Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on March 15, 2013, 12:25:15 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes spoke of long telephonic conversations, and now it is time for you to post until the long telephonic cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: BROMIDE!
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For those who may have missed this in last evening's posts:
Kritzerland is proud to present a new limited edition soundtrack CD release of an all-time classic score to an all-time classic film:
HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY
Music Composed and Conducted by Alfred Newman
Richard Llewellyn’s 1939 novel, How Green Was My Valley, was a popular success, so much so that Twentieth Century-Fox purchased the screen rights immediately and released their Academy Award-winning film version just two years later. And what a film it was – lyrical, poetic, beautiful, dramatic, heartwarming, funny – with a perfect cast including Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O’Hara, Donald Crisp, and young Roddy McDowell. Add to that the simple yet majestic direction by John Ford and you had a film that audiences flocked to and loved and have loved ever since, generation to generation, on television, and then home video and now Blu-ray. The film won the 1941 Best Picture Oscar (over Citizen Kane), as well as Oscars for direction, supporting actor, cinematography and art direction. It received five other nominations, including one for the magnificent and magical score by Alfred Newman.
Newman’s score stands high at the top of his many brilliant achievements. His main theme is one of the most memorable and beautiful works he ever created. The score is simply one brilliant cue after another, each capturing the humanity and warmth of the characters, setting the mood, underscoring the drama and pathos and humor as only Alfred Newman could.
The previous Arista CD release of How Green Was My Valley, which has been out-of-print for many, many years, was almost but not quite complete. The previous release was taken from a premixed and assembled 1/4" element that had been retained by Len Engel. This new Kritzerland edition comes from Fox's archival 1/4" rolls made in the 1980s off the first generation optical film, and was newly restored, mixed, and assembled, allowing for the opening up of many of the cues that had previously been combined together. Most of the cues were recorded with separate close-up and long shot perspectives, allowing for the creation of a stereo presence. Other cues were recorded with monaural sound only. The score is presented chronologically, with mono and stereo material indexed separately. The sound is much improved save for only two cues, the main and end title, which were available to us only in the condition they were in. Happily, the main title is very short and is completely vocal with no orchestra – once that’s done we settle in to the beautiful, lush, rich sound that was a Fox and Alfred Newman trademark. As a bonus we present the end title in stereo without the vocal. The film was recently released on Blu-ray and the CD is a perfect companion to it.
And be sure to check out our other release, which is A Time For Singing, the musical version of How Green Was My Valley – how often can that happen? A Time For Singing has a score by John Morris and lyrics by Gerald Freedman and Morris. A perfect way to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day!
How Green Was My Valley is limited to 1000 copies only. The price is $19.98, plus shipping.
CD will ship the last week of April but preorders placed at Kritzerland usually ship one to five weeks early (we’ve been averaging four weeks). To place an order, see the cover, or hear audio samples, just visit www.kritzerland.com.
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Kritzerland is extremely happy to announce a new limited edition cast album, the first-ever CD release for:
A TIME FOR SINGING
Original Broadway Cast Recording
Music by John Morris
Lyrics by Gerald Freedman and John Morris
Richard Llewellyn’s 1939 novel, How Green Was My Valley, was a popular success, so much so that Twentieth Century-Fox purchased the screen rights immediately and released their Academy Award-winning film version just two years later. The film itself is very musical, with its beautiful score by Alfred Newman, and a lot of townspeople singing a lot of tunes. So, it must have seemed a natural for such a musical property to be turned into an actual musical, and in 1966 that’s exactly what happened with the aptly retitled A Time for Singing. The team responsible for musicalizing How Green Was My Valley was first-time Broadway composer John Morris, and first-time book and lyric writers Gerald Freedman and Morris.
An impressive cast was assembled, including Shani Wallis, Laurence Naismith, Tessie O’Shea, and Ivor Emmanuel. The choreographer was Donald McKayle, and the sets were by the great Ming Cho Lee, lighting by Jean Rosenthal, and costumes by Theoni V. Aldredge. Orchestrations were by Don Walker and the musical direction by Jay Blackton – in other words, a Class A cast and creative team straight down the line. A Time for Singing opened on Broadway on May 21, 1966 after ten previews. The show received humdrum reviews and closed after only forty-one performances. Over the years, a cult has grown for A Time for Singing, thanks to its excellent cast recording that was issued by Warner Bros. Records. The score is beloved by hordes of theater music fans and the album was always a sought-after collector’s item. It has taken a long time to bring it to CD, and we’re thrilled to be the ones to do it. Perhaps the show will be rediscovered – certainly the score is worthy of rediscovery, with John Morris’s lush and beautiful music, and excellent lyrics by Morris and Freedman.
