And the word of the day is: EXPLICATE!Gerald's attempts to EXPLICATE the instructions "PLACE EXIT sign above egress door" by rephrasing them in twelve or thirteen different ways were doomed from the start, since his work crew only spoke Klingon.
AliceThanks Larry. A prize winning answer. Yes they are all sang "Alice" songs.
May your day be pleasant, Elmore!
Larry - I must say (at the risk of sounding overly effusive) that your posts on the Catsrecl list are so well-written and educational. I learn so much about musical theater history from reading them. Thank you for the time and energy and knowledge you put into them.
I'm also happy that my friend Larry Blank is so literate as well; I've known him since 1981 or so, and he's always been such a fantastic raconteur. It was Larry who introduced me to Harvey Schmidt, and I'm eternally grateful for that. If he ever gives up his career as a wonderful orchestrator and conductor, he should go onto the lecture circuit.
Jose, we did have the smores dessert at Spanky's, amazing.
It's smores baked into a cup- I highly recommend it to everyone.
I will repeat DR LAURA'S question:
They are making a movie of SWEENEY TODD?
I have seen MOST of those WML episodes, DRMBARNUM....and yes, Miss Dorothy seems to have been hitting the bottle on a couple of nights. One appearance of Mr Bobby Darin is the worst I ever saw her.
It's supposed to be this way until well into next week. It's an air conditioning night every night for the next few days.
Ugh!!!
I know it's worse in California but I'm not there so I don't care ;)
Great Photo Jane
We just finished watching "Metropolis".
Confession: Neither of us had ever seen it. A classic indeed. Now I'd like to see it with the Georgio Moroder score and/or the Pet Shop Boys version.
Ooh Jennifer, I think it would have been a good idea to put spoiler alerts with your comments. Here are my thoughts about the show- SPOILER ALERTS!!
Well, it was almost unbearable to be outside when I went out for my errands earlier today. The air was so heavy it was hard to breathe, and there was just no breeze anywhere. Miserable, awful July day heat-wise.
I really don't know if anyone has gone to the trouble of breaking down the various CABARETs though I think all the different stage versions would make an interesting outline to see what was added and subtracted.
I have the scripts of the original and the Tony-winning revival. I have an audio tape of the Joel Grey revival (I guess recorded through the theater's sound system). And I have the movie on DVD.
Had a great trip here. Both flights were early. Totally full, but early. From Denver to LA, I sat next to a family with two teenagers...the parents had told them all summer they were going on a vacation to Wyoming. Just before they got on the plane, they saw the REAL itinerary...Hawaii! Brittany - the girl next to me came running down the aisle to her seat. Before even saying "hello" She held out the itinerary toward me and sad "OH MY GOD.....OH MY GOD......LOOK WHERE WE ARE GOING!!!!!" I was then filled in on the whole story.
I'm going home soon! Which is good, cause I'm super hungry!
My family called from northern Arizona. They will be home tonight. They got the car started and are afraid to turn it off -- so they are driving straight through until they get home.
DR Cillaliz - hope you're having fun in LA!
Is 5100 posts a milestone? If so, TCB, you're very close to it.
Well, this is frightening! Five o'clock and no one in the jernt.
George - so glad that story had such a happy ending.
TCB - Skip will be in Washington the whole week. There will of course be the three-hour Amtrak trip between Vancouver, WA (where HERRINGBONE is playing) and Seattle, WA to contend with. I'll join him in Seattle (or more precisely, in Issaquah) on Thursday for the final LAST STARFIGHTER rehearsals.
Sandra!
Great pix and stories of boating mayhem the other day.
Also, I watched part of a 50s movie today called THE DAY MARS INVADED EARTH, I think that was the title. I wondered if you had seen this one. The Martians look like people, they concentrate really hard and turn you into a pile of ash, then they become a replica of you. It was on Fox today. A cheapie.
MBarnum, did you ever watch that El Brendel movie you have recorded called JUST IMAGINE?
What did Maury Dexter have to say? It seemed like one of those low-budget movies where they somehow had one good location to shoot at (a big mansion and its grounds), and so they make the most of that one location.
These must be the late night frenzies BK was talking about.
By the way, DR Sandra is eight feet away on the couch with the wireless laptop. How sad is it when two people are in the same room and not even speaking but communicating via internet?