Well, you've read the notes, the notes were the notes, and now it is time for you to post until the cows come home - they're currently singing Colorado, My Home Sweet Home.
I had no idea season four of The Partridge Family had been released - my second favorite episode that I did is from that season.
And the word of the day is: CALASH!I sho enjoy the shumptuous shoprano, Maria Calash.
And BTW
Tammy Grimes won the TONY AWARD for BEST FEATURED ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL!!
Even though she was the star and played the title role her name was below the title on the posters so the TONY committee said she was a supporting player.
This is not so strange. Tom Bosley the year before won for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for Fiorello!. He played the title role as well, but his name was below the title.
Nowadays the producers can request an actor billed above the title be placed in the featured category as Angela Lansbury was this past year.
But the committee decides in the end where a performer will be placed
And the word of the day is: CALASH!
Does anyone else find it unseemly that Playbill online has not yet posted an article about Harve Presnell?
TOD:
I don't know what my first movie musical was. Likely it was WIZARD OF OZ, although I watched so many film musicals when I was a little kid, it is hard to tell.
I have no clue what my first stage musical was.
DR MBarnum, all you need now is your passport!
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-13042.html
TOD - the first musical I ever saw was a national tour of The Music Man starring Forrest Tucker and Joan Weldon, at Detroit's Riviera Theatre, in 1959 or 1960. I only saw one more show at the Riviera, a Sound of Music tour starring Florence Henderson. The Riviera was closed when the Fisher Theatre was reopened as a stage house and my first show there was the Molly Brown tour I mentioned yesterday, probably in 1962 or 3. Throughout junior high, high school, and college, I saw many, many shows at the Fisher and then at Hill Auditorium on the campus of The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Hmmm...
Kathie Lee Gifford just mentioned that "big things" are coming up for Sierra Boggess and Hugh Panaro, but she was not at liberty to tell. Well...
Since Sierra is already booked for the American premiere company of the Phantom sequel - after having originated Christine in the Vegas production... And since Hugh was a long-running Raoul and Phantom, well... Hmmm... I wonder what the news could be?
::)
Hmmm...
Kathie Lee Gifford just mentioned that "big things" are coming up for Sierra Boggess and Hugh Panaro, but she was not at liberty to tell. Well...
Since Sierra is already booked for the American premiere company of the Phantom sequel - after having originated Christine in the Vegas production... And since Hugh was a long-running Raoul and Phantom, well... Hmmm... I wonder what the news could be?
::)
Am I the only one who thinks this Phantom sequel is a really bad idea?
We made it through Act I last night with a full crew and scene changes. This is probably the most mammoth production I've done. Absolutely huge sets which recreate the original Broadway look, down the to the "white" office at the top of Act II.
My pit band will be 7 players, plus the pre-records for all the big production numbers, which basically recreate the original orchestrations.
The wonderful actor who played the lover of the murder victim in this week's THE CLOSER is Barrett Foa. He was really special in the part and very, very appealing.
The wonderful actor who played the lover of the murder victim in this week's THE CLOSER is Barrett Foa. He was really special in the part and very, very appealing.
I <heart> Barrett Foa. When Steve and I saw Avenue Q, we happened to catch Barrett's first night on as Princeton/Rod. He was wonderful. And Tobey Maguire was also in the audience that night.
Hmmm...
Kathie Lee Gifford just mentioned that "big things" are coming up for Sierra Boggess and Hugh Panaro, but she was not at liberty to tell. Well...
Since Sierra is already booked for the American premiere company of the Phantom sequel - after having originated Christine in the Vegas production... And since Hugh was a long-running Raoul and Phantom, well... Hmmm... I wonder what the news could be?
::)
Am I the only one who thinks this Phantom sequel is a really bad idea?
Forrest Tucker was a second cousin of my mother's. They discovered this odd fact after my Dad had a serious heart attack in Las Vegas, and my Mom went down there to be with him while he recovered in the ICU. I don't know why, but Tucker was there, and had the penthouse suite next to my Mom's and they would see each other quite a bit, got to talking about their backgrounds and discovered the relationship. My mom thought it hilarious, as she had always loved him in F Troop.
Thanks Jose.
Treat me kindly when you all speak of me tonight (if you speak of me)
I've been looking for the Big Gay Ice Cream Truck in Union Square but I'll have to wait to see it next week maybe.
Perhaps Show Girl will arrive at my office sometime in the middle of next week. I looked in the mail bin when I arrived this morning and didn't see it.