For this first-ever CD release, the original album masters were used – they were in pristine condition and the sound is absolutely stunning. So, here, finally, is A Time for Singing and it is indeed truly a time for singing.
Check out our companion release – the first time ever complete soundtrack release to How Green Was My Valley, the source for A Time For Singing. Score by Alfred Newman. Get both – a perfect way to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day!
This edition is limited to 1500 copies only. The price is $19.98 plus shipping.
CDs will ship the last week of April, however we may get them in earlier and if so will ship immediately. No promises, but that’s always our hope. To place an order, see the cover, or hear audio samples, just visit www.kritzerland.com.
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This may be the first time a soundtrack and its musical have been announced together, but of course, it's not the first time that Kritzerland has released a soundtrack and its musical version..."The Apartment" and "Promises, Promises." Who else has done that? :D
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Morning all.
That is all.
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Good morning. I wish I was not awake for the last sevrral hours.
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good morning to all
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its cold here in florida for those that aren't used to 54 degree as I write
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time for singing sounds interesting. One of few musicals i don't know anything about
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the links aren't up yet but i will go to paypal and do it that way
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"A Time for Paypal" - a new musical coemdy
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Good morning, all!
I slept rather well, although I was awake too many times with concerns over the conductor situation in August. I'm up this morning to listen to the Act Two edits a few times before I head off to the Encores! sitzprobe for SUPERMAN. I'm looking forward to meeting my surrogate son Joshie's parents there.
I finally watched the last episode of the BBC miniseries of HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY. It was quite a wonderful achievement, with an excellent cast.
TOD:
DVD: How Green Was My Valley (the John Ford film), a couple of operas, Isadora
CD: Dearest Enemy, Nat "King" Cole, Guy Haines, The Sleeping Beauty Ballet
VCR: porn
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Good morning, all.
Slept very well, up to the early morning backache time, but that was light and I shan't complain.
Coffee!
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;D
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;D
Morning. Good Morning.
Weekend. Yea weekend.
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Back to the grind tonight, last two performances! Happy to be over and done with it this weekend. Time to move on.
Playing another sessions of auditions tomorrow.
Auditions: hours of boredom interrupted by moments of sheer terror.
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Friday morning greetings! Today is the first full day of the Middletown AAUW 57th Annual Used Book Sale and I'm scheduled to work 11am-2pm. Looking forward to hearing how last night's preview sale went. We charge $5 admission for that and most of the customers are dealers.
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TOD:
CD - time for more EILEEN
DVD - sampling a couple of episodes of the TV series THE BIG EASY
BLU - THE WILD BUNCH, which I keep making false starts on but now I'm finally watching it, damn it to hell!
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Have fun with that, DR Ginny!
Book sale season doesn't get into full swing for a while yet in these parts. Got a few great ones, though, which I'm lespecially ooking forward to this year.
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Thanks, DR ChasSmith!
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Just time to grab another cup of coffee before CDs are up for order. I would have ordered last night, but whenever I order something on PayPal "outside the system" I get paranoid about the order somehow falling between the cracks. Silly, I know, especially when it's BK and Kritzerland, but there you have it.
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Time for Toast!
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Ordered!
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Post about the BWW Superman video re-considered
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Actually, that stuff for Superman makes the show look terrible. They do no one a service shooting numbers at an early rehearsal.
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Wow, i see the numbers are really controversial on All that Chat for the edited-down SUPERMAN video taht's on broadway.com - they feel much less "exposed' in the 20-minute video when bookended by the interviews with Strouse and Swenson and Mauzey et al. (Alli Mauzey especially is a delightful interviewee.)
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I'm up, we've announced, orders are coming in steadily. Maybe I'll go back to bed and set the alarm for nine. I've only had four hours of sleep.
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Actually, that stuff for Superman makes the show look terrible. They do no one a service shooting numbers at an early rehearsal.
BK - they look awful in that broadway.com cut, with that awful stiff intro by the guy playing Superman. The context that it's almost day two of reharsal is so clear in the BWW shoot, not clear at all in the Broadway.com cut. Yikes to the Broadway.com cut!
