I couldn't say it any better.~~~BREAK LEG VIBES FOR 13-YEAR-OLD MELODY!!~~~
;D
I have the picture disk from CAMELOT and shall upload and edit the photos and then put them on the website.
Family night went very well.....except for the last light cue....
I have made an interesting discovery....MY script from 1993 and the script from Tams-Witmark do not match in the final scene. A couple of Arthur's speeches are switched around.....
".......run, boy, run....." now comes before "......some of them do sparkle...." So when the lights went down on "Run, boy, run....." Arthur and Pellinore were still talking.....
And the word of the day is: AMARANTHINE!
I have the picture disk from CAMELOT and shall upload and edit the photos and then put them on the website.
Family night went very well.....except for the last light cue....
I have made an interesting discovery....MY script from 1993 and the script from Tams-Witmark do not match in the final scene. A couple of Arthur's speeches are switched around.....
".......run, boy, run....." now comes before "......some of them do sparkle...." So when the lights went down on "Run, boy, run....." Arthur and Pellinore were still talking.....
Glad the show went well.
News That Will Make BK's Head and/or Eyes Explode Department: Our site administrator has just completed his latest round of screencap measurments and all are 100% correct. This is science based on the visible spectrum and actual light measurments, not opinion.
News That Will Make BK's Head and/or Eyes Explode Department: Our site administrator has just completed his latest round of screencap measurments and all are 100% correct. This is science based on the visible spectrum and actual light measurments, not opinion.
Oh - science has not been proven.....it's all theories. Snow comes up, Charlie Brown. Snow comes UP!!!
They Were So Versatile Department: I needed to look up the lyric of the old Kenny Rogers hit "The Gambler" for a review I was writing, and found it online with this fascinating info appended:
Music by Richard Rodgers/Lyric(s) by Lorenz Hart
:)
And speaking of things to do, well, I should get them done.
Laters...
DR JOSE is getting things done.....that is unusual in Washington D. C.
I've been missing all the showbiz goings-on on this here website.
On the other hand, I've learned that it's not impossible to change bed sheets while someone is still in the bed.
And speaking of things to do, well, I should get them done.
Laters...
Did you get your PM?
Stephen Sondheim Takes Issue With Plan for Revamped ‘Porgy and Bess’ (http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/10/stephen-sondheim-takes-issue-with-plan-for-revamped-porgy-and-bess/)
I have to say that I agree with Mr. Sondheim 100%.
I've been missing all the showbiz goings-on on this here website.
On the other hand, I've learned that it's not impossible to change bed sheets while someone is still in the bed.
I've been missing all the showbiz goings-on on this here website.
On the other hand, I've learned that it's not impossible to change bed sheets while someone is still in the bed.
I could have told you that years ago! ;)
Stephen Sondheim Takes Issue With Plan for Revamped ‘Porgy and Bess’ (http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/10/stephen-sondheim-takes-issue-with-plan-for-revamped-porgy-and-bess/)
I have to say that I agree with Mr. Sondheim 100%.
Thanks DR GINNY.....ready or not we open tomorrow night....LOL
Cast and staff ;D
Stephen Sondheim Takes Issue With Plan for Revamped ‘Porgy and Bess’ (http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/10/stephen-sondheim-takes-issue-with-plan-for-revamped-porgy-and-bess/)
I have to say that I agree with Mr. Sondheim 100%.
I've been missing all the showbiz goings-on on this here website.
On the other hand, I've learned that it's not impossible to change bed sheets while someone is still in the bed.
I could have told you that years ago! ;)
Don't you ask for the checkout time when you visit cheap hotels with your callers?
Stephen Sondheim Takes Issue With Plan for Revamped ‘Porgy and Bess’ (http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/10/stephen-sondheim-takes-issue-with-plan-for-revamped-porgy-and-bess/)
I have to say that I agree with Mr. Sondheim 100%.
Frankly, I like BK's idea better.
A couple of years ago, when there was some minor controversy about doing ANNIE with an African-American Annie, he suggested that, instead, they do PORGY AND BESS with an all white cast.