Sounds exactly the same to me!!Forrest Tucker was a second cousin of my mother's. They discovered this odd fact after my Dad had a serious heart attack in Las Vegas, and my Mom went down there to be with him while he recovered in the ICU. I don't know why, but Tucker was there, and had the penthouse suite next to my Mom's and they would see each other quite a bit, got to talking about their backgrounds and discovered the relationship. My mom thought it hilarious, as she had always loved him in F Troop.
That's how DRs Megan and Sandra found out they were distant cousins. Well, except they weren't in Las Vegas, no one had a heart attack, and there were no penthouses or ICU involved.
Thanks Jose.
Treat me kindly when you all speak of me tonight (if you speak of me)
I've been looking for the Big Gay Ice Cream Truck in Union Square but I'll have to wait to see it next week maybe.
I'd make friends with the ice cream man!
The wonderful actor who played the lover of the murder victim in this week's THE CLOSER is Barrett Foa. He was really special in the part and very, very appealing.
I <heart> Barrett Foa. When Steve and I saw Avenue Q, we happened to catch Barrett's first night on as Princeton/Rod. He was wonderful. And Tobey Maguire was also in the audience that night.
I had NO idea he was doing the show, but he'd be great in it. Makes me love him all the more since I adore that brilliant show.
And speaking of Disco!Disco tune saves man's life (http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/07/02/cpr.cardiac.arrest/index.html)
I'd make friends with the ice cream man!
He's mine, I tell you!!! ALL MINE!!!!!!
Well...
I'd probably have to clear that with his husband first. But the more the merrier, n'est-ce pas?
Quiet around here.
Quiet around here.
Hmmm...
Kathie Lee Gifford just mentioned that "big things" are coming up for Sierra Boggess and Hugh Panaro, but she was not at liberty to tell. Well...
Since Sierra is already booked for the American premiere company of the Phantom sequel - after having originated Christine in the Vegas production... And since Hugh was a long-running Raoul and Phantom, well... Hmmm... I wonder what the news could be?
::)
Am I the only one who thinks this Phantom sequel is a really bad idea?
SHOW GIRL arrived at my house today!
I'd make friends with the ice cream man!
He's mine, I tell you!!! ALL MINE!!!!!!
Well...
I'd probably have to clear that with his husband first. But the more the merrier, n'est-ce pas?
and the policemen, evidently.
Hmmm...
Kathie Lee Gifford just mentioned that "big things" are coming up for Sierra Boggess and Hugh Panaro, but she was not at liberty to tell. Well...
Since Sierra is already booked for the American premiere company of the Phantom sequel - after having originated Christine in the Vegas production... And since Hugh was a long-running Raoul and Phantom, well... Hmmm... I wonder what the news could be?
::)
Am I the only one who thinks this Phantom sequel is a really bad idea?
Well, the good news is that we have a date scheduled for an orchestra reading of Life Begins At 8:40 at the Library of Congress! Hooray.
Well, the good news is that we have a date scheduled for an orchestra reading of Life Begins At 8:40 at the Library of Congress! Hooray.
Quiet around here.
Well... Just been catching up on and verifying some various bits of gossip...
I guess it was a relief to find out that both Will and Audra have gone through (their respective) divorces sometime during the past couple of months. Meh!
On our way back here to the hotel we waited out the worst of the rain in an establishment that will have to remain nameless until this evening.
Druxy, regards your enquiry yesterday about how my move from LA was...It's been similar to yours. Fortunately, I had several old friends here...and several theatre connections, so that helped.
But what I missed and still miss most are people...not places, particularly. We had a large coterie of good, long-term friends of all age ranges. I certainly miss my meals with BK at Musso and Frank, Birds, House of Pies, and Langers.
I miss a lot of my bookstores and Amoeba and, again, Langers' pastrami. I'm beginning to miss the weather. After ice storms and too much rain and humidity, I'd prefer the bland consistency of LA weather. There is also a perspective you get from having lived in a major world city like LA that is sometimes hard to translate to anyone who has spent most of their life in a very insular environment.
I'm still not sure whatever angst I have has to do with moving or just growing older. I really hate getting older...A lot of it has to do with all my cultural references and touchstones veering to the peripherary of illrevelancy. Growing up the way we did...with just one or two TVs in the house, only three or four channels and you watched as a family, when top 40 radio could not only include rock records but even Broadway and country cross-overs, there was more interaction between the generations and so cultural lives intermingled too. The grandparent, parents, and kids all knew and liked Bob Hope or Jack Benny. Don't get that anymore. I can look in a National Enquirer these days and not recognize any of the supposed "stars" and "celebrities". The internet is also changing so much of the way we communicate and do business. I watch bookstores and CD stores dying and other shops...But I'm rambling...
But we adjust; we adjust...and find new comforts.
