Ann has caught up. Ann is rather sleepy. Ann is watching M*A*S*H and eating grapes. Ann is tired of referring to herself in the third person.
Thank you all for the good health vibes. Jane, no I'm not in pain...just mild discomfort. I can hold out for surgery, just hoping the stupid thing doesn't decide to burst.
I think DR Elmore needs the vibes more than me...send them his way, everyone.
Although DRozderek has indeed covered the TOD is wonderful fashion.....he is wrong.
Lord Chutney was killed by Willoughby. It was very simple. Lord Chutney discovered Willoughby in the pantry.....wait for it.....wait for it....yes, he was taking a leek.
VIXMOM didn't get your pic if you sent it.
I had unexpected drop in company and so did not get a chance to login from home last night, I'll try again tonight. Thanks!!
DRs derBRUCER and JOSE thanks for the CANDIDE information yesterday. I am still looking forward to it! However "Quiet" is one of my favorite songs in the score.....along with "What's the Use?" and I will be very disappointed if it is not included. Donald Trump....rewrites of THE PAJAMA GAME....new songs....GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
D-I-T, good choice. I, too, would love to see 70G70. "Coffee in a Cardboard Cup", love that song!
When I met Mildred Natwick, I told her how much I loved the "Elephant Song." She was a lovely lady.
DRs derBRUCER and JOSE thanks for the CANDIDE information yesterday. I am still looking forward to it! However "Quiet" is one of my favorite songs in the score.....along with "What's the Use?" and I will be very disappointed if it is not included. Donald Trump....rewrites of THE PAJAMA GAME....new songs....GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
I don't know if "Quiet" or "What's the Use?" ended up in it or not. DRGeorge would know since he has the broadcast on his computer, I believe.
DR Jennifer, the ALIAS episode did have Nadia in it. The plot had the lead gal getting fired but then it turns out she is joining a new undercover team that her father is in. She finds out that her mother wanted her killed. She steals a sword and has to wear a mask that shoots water into her face. The end.
The surveyors had previously grilled me about my TV viewing habits, so they already knew that ALIAS was not a show that I watch, however they did not tell me what program I would be viewing...so it was a surprise to me...I expected it to be a pilot for a new show, which is what I had to watch last time I participated.
They asked me about different characters and different cast members and plot points and I rated them on a scale of 1 to 10. Then they asked me more and more questions about the show...lots and lots of questions! LOL! Next time I participate I will need to remember to make notes! This program did not really hold my attention so some questions I had a difficult time answering.
If they take my opinions into serious consideration then Jennifer Garner will be fired from the show and it will become a comedy star Angela Bassett, Carl Lumbley and the gal who played Nadia! LOL!
as to the other TOD,
I never saw Chess when it was performed in NYC, I think it only lasted a minute and a half or so ..., but I absolutely love the original concept album.
I understand that the NYC production removed the whole love story aspect (please, if anyone had more reliable inofrmation, please do correct me)
I am digressing (again) I would love to see Chess properly staged, following the original concept album, there - I finally got to the point!!
I'd like to see an all-star cast revival of 70 GIRLS 70 - Barbara Cook, Chita Rivera, Patricia Routledge, Elaine Stritch (I can't think of a male star). Judging from the score, the show deserves another life. I think the leads, and the audience, would have a blast.
You're welcome, DR JRand!I have the region-2 DVD of the Swedish production (in Swedish...I think Tomovoz does also) and I think it's quite wonderful. The only problem is is that there are NO SUBTITLES! In any language! I have no idea what they're singing. The duet, "I Know Him So Well," actually starts with Svetlana and Florence sings the echo stuff. So, they must have totally rewritten the lyrics on that one. But do I have a klew as to what they're singing? Absolutely not. I still love it though. ;D
There is a "making of" documentary on the disc (also with no subtitles) but Tim Rice speaks in English (with no Swedish subtitles) and says that this verison is the one that they hope will be the final version. We'll see if it goes anywhere...one can always hope!
