Good morning, all! At 6:30 I was rarin' to get out of bed and so I did. I am bathed, dressed and ready for a second cup of coffee. I have no memories of dreams, so I guess I slept well.
Today I have a date wth Mr Bruce Pomahac to listen to the unreleased Herbert recordings, and that will take up most of my late afternoon and evening. I've got some work on Victor Herbert here and then, around noon, I will head to the NYPL for Historic Newspapers online.
DR John G, I've read the novel PRETTYBELLE and the pre-production libretto, and it's one offensive show. Some of the moments in the novel are sanitized (the rapes she sets up in the novel seem more like consensual sex in the libretto). I'm still puzzled that anyone thought there was a musical in it, very similar to my reading "The Son of the Grand Eunuch" and wondering how Rodgers & Hart thought a musical based on it, CHEE-CHEE, could ever work. I remember being shocked that in the PRETTYBELLE libretto there is a song called "New Orleans Poon" for the redneck husband and his racist friends. And they opened in Boston? And Lansbury agreed to do it? And they thought it could be a hit?
Happy Birthday to VinTek.
TOD:
DVD: several Netflix items
CD: unreleased Victor Herbert, Guy Haines, Liz Callaway, Rebecca Luker, God knows what else
VCR: Porn