I wish you could have waited until January or February when there is a good chance we would manage a trip to LA to meet you
DR Hisaka, maybe you should extend your vacation to include New York City and you can be with us for the big HHW get together!!!!
Happy Birthday, TCB!! I hope your cyber-kids take you out for cake!!
(http://www.orkneyjar.com/tradition/bonfire.jpg)
A traditional Birthday Cake with candles for DR TCB, who is most assuredly celebrating his 39th natal day. ;)
Many, many happy returns of the day, DR TCB!
Make that 10 shows. She just applied for The Who's TOMMY.
I am leaning toward THE RAZOR'S EDGE for today's viewing. It's a long movie and will take the day to get through (starting and stopping as things come up like ringing telephones and household chores).
When you watch this, make yourself pay attention to the dramatic music underscore.
Specifically, when everyone is in Paris, Larry (Tyrone Power) meets up with Isabel (Gene Tierney). They go out for a night on the town. Note, as Tierney is descending the staircast as her mother Uncle Elliot (Clifton Webb) look on, slack-jawed, there is a theme of rapturous beauty that plays briefly before Larry takes her out the door.
After all the clubbing, Larry returns Isabel to her apartment. She invites him up and the theme takes up again...and it insinuates, and soars, and throbs as Tierney leads Power into one of the cinema's most alluring seduction "teases"...it's really the music that does all the seducing, but it's truly extraordinary and one of cinema's best-scored sequences.
I sound just like that idiot poor DR Jason is dealing with! :D
While I was at Wal-Mart, I also spied SIN CITY that (I believe) DR MBarnum was talking about the other day. I'd love to see the film, but I don't think I could stand the hyperviolence.
I've shied away from the KILL BILL films for the same reason. It's too graphic for my psyche.
I don't know from Sin City...must have been another DR.
As I mentioned, it has been put forth to me that the elements for the new DVDs of Mockingbird and Sting have been finished and sitting around for at least two to three years. After watching the supplements on The Sting, I'd say I have to agree with that. Anyone who has seen Marvin Hamlisch lately will likely concur - in the supplements he's about twenty to thirty pounds thinner than he is now.
Pat Robertson department: T minus 9 commandments and counting. :o
All I saw on AOL was the headline, "Preacher Wants Leader Killed." I thought he was calling for the assassination of President Bush.
Make that 10 shows. She just applied for The Who's TOMMY.
There was a slight theme for one brief, shining moment, but then she went haywire:
SWEENEY TODD
MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG
ASSASSINS
LES MISERABLES SCHOOL EDITION
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
GUYS AND DOLLS
SEUSSICAL
BIG
FAME
TOMMY
Well that I could understand! :P
Great photos, Jose. They make me almost feel as if I was there!
People were talking about 1976 the other day. I was a little kid, but I still remember the magical feeling in the air during the bicentennial. It really seemed like a national celebration. People really went crazy for it in a way that is hard to imagine now. It seemed like we had cookouts and campouts and parades going on all summer long.
Hmmm....maybe DR td. I always get you two handsome gentlemen confused! ;)
DR Jason: Are there really "powers that be" who wander around checking Community Theatre productions to make sure that they haven't made any changes to the original script?
When the Vixter was in Peter Pan people were practically begging the director to cut the parts of the maid, and the non speaking roles of the ostrich, kangeroo and lion. It only slowed down the action and added not a wit to the story.
She said that any changes like this would be a violation of the performance license and the theatre group would be fined and never given another performance license again.
I do not doublt that such language is written into whatever contracts are signed( admittedly I have never been involved in the administrative side of these things so I am entirely clueless.) but how strictly is such a clause enforced?
If you do have people that wander around from performance to performance checking on accuracy how much does the job pay and are there any job openings?
DR Rodzinski, was it you who went to see AltarBoyz not too long ago?
I keep getting offers to see it for $45.
Should I? Is it Vixter friendly?
Anyone who has seen Marvin Hamlisch lately will likely concur - in the supplements he's about twenty to thirty pounds thinner than he is now.
DR Jose, I purchased the Harold Alren Ella CD on iTunes, I'm enjoying it very much.
Until tomorrow night at midnight, Jet Blue is having an incredible sale - I may book a flight to NY in November - really cheap.