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Good morning, all.
Crazy day already and I'm feeling far behind.
Headed to Austin after work for a trip through SXSW and Rachael Ray's food parties and who knows what else my friend, Deb, has signed us up for.
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BK, have you announced A Time for Singing on the Forgotten Musicals page on Facebook?
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Two!
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TOD: Don't know what I'm going to be home to watch, so probably the best I can guess for the weekend is a lot of car driving with Rita Moreno reading Sonia Sotomayor's "My Beloved World." I'm on disc 5 of 10 and am loving most every word of it.
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TOD: Don't know what I'm going to be home to watch, so probably the best I can guess for the weekend is a lot of car driving with Rita Moreno reading Sonia Sotomayor's "My Beloved World." I'm on disc 5 of 10 and am loving most every word of it.
While I don't know this from actually having heard her complain, there's a delicious turn of phrase on All that Chat in response to a thread on Rita Moreno:
By "mendacity" on All That Chat:
The wonderful Ms. Moreno has never missed an opportunity to complain about her professional good fortune.
[Again, I've never really seen this side of Rita Moreno, except for that one Tony The Ritz thing, but it is a fascinating turn of phrase, if true.]
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Did I mention that last night I finally heard a Hofstetter audition that I felt was actually in the ballpark? I'll have to direct her a little, but she really has the rhythms down pretty well, and I like her subtle character delineations, and I really like her Adriana. So far, she's at the top of the list.
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TOD: Don't know what I'm going to be home to watch, so probably the best I can guess for the weekend is a lot of car driving with Rita Moreno reading Sonia Sotomayor's "My Beloved World." I'm on disc 5 of 10 and am loving most every word of it.
While I don't know this from actually having heard her complain, there's a delicious turn of phrase on All that Chat in response to a thread on Rita Moreno:
By "mendacity" on All That Chat:
The wonderful Ms. Moreno has never missed an opportunity to complain about her professional good fortune.
[Again, I've never really seen this side of Rita Moreno, except for that one Tony The Ritz thing, but it is a fascinating turn of phrase, if true.]
It is a great turn of phrase.
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I have ordered A TIME FOR SINGING.
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TOD:
KILLING THEM SOFTLY
RIPPER STREET, Season One
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BK,
I had never seen MINISTRY OF FEAR prior to watching the Criterion version a couple of weeks ago.
Although I did enjoy it, particularly the first 15 minutes, I kept wondering how Hitchcock would have handled this same material.
Hitchcock would have given us a point-of-view to get us emotionally involved in the situation, but with Lang, there were so many sequences in which I felt I was just an observer.
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I for one would be thrilled with 54F weather!
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Did I mention that last night I finally heard a Hofstetter audition that I felt was actually in the ballpark? I'll have to direct her a little, but she really has the rhythms down pretty well, and I like her subtle character delineations, and I really like her Adriana. So far, she's at the top of the list.
Are these people you know or are you using that website you mentioned once?
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I for one would be thrilled with 54F weather!
Tell me about it.
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CD's ordered!
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Last day of the Mercury Retrograde....things improve tomorrow.
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TOD:
DVD - WEST POINT
Blu Ray - TITANIC - 1953. The picture is an improvement over the DVD, and most of the extras have been carted over. But you will have to keep your DVD if you want the extra that includes scenes from the German version of the subject.....
CD - nada
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TOD:
DVD:
Hope to catch up on some Aryan Vaid films as well as the rest of the WEST POINT series. Might also rewatch that Norwegian horror film LAKE OF THE DEAD, now that I have the region 2 dvd and can see it in all of its wide screen splendor!
CD:
The latest Tom Wopat CD, which my mother tried to steal away from me last weekend (she liked it a lot!)
DVR:
Survivor and The Office
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Oh....I did not tell the truth...
CD - My Geisha, which is my favorite Kritzerland release of the year, so far.....
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TOD:
DVD – “Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson” This is the first episode, in two parts, of the Russian TV series made in 1979. Holmes and Watson were very well portrayed in the 11 part series and locations were well chosen – the outside scenary looking very much like the English countryside. Interestingly, a new Russian 16 episode TV series has been filmed for broadcast later this year.
I’ve also been catching up with a few episodes of of “The Alfred Hitchcock Hour” from my (unauthorised) DVD set. The picture quality isn’t very good so I’ve not bothered to watch many of them. The good news is that every episode is being officially released in Australia in three 8 disc sets in May.
