Haines His Way

Interesting column....the man is certainly nothing if not verbose!  

Finally got a break from a big note session.  Have another two hours of that, then I'll be free to be you and me.  Meanwhile, I must say the following:

I sit back when they "flatter" us and do Broadway radio shows.  I sit back when they "flatter" us and do journals.  But I do NOT sit back when they "flatter" us and start using "Dear reader".  That is just the straw that broke the Kimmel's back.  Please take a moment to read Mr. Paul Wontorek's latest column and then feel free to drop him a line and tell him he might want to rethink this particular "homage".  I mean, honestly, what will they "flatter" us next by?  

Who is Paul Wontorek?

I have to admit, DR Michael, I didn't know either, and I've been reading Mandelbaum's Broadway.com column since he started there. I've never read Paul's stuff before. Maybe I'll go back to the website and look at the links to his other pieces and maybe read some of them.

I hope the dear readers who are having cold weather will forgive me for this, but today is one of the glorious days when I'm glad I live in Arizona.  I'm sure DRs Kerry and MusicGuy will agree!

LOL I lost KARMA as well DR JENNIFER....LOL.  

And we certainly don't need Michael Shayne on the case.  

Small people will always be small people, no matter how important they seem to be, or think they are.   Nor are they the only ones with computer skills to be able to know what goes on.  Sad sad sad.

When I see unusual (to me anyway) surnames (Wonterek) and place names, my anagram cells go into overdrive. does anyone else have that sort of problem. There are a few anagram WWW sites where you can type in names and are provided with a range of possibilities.

Hadn't checked these out before, but here is one of those anagram sites of which Tom speaks.

It seems to have me confused with a brassiere...

Jed Slaughter = Haltered jugs

Should we call you "jugs" from now on Jed?

Great pictures DR Michael Shayne! Pic. #1 - MR. DRESSUP (only in Canada could a name like that be taken in total innocence) - was a particular favorite of my daughter's. Some years ago I received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Canadian Academy or ACTRA or one of those... It was flattering, but a little strange, as I was far too young to get a lifetime anything, plus I'd left Canada years before. But I figured out that they'd never given it to a woman before, nor anyone under sixty or seventy. In fact,  until I got it I called it "The Old Farts' Award".... Someone must have pointed out this rather old boys oriented world-view to the august members of the judging committee and they probably began searching frantically for a suitable woman to receive the award... when someone brought up my name. And the rest is history. When they called me to inform me of my win, my first thought was that I had some horrible disease that everyone but I knew about. Anyway, to get back to my point, I was flown to Toronto and received the award - very nice. BUT the high point of the evening was meeting Mr. Dressup - who also received some kind of award. ...Aren't you glad I'm back, kids? Where else would you hear such fascinating tales?

LOL...I became A Slack Jeer and A Jack Reels

You must have heard of or seen the following:

Sigh... now there was my childhood in pictures-- I refused to watch seseme street even

Well, when the boys of HHW don't give the girls of HHW enough attention we must stray.

Well, when the boys of HHW don't give the girls of HHW enough attention we must stray.

Well, I've certainly been put in my place!  I'll try to reform my neglectful ways.

If anyone else starts using "What is it, fish?", I think there's a problem.

I had thought that Dorothy Parker was known for her "Dear Readers" usage in her columns of the 1920s in "The New Yorker." However, it was her reference to herself as "Constant Reader" that I was recalling.

And never was it more amusing than when Dorothy Parker, under her pen name, Constant Reader, reviewed A. A. Milne's The House at Pooh Corner in The New Yorker, with predictable, now-famous, results:

 ". . . And it is that word 'hummy,' my darlings, that marks the first place in The House at Pooh Corner at which Tonstant Weader fwowed up."
 

Maybe it's my interpretation or an ambiguity George but I can't be the only person who has a Cd of "Teddy & Alice" (Len Cariou). Or were the other tracks additional to the recorded score?

Tom, do you have an actual recording of Teddy and Alice WITH Len Cariou?
(Is it a legal copy?)  

The CD, "Sousa for Orchestra," is actually a recording of music written by John Philip Sousa.  It includes six songs that were used in the musical Teddy & Alice, and are sung by Gordon Stanley (who was in the original cast, but not as Teddy), Meg Bussert and Ron Raines.  This CD has one song by the character of Nick.  Ron (who sings it) played Nick in the original cast.  So that one song would constitute an original cast performance!