On my birthday wishes to TCB, there was suppose to be a picture I attached, why didn't it post??
Hey, an HHW get together in Tokyo...that is a great idea!! I had better save my pennies, however.
Which reminds me...shat are the dates of your HHW tour Jose, and of the HHW girl's/boy's night out? I am thinking one was Oct. 4 and the other is the 5th.
I am trying to get an itinerary together for my NY trip.
How could no one have mentioned The Silver Chalice?
Woah.. I've asscended to GOD status... hmmm, didn't feel a thing!
On my birthday wishes to TCB, there was suppose to be a picture I attached, why didn't it post??
Well... I've seen it too... So... ;)Thank youi!! TTKTS may be an option....I am attempting to get to show the Vixter a show a couple of times a year now if I can....Since Last August we have seen Wicked, Little Women and we are going to POTO in September....
It's a lot of fun. I'd say it would be very vixter-friendly. Even the "admiration" that one of the boyz has for one of the other boyz is handled very tongue-in-cheek. It's lots of fun. It's also a very loud show - you "are" at a final concert on their tour. ;) -That would be my only "caution".
The show is a breezy hour and a half. And if you happen to get seats in the front, center rows, just know that one or more of the boyz may ended up "anointing" you with their sweat. -Watch out for that Juan! ;)
*It's also at Dodger Stages, and the theatre is not that big at all. I grabbed a seat at TKTS, and even though I was off to the side, it really was not a bad seat at all. And it was cheaper than the discount vouchers. -Of course, you have to stand in line at TKTS and pay cash, but... Just a thought.
We do not have hired spies, though I'd certainly love it if we did. No, we leave the tattling to the cast members, crew members, bitter box office staff members who wish they were onstage (been there, done that), and members of other theatre groups who wish to shut down or seriously damage the reputation of other groups. Believe me, there are PLENTY of tattlers. We call them snitches around these parts.
With the vast expanse of information available online, we are often able to do Google searches on our shows to see who's doing what and if anyone is really licensed to do it. We also come across things inadvertently sometimes, which is a lot of fun. "Hi, this is Jason from MTI...I just happened upon your website that says you're doing Disney's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST next week. I seem to have misplaced your contract. Perhaps you could fax a copy of it to me?" That's fun.
We also hire a clippings service to look for reviews and related articles across the country who look out specifically for our titles. They're not looking for contract violations, of course - just articles that mention our shows. We catch a lot of people that way.
Then there are the groups who slip through the cracks and never get caught. They will eventually, somewhere down the line, but I can guarantee that 98% of the groups who produce musicals cut or alter SOMETHING in the script and/or score. Contractually, not one word or note may be altered, but it's very difficult to enforce that rule. We heavily rely on trust, which sometimes comes back to bite us in the arse.
There's nothing worse than getting a call from the author of a show who just HAPPENED to see a community theatre production of their show that just HAPPENED to be 40 minutes shorter than it was supposed to be. They're never too happy about that, so we try to curtail that issue.
If a group IS caught, they're issued a cease and desist. Either they return the material to its original, licensed version or they must close. We have an in-house lawyer who deals with that. The C&D scares most groups into compliance, but we have been known to send in federal marshals to block entrances and prevent audiences from seeing productions. It's extreme, but it's also a federal law that must be upheld. Usually, if you make an example of one group, the rest take notice.
We recently caught a group who did a completely illegal production of RENT, which is now our property. The show is still on Broadway, so it's obviously not available for licensing, so they can't even pretend like the materials weren't bootlegged. We will send them a sizeable bill for the royalty - something to the tune of $2000 per performance, plus a bill for what would have been the rental fee. As the show is still on Broadway, the fee will be somewhat in scale to what the B'way production would make off however many performances they did. Again, extreme, but I bet they won't steal another show again...or they'll long and hard before they do. We know a community theatre isn't going to be able to pay that much money. It's a scare tactic to teach them a lesson. But they will be expected to pay something.
Just imagine their faces when they get a bill out of the blue for $10,000!
I'm doing a little production of "Rent" in my head right now.
There have been two performances, and I'm working on a third.
:D
Happy Birthday, TCB!! I hope your cyber-kids take you out for cake!!
