Haines His Way

We loved both seasons of Broadchurch.

So far, there are three seasons.

Yes. Page three.

PAGE THREE?

Looking forward to DR Ron Pulliam's tales out of school.

But I think Season 1 is a bit more compelling.

We loved both seasons of Broadchurch.

I dp[oke to Joshie about the overture and Mattress. I gather that, economically, the production, and Adam Guettel, decided to go with Coughlin's 14-piece orchestration over the larger Encores! orchestra. I also believe Coughlin and Guettel are friends.

Fourteen (14). That's one four. Classic show. Broadway. Heavy revisal.

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept...

Got a treat coming up in two weeks:  the Bedford Playhouse is showing the Todd-AO Oklahoma! in (of course) full roadshow format, with guest Andy Hammerstein - who it turns out is on the theater's advisory board. Silly me, I hadn't been aware of that.

BK's close personal friend Janet Maslin will moderate, along with Robert Harris who will also speak to the technical aspects. This is the 30-fps real deal that Bedford ran at their test screening in 2018 that, thankfully, RAH invited me to before the building restoration had even been completed. It is eye-poppingly glorious, and I believe it had only been shown at the Chinese just a few years prior to that.

I'm told that Andy Hammerstein still raves about WCSU's production of Allegro last year, which is great to hear.

This past week, I treated myself to the first season of a BBC TV series I had heard about but had never watched.

In fact, the only reason I watched at all was because I caught a Graham Norton Show on which Olivia Colman appeared.  She was sitting with Jodie Foster who said that all her friends had told her she should watch "Broadchurch" but she never had.

I am not a huge Olivia Colman fan. Not a foe, either.  But I watched the first season of "Broadchurch" and was riveted...by Colman, by David Tennant, and by the entire cast as the death/murder of a young boy was investigated.  Among the most important things they got totally right was the impact sensationalism has, especially when media gets involved and starts printing things about various people in town who have pasts they uncover.  Then, the town folks start in harassing and pointing fingers and tragedy follows.

I watched only the first season, and I won't offer up any spoilers.

I dp[oke to Joshie about the overture and Mattress. I gather that, economically, the production, and Adam Guettel, decided to go with Coughlin's 14-piece orchestration over the larger Encores! orchestra. I also believe Coughlin and Guettel are friends.