JMK - I looked on the IMDB FF message board and the one for Kim Stanley, but I can't find the exchange you wrote about yesterday.
At any rate, I hope you mentioned by name the lovely Lillian Emerson, the Bromo Seltzer heiress who played Lorna in London. For some reason the source of her money has always amused me.
CHESS is one of those shows for me that has a wonderful score and a terrible, dull book. At least the version that was done here affected me that way. Perhaps with all the reworkings and changes, maybe I'd like a newer version better. I think the company here used the Broadway book.
Sorry you didn't like it. :(
DR MattH asked opinions of last night's MEDIUM.Possible Medium SPOILER alert
(don't read this if you haven't watched it yet).
I enjoyed the second episode. But I didn't like how they made the guy in her dream not look like the killer. I'm not sure why they did that. I guess they wanted to point out that she is not always right. But it didn't feel right to me.
I liked the jury aspect. But I think it would have been nice to have seen more at the courtroom.
I"m sure in future episodes, she'll do more hands on stuff re: the cases. So that will probably make the show more enjoyable.
I'm up, I'm up. Just because no one has mentioned it yet - we have SUN! Beautiful clear blue skies and sun. May it last for a while. And yesterday you will remember when this horribles storm was mentioned (the one we were supposed to get last night from San Diego), I said that if the weather people had predicted it it wouldn't happen. It didn't. Glad to see their track record is still intact. It's quite windy out, but oh them skies.
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As for me, I think you all know what show I want revived and who I want to revive it - Li'l Abner, directed by ME.
Glad to hear the sun has come out on the west coast, lomg mayit shine!!
It has just started snowing lightly here on the western end of Long Island. I am looking out of my office window and Long Island Jewish Hospital is shrouded in fog and little snow flurries are scurrying around the skies
Good morning, all! I've been playing with my profile (left side) to try one of DRGeorge's new avatars. I think I figured it out.
... but DRozderek - who clearly needs a life beyond HHW - ....
Jay said:
"Mr. Mister: Wouldn't Mr. Jerry Orbach have been perfect?"
He would have been and it would have been great to see him play that part some 40 years after playing Larry Foreman. I have that Off-Broadway recording (I must transfer it to CD) and Nickle Under the Foot is still (IMHO) an amazing piece of work (Larry Foreman doesn't sing that song, Ella Hammer does). I know the show is often dismissed as propaganda and didactic but I love it. I played Dauber many years ago in a hole-in-the-wall theatre in Minnesota.
I never saw Chess when it was performed in NYC, I think it only lasted a minute and a half or so ..., but I absolutely love the original concept album.
I understand that the NYC production removed the whole love story aspect (please, if anyone had more reliable inofrmation, please do correct me)
I am digressing (again) I would love to see Chess properly staged, following the original concept album, there - I finally got to the point!!
*And DR ozderek - I'm assuming you posted all of that on your own time and not on your company's? ;)
You're welcome, DR JRand!I have the region-2 DVD of the Swedish production (in Swedish...I think Tomovoz does also)
DR joseSPiano - due to the time differences, it was around 8pm Monday evening when I posted that ... sitting alone in my kitchen ... leeks stewing on the stove ....!!!!And to think I thought you may have been trying to poach frozen bears. You have so many recipes OzDerek.
You can leave that line alone OzDerek and so can Colin.
lol
And to think I thought you may have been trying to poach frozen bears. You have so many recipes OzDerek.
Possible Medium SPOILER alert
I enjoyed the second episode more than I did the first. I had no problem reconciling the "face" issue as it showed that her dreams would involve her own subconcious thoughts as well as the pyshic info getting through, H
Haven't you ever had a dream where people you know or have seen are behaving like someone else?
It actually made it more believable to me.
Hmmm... I wonder if there's a Dr. Westphall on staff at that hospital.
