...I'm basically speaking of musicals that never played the States...
Does anyone still wear a hat?
“They made a musical out of the movie, TITANIC???”
I was tired when I posted my "foreign" fave musical selection this morning and got the title wrong. It's "If I Ever Fall in Love Again" (Wildeblood & Greenwell) from THE CROOKED MILE.
If you want to read about this "lost musical" which is considered by some to be a masterpiece, go to
http://www.musical-theatre.net/html/crookedmile/mile1.html
My goodness, what a slow morning here at haineshisway.com. What is this, Flag Day or something? Well, let's wave our flags right here at haineshisway.com, shall we?
Anyone remember Oscar the Grouch teaching "you" how to say "grouchy" in sign language?
Two programming notes for tonight:
TCM is running back to back Dr. Kildare movies - three from 1939 & 1940.
And TRIO is showing HEAVEN'S GATE, followed by Final Cut: The Making of Heaven's Gate and Flop 101: Lessons from the Biz. I read somewhere that Flop 101 is really interesting and gives an even handed view of Heaven's Gate and its effect on the industry.
Does anyone have a good site for free ecards? I usually use usagreetings, or yahoo greetings (although so many of theirs are now not free it's frustrating).
It's my best guy's birthday today (and even though I'm the ecard freak - i love to get them) I would like to find something new to send.
Thanks.
Does anyone have a good site for free ecards? I usually use usagreetings, or yahoo greetings (although so many of theirs are now not free it's frustrating).
It's my best guy's birthday today (and even though I'm the ecard freak - i love to get them) I would like to find something new to send.
Thanks.
Sad and shocking news....Robert Lees, screenwriter of A/C MEET FRANKENSTEIN was murdered yesterday... :'(
http://www.nbc4.tv/news/3415530/detail.html (http://www.nbc4.tv/news/3415530/detail.html)
I like the score to THE FIX, a musical about American politics, especially "Child's Play"and "Mistress of Deception."
I also really like MARTIN GUERRE by Boubil & Schonberg. My favorite songs there (although I like the whole score) are: "Martin Guerre", "Tell Me to Go", and "Land of the Fathers."
I used to love Americangreetings.com before they made you pay for the ecards. They were my favorite. :(
Hey All!uh-oh! It's the Annointed Ones! How horribly bad! (But I won't tell if you don't!)
The new Broadway Radio Show is up and running. It went up later than usual, because I was at the Disney Concert Hall seeing Megan Mullally and Brian D'Arcy James with the LA Master Chorale singing the songs of Sondheim, Robert Jason Brown, Ricky Ian Gordon and Adam Guettal......very cool evening.....Megan and Brian were terrific.
Enjoy the radio show.....and can you spot the missing song? We had a problem loading one of the tunes. Oops! :-[
And of course, when we get back our suggestion forms during the season asking for suggestions for shows at Putnam County Playhouse...in the barn theatre....my two favorite suggestions have been:
Black Beauty and Air Bud.
DR Jane, that doesn't make you a bad person! Just makes you human!
There were some moments of joy, some new (albeit small) rays of sunshine behind the clouds. But would it have rung true if everyone just hopped, skipped, and jumped their way through the days following the death?
Heave knows.....knows all....tells all.
You know you're getting older when ...
You turn on Law and Order and see Cindy Williams playing a grandmother. (It was a superb performance.)
OH! MBarnum: I'm reading a book called "Running With Scissors" by a Mr. Augusten Burroughs, and ever since I started reading it, I can't help but imagine that this guy looks just like you. I'm not sure why, but he's you. Or you're him. He's a twelve year old and his parents are divorced. His mom has gone crazy and left him to stay with a dirty psychiatrist and his dirty family. He feels totally out of control of his life--except for his clothes and his hair. Here's a snippet...
When I was ten, my favorite outfit was a navy blazer, a white shirt and a red clip-on tie. I felt I looked important. Like a young king who had ascended the throne because his mother had been beheaded.
I flatly refused to go to school if my hair was not perfect, if the light didn't fall across it in a smooth, blond sheet. I wanted my hair to look exactly like the mannequin boys' at Ann August, where my mother shopped. One stray flyaway was enough to send the hairbrush into the mirror and me running for my room in tears...
Throughout my childhood, while all the other kids were starting fights, playing ball and getting dirty, I was in my bedroom polishing the gold-tone mood rings I made my mother buy me at Kmart and listening to Barry Manilow, Tony Orlando and Dawn and, inexplicably, Odetta. I preferred ALBUMS to the more modern EIGHT TRACKS. Albums came with sleeves which reminded me of clean underwear...
I would have been an excellent member of the Brady Bunch. I would have been Shaun, the well-behaved blond boy who caused no trouble and helped Alice in the kitchen, then trimmed the split ends off Marcia's hair. I would have not only washed Tiger, but then conditioned his fur. And I would have cautioned Jan against that tacky bracelet that cause the girls to lose the house-of-cards-building contest.
Don't ask me why...I can just see him as a tiny version of you.
Ha, ha! Well there might be a few simularities there! But I can assure you that I was never that anal...and I wouldn't know a split end from a split screen, LOL! I would have made a good Brady kid, though....but I would have been on Carol's side of the family!
I knew you'd make a good Brady. There again, wouldn't we all? I can't explain WHY I think he looks like you. His picture is printed very clearly on the back of the book and he looks nothing like you, but I keep imagining a little MBarnum running around in a navy blue blazer and a red clip-on. I think it must be because you're so well-dressed in your picture. I would never think you to be a trimmer of split-ends or a dog-shampooer, but I can imagine that you'd point out that tacky bracelet to Jan. LOL
If a petite cross-dresser ever steals my car, he'll be thrilled.