;D
I've been missing all the showbiz goings-on on this here website.
On the other hand, I've learned that it's not impossible to change bed sheets while someone is still in the bed.
I could have told you that years ago! ;)
Don't you ask for the checkout time when you visit cheap hotels with your callers?
DR elmore - When I want to get my laundry done, I get it done.
Stephen Sondheim Takes Issue With Plan for Revamped ‘Porgy and Bess’ (http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/10/stephen-sondheim-takes-issue-with-plan-for-revamped-porgy-and-bess/)
I have to say that I agree with Mr. Sondheim 100%.
Frankly, I like BK's idea better.
A couple of years ago, when there was some minor controversy about doing ANNIE with an African-American Annie, he suggested that, instead, they do PORGY AND BESS with an all white cast.
;D
Well, Patrick Stewart starred in an all-black cast with him as the white "Othello."
Marcella or Mary? Mary or Marcella? Which soprano do I cast as the lead?
Here's Marcella Walsh singing "O Mio Babbino Caro" in performance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUvS0Z4JxyA
Here's Mary O'Sullivan with Andrew Ashwn, one of our options for Shaun Dhu, the smuggler:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpVTfM0-Rmk
I've been missing all the showbiz goings-on on this here website.
On the other hand, I've learned that it's not impossible to change bed sheets while someone is still in the bed.
I could have told you that years ago! ;)
Don't you ask for the checkout time when you visit cheap hotels with your callers?
DR elmore - When I want to get my laundry done, I get it done.
Ouch!
Marcella or Mary? Mary or Marcella? Which soprano do I cast as the lead?
Here's Marcella Walsh singing "O Mio Babbino Caro" in performance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUvS0Z4JxyA
Here's Mary O'Sullivan with Andrew Ashwn, one of our options for Shaun Dhu, the smuggler:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpVTfM0-Rmk
DR elmore - Do you need to get all of these singers/roles cast before next week? Are all of these singers currently available?
DR Jose, I learn something new about you every day....
Oy! Nothing is working for me at the office today. I would like to blame DR Jose, but I think it has more to do with solar flares...
Show vibes for Melodyland!!!
Thanks DR GINNY.....ready or not we open tomorrow night....LOL
Cast and staff ;D
I am pleased to report that my interview with actor Rex Reason is in this month's issue of CLASSIC IMAGES.
Rex talks not only about his films like THIS ISLAND EARTH, LADY GODIVA, BAND OF ANGELS, THUNDERING JETS, THE SAD HORSE, and THE CREATURE WALKS AMONG US, but also about his near death experience while doing his TV series MAN WITHOUT A GUN, his close encounter with a naked Rock Hudson, and his death defying fight scene with Jack Palance.
He also tellsl about his sudden departure from show business just as his career was going gang busters and what he has been doing since.
Marcella or Mary? Mary or Marcella? Which soprano do I cast as the lead?
Here's Marcella Walsh singing "O Mio Babbino Caro" in performance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUvS0Z4JxyA
Here's Mary O'Sullivan with Andrew Ashwn, one of our options for Shaun Dhu, the smuggler:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpVTfM0-Rmk
DR elmore - Do you need to get all of these singers/roles cast before next week? Are all of these singers currently available?
We need to decide ASAP. If we go with Marcella, she has commitments in London to get disentangled from.
Here's Marcella Walsh singing "O Mio Babbino Caro" in performance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUvS0Z4JxyA
Oy! Nothing is working for me at the office today. I would like to blame DR Jose, but I think it has more to do with solar flares...
Have fun tonight, DR JRand!!!
I like Richard Harris' rewrite, not that I necessarily liked his performance. But he started it with the ending, using it as a frame for the piece, so the darkness is there at the beginning. At least it provided a more consistent tone.I have the picture disk from CAMELOT and shall upload and edit the photos and then put them on the website.
Family night went very well.....except for the last light cue....
I have made an interesting discovery....MY script from 1993 and the script from Tams-Witmark do not match in the final scene. A couple of Arthur's speeches are switched around.....