On the up side, tonight, after work, I will be interviewing 1950s actress Lynn Bernay about her work in films like VIKING WOMEN AND THE SEA SERPENT, I BURY THE LIVING, PIT AND THE PENDULEM, and VALLEY OF THE REDWOODS.
She left acting for a career in costume design.
Note - the guy she saw in her dreams she thought was the murderer was in fact the guy on the menu cover of the restaurant where they had been dining weekly.
Check for yourself OzDerek
My understanding is they wrote a new book for NYC that was just terrible,and cut out the two love triangles, but I never had an opportunity to see it as it opened and closed very quickly here
For the American version, which is the only one that can be produced in the USA or Canada at this time, there actually seems to be a few different variations. The version that I have seen is that directed by David A. Bell, who has over the last decade, directed CHESS in Chicago at the Marriott Lincolnshire Theatre in 1990, at the Long Beach Civic Light Opera in late 1990, and at the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera. He, Kary Walker, Dyanne Earley and Peter Grigsby rewrote the Broadway book (written by the avant-garde political playwright Richard Nelson, hired by Trevor Nunn when he came to Broadway to direct CHESS) because they knew it had not worked. (CHESS only ran on B'way for a few months.)
Ozderek, you are making the "no groaning" rule here at HHW very difficult to follow ;-)
Possible Medium SPOILER alert
I enjoyed the second episode more than I did the first. I had no problem reconciling the "face" issue as it showed that her dreams would involve her own subconcious thoughts as well as the pyshic info getting through, H
Haven't you ever had a dream where people you know or have seen are behaving like someone else?
It actually made it more believable to me.
Part of my problem withthe first one was that I thought , from all the commercials and the title, that she was just a "medium" for dead spirits to tell her things, and this pyschic stuff (like the sheriff's heart troubles) seemed to be coming out of left field
But now I am in suspension of disbelief mode, and will accept the fact that she is going to be talking to dead people AND having ESP and wiggling her nose and making Darren dissappear..
I like the character and the husband but I think the writers have to stop experimenting and settle down on whether the husband is going to be supportive or skeptical, because this jumping back and forth is making me annoyed (although husbands are a bit like that...) ;)
Five more posts should do it OzDerek.. Almost half a fence.
No offence intended OzDerek.
January 11, 2005
'Sideways' Leads SAG Awards Nominees
By REUTERS
Filed at 11:21 a.m. ET
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Road comedy ``Sideways,'' about a pair of men looking for love in the rolling hills of California's wine country, led the nominees for the Screen Actors Guild Awards on Tuesday with four nominations, putting it on the path to Oscar contention.
It was joined among the nominees for best cast in a movie, SAG's highest award, by the Howard Hughes biography ``The Aviator,'' African genocide drama ``Hotel Rwanda,'' female boxing movie ``Million Dollar Baby,'' ``Ray,'' about soul singer Ray Charles and ``Finding Neverland,'' a film about how J.M. Barrie was inspired to create ``Peter Pan.''
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``Sideways'' earned Paul Giamatti and Thomas Haden Church nominations for best actor and supporting actor, respectively, and one for Virginia Madsen as best supporting actress.
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SAG President Melissa Gilbert called ``Sideways,'' ``the little movie that could,'' and told Reuters she was ``surprised'' by many of the nominations including four for actor Jamie Foxx, the first time one actor has been nominated in that many SAG categories.
FOXX'S FOUR
Foxx earned nominations for best film actor playing soul singer Charles in ``Ray,'' best supporting actor in a film for his portrayal of a kidnapped taxi driver in ``Collateral'' and best actor in a television movie as a convicted murderer in ``Redemption.'' He was also in the best cast category for ``Ray.''
Joining Foxx and Giamatti among best actor nominees were Don Cheadle as a heroic hotel manager in ``Hotel Rwanda,'' Leonardo DiCaprio playing Howard Hughes in ``Aviator'' and Johnny Depp as Barrie in ``Neverland.''
