Oh, as for sports, I never played on a team in school, but I did play soccer (was pretty good), and baseball (totally sucked since I was too scared to catch fly balls - I lost many a game for my team). *And one time I did try to catch a fly ball... it grazed the top of my glove and landed right in my right eye. Thankfully, I just ended up with a black eye, but if you thought I was scared to catch fly balls before that... WHOA! ;)
As for the tomoto question, my favorite food with tomatoes is ketchup. No, I don't eat it raw, but I have loved it ever since I was tiny whereas I wouldn't eat a raw tomato when I was growing up to save my life.
MR BK is up early!
My question for ASK BK day - did you ever encounter a project early on - previews or readings - that you knew instantly would be a hit? What made you think so? And did you ever encounter another project that you knew would NEVER make it, even though others were enthusiastic?
Has anyone ever attempted making home-made ketchup? I never have and I've never liked any that I've tasted--either too bitter or too salty. Pass me the bottle of Heinz, please.
I have a question for you, bk:
Which cast album that you've heard and not thought much of do you dearly wish you had had a chance to produce?
I keep thinking it's Tuesday and yet it's Wednesday even though it feels like Tuesday. Wait, I'm getting confused. It should feel like it's Wednesday because it's not Tuesday anymore, yet it feels like Tuesday even though, in reality, it's Wednesday. Wait, I'm getting confused. You see, these are complex matters that I speak of, this confusion of days. If it's Wednesday it can't be Tuesday, just the same as if it's Tuesday it can't be Wednesday. But, and here's the rub - even though it's Wednesday is it still possible to be Tuesday because it feels like Tuesday? No matter - Tuesday, Wednesday
I have my fingers crossed for the Calgary Flames over the TB Lightning in the Stanley Cup playoffs - it's a toss up right now. And my Pacers got eliminated from the NBA playoffs last night. I enjoy watching Hockey on television, and sometimes tennis, but other than that....but in the morning...NO. (A Cole Porter reference.)
A few months ago a friend got me started on a weight-lifting program. I'm enjoying it, but the only drawback is that (TOO-MUCH-INFORMATION ALERT) I seem to be growing breasts.Like the song says,
...It's not unenjoyable, though, but it does boast one of the ugliest sets I've ever seen, right up there with Aspects of Love in that regard...The Aspects of Love set wouldn't have been so bad, if they hadn't been so Day-Glo.
I have never seen MAMMA MIA - although I liked a lot of ABBA songs, and I enjoy the soundtrack to Muriel's Wedding - I think I might like the show, but I HATE audiences that dance in the aisles and sing along, and I have heard that that happens at MM to some extent.
And for many reasons I would love to have done the original Pippin album - it just doesn't sound like a Broadway album, and doesn't really show that score off the way it should. I was thinking about doing the Papermill Pippin until I saw it. I really love that score and someday would love to do a proper musical theater album of it.
My dear friend Briar also has a fear of balls coming towards her face.
Yes, you can all rest assured we've made many a joke out of this over the years! :D
DR Danise: Re: what you said about the Milford and how you would never stay there again.
Now I'm not sure what size room you got. There are some smaller rooms. And it sounds like that is what you had at first. Although the room you ended up with (that fit two twin beds) does still not sound like a regular room.
You just have to be forceful until you are happy. I always make sure to get two double/queen size beds. Because in order to have them, the room has to be big enough to fit them both. :)
Most NYC hotel rooms that I've seen are similar size (that fit the 2 double beds).
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Welcome, new DR Joey. I'm sure you will enjoy your time spent at HHW.
Thanks to all the DRs who responded about MAMMA MIA. It pretty much echoed what most people have told me about it. I bought the cast album in a used rack for $7 and have never played it, but I will before I go to the show. My only familiarity with ABBA is from the PRISCILLA movie.
Re: Ask BK. I'm just getting around to watching Star! and agree with you about its brownness (which seems to be a specialty of "color" by Deluxe), but I'm curious--why do you think the Entr'acte and Exit Music got left off? Just sloppiness? Or some deeply convoluted plot to get us to buy the Special Edition with the omitted music which will no doubt be released next year? :)
DR Jay, do you and your brother share the trait of shortness?Five feet eight inches. In some places, I suppose, that's short. In others, it's average. Judge my height as you will. It's the size of my heart that counts.
Thus sprach BK:It feels like Belgium.
BK query:
I know you once lived on W. 96th Street (my neck of the woods), but now that you don't reside here:
Where do you stay when you're in New York?
DR Stuart, are you confessin' that, like me, you are, shall we say, short?
I am short. There, I've said it. I don't care. It actually makes people think I'm younger than I am. Don't know why but unless you have aged to the point of Joel Grey (he takes voice lessons in the building next to mine in Chelsea so I see him on the street frequently and he's smaller than me!) people seem to think if you're short, you're not that old. Maybe they think I'm going to grow more. I stopped growing in about 7th grade, reaching my towering height of 5' 3". DR Jay, do you and your brother share the trait of shortness?
Scary. Both of us were posting about caprese at the same time.
DR Stuart, are you confessin' that, like me, you are, shall we say, short?