".......run, boy, run....." now comes before "......some of them do sparkle...." So when the lights went down on "Run, boy, run....." Arthur and Pellinore were still talking.....
Glad the show went well.
I had meant to comment on the CAMELOT libretto problems: 1958 London libretto has major rewrites of the last scene and the screenplay has others. I think the T-W script is the original Broadway or touring libretto since that's what Tams contracted for. I always lke the London scene better.
Thanks DR GINNY.....ready or not we open tomorrow night....LOLEarly break-a-leg vibes for all of you.
Cast and staff ;D
Stephen Sondheim Takes Issue With Plan for Revamped ‘Porgy and Bess’ (http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/10/stephen-sondheim-takes-issue-with-plan-for-revamped-porgy-and-bess/)I loved his response, but then, he's always hated Ira. Well, Ira's lyrics.
I have to say that I agree with Mr. Sondheim 100%.
The fact that they dropped the Spanish, or most of it, after a while might say something to that issue.Stephen Sondheim Takes Issue With Plan for Revamped ‘Porgy and Bess’ (http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/10/stephen-sondheim-takes-issue-with-plan-for-revamped-porgy-and-bess/)
I have to say that I agree with Mr. Sondheim 100%.
Me too!
*And even though I know he worked with Lin-Manuel Miranda on the Spanish lyrics for the recent Broadway revival of West Side Story, I would love to know what he thought of the musicalbastardizationschanges in that production.
Liberty Township, OHStephen Sondheim Takes Issue With Plan for Revamped ‘Porgy and Bess’ (http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/10/stephen-sondheim-takes-issue-with-plan-for-revamped-porgy-and-bess/)
I have to say that I agree with Mr. Sondheim 100%.
Frankly, I like BK's idea better.
A couple of years ago, when there was some minor controversy about doing ANNIE with an African-American Annie, he suggested that, instead, they do PORGY AND BESS with an all white cast.
;D
Well, Patrick Stewart starred in an all-black cast with him as the white "Othello."
But what's the white trash equivalent of Catfish Row? Middletown, OH?
No offense, DR Ginny! Should I have said Franklin, OH?
.....although what DR Elmore tells me every day about you, I probably shouldn't always believe.LOL
Teddy made me look quite nice. Whilst he was finishing up with me his next appointment arrived, trade papers in hand - someone named Jerry Bruckheimer.Slumming it again, eh?
Here's Marcella Walsh singing "O Mio Babbino Caro" in performance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUvS0Z4JxyA
I have listened to this four times now, beautiful. My vote is for Marcella.
Vibes to BK and Melody and everybody performing!!!
I am pleased to report that my interview with actor Rex Reason is in this month's issue of CLASSIC IMAGES.
Rex talks not only about his films like THIS ISLAND EARTH, LADY GODIVA, BAND OF ANGELS, THUNDERING JETS, THE SAD HORSE, and THE CREATURE WALKS AMONG US, but also about his near death experience while doing his TV series MAN WITHOUT A GUN, his close encounter with a naked Rock Hudson, and his death defying fight scene with Jack Palance.
He also tellsl about his sudden departure from show business just as his career was going gang busters and what he has been doing since.
(http://i.ebayimg.com/t/REX-REASON-50s-LEADING-HUNK-HOLLYWOOD-SIGNED-photo-/00/$(KGrHqYOKjwE2JTPG(pHBNnrGciq0!~~_12.JPG)
Me, too.Vibes to BK and Melody and everybody performing!!!
Hey Freddie, I liked your PORGY AND BESS lyrics.
I've been missing all the showbiz goings-on on this here website.
On the other hand, I've learned that it's not impossible to change bed sheets while someone is still in the bed.
I could have told you that years ago! ;)
Don't you ask for the checkout time when you visit cheap hotels with your callers?
DR elmore - When I want to get my laundry done, I get it done.
Teddy made me look quite nice. Whilst he was finishing up with me his next appointment arrived, trade papers in hand - someone named Jerry Bruckheimer.
