's father.

Thanks, Jeanne!

[George]

Last night TCB asked what's in vegan crumble. Crumbled vegans, of course!

I'll have to tell that to my sister and niece!

[bk]

And he's a fool too. Devalues a work that people keep asking to do.  He gave an interview a few months ago

https://www.commercialtheaterinstitute.com/broadway-profiles-a-serial-interview-with-jack-viertel-part-four/

From that interview:

What would you classify as the biggest mistake you’ve ever made?

Dramaturgically, the biggest mistake I ever made was trying to produce a show with a passive hero.  The best example of this was in Time and Again, which is a novel that has many attractive things about it.  It’s a wonderful book that is not meant to be a musical for the most basic reason, which is that it has a passive hero.  We could never get it off the ground.  Of course, there were other design-related issues, but the fundamental problem was that I couldn’t devise a way to get an audience interested in the protagonist.  That was the most important dramaturgical mistake that I ever made.

So he was asked about mistakes he had made.  And he said the biggest mistake he veer made was trying to write a show about a passive hero.  But - What show was he working on - By  15 minutes into the show, the very show the jackass himself wrote, the character becomes (maybe too) active in the new old time.  Whether that's a good idea as a take on the material, that being in the past makes him active,  can be debated - but did he even sit through his own show? 


 The show with a passive hero was never the libretto he wrote.  Yutz to the nth degree.



 

You know very well how I feel about Mr. Viertel.  He's an ASS.  Everything wrong with Time and Again was him.  Skip could have fixed the opening number (I still have my notes on it and they are exactly right) easily had Mr. Viertel been a writer.  He's a no-talent hack who has spent his life when he was a dramaturg telling others how to "fix" their work, and badly so - and then when he writes the book of a musical he won't listen to ANYONE because of his sickening ego.  That should could have been a huge hit - but not with him as writer, EVER.

[bk]

What is this page four malarky?

[bk]

Back from a great dinner at the Smoke House and then sitting through a presentation of an excruciating one person show called Barrymore, written by William Luce - nicely written, too - the actor who played it had all his friends there standing up at the end of the show, but I'm afraid this guy is a bad, bad actor.  He did Deathtrap there and singlehandedly turned that show into a disaster.

[bk]

I almost left at intermission.

[bk]

Last I looked we were up to 176% and only about 1200 bucks from doubling our goal, which is my dream percentage - I'm so excited now about the extra extras and I want as many of 'em on there as I can.

[George]

Happy Birthday to DR George's Dad!

Thanks, Kevin!

[Jane]

Today, I'm taking the day off from work.  It's my dad's 81st birthday and we're all going to go to my parents' house to celebrate.

I hope it's a great day for your family, DR George!

Thanks, Larry!  My dad was pretty tired from yesterday, but for the most part it was a pretty good day.

I am glad he still enjoyed his day.

[Jane]

Last night TCB asked what's in vegan crumble. Crumbled vegans, of course!

I'll have to tell that to my sister and niece!

[George]

And he's a fool too. Devalues a work that people keep asking to do.  He gave an interview a few months ago

https://www.commercialtheaterinstitute.com/broadway-profiles-a-serial-interview-with-jack-viertel-part-four/

From that interview:

What would you classify as the biggest mistake you’ve ever made?

Dramaturgically, the biggest mistake I ever made was trying to produce a show with a passive hero.  The best example of this was in Time and Again, which is a novel that has many attractive things about it.  It’s a wonderful book that is not meant to be a musical for the most basic reason, which is that it has a passive hero.  We could never get it off the ground.  Of course, there were other design-related issues, but the fundamental problem was that I couldn’t devise a way to get an audience interested in the protagonist.  That was the most important dramaturgical mistake that I ever made.

So he was asked about mistakes he had made.  And he said the biggest mistake he veer made was trying to write a show about a passive hero.  But - What show was he working on - By  15 minutes into the show, the very show the jackass himself wrote, the character becomes (maybe too) active in the new old time.  Whether that's a good idea as a take on the material, that being in the past makes him active,  can be debated - but did he even sit through his own show? 


 The show with a passive hero was never the libretto he wrote.  Yutz to the nth degree.



 

You know very well how I feel about Mr. Viertel.  He's an ASS.  Everything wrong with Time and Again was him.  Skip could have fixed the opening number (I still have my notes on it and they are exactly right) easily had Mr. Viertel been a writer.  He's a no-talent hack who has spent his life when he was a dramaturg telling others how to "fix" their work, and badly so - and then when he writes the book of a musical he won't listen to ANYONE because of his sickening ego.  That should could have been a huge hit - but not with him as writer, EVER.

Maybe you could write a new book for it, BK.

[Jane]

I almost left at intermission.

Why didn't you leave?