Haines His Way

I'm having an unhappy-customer-Home-Shopping-Network" morning.

A few weeks back, I ordered two cell phones...one for me, and one for my mother (as a Christmas gift)...and I was most explicit that one phone was for South Carolina and should be assigned a South Carolina area code/phone number.  I was assured there was no problem.

But what did I get?

You betcha -- two Oakland CA area code 510 numbers.

And HSN says I can call a couple of numbers and try to straighten it out, or I can send the phone back.  They also said I should have had the one phone mailed directly to my mother IF I had wanted a SC area code/number assigned.

I suggested they SHOULD have instructed their staff better when taking orders as I was told all was kosher.

I may send BOTH phones back if this evening's telephone marathon trying to sort it out fails.

DRMBarnum, I'm surprised your favorite bible flic isn't George Rivero's ADAM AND EVE!

DR Jose... can you tell me anything aboutr Lady in White?  Synopsis etc?  Also, is the show  'family friendly'?  I've been getting playbill.ciom offers for tickets and have been thinking about getting some...

Hmm...

I'd say DR Matthew - where has he been? - would be a better source of info on the show.

I don't know much about the show.  I've heard the score.  Eh...

However, I do have some friends in the show - onstage, backstage and under it (in the pit)...

In any case...

I know the source material.  I'd say it's family-friendly, but it may not be all that interesting to the "average" kidster.  However, since the vixter is most certainly not the average kidster... and since she recognizes the suspense in Phantom of the Opera...

Check out:

www.womaninwhitethemusical.com

*Oh, and, btw, I believe DR Tomovoz walked out of the show when he saw it in London last year.  

I've been mulling whether to take in George Clooney's GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD LUCK this afternoon. I really want to see it, and the theater should not be full on a Monday afternoon (I heard the weekend crowds were sellouts).

Oh, DR Ron, that kind of thing drives me simply bonkers. I hate trying to sort out something like that which on the surface should be very simple to do and, of course, in reality becomes this BIG DEAL on their end.

Bah!

Every year, I give the women in my family (8 of them) a piece of seasonal jewelry...usually a pin.

This year, I ordered 8 Christopher Radko "Father Christmas" pins...from HSN, mind you.

I received 8 boxes, with 8 pouches...inside those 8 pouches were the following:

5 Father Christmas pins
4 wreath pins
4 bracelets
1 large Christmas tree pin
1 small Christmas tree pin
1 small Snowman pin.

16 pieces of jewelry, only 5 of which I wanted/ordered.

11 pieces are enroute to their Virginia offices while 3 "Father Christmas" pins are, allegedly, wending their way toward me.

All the boxes bore the item code number for the "Father Christmas" pin.  All the pouches bore the item code number for the "Father Christmas" pin.

I think I may have been shipped someone's "stash."

Sigh.

DR Jose, the Biblical epic you're thinking about is John Huston's THE BIBLE ...in the beginning.

It is available on DVD.

Thanks.  I thought it was called "The Bible".  -I just didn't think it had such a "simple" title.

*Of course, the brief nudity during the "Creation" always caused lots of stifled giggles in class.

Musical mysteries have never had an easy time of it. REDHEAD won the Tony and ran a year (but no revivals anywhere) while BAKER STREET ran six months and flopped. DROOD was great fun, but it, too, closed in the red after a year and a half.

I scored REDHEAD for Goodspeed in 1998.

I scored REDHEAD for Goodspeed in 1998.

How was the show received without Verdon to do the role tailored for her?

Thanks for the info.

My Fiddler on the Roof review  (if anyone cares)

First of all, I was very taken by the set.  I liked having the orchestra upstage " in the woods" and the whole staging just really captured the "story telling" feel of the show for me.

Harvey Feirstein was very good.... I spent a good part of the second act with tears rolling down my face. the only issue I had with him is that I "lost" some of his dialogue  because of his low rgravelly voice...I think I have to get my hearing checked  I think I may be losing my abiooltity to hear lower register sounds.

Rosie O'Donnell  brought absolutely nothing to role I am sorry to say, she wasn't  bad, it wasn't like she ruined the show, but she didn't do anything to enhance it either.

The dancing was spectatcular.  

We had great seats row P orchestra right on the aisle and short people sittingin front of us.   The only bad thing was a lady behind us who kept talking, comparing the play to the movie.  At one point she was getting ridiculously loud and the man sitting next to me and I both turned around and glared at her at the same moment.  She stared back  and then said to her son  "What's their problem?"  he replied (to his credit) "I think they want to hear the show, Ma. Can we talk about this later?"

She sat in sullen silence the rest of the show but it was silence bless the boy!

Here during my lunch hour and glad to see Danise and get a good report from DR Michael S.

Good weather vibes for DR Jane's nephew, too!

Good safety vibes to our Floridian DRs!

And to most of the cast of Wild Women of Wongo, who still reside in that area!  

How was the show received without Verdon to do the role tailored for her?

Thanks for the info.

It's a rather lousy show!  Albert Hague was very complimentary to me, but I kept wishing the director Christopher Ashley had looked at earlier drafts to see how it was changed to accommodate Verdon, who was so exhausted by the role that she would regularly drop numbers each night.  I would have liked to see the Bea Lillie script, where I suspect the mystery is better and there are fewer production numbers.  Goodspeed didn't have enough dancers to pull off some numbers, but Marilyn Cooper was wonderful as one of the ditsy aunts who run the waxworks exhibit.

DR TCB - Congratulations on your awards!

DR Jose - Thank you for the thorough tour listings.  I'm looking forward to virtually reliving Oct. 5.

Chorus boys.

HA!

-That reminds of an answer/punchline to another "question":  Summer Stock!