...I always forget how long The Auction scene is... ;)
Liberty Township, OHStephen Sondheim Takes Issue With Plan for Revamped ‘Porgy and Bess’ (http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/10/stephen-sondheim-takes-issue-with-plan-for-revamped-porgy-and-bess/)
I have to say that I agree with Mr. Sondheim 100%.
Frankly, I like BK's idea better.
A couple of years ago, when there was some minor controversy about doing ANNIE with an African-American Annie, he suggested that, instead, they do PORGY AND BESS with an all white cast.
;D
Well, Patrick Stewart starred in an all-black cast with him as the white "Othello."
But what's the white trash equivalent of Catfish Row? Middletown, OH?
No offense, DR Ginny! Should I have said Franklin, OH?
They are both very good & I only heard one clip. Vibes you are thrilled with Marcella or Mary, however it works out.
Oh... I guess I should buy a present for my brother and his bride-to-be... SPOO!!!!
I'm trying to find a gift for a wedding in San Juan Capistrano, I'm sorry to say we will miss. The couple is registered at Macy's but it doesn't show they want anything besides a set of luggage that is on sale, and has been gifted already.
Me, too.Vibes to BK and Melody and everybody performing!!!
Hey Freddie, I liked your PORGY AND BESS lyrics.
I'm trying to find a gift for a wedding in San Juan Capistrano, I'm sorry to say we will miss. The couple is registered at Macy's but it doesn't show they want anything besides a set of luggage that is on sale, and has been gifted already.
Can you call the actual Macy's store, and see if there might be a computer glitch?
I somehow missed their wedding site & the search I did incorrectly showed Macy's. Thank goodness I asked my friend. They are registered at Sur La Table & the resort in Maui where they are honeymooning.
Browsing their wedding site I'm even more disappointed we won't be attending. :(
I somehow missed their wedding site & the search I did incorrectly showed Macy's. Thank goodness I asked my friend. They are registered at Sur La Table & the resort in Maui where they are honeymooning.
Browsing their wedding site I'm even more disappointed we won't be attending. :(
Champagne breakfast served in their room the morning after arrival is always a great gift.
Why to never give up. :) The author of the best seller THE HELP was rejected 60 times. I loved the book & am grateful she persevered.
http://shine.yahoo.com/event/poweryourfuture/kathryn-stocketts-the-help-turned-down-60-times-before-becoming-a-best-seller-2523496/
Today was a Craig's List day. I got us a new kitchen table with four chairs. I correctly predicted Betsy would not like the chairs. :) I have just returned from buying Gabe a supercool high-tech looking desk/computer stand and office chair. I correctly predicted Gabe would not like me doing anything. :)Now, if you could find me a bicycle on Craigslist, I would be grateful ... Certainly, more grateful than Betsy was about those chairs.
Today was a Craig's List day. I got us a new kitchen table with four chairs. I correctly predicted Betsy would not like the chairs. :) I have just returned from buying Gabe a supercool high-tech looking desk/computer stand and office chair. I correctly predicted Gabe would not like me doing anything. :)
I have been mad all day. I finally had to say "I am not leaving here until my client is released from jail" I followed a probation officer around who had to review the paperwork we had completed (which included me running all over town). I was given the runaround and the around a run by the jerks in the marshal's office. I was SOOO disgusted. Anyway, if he didn't get released today, there won't be a judge here for another week. So I made like the pesky lawyer in The Closer and just refused to leave until he got out. I was still making calls after hours, but I was told he was being released. If he wasn't there will be hell to pay in the morning.good for you.
Broken legs all around!
I haven't had a call from the nominating committee.Congrats. So far. Just remember: They've got your number.
Good Evening!
Another Wednesday night, another good show.
Today was a Craig's List day. I got us a new kitchen table with four chairs. I correctly predicted Betsy would not like the chairs. :) I have just returned from buying Gabe a supercool high-tech looking desk/computer stand and office chair. I correctly predicted Gabe would not like me doing anything. :)Now, if you could find me a bicycle on Craigslist, I would be grateful ... Certainly, more grateful than Betsy was about those chairs.