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[TCB]

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[George]

I am love, love, loving Diane Schuur's Schuur Fire CD.  Lots of latin stuff, including a lovely rendition of Mendes-Bergman's "Look Around."

When I was going to Western Washington University, I actually got to meet her...I also got to touch her Grammy.

[TCB]

I think I drove Jennifer away without a post.

[George]

Her Grammy AWARD!!  Not her grandmother.

[TCB]

I am love, love, loving Diane Schuur's Schuur Fire CD.  Lots of latin stuff, including a lovely rendition of Mendes-Bergman's "Look Around."

When I was going to Western Washington University, I actually got to meet her...I also got to touch her Grammy.

Yes, she has certainly gone along way since she was a teenager singing at Steve's Gay Nineties in Tacoma every weekend.

[Jane]

This must be Surprise Thursday.  Everything seems to surprise me.  Well, except for MBarnum's engagement to Jack LaLaine.

I thought he was dead!

Nope.  His birthday is on the 26th.  I don't think he is doing birthday stunts anymore, still there might be news about him.

[Jane]

Hot news from My Job!  It looks like next year we will be going to two furlough days a month.

[Jane]

Hot news from My Job!  It looks like next year we will be going to two furlough days a month.

And that does not include the 7% across the board cut that the Governor ordered before leaving for China.  Or the 10% across the board cut scheduled for January.

Oh my!  DR George do these cuts also affect you?

[td]

Sooooo, what songs would be in a King Kong musical??

"Hey, You, Get Off of My Roof."

[George]

George, did you finish your application?

Everything but the actual resumé.  That'll be tonight's busywork.  I actually have until 5:00 pm tomorrow, but I'll either get it done tonight, or I won't do it.

[Jane]

Then you had better get it done tonight!!!  VIBES YOU DO!!!

[George]

Hot news from My Job!  It looks like next year we will be going to two furlough days a month.

And that does not include the 7% across the board cut that the Governor ordered before leaving for China.  Or the 10% across the board cut scheduled for January.

Oh my!  DR George do these cuts also affect you?

Fortunately, no.  The library is its own five-county special taxing district.  My sister will be affected, though.

[Laura]

Turn off the cell phone and get busy, George.

[George]

Then you had better get it done tonight!!!  VIBES YOU DO!!!

Thank you!!

[George]

Turn off the cell phone and get busy, George.

Actually, my cell phone is never a problem...it's everything else!

[Jane]

George I'm glad for you & sorry for your sister.  Listen to DR Laura.   We won't expect to see you posting until you are all done.

[TCB]

Oh, and I forgot the other big news.  Word on the street is that they are going to double our health care premiums and double or triple our deductibles.

[Jane]

Aw TCB 

[Charles Pogue]

TOD:

There are so many possibilities, but here are three that stand out at this moment in the morning.

1. Cyrano de Bergerac -- I saw a lavish production of this at Actor's Theater of Louisville. Jon Jory had wanted to stage it for years. He had a great cast -- except for his wife as Roxanne. She was weak, which made her unattractive and you never quite understood all that the wonderful Cyrano saw in her. I would love to see a better staging.

2. The Merry Wives of Windsor -- I saw an outdoor, Shakespeare in the Park production of this show every single evening that it ran, it was so wonderful. And it was never better than when the director replaced the leading lady and performed with script behind a fan. She was spectacular in ways the actress could never quite measure up to.

3. Joe Turner's Come and Gone -- The original production with Delroy Lindo remains as powerful an evening of theater as I have ever experienced.

I also thoroughly enjoyed some great performers in great plays: Joanne Woodward in "Ghosts," Richard Thomas in "Peer Gynt" and Judith Ivey and Ed Harris in "Precious Sons" (in an early preview before the script was apparently gutted before opening).

My Lovely Wife was in that production of Cyrano you saw at Actors...as one of the ladies at play.

[TCB]

And with 27 years invested in the state; what do I do?  Quit my job and go work as a greeter at WAL-MART?

[John G.]

Other possibilities:

"The Savages Don't Wear Undies Under Those Pelts"

A Song For Kong ("She never calls, she never writes")

Don't Monkey With Old Broadway.

[Charles Pogue]

Concerning the TOD, I agree with DR Charles Pogue; I have too many favorite plays and my whims change daily. If I'm feeling partial to Restoration and 18th Century comedy, it's this:
  1. THE COUNTRY WIFE
  2. THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL
  3. SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER

If it's classic American 20th Century dramatic literature, I guess it would be:
  1. A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
  2. LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT
  3. AH, WILDERNESS

But on another day I might say iit's MARAT/SADE, WHAT THE BUTLER SAW, and ARSENIC AND OLD LACE!

But, of all the plays ever written, I guess number one for me is KING LEAR, now and forever.

I have the same problem with opera.

I love your Restoration and 18th century choices.

[TCB]

G'night!

[elmore3003]

Margery Pinchwife's letter scene is one of the best, along with the bone china. SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER's Mrs Hardcastle, although she's got precedents like Lady Wishfort, has to be the first "camp" character in literature. Every time she comes onstage I laugh myself silly.

I also like Vanbrugh's THE RELAPSE; who couldn't love a country bumpkin named Hoyden Tunbelly?

[elmore3003]

G'night!

Bed so soon?

[John G.]

TOD:

There are so many possibilities, but here are three that stand out at this moment in the morning.

1. Cyrano de Bergerac -- I saw a lavish production of this at Actor's Theater of Louisville. Jon Jory had wanted to stage it for years. He had a great cast -- except for his wife as Roxanne. She was weak, which made her unattractive and you never quite understood all that the wonderful Cyrano saw in her. I would love to see a better staging.

2. The Merry Wives of Windsor -- I saw an outdoor, Shakespeare in the Park production of this show every single evening that it ran, it was so wonderful. And it was never better than when the director replaced the leading lady and performed with script behind a fan. She was spectacular in ways the actress could never quite measure up to.

3. Joe Turner's Come and Gone -- The original production with Delroy Lindo remains as powerful an evening of theater as I have ever experienced.

I also thoroughly enjoyed some great performers in great plays: Joanne Woodward in "Ghosts," Richard Thomas in "Peer Gynt" and Judith Ivey and Ed Harris in "Precious Sons" (in an early preview before the script was apparently gutted before opening).

My Lovely Wife was in that production of Cyrano you saw at Actors...as one of the ladies at play.

Great. What was her name? Did she do other shows at Actors Theater? I saw everything they staged for a five- or six-year period.

[Laura]

Aww, that's crappy, TCB.

[John G.]

Sorry to hear that, TCB.

[George]

Oh, and I forgot the other big news.  Word on the street is that they are going to double our health care premiums and double or triple our deductibles.

When it rains, it pours.

[TCB]

Oh, and I forgot the other big news.  Word on the street is that they are going to double our health care premiums and double or triple our deductibles.

When it rains, it pours.

That must be why it is raining in Tacoma today!

I am back for a moment.  I just saw a story that the whole Joaquin Phoenix thing is all a hoax!  That is Bull!  They should have to refund the ticket price to every person who payed to see that mockumentary.