OH! MBarnum: I'm reading a book called "Running With Scissors" by a Mr. Augusten Burroughs, and ever since I started reading it, I can't help but imagine that this guy looks just like you. I'm not sure why, but he's you. Or you're him. He's a twelve year old and his parents are divorced. His mom has gone crazy and left him to stay with a dirty psychiatrist and his dirty family. He feels totally out of control of his life--except for his clothes and his hair.
Here's another entry to the weird celebrity baby names list (As in Apple - daughter of Paltrow and Martin). I just read that Courtney Cox and David Arquette's new baby is... Coco.
Coco Cox Arquette. Hope she doesn't stutter.
Jason, when you finish reading RUNNING WITH SCISSORS, be sure you read Mr. Burroughs sequel, DRY, about his life in New York City.
What are they trying to prove? Don't the realize what that their names will do for them when they get to school. Bad enough being parents of celebs but to be saddle with a oddball names.
And oh an interesting piece of trivia. Courtney Cox's brother-in-law is being coming her sister-in-law.
OH! MBarnum: I'm reading a book called "Running With Scissors" by a Mr. Augusten Burroughs
If it's as good a read as RUNNING WITH SCISSORS, I'll be glad to! He apparently has a third book out, too...SELLEVISION.
Jason, have you ever read any of David Sedaris' writings? Funny stuff, like Burroughs. (David Sedaris is the brother of my latest pretend girlfriend, Amy Sedaris, star of Strangers With Candy)
Here's another entry to the weird celebrity baby names list (As in Apple - daughter of Paltrow and Martin). I just read that Courtney Cox and David Arquette's new baby is... Coco.
Coco Cox Arquette. Hope she doesn't stutter.
I love Amy Sedaris. For such a good looking girl, she sure uglied herself up for "Strangers With Candy." I think she's a great comedianne and I wish that she and David would write a full-length play. I know they worked on THE SANTALAND DIARIES together, but that's a one man show, I think...
Ditto to the "What"?
Such a statement and no elaboration?
As many folks here probably know, Alexis Arquette has been cross-dressing for some time and building a career, too. I'm "guessing" Michael is referring to Alexis, but I suppose we'll find out...in time.....
Jason you've become so obsessed with Tonya that ...let me be the first to break the news to you... You're starting to look like her.
Jason and and DanTM - Have you ever seen Amy Sedaris on Letterman? She and Dave have this sexy/funny (pretend) flirtation going and they're wonderful together.
Jason and and DanTM - Have you ever seen Amy Sedaris on Letterman? She and Dave have this sexy/funny (pretend) flirtation going and they're wonderful together.
Oh, my God! You're right! I've become a forlorn black woman!Yes, I've seen them together and they were hilarious. I didn't even recognize Amy when I saw her. She's quite attractive. You'd never guess that from watching SWC.
Amy is very attractive. I think she'd make a dandy replacement for Kristen Chenoweth in Wicked. (But I doubt that she'd do it.)
It's called THE BOOK OF LIZ. I'd suggest reading it before your next "date."
But can she sing??
The day has waned for anyone who hasn't noticed.
Dan-the-Man: THE BOOK OF LIZ is published by either Dramatist Publishing or Samuel French...I can't remember. It's available at Amazon.com. The reader reviews were mixed...they said it's more Amy and less David, but I love them both, so who cares, right??
The story he tells in ME TALK PRETTY ONE DAY about the towels and the mystery wiper just makes me howl with laughter.
I won't lie--I hate dressing up. I hate it, I hate it, I hate it. I'd rather die than to have to wear kakhi pants and button-down shirts? Forget it! I haven't worn a tie in four years and I can't remember the last time I wore real "slacks." Unfortunately, I'm going to have to go shopping for those things sometime this week because I have to look good for the concert I'm singing in Chicago with DR MusicGuy. That means new shoes, new pants, new shirt and a possibly a tie...I'm not sure about the tie yet. And a haircut.Don't forget fresh underpants. If you were run over by a car or a bus, it would be terrible if they took you to the hospital and found you were wearing nasty underpants.
I had read that a couple of weeks ago about Alexis Arquette, and I was kind of bummed about it. He did an independent feature called I THINK I DO playing a gay man, and he was thoroughly charming in the film. No cross dressing to the perforamance at all, and he had the ever-luscious Tuc Watkins as his lover. What more could a man want?
Don't forget fresh underpants. If you were run over by a car or a bus, it would be terrible if they took you to the hospital and found you were wearing nasty underpants.And she was right. Last summer in Boulder I was taking the Wonderdog to an event at the Humane Society. I was running late, so I just threw on a T-shirt with nothing underneath it and a pair of old torn (but clean) cotton panties under my jeans. At the event the Wonderdog accidentally pulled me so hard that I fell and hit the pavement hard. I got up fine, but five minutes later suddenly passed out. (The only time in my life.) The point of this story is that I found myself in an ambulance with no top underwear and ridiculous torn (but clean) panties. The young paramedic was amused at my embarrassment. He said he'd seen LOT worse.
That's what my mother always believed, at least.
Before I forget: DR Panni: I just ran across a reference to Reiki (sp?) massage. Your ex wanted to do this to...your dog?
Back from the gym. Totals for the evening: Minutes on the Elliptical: 46; Miles run: 4.2; Calories burned: 610.
Dan (the Man): Great Amy tribute. I'm sure she'd be so flattered...and then again, she might think we're freaks. Send her my pretend love next time you "see" her.