CD - "Providence"
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I am having a cup of real coffee and a chocolate cake donut. Two things I don't need, but am sure enjoying!
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I have never heard of that Sherlock/Watson series DR DOUG R.....sounds very interesting.
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I did not know Tom Wopat had a new CD out. What does he sing on it, MBarnum?
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Did I mention that last night I finally heard a Hofstetter audition that I felt was actually in the ballpark? I'll have to direct her a little, but she really has the rhythms down pretty well, and I like her subtle character delineations, and I really like her Adriana. So far, she's at the top of the list.
Are these people you know or are you using that website you mentioned once?
I know a couple, but most I don't - they're coming to me from the mom of the Staitman girls, who knows a ton of young performers.
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Did a two-mile jog and shortly will leave for Teddy.
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Last day of the Mercury Retrograde....things improve tomorrow.
They had better.
Do we owe you anything for that forecast?
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No it's free!
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Ordered Papa John's for lunch/dinner. One large pizza free with order of a large pizza.
BOGOLARGE is the code, if you don't have it. Order online only....we like Papa John's a couple of times a month.
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DR's Cilla & Laura I'm sorry to hear about the losses in your hometowns.
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Did I mention that last night I finally heard a Hofstetter audition that I felt was actually in the ballpark? I'll have to direct her a little, but she really has the rhythms down pretty well, and I like her subtle character delineations, and I really like her Adriana. So far, she's at the top of the list.
Good to hear :)
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Did I mention that last night I finally heard a Hofstetter audition that I felt was actually in the ballpark? I'll have to direct her a little, but she really has the rhythms down pretty well, and I like her subtle character delineations, and I really like her Adriana. So far, she's at the top of the list.
Are these people you know or are you using that website you mentioned once?
I know a couple, but most I don't - they're coming to me from the mom of the Staitman girls, who knows a ton of young performers.
That is good that they are performers and not just random girls she knows. Did you try any of the girls from that website. I would have thought that they would be more experienced at doing audio recordings.
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DR JohnG, here is the list of songs from Tom Wopat's new cd:
1. I ve Got Your Number
2. The Good Life
3. Meeting Across the River
4. Summer Dress
5. Devil May Care
6. The Folks Who Live On The Hill
7. The Afterlife
8. Since You Asked
9. Born To Be Blue
10. I Still Feel That Way
11. Secret O Life
12. I Won t Dance
13. Here We Are Again
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I keep hoping he does have my number. I've certainly given it to him enough times.
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And for those who are interested in classic and current horror and sci fi film books/dvds/music/etc, voting for the Rondo Awards is currently happening:
http://monsterkidclassichorrorforum.yuku.com/topic/48192/S-OFFICIAL-BALLOT-ELEVENTH-ANNUAL-RONDO-HATTON-CLASSIC-H (http://monsterkidclassichorrorforum.yuku.com/topic/48192/S-OFFICIAL-BALLOT-ELEVENTH-ANNUAL-RONDO-HATTON-CLASSIC-H)
No HHW connections this year. Maybe next year, though. Still it is fun to vote and I am always amazed at how much I missed over the year!
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Page 3 Aryan Vaid dance
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Hopefully that publicity photo isn't too graphic for a family site. But I am certain most of us here would happily dance with him!
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Thank you, MBarnum.
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Attack of the 50 Woman on TCM Saturday at 9 a.m. EST......
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Attack of the 50 Woman on TCM Saturday at 9 a.m. EST......
I love that movie. I have a reservation for it at the library. Can hardly wait to see it again. It's been years.
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Fun Filichia on Friday for Patti LuPone fans out there. And, I know, that does not include a few you.
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Attack of the 50 Woman on TCM Saturday at 9 a.m. EST......
I love that movie. I have a reservation for it at the library. Can hardly wait to see it again. It's been years.
I love the idea of it being a LIBRARY item that people put on reserve. I am sure Miss Allison Hayes would be pleased.
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Did I mention that last night I finally heard a Hofstetter audition that I felt was actually in the ballpark? I'll have to direct her a little, but she really has the rhythms down pretty well, and I like her subtle character delineations, and I really like her Adriana. So far, she's at the top of the list.
Are these people you know or are you using that website you mentioned once?