Well... Just been catching up on and verifying some various bits of gossip...
I guess it was a relief to find out that both Will and Audra have gone through (their respective) divorces sometime during the past couple of months. Meh!
I told you!
Druxy, regards your enquiry yesterday about how my move from LA was...It's been similar to yours. Fortunately, I had several old friends here...and several theatre connections, so that helped.
But what I missed and still miss most are people...not places, particularly. We had a large coterie of good, long-term friends of all age ranges. I certainly miss my meals with BK at Musso and Frank, Birds, House of Pies, and Langers.
I miss a lot of my bookstores and Amoeba and, again, Langers' pastrami. I'm beginning to miss the weather. After ice storms and too much rain and humidity, I'd prefer the bland consistency of LA weather. There is also a perspective you get from having lived in a major world city like LA that is sometimes hard to translate to anyone who has spent most of their life in a very insular environment.
I'm still not sure whatever angst I have has to do with moving or just growing older. I really hate getting older...A lot of it has to do with all my cultural references and touchstones veering to the peripherary of illrevelancy. Growing up the way we did...with just one or two TVs in the house, only three or four channels and you watched as a family, when top 40 radio could not only include rock records but even Broadway and country cross-overs, there was more interaction between the generations and so cultural lives intermingled too. The grandparent, parents, and kids all knew and liked Bob Hope or Jack Benny. Don't get that anymore. I can look in a National Enquirer these days and not recognize any of the supposed "stars" and "celebrities". The internet is also changing so much of the way we communicate and do business. I watch bookstores and CD stores dying and other shops...But I'm rambling...
But we adjust; we adjust...and find new comforts.
You, at least, went back to a place that you knew. Texas is totally new for me.
And, talk about not knowing people in the National Enquirer.
I'm so often blown away when I mention a name like Clark Gable or Humphrey Bogart and the person I'm talking to gives me a blank stare.
Well... Just been catching up on and verifying some various bits of gossip...
I guess it was a relief to find out that both Will and Audra have gone through (their respective) divorces sometime during the past couple of months. Meh!
I told you!
My next question is, how does the Mormon church look upon divorce? They clearly don't like the idea of gay marriage so how will they look upon this smudge on their idea of family values?
Well... Just been catching up on and verifying some various bits of gossip...
I guess it was a relief to find out that both Will and Audra have gone through (their respective) divorces sometime during the past couple of months. Meh!
I told you!
My next question is, how does the Mormon church look upon divorce? They clearly don't like the idea of gay marriage so how will they look upon this smudge on their idea of family values?
Who is/are Mormon?
Druxy, regards your enquiry yesterday about how my move from LA was...It's been similar to yours. Fortunately, I had several old friends here...and several theatre connections, so that helped.
But what I missed and still miss most are people...not places, particularly. We had a large coterie of good, long-term friends of all age ranges. I certainly miss my meals with BK at Musso and Frank, Birds, House of Pies, and Langers.
I miss a lot of my bookstores and Amoeba and, again, Langers' pastrami. I'm beginning to miss the weather. After ice storms and too much rain and humidity, I'd prefer the bland consistency of LA weather. There is also a perspective you get from having lived in a major world city like LA that is sometimes hard to translate to anyone who has spent most of their life in a very insular environment.
I'm still not sure whatever angst I have has to do with moving or just growing older. I really hate getting older...A lot of it has to do with all my cultural references and touchstones veering to the peripherary of illrevelancy. Growing up the way we did...with just one or two TVs in the house, only three or four channels and you watched as a family, when top 40 radio could not only include rock records but even Broadway and country cross-overs, there was more interaction between the generations and so cultural lives intermingled too. The grandparent, parents, and kids all knew and liked Bob Hope or Jack Benny. Don't get that anymore. I can look in a National Enquirer these days and not recognize any of the supposed "stars" and "celebrities". The internet is also changing so much of the way we communicate and do business. I watch bookstores and CD stores dying and other shops...But I'm rambling...
But we adjust; we adjust...and find new comforts.
You, at least, went back to a place that you knew. Texas is totally new for me.
And, talk about not knowing people in the National Enquirer.
I'm so often blown away when I mention a name like Clark Gable or Humphrey Bogart and the person I'm talking to gives me a blank stare.
Boy, do I know that feeling! I was once giving a talk to a college theatre class, rattling off all the people I had worked with in dinner theatre: "Shelley Berman, Nancy Kulp, Cyd Charisse, Don DeFore, Yvonne DeCarlo..." and I glanced up into these blank,uncomprehending faces, realized how much time had passed (whereas I always think of it as yesterday) and finished with "...and a lot of other people you never heard of."