Then there's the summer theatre group I know of (couldn't pay me enough to get involved with 'em for any number of reasons, though they asked me a few times) that not only videos their productions, but has been known to later air them a few times on public access TV. That's GOTTA go against the contract (usually with R&H), doesn't it?
Vixmom-
I think vixter would enjoy the show, as you have made her sound like a hip young lady. Unless you are very religious, because the show could be perceived as mocking faith a good deal, though it is mainly mocking faith-based entertainment.
ALTAR BOYZ - BIG SPOILER OF ONE STRANGE MOMENT IN THE SHOW
I loved ALTAR BOYZ, but had a strange reaction to one brief segment, where one of the boyz finds out that his parents are dead, and the song following that is played for laughs through that person's grief, ostensibly because his finding out they're dead makes him lose the faith they're humorously trying to preach. A difficult moment, people around us were laughing, but I just thought it was strange. The show recovered for me very quickly, though. And otherwise, I thought it was excellent, beautifully written and staged.
Well, no matter what, 200 is a milestone, isn't it?
Well...his parents that he's never met are dead. Not that anyone should make light of orphans or dead parents, but I thought I'd clarify.
They could get in a lot of trouble....
I just missed a phone call from Mr. Craig Brockman who DID NOT LEAVE A MESSAGE!The Craig Brockman who has a mention in the most recent "Sondheim Review"? I remember him from way back..........
I'm doing a little production of "Rent" in my head right now.Over loud and over miked - How's the headache Ron? Maybe you're doing the Baz Luhman version.
There have been two performances, and I'm working on a third.
:D
DR Vixmom, that has happened to me too (running out of gas while cokking something). It drives me crazy that the bbq doesn't have a dial to show u when it is getting low.I agree!! There definitely should be something to show the gas level.
Btw, how do you cook corn on the grill? I have never tried it outside.
Btw2, I think i might cook the ribs on lower but for longer. I am going to bake them first, since i think they would take forever if i just did them outside.BBQ Rib Recipes
I'm tellin'!!!!
I tried to make a steak on the grill last night... first I grilled the potatoes and the corn and the onions and mushrooms and just when it was time to put the steak on...
of course I ran outta gas
literally
so I had to cook the steak in the house and y'know its just not the same......
Better bill me!
Btw, how do you cook corn on the grill? I have never tried it outside.
Nope....MR BK is correct, the late John Megna was the brother of Cricket Blake.
BRUSSELS - A Belgian nun’s acrobatic and indecorous dancing with a missionary during the Catholic World Youth Day in Germany over the weekend earned her a reprimand from her mother superior, a Belgian paper said Tuesday.
Daily Het Laatste Nieuws showed pictures of a dancing Johanne Vertommen being held up in the air by the missionary, and then clinging to him with her legs wrapped around his body.
“I wouldn’t do this at home but at such occasions I get carried away by the enthusiasm of the group,” the 29-year-old told the paper later.
I saw him just last night in the opening segment of 1964's "Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte."
uh-oh!
Better stop me!
I am now doing a production of "Beauty and the Beast" in my head...and it's raking in the bucks!
DR RonP, what exactly is a grill pain?
DR Vixmom, i think 2 hours on the BBQ sounds like more time than i want to spend out there. i would use up all the gas! :)
Also, when i cook potatoes i always microwave them first. I don't want anything that takes an hour.
I happened to be changing channels yesterday and saw something on the Sports Network called log rolling. It was the most interesting sport I've seen in a while!
2 people compete against each other and they stand on a log and try to get the other person to fall off. It was hilarious!
Yes, indeed. Welcome to our own little Valhalla, DR Matthew! Pull up a cloud and settle in for the long haul.
re: the corn, is it better to cook with husks or not? (you each said something different).
And for the ribs, has anybody tried these recipes. If you only simmer for 20 minutes and then grill for 10 minutes i cannot imagine that they could be drop off the bone. I have read recipes where people said simmering for 1 hour isn't even enough!
I just got back from visiting the sight of what will be my primary job in the fall. It's a residential treatment facility and day school for emotionally disturbed kids. The neighborhood is amazing- it's in a part of the Bronx called Riverdale, that I had never seen before- quite beautiful and very residential.