Stuart: I know that they credit BUENA SERA, MRS. CAMPBELL as source material for MAMMA MIA!, but I'm not sure about CARMELINA. I think they credit that one, too.
Of course, the news has just hit that the Chicago production of Masada has been cancelled.
Five feet eight inches. In some places, I suppose, that's short. In others, it's average. Judge my height as you will. It's the size of my heart that counts.And not your shoe size. Or the length of your thumbs.
Give me cake anyday. Or chocolate chip cookies. Or Dippin' Dots, which I may just have to have after lunch today.
What do you think of Michael Reidel? Refreshingly audacious or just a bitter old troll? My opinion is definitely the latter.The Bill O'Reilly of the theater world.
Now that I have gone through my mini-frenzy, could one of you dear readers explain how to include multiple quotes in one posting?
You'd think I was showboating (ooh, a Ferber, Kern & Hammerstein reference) until I got to the next HHW level of membership, but that is still some time off, and I actually couldn't figure out how to respond to all of those posts in just one of my own.....
Re: tomatoes. There is a super-yummy pizza place here in Portland that has a bleu-cheese and roma tomato pizza that is scrumptious.
How I do it:
I click on the "quote" button next to the first post I wish to quote.
The "Post reply" box opens with the quotation properly formatted and I make my comments beneath it.
I open a second browser window and bring up HHW.com, the almost most popular site in all of internetdom.
In the second browser window, I click on the "quote" button next to the second post I wish to quote.
The "Post reply" box opens with the quotation properly formatted. I select and copy the entire formatted quotation from the second browser window and paste it into the already open "Post reply" box on the first browser window.
And so on.
I, of course, would never do such a thing.
Question of the day: What have you learned from other DR's?
I was thinking about that earlier, when I posted about my feelings toward tomato aspic. In olden days (a Cole Porter reference) I probably would have used the word "hate," but from DR SWW I learned to use that verb sparingly.
I think the BK hotel is the Doubletree across the street from the TKTS booth and right next to the uptown side entrance/exit to the N & R train and built over and next to the Palace Theatre, which belies the story that the Marriott Marquis builders told when they said they couldn't build over the the original Helen Hayes Theatre, the Morosco, and the Bijou, Broadway theatres they destroyed to make the ugly hotel and ugly theatre.
The Bill O'Reilly of the theater world.
:o
My MUCH older brother. :-)
What is the name of the pizza place?
Pardon my ignorance, but who is Bill O'Reilly.
To quote William James:
How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young -- or slender.
Exactly how old are you, Vera? The truth....
How old do you think I am?
..I'd say somewhere between forty and death. But sweetie...
I enjoy watching (college)basketball, hockey, soccer, and some other sports, but (and I know this sounds somewhat shallow) only when guys play them.
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Welcome Jason.
Hurry Ann it's lovely up here. (Sort of A Clear Day reference).
DR TomFromOz: I'm curious why you seem to despise MAMMA MIA so much. Have you seen it? Do you dislike ABBA? Or do you just think you'd hate it?Can't despise something I have not seen. I like Abba. When I first saw Tim Rice interviewed about the show before the London production he outlined the story line - there was not a mention of Carmelina or Mrs Campbell. I saw "Buddy" and I did not in any way feel any of the audience excitement in that either - and I am a definite Buddy Holly fan. I thought Boy From OZ was a cabaret performance and not theatre! Give me Kander & Ebb, Sondheim or Ahrens & Flaherty. Give me musical theatre.
BK: What movie have you seen recently (theater, TIVO or DVD) that you think might make a good musical and why?
DRMBARNUM where are the DeluXe Nuts?
Haven't seen it. I have some other low-budget thing she did but she's only in one scene and it's such an embarrasingly bad film.
Only in America!
Huh?
DRJANE has never heard of Brooks Catsup??? I am appalled!
DR Jane: The pizza place is Hot Lips, found semi-conveniently kind of downtown (way, way south, up by PSU) on 6th (I think), but also in Raleigh Hills inside the very necessary Fred Meyer store. That's the one close to our house and we visit it regularly. They also are a "sustainable" company and use only organic ingredients.
Re: Doubletree Hotels. Not only are their suites great, they have the most yummilicious chocolate chip cookies that they give you warm from the oven upon check-in (and at any time if you beg them) and also the coolest, best-writing pens for score notating ever!
Give me Kander & Ebb, Sondheim or Ahrens & Flaherty. Give me musical theatre.
And I'd take the bet: I'd wager Tom o' Oz would not like Mamma Mia, given his enjoyment of musicals where songs are motivated by character and situation
I love the possum removal ads we have at the top of the page now.
Open question to all those wise theatrical sages.In my opinion, having Herbie a non-singer makes sense. It underlines the fact that he is not really a theater-type person. Plus, I like that there is such a major role for non-singers in one of the all-time great musicals.
Two songs from Gypsy were cut for a couple of reason.
Mama's Talkin Soft because one of the little girls singing it was afraid of heights. The song is actually important because it is referenced in Rose's Turn.
Nice She Ain't was cut because Jack Klugman couldn't sing it.
Do you think these are lame excuses? Why not fire the height challenged little girl and there were better singers than Jack Klugman on Broadway at that time?
When they had the revivals Laurents had the opportunity to reinstate them and he didn't.