Best film actress nominees were Britain's Imelda Staunton playing an abortionist in ``Vera Drake,'' Hilary Swank in ``Million Dollar Baby,'' Annette Bening in comedy ``Being Julia,'' Kate Winslet for romance, ``Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind'' and newcomer Catalina Sandino Moreno for her role as a cocaine smuggler in the drama ``Maria Full of Grace.''
Supporting actor nominees along with Church and Foxx were Morgan Freeman for ``Million Dollar Baby,'' child actor Freddie Highmore in ``Neverland'' and veteran James Garner in romance ``The Notebook.''
Garner will receive SAG's lifetime achievement honor, too, marking the first time in the show's 11 years that an actor being given the achievement honor also has been nominated for an award.
Supporting actress nominees along with Madsen were Cate Blanchett portraying screen legend Katharine Hepburn in ``Aviator,'' veteran Cloris Leachman in comedy ``Spanglish,'' Laura Linney in ``Kinsey,'' about the life of sex researcher Alfred Kinsey, and Sophie Okonedo in ``Rwanda.''
SAG also gives out awards for television, and in that arena the casts of ``CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,'' ``24,'' ``Six Feet Under,'' ``The Sopranos'' and ``The West Wing,'' were nominated for best acting in a drama.
The casts of ``Arrested Development,'' new show ``Desperate Housewives,'' ``Everybody Loves Raymond,'' ``Sex and the City,'' and ``Will & Grace'' were nominated for best acting in a TV comedy.
Now .. on a more serious note .. hands up if you think they should revive "CARRIE"!
Golden Globe gift bags:
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/002920.html
So what item would each of you like?
Tons of sewage
City health officials closed the city's beaches Monday afternoon after they found out that more than a million gallons of sewage had gone into the Los Angeles River, which empties into the ocean waters off Long Beach, since Sunday morning, said city Health Officer Dr. Darryl Sexton.
The uncontrolled spill of 40,000 gallons of sewage per hour started Sunday morning in the Eagle Rock area of Los Angeles, Sexton said..
Sexton said the spill was out of Los Angeles' control.
"They're overwhelmed," he said.
After the spill is stopped, "the water will get a chance to clean itself up," he said.
Well dear readers I am off to give blood ...And some vein-tapping for atmosphere!
All those murders - sure to be some toe tapping tunes in there somewhere!
Golden Globe gift bags:
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/002920.html
So what item would each of you like?
LADY IN THE DARK was revived with Maria Friedman at the National Theatre in London in the mid-nineties. A cast album was released. I found the show, as usual at the National, quite well-mounted and very stylish...I still remember vividly the wonderful set. But it's still not the greatest show or score (with the exception of a couple of numbers) and I suspect the psychology is a bit primitive these days.
I don't think the Mick would do it unless you changed the names of the show to MARRYIN' SAM.
So how was Marie's version of "Trees"?
...As far as revivals, I too am a huge fan of LADY IN THE DARK, but I'd suggest Malcolm Getz as Russell Paxton, Brendan Fraser as Randy Curtis, Brent Barrett as Charlie Johnson, and Sylvia McNair, who seems to have jumped ship from opera to the Great American Songbook, as Liza Elliott: she's seen enough crazy divas to play one....Interesting choices!
I'd like to see an all-star cast revival of 70 GIRLS 70 - Barbara Cook, Chita Rivera, Patricia Routledge, Elaine Stritch (I can't think of a male star). Judging from the score, the show deserves another life. I think the leads, and the audience, would have a blast.By this time, John McMartin should be old enough (but he'll never admit it...)
I read this morning in VARIETY and again in PLAYBILL that Bill Condon (who wrote CHICAGO and wrote/directed GODS AND MONSTERS and KINSEY) is doing to do double duty on the movie of DREAMGIRLS.