The staff seems really friendly and I got to meet one of the other interns that I will be working closely with. I also got to find out what my responsibilities will be once I start- I'll be doing individual therapy with the day school children twice a week, acting as their case manager to help coordinate between their teachers and any other social service providers, monitoring their medication(s) with their psychiatrist, and providing family therapy...and of course all of the state department of mental health required paperwork.
Can I say that I am feeling a little bit overwhelmed??!! It was comforting to talk to the other intern after our meeting and find out that she felt just as scared as me :) I'm sure that I will be fine once I jump in and get started, and the staff seems hugely supportive.
Yes...now that you're "up here," you have to get stuff from the ground by hauling it up in buckets....and those are long ropes and gettin' stuff is truly a long haul.
DR RonP, what exactly is a grill pain?
DR Vixmom, i think 2 hours on the BBQ sounds like more time than i want to spend out there. i would use up all the gas! :)
Also, when i cook potatoes i always microwave them first. I don't want anything that takes an hour.
Way to go, Oregon folk. Yours is the only state that did not grow more obese!
http://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/diet.fitness/08/23/obesity.state.rankings.ap/index.html
[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]~~~~~VIBES~~~~~~[/move]Thanks for the good vibes. As Rodzinski explained, the residential facility is a 3 day a week internship to fulfill my fieldwork requirement for my MSW. Gay Men's Health Crisis is part-time to help pay the bills. I also will be in school one full day a week.
for enjoying a wonderful new job
but I am confused.. I thought you were going to work for the Gay Mens' Health Crisis Center (or something like that )
Thanks for the good vibes. As Rodzinski explained, the residential facility is a 3 day a week internship to fulfill my fieldwork requirement for my MSW. Gay Men's Health Crisis is part-time to help pay the bills. I also will be in school one full day a week.
I will occasionally stop at home to check on Rodzinski and the cats ;D
I saw him just last night in the opening segment of 1964's "Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte."
Is it bad that a little part of me sorta wishes they would? :D
Just be sure there are no Andrew Lloyd Webber cast recordings in those buckets please! :D
DR RonP, do you grill with the husk completely closed up?
I believe when Ron said "grill pain" he was referring to that crick you get in your back standing over a grill for two hours cooking the ribs. I find Cillaliz's suggestion to sit down with a beer much more sensible
Actually, I do.
I used charcoal when I grill, so I wrap the ears in tin foil and drop them directly onto the coals, turning them every few minutes. The husks chair, the silks chair, and some of the kernels char....but the taste is ohmygosh terrific!
I do that as well. Do you soak your corn in salt water overnight? MMMM. MMM Good!
Way to go, Oregon folk. Yours is the only state that did not grow more obese!
http://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/diet.fitness/08/23/obesity.state.rankings.ap/index.html
A cigarette would be so much easier than all these food choices, but it's been 11 days now since I had one.....so.....what am I hungry for!
No...never thought about that. You probably get a "smolder" effect while it's cooking, too, dontcha!
I'd keep looking for something in between.
Just to clarify, we have been looking quite steadily for over a month and have probably been through close to 100 homes at this point. In this neighborhood there are only about 15 or so for sale (I kid you not, and we're talking an area probably at least 25 miles square). These two are the only two that even come close to grabbing us for one reason or another. And if the guy makes us an offer tomorrow, we gotta move (to paraphrase Gino Vannelli).
And if the guy makes us an offer tomorrow, we gotta move.
Good afternoon / Good evening! (does that cover everyone?)
Thank you one and all for your wonderful birthday wishes. How can anyone have a bad birthday when they have such a warm, loving (hmmm), world-wide network of friends who have become like family. Even some folks who are no longer a part of HHW took the time to remember me today.
I have cancelled my previous birthday evening plans, and have decided to spend the entire evening in bed. However, before I offend members of this puritanical group, let me assure you that I will be spending it alone -- with the exception of the two pussys.
My back continues to get worse and worse, so I decided that a drive up north for dinner would only make the situation worse. Even though I had hoped to finish off the evening by calling at the stage door for a brief visit with the WSMA. Apparently, it is not in the cards for Mr. Barrett and I to meet at this time.
I have already taken my Vicodin, I am going to feed the cats, go soak in a hot bath, and then I am going to climb into bed and hopefully get to feeling better.
Special thanks to BK for allowing this beautiful and intelligent group of people to gather here each and every day.