I know a couple, but most I don't - they're coming to me from the mom of the Staitman girls, who knows a ton of young performers.
That is good that they are performers and not just random girls she knows. Did you try any of the girls from that website. I would have thought that they would be more experienced at doing audio recordings.
Didn't like any of the young girls I heard on the site.
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Back from Teddy.
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I had a (mostly) lovwly time at the rehearsal this afternoon.
On my way there, I ran into my beloved Karen Ziemba, who was coming from a rehearsal of Broadway Backwards at Carol. I hadn't seen her in several years so I'm happy we got a chance to visit for about 10 minutes. The SUPERMAN score is a hoot, and the orchestra rehearsal from 12:00-2:00pm was a lot of fun. I really like Joshie's parents and I'm happy that I got to spend the time with them. They saw Joshie's show DONNYBROOK last night and tomorrow they're seeing PASSION, which their son Jeremy is playing in. After the lunch break, which I spent chatting with several musicians, Tripp the stage manager, a copyist friend, and actor David Pittu, who's playing the mad scientist.
Around 2:45, the cast and assorted guests, including lyricist Lee Adams began showing up, so I prepared to leave. I don't want to watch the actors deal with the band for the first time, and, while I don't know the reasons Encores! producer Jack Viertel dislikes me, his continual rudeness and efforts to ignore me completely, even while i'm working on his productions, loses its amusement factor very quickly. As I left, they were waiting for Charles Strouse to show.
As I walked up 54th Street, Will Swenson ran by me on his way to rehearsal. I wanted to yell, You're late, but he doesn't know me and he'd just think I was being obnoxious.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=diU70KshcjA
I'm sure someone has posted this and I''ve missed it in the rush of the last few days, but here is a hilarious parody of life after "Happily Ever After" in four Disney toons.
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DR JohnG, here is the list of songs from Tom Wopat's new cd:
I keep hoping he does have my number. I've certainly given it to him enough times.
;D
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We went to Redbox today and picked up SKYFALL. We got lucky too as it was available in Blue-ray.
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We are having a beautiful sunny day. This morning when I looked outside I noticed everything just seemed prettier & the mountains are turning green.
The geese were back in the pond so Keith had to chase them away again. We have learned from experience geese can be ornery if you let them settle in.
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And the word of the day is: BROMIDE!
And The Song Of The Day Is: SAME OLD SONG AND DANCE
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Well, I had my third computer shut down this morning - where I'm told to immediately shut down the computer. The last one (of three) occurred a week and a half ago and the one before that about a month prior. I talked to a senior tech and he had me look at the report logs and he ascertained that it's not a software problem but a hardware problem most likely with the motherboard. He said I have to take the thing in to the Apple Store and let them suss it out - he says they'll know very fast what it is. I have Apple Care so it doesn't cost me anything - it's annoying with a computer that's one year and three months old. It could take up to seven days to fix it, but that depends on how busy they are. It could also take twenty-four hours. So in it goes on Monday at noon and then, of course, I'm gone until Saturday night, so hopefully I'll be able to go in there on Sunday and pick it up, working like new. While it's there I may have them put the latest operating system on - Mountain Lion.
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Teddy did a fine job on the coifing.
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I've been doing nothing but printing out orders - and that's a good thing.
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Did I mention that last night I finally heard a Hofstetter audition that I felt was actually in the ballpark? I'll have to direct her a little, but she really has the rhythms down pretty well, and I like her subtle character delineations, and I really like her Adriana. So far, she's at the top of the list.
That's great, BK!
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Thank you, MBarnum.
Yes, Mike...thank you very much! ;)
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It could take up to seven days to fix it, but that depends on how busy they are. It could also take twenty-four hours. So in it goes on Monday at noon and then, of course, I'm gone until Saturday night, so hopefully I'll be able to go in there on Sunday and pick it up, working like new.
VIBES IT IS FIXED WHILE YOU ARE TRAVELING & READY FOR A SUNDAY PICK UP!!!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=diU70KshcjA
I'm sure someone has posted this and I''ve missed it in the rush of the last few days, but here is a hilarious parody of life after "Happily Ever After" in four Disney toons.
That's very funny...and very good!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=diU70KshcjA
I'm sure someone has posted this and I''ve missed it in the rush of the last few days, but here is a hilarious parody of life after "Happily Ever After" in four Disney toons.
This is terrific!