Now, who to cast? He said in the interview that he wants to make a new discovery for the actress playing Effie. But what do you want to bet that Taye Diggs plays one of those Dreamboys?
Frenchie from American Idol as Effie!
...Hermione was supposed to serve Welsh Rabbit with the meal, but didn't have the heart (go with me on this. I know it's "rarebit")....Didn't have the hart? Hart is dear! And I don't mean expensive!
On the Topic o' the Day, Subsection Two:Ah, yes, how to deal with the union storyline, when unions are saddled with the exact same problems corrupting the govenment, judiciary, relition, business, the press...
I have consistently answered this question the same way each time it has been posed here: No musical's revival could be more timely these days than that of Mr. Marc Blitzstein's The Cradle Will Rock. Though the story line about unionization may be less current today than at the time of the show's most unusual premiere, the other threads in the piece that deal with corruption, hypocrisy and unfairness in government, the judiciary, religion, business and the press are as valid today as they were then, if not more so....
One of my favourite film musicals is GOODBYE,MR. CHIPS which is full of mostly negligible, if not lousy, songs (except for one or two) and stars Peter O'Toole who can't sing a jot. Go figure.
Elmore, that's what makes horse races. I actually like much of the music in LADY IN THE DARK andI certainly enjoyed the production I saw. I find it an interesting and intriguing musical, but not a great musical. The operatic aspects you mentioned are things I am not overwhelmed with. Of course, my introduction to this musical besides the bad Ginger Rogers film version which jettisons most, if not all, of the score, was a recording by Opera star Rise Stevens and I found her acting ability a bit limited.
I'm sort of in-between on casting actors over singers. I've found some of the most moving musicals I've seen had stronger actors than singers playing the roles. One of my favourite singers, who introduced probably more classic songs than anyone, was Fred Astaire...who, let's face it, was far from the greatest singer, but had a lot of style and panache and could put over a song.
How much of LADY IN THE DARK's score was used in the Ann Sothern TV version? I've never seen nor heard it, though I know the CD is available (or was, probably OOP by now), and the video has been floating around for ages.
And for a revival. How about Sweet Charity with Christina Applegate....NOT.
Do any of you Chips fans remember Petula Clark dissing Leslie Bricusse and the score on not one, but two, Merv Griffin shows shortly after the film was released?
YAAAAAAAAAAY!
I'm now a (gasp) JUNIOR (at my age?) member.
Feels like I should get a plastic statuette!!
"I would like to thank my family, friends and the voting committee (sniff!)"
:)
Golden Globe gift bags:
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/002920.html
So what item would each of you like?
YAAAAAAAAAAY!
I'm now a (gasp) JUNIOR (at my age?) member.
Feels like I should get a plastic statuette!!
"I would like to thank my family, friends and the voting committee (sniff!)"
Congrats on your shiny new star!!
:)
At lunch today, I went to my local post office and mailed the following packages:
To DR Elmore: BK's radio interview and my laserdisc soundtrack of 1776
Did I forget something? :-[ Did I get everyone's requests correct? :-\ Please let me know. :)
Jane said:
"Jose I have saved the tea info. I have never seen and English/Asian tea shoppe, very interesting. However, I may not be getting to DC next October so I can spend my free time in NY. I expect you will be living there by then."
There are many tea shops in New York including the small but fun Tea and Sympathy on Greenwich Avenue in the Village and Lady Mendl's Tea Salon on 17th Street and Irving Place. I haven't been to any of the "high tea" palaces but we do have a list of where they are. Perhaps when you get here we can all have "tea" and Anthony will come this time and you can see his miniature pictures in person.
Kerry, so glad to see you posting again!
Actually, "Fanny" might be worth reviving. Lovely score. Good book. Great parts for character actors. And yet, I have no idea who could do it.
I would love to see a first-class revival of ROYAL HUNT OF THE SUN.