I (personally) would not be able to put up with the ciggie smoke smell unless it would absolutely be cleared out permanantly and very quickly. That would be the deciding factor for me. But then no matter what I was spending, I wouldn't want any kind of fixer-upper. I'm no handy man, at all. :P
However, before I offend members of this puritanical group, let me assure you that I will be spending it alone -- with the exception of the two pussys.
Yes, George, but think of all those handy men you could hire!
Still, JMK, go for House #1.
without us having to do any fixing up ourselves here (not that our house needs a lot of fixing, but still, when someone is offering you a rather large stack of cash is saying "Everything's fine the way it is," it's rather hard to say no).
Of course he doesn't want you to fix up your house. He's going to tear it down.
OK, housing dilemma time, would appreciate thoughts/feedback. We will probably know tomorrow if the developer is going to make us an offer we can't refuse. We have seen literally scores of houses and are down to two we are thinking seriously of:
House #1. Insanely expensive and with really high property taxes. We would probably be financing around 300K and paying 11K in property taxes. Huge, beautiful house (way, way huge--almost 6000 sf) in lovely neighborhood with a community pool. Same school district. Nice but not overwhelming view. Did I mention it's HUUUUUUGGGGEEE? (And there's already a nice Story & Clark spinet in the basement that they'd probably leave since the rest of the house is empty, LOL).
House #2. A dump with a view, as I called it. Absolutely stunning view. House is quite small and reeks of cigarette smoke. Everything from the carpet to the kitchen to the bathrooms needs to be redone plus we would probably end up putting an addition on to it to make it roomier. However, we could buy it outright and end up probably financing at least 200K in remodelling. Property taxes around 7K. Less desirable neighborhood, different school district, but close enough to drive kids to current schools. Plus we'd have to live through yet another remodelling project, this one pretty darn major.
WWHHWD? (What would HHW-ers do?).
And the word of the day is: PORTENTOUS!Portentous, all alone
Here is an interesting Hot Rock story. When the film opened here in LA it was a complete disaster. No one went. Played in Westwood to empty houses. Fox decided to try something interesting - they had "free" performances - you could literally go in to any showing and see it for free for several days. No one went, not even for free.I lost track of how many times I saw Hot Rock. It was paired with Richard Lester's Three Musketeers when the latter was playing first-run in Fresno, while I was in college, and I took several of my classmates to see said latter. So, we watched HR in order to watch 3M again.
If you make an offer on home #2 be sure to include inspections by contractors to determine the costs of renovating, landcscaping (anything else you can think of) then double the estimates.
You mean if they buy your house you have to move? (A VixMom reference)
Good afternoon / Good evening! (does that cover everyone?)
Thank you one and all for your wonderful birthday wishes. How can anyone have a bad birthday when they have such a warm, loving (hmmm), world-wide network of friends who have become like family. Even some folks who are no longer a part of HHW took the time to remember me today.
I have cancelled my previous birthday evening plans, and have decided to spend the entire evening in bed. However, before I offend members of this puritanical group, let me assure you that I will be spending it alone -- with the exception of the two pussys.
My back continues to get worse and worse, so I decided that a drive up north for dinner would only make the situation worse. Even though I had hoped to finish off the evening by calling at the stage door for a brief visit with the WSMA. Apparently, it is not in the cards for Mr. Barrett and I to meet at this time.
I have already taken my Vicodin, I am going to feed the cats, go soak in a hot bath, and then I am going to climb into bed and hopefully get to feeling better.
Special thanks to BK for allowing this beautiful and intelligent group of people to gather here each and every day.
VixMom, did you ever hear what happened with those people?
So, DR Jason, is this your drivers license photo that you used for the avatar?
;D
Is that really Patti Lupone, DR Jason, or is it an actress from FORBIDDEN BROADWAY mimicking her?
DR Jason - Since the walking tour is on the second day of Rosh Hashanah, can't you tell your boss you've become an observant Jew? Just a thought. :)
Once again, I forgot to post my reminder early this morning about RENO 911! coming on tonight. West Coast fans still have time to catch it. For East Coasters, I believe Comedy Central repeats the show at midnight or at some early hour of the morning.
Speaking of FORBIDDEN BROADWAY, I have not yet bought the latest FB CD: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT. How does it rate in comparison to the others in the series?