When I occasionally teach a screenwriting course, I show a lot of clips from ol movies, mostly black and white, and I have to realize that when I was seeing these films, they were only twenty or thirty years old...add on another 20-40 now. Even many of my own films were made before these kids were born.
I'm back from last night's performance of "R&J" (I've been home for about an hour) and we had a great audience! There were about 40 or so people, our largest audience...and it was a Wednesday! The show was about 3 hours and 10 minutes, but the audience was with us the whole way. Hopefully, we'll get audiences like this for the rest of the run. :D
We made it through Act I last night with a full crew and scene changes. This is probably the most mammoth production I've done. Absolutely huge sets which recreate the original Broadway look, down the to the "white" office at the top of Act II.
My pit band will be 7 players, plus the pre-records for all the big production numbers, which basically recreate the original orchestrations.
You might know that DR JOSE would make friends with the guy who drives an ice cream truck.
And speaking of Disco!Disco tune saves man's life (http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/07/02/cpr.cardiac.arrest/index.html)
Well, the good news is that we have a date scheduled for an orchestra reading of Life Begins At 8:40 at the Library of Congress! Hooray.
Congrats! Hope it goes well!
I'm still not sure whatever angst I have has to do with moving or just growing older. I really hate getting older...A lot of it has to do with all my cultural references and touchstones veering to the peripherary of illrevelancy. Growing up the way we did...with just one or two TVs in the house, only three or four channels and you watched as a family, when top 40 radio could not only include rock records but even Broadway and country cross-overs, there was more interaction between the generations and so cultural lives intermingled too. The grandparent, parents, and kids all knew and liked Bob Hope or Jack Benny. Don't get that anymore. I can look in a National Enquirer these days and not recognize any of the supposed "stars" and "celebrities". The internet is also changing so much of the way we communicate and do business. I watch bookstores and CD stores dying and other shops...But I'm rambling...
The wonderful actor who played the lover of the murder victim in this week's THE CLOSER is Barrett Foa. He was really special in the part and very, very appealing.
The ignorance of supposed film students and people who want to make film their career has long been something I've railed about. I insist that one needs to know the legacy of the business they want to pursue. It's one of the reasons I'm no longer in Hollywood; I couldn't stand to be around people who thought film began with STAR WARS and kept wanting to make the bad TV shows they watched in their youth...Scooby Doo, Josie and the Pussycats, etc.
Michael,
The ignorance of supposed film students and people who want to make film their career has long been something I've railed about. I insist that one needs to know the legacy of the business they want to pursue. It's one of the reasons I'm no longer in Hollywood; I couldn't stand to be around people who thought film began with STAR WARS and kept wanting to make the bad TV shows they watched in their youth...Scooby Doo, Josie and the Pussycats, etc.
Kids today - I gotta tell you. Why when I was that age, all I wanted to know about was the older stuff because I knew it was important and also excellent, which is why I never missed the Million Dollar Movie or The Late Show or The Early Show -
Kids today - I gotta tell you. Why when I was that age, all I wanted to know about was the older stuff because I knew it was important and also excellent, which is why I never missed the Million Dollar Movie or The Late Show or The Early Show -
The first musical I ever saw was OKLAHOMA! It was the road company; don't remember the cast, but it played Seattle in the very early 1950s at the Metropolitan Theater.
The Met was torn down over 50 years ago. It was part of the Olympic Hotel which, I assume, is still standing.
The first musical I ever saw was a junior high school production of KNICKERBOCKER HOLIDAY. The first professional production was the national tour of CAMELOT, with Arthur Treacher, Kathryn Grayson and Louis Hayward, the next was national tour THE SOUND OF MUSIC with Barbara Meister, a friend of my friend Bruce Pomahac, and the next the national tour of HELLO DOLLY! with Mary Martin and Carlton Carpenter.
By that time I was in college; when I discovered the bus route from Oxford to Cincinnati, I started skipping classes on Wednesday to catch matinees at the Shubert Theatre. I can't remember now if the first was the national tour of the Lincoln Center CAROUSEL with John Raitt or CABARET with Signe Hasso.
I actually prefer KILL BILL Part 2 to Part 1. Part 1 is so frenzied, and Part 2 has all those payoffs, and I found several sequences very involving and the tension really terrific in places.
The Blu-rays of both were among my favorite Blu-ray transfers last year.
For those who may be interested in such DVDs:
Season 3 of Route 66 (vol 1) releases July 21s. Vol. 2 releases in August
Vol. 1 of THE JUDY GARLAND SHOW releases July 28.