And to think I thought you may have been trying to poach frozen bears. You have so many recipes OzDerek.
-Btw, I do think that Billy Porter has a nice voice, but I do wish I didn't find myself constantly wishing he would just pull it back sometimes... all the time.
RE: LADY IN THE DARK - I'm not all that familiar with the show, but I did have to wonder about the production that was done in Philadelphia a few years ago with Andrea Marcovicci. Talk about transposing the songs down a few keys! -And I'm also one of those who just doesn't "get" Ms. Marcovicci's vocal color, style or supposed "beauty". I've always thought labelling oneself's a "chanteuse" meant that you couldn't sing on pitch. ;)
DRGeorge, thank you so much!
DRJose, I worked with him in 2003 at the Chicago Humanities Festival. and he sang the Eubie Blake things beautifully. Nice man, to boot!
George, before we moved out of our bedroom again I checked if the DVD of SAMANTHA worked, and it does. Thank you. Not Keith’s sort of movie. I will watch it some afternoon by myself.
Didn't he have a Tribute-type show off-Broadway last year?
Another Shaffer play I'd like to see is GIFT OF THE GORGON, which played London in '94 and, to my knowledge, hasn't been revived since. It is the single greatest play I've read in the last dozen years.
The combatants here are playwright Edward Damson and his wife/muse Helen; the play opens with the former’s coffin being carried from their Greek villa. His son Philip (the abandoned product of a two-week fling) turns up and persuades his stepmother to feed him the material for a biography of the dead dramatist. She agrees, but warns he will hate what he hears.
Their turbulent life together is enacted as Helen recalls it, with Philip scribbling furiously in the background. Initially they exist on a diet of sex and Shakespeare, but eventually a completed script is required to pay the rent
…
The acting is first rate and draining. As Edward, an impulsive, dogmatic, extravagant ‘wastrel’, Michael Pennington is variously splattered in blood, water and red wine. He hollers, pleads and dances, but for all the exasperating characteristics of the role, Pennington is compulsive viewing. Helen is another of Judi Dench’s sensible women trying to stay in control, and she mixes it with hurt and stony fury impeccably. Jeremy Northam is suitably on-edge as Philip, shifting from one foot to the other with nervous anticipation. There’s also an eccentric cameo from Michael Poole as Edward’s racist Russian father, chattering away about the “real McCoy-ski” and the “nigg-skis” upstairs.
Peter Hall directs this meaty RSC production like a dog shaking a squeaky toy, enticing every ounce of energy out of the actors and the stark space of The Pit. Whether Shaffer is arguing that revenge or reason is right, or whether he’s not so sure that it’s a black-and-white choice, the audience was hotly philosophising all the way out. And that has to be success enough.
I saw this play many years ago when it first opened in London & was completely blown away by it (didn't hurt to have 2 fabulous actors playing the leads - Judi Dench for one). I subsequently bought the book & it reads just as well. I am only sorry that because of difficulties with Actors equity it hasn't yet been performed in New York.
The themes of love and revenge are dealt with in ways both tender and terrible. It gets you in the gut.
Mickey Rooney--there's your Marryin' Sam!
Thanks, George. Gifthorse time: if you feel like sending me 1776, I'll trade something to be determined at a later date. Am I still on the What If list?
And I love Blythe Danner. I always have.
The wonderful soprano who plays Sutton and sings "Huxley." I don't remember her name.
Episode Number 2
First Aired September 25, 1954
Writer Billy Friedberg
Story Moss Hart
Director Max Liebman and Jeffrey Hayden
Producer Max Liebman
Music Kurt Weill
Production Designer Frederick Fox
Guest Stars:
Ann Sothern - Liza Elliot
James Daly - Charley Johnson
Carleton Carpenter - Russell Paxton
Luella Gear - Maggie Grant
Paul McGrath - Kendall Nesbitt
Shepherd Strudwick - Dr. Alexander Brooks
Robert Fortier - Randy Culver
Stephanie Augustine - Miss Foster
Co Stars:
James Congdon - Ben
Marjorie Barrett - Barbara
Douglas Reid - Liza's Father
Brook Byron - Liza's Mother
Adele Newton - Liza as a Girl
Bambi Linn - Wedding Dream Ballet Dancer
Rod Alexander - Wedding Dream Ballet Dancer
• Adaptation of the 1941 Broadway hit, with music & lyrics by Kurt Weill & Ira Gershwin, book by Moss Hart.
• Original TV cast soundtrack released by RCA (LM-1882) in 1954. This recording was done in a recording studio for a more polished sound on November 5, 1954. A CD of the soundtrack from the actual broadcast was issued by AEI Records (CD-041) on April 1, 1997.
JMK I'm still waiting for a current photo of BeeJee. He must have grown since I saw him.
Unfortunately now that my allergies have been triggered I will not be able to eat any nuts or other foods that might bother me. The good news is I’m such a pig the box of cookies I received yesterday, with pecans and almonds, is just about gone already. :D
I think the play is just one of those instrinsically "theatrical" pieces like Man of La Mancha where you need the imagination, stylization, and overt theatricality of the stage to make it soar.
I second Ron's vote about not casting pop stars...IN ANYTHING!
Okay Mr. Musical people
What do think of combining Walk Through the World With Me and You And I as a medley?
Dear reader Jane has a much more fun book just sitting there like so much fish. Hopefully, one day she will get to it.
And don't forget DRJANE you have Betty Hutton waiting on tape...and I think I put myself in a bit from LITTLE SHOP ON IT....or did I not...I forget.
...Who do we have today like a Maurice Evans?Nathan Lane has the same built. Sorta.
Firm Polenta is the title of my new novel.Does that make the subtitle Tough Grits?
I'm back for a minute or two - still writing. Re CANDIDE: I saw a terrific production at the Central City Opera House in Colorado. Might have been in 2000. Not sure. Central City is an old mining town up in the mountains, about 30 minutes from Boulder. The opera house has been beautifully restored and they have a wonderful season every summer. There's gambling up there, too. A little something for all tastes. I like both gambling and the opera, so it was perfection for me.
DRPanni, my friend William Burden may have been the Candide in that production. Wonderful tenor and actor, his wife Carol did GREENWILLOW with mr at the Utah Festival Opera in 1997.
Where is Utah Festival Opera, Elmoore? I grew up in SLC and got my BA from the University of Utah which has, though some may scoff, a very fine music department.
Dan the Man...There are rock stars and there are rock stars. Let me amend my statement to mean today's current crop of so-called rock stars...who aren't rock stars at all, but pop stars who half the time aren't really singing...or, if they are, they are having their anemic vocals and frail beauty contestant trills, tweaked and supported and amplified by all sorts of technical sleight-of-hand.
But I hear enough pop vocalization in the theatre now with supposed legitimate singers (not to mention pop composing). Let's not encourage it.
The last good rock Broadway show I saw was Smokey Joe's Cafe. But then Stoller & Leiber are real rock and roll, not Britney Spears et al.
THE ROYAL HUNT OF THE SUN was released on DVD during the early years of DVD, and the disc is pretty wretched. A badly scarred print was used for the transfer, and nothing had been done to clean it up at all.That's the release der Brucer watched. He was not a happy camper.
Wonderful work Sandra. I hope your teachers appreciate you. Perhaps they are on the same medication.
speaking of medication Tomofoz .. the nurse asked me to check that you have taken yours today ...Were you Louise FLetcher in a previous life or just an assistant to Dr Phibes?
.. remember, lights out at 7 !!!!
(nursing home rules)
;D
Were you Louise FLetcher in a previous life or just an assistant to Dr Phibes?
Were you Louise FLetcher in a previous life or just an assistant to Dr Phibes?