THE PATTY DUKE SHOW complete 1st season releases on Sept. 29
And the releases I am most excited about are the Toho films THE H-MAN, MOTHRA, and BATTLE IN OUTER SPACE, all coming to DVD on Aug. 18th.
The first musical I ever saw was a junior high school production of KNICKERBOCKER HOLIDAY. The first professional production was the national tour of CAMELOT, with Arthur Treacher, Kathryn Grayson and Louis Hayward, the next was national tour THE SOUND OF MUSIC with Barbara Meister, a friend of my friend Bruce Pomahac, and the next the national tour of HELLO DOLLY! with Mary Martin and Carlton Carpenter.
By that time I was in college; when I discovered the bus route from Oxford to Cincinnati, I started skipping classes on Wednesday to catch matinees at the Shubert Theatre. I can't remember now if the first was the national tour of the Lincoln Center CAROUSEL with John Raitt or CABARET with Signe Hasso.
I caught that production of CAMELOT w/Grayson, Hayward & Treacher also in Seattle. I don't recall the theater. CABARET w/Signe Hasso, I saw in Los Angeles at the Music Center.
Well... Just been catching up on and verifying some various bits of gossip...
I guess it was a relief to find out that both Will and Audra have gone through (their respective) divorces sometime during the past couple of months. Meh!
I told you!
My next question is, how does the Mormon church look upon divorce? They clearly don't like the idea of gay marriage so how will they look upon this smudge on their idea of family values?
Who is/are Mormon?
Back from a really fantastic get-together chez Skip and DR FJL. The food, as I've come to expect from the immensely talented Skip, was wonderful, and the company was superb. Dylan and Toby provided a couple of fantastic song and dances, and we sent Ginny and Richard off to their show in plenty of time. I hadn't seen our DR Jose in a bit, so that was the icing on the cupcake, courtesy of DR Ginny and Richard from Magnolia Bakery, I believe.
The first musical I ever saw was a junior high school production of KNICKERBOCKER HOLIDAY. The first professional production was the national tour of CAMELOT, with Arthur Treacher, Kathryn Grayson and Louis Hayward, the next was national tour THE SOUND OF MUSIC with Barbara Meister, a friend of my friend Bruce Pomahac, and the next the national tour of HELLO DOLLY! with Mary Martin and Carlton Carpenter.
By that time I was in college; when I discovered the bus route from Oxford to Cincinnati, I started skipping classes on Wednesday to catch matinees at the Shubert Theatre. I can't remember now if the first was the national tour of the Lincoln Center CAROUSEL with John Raitt or CABARET with Signe Hasso.
I thought it was MATA HARI with John Wilkes Booth.
T.O.D.
The first stage musical I ever saw was either THE RED MILL or SONG OF NORWAY at the Tacoma Little Theatre. The first one I saw that left a big impression was THE DESERT SONG. I loved that show, and of course I recognized the story as being the same as Zorro.
Btw, is anyone still watching SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE?
My favorite couple is still ade and melissa. And wow last night they were incredible. I wonder how random it was that they got that dance?
I don't like most of the pairings. Can't wait till they rotate partners.
Thanks to Ginny, Richard, Jose & Larry for coming over. Great to see all of you
Yes, the previously unnamed establishment where Richard and I waited for the rain to let up was the new (to me, anyway) Magnolia Bakery location at 6th Ave. & 49th St. That's perilously close to this hotel.
DR Jose - Richard and I think we'll just chill here in Midtown tomorrow morning and take that St. Patrick's tour at 1:30. We'll call you when we're finished with that about dinner at Artie's, OK? We'll save the Highline/Chelsea Market excursion for next time.
We saw that Southwest Porch when we took a break in Bryant Park on Tuesday. I didn't take an up-close look and thought it was just a seating area.
DR CP I remember reading some of your stories about the other names, but not Nancy Kulp....what show? Was it fun? Was she an audience pleaser?
She was a favorite of mine since The Bob Cumming Shows and her bird watcher character....
Kids today - I gotta tell you. Why when I was that age, all I wanted to know about was the older stuff because I knew it was important and also excellent, which is why I never missed the Million Dollar Movie or The Late Show or The Early Show -
There has not been one movie that has come out yet this year or, for that matter, has been announced for later this year, that I care to go to a theater to see. Certainly I'll see many of them, but I'll wait for the DVDs to come out.
It's sad, because I really enjoy good movies.
Why don't they make good movies any more?
DR MBarnum - Do you have plans to see "Kambakkht Ishq" (http://movies.nytimes.com/2009/07/03/movies/03kamb.html?src=twt&twt=nytimesarts)?
Apparently, Sylvester Stallone and Denise Richards play themselves. ???