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Apple Care.....I hope that's not a government program.
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I've been doing nothing but printing out orders - and that's a good thing.
Great!
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I just ate two donuts, making a total of four donuts eaten by me today.
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I have noticed that lately, my pants are rather snug and difficult to button. No connection with my previous post, I am sure.
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Off to Austin.
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I have noticed that lately, my pants are rather snug and difficult to button. No connection with my previous post, I am sure.
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I hope 4 donuts doesn't throw your sugar levels off balance.
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Off to Austin.
One day I just might get there.
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Page 3? Still on Page 3?
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!!!! Page 4 !!!!
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And about time, too.
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I need a nap.
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Tired.
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Orders have been good today.
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I'm VERY hungry right now but won't be eating until 6:00. I'd have some fruit if I had any.
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Good evening!
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Speaking of Alfred Hitchcock. I have DVDs of a few of his first few seasons of Alfred Hitchcock Presents. I need to watch them someday!
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I had a great time working at the book sale. Apparently, we made over $3000 last night and $800 more was deposited at midday. This money is for various scholarships, mostly local. It's amazing what people will buy.
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Richard and I just had a fantastic Lenten fish dinner at the local Greek church - baked fish, green beans, roasted potatoes, salad, roll, and honey spice cake all for $10 each. Also a scholarship fundraiser.
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What's a donut?
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Richard and I just had a fantastic Lenten fish dinner at the local Greek church - baked fish, green beans, roasted potatoes, salad, roll, and honey spice cake all for $10 each. Also a scholarship fundraiser.
Sounds great! I loved that church's yearly festival. Inever missed it and I'd come home laden down with baklava and other goodies. There was a wonderful Greek-American singer whose name i've forgotten - she was in THE MEDIUM - and she used to brng me pastries and call me to remind me about the festival. I'm embarrassed I've forgotten her name. Shewas a music teacher in the schol system, I believe, and she died before I moved to Manhattan.
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I just took a hot bath. I'll be in bed early tonight, as soon as GRIMM finishes. Between the ghosts and the noisy neighbor above me, I need some sleep.
Tomorrow's a Toyland day.
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I had a great time working at the book sale. Apparently, we made over $3000 last night and $800 more was deposited at midday. This money is for various scholarships, mostly local. It's amazing what people will buy.
Fun and for a good cause, can't beat that combo.
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What's a donut?
I try to avoid them.
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I just took a hot bath. I'll be in bed early tonight, as soon as GRIMM finishes. Between the ghosts and the noisy neighbor above me, I need some sleep.
Sleep well tonight.
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I gotta tell you.
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I am STARVING right now.
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DR Elmore, the Greek church still does that festival and we always go if we're in town. I also used to buy pastries by the box, but now limit myself to a single item that I eat in several installments.
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I am STARVING right now.
I'm stuffed!
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Actually, that stuff for Superman makes the show look terrible. They do no one a service shooting numbers at an early rehearsal.
BK - they look awful in that broadway.com cut, with that awful stiff intro by the guy playing Superman. The context that it's almost day two of reharsal is so clear in the BWW shoot, not clear at all in the Broadway.com cut. Yikes to the Broadway.com cut!
Since I don't go to that site on a regular basis, I have no idea where to find the SUPERMAN stuff.
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Well, I'm off. Tonight, my sister, her boyfriend and I are going to see the group Pearl Django (http://www.traditionsfairtrade.com/events/index.php) perform at Traditions Café (http://www.traditionsfairtrade.com/pages/tradhome.html). I saw them perform about 10 years ago in Seattle and they're fantastic!
Until later!
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Time to watch SKYFALL. :)
While I feel like falling asleep after getting so little last night, I expect the movie will wake me up.
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I am super mad re: a library book.
It's funny I used to have so many problems with lost reservations slips (my library has suggestions by slips of paper). But I have not had a problem in a very long time. I'm not sure if it's because I now try to label my suggestions as adult books or Young adult books (since we have separate librarians that order books).
Anyhow normally it wouldn't annoy me. Many of the books I request there is only 1 or 2 people waiting. So it wouldn't be such a big deal. But I was already annoyed that a book I should have been first for (and ended up being second for) has been overdue for 11 or more days.
And now there is a book (which i reserved a very long time ago) that they got today. And I should have been first for sure. But of course it turns out that at least 3 or 4 people want it. AND I was not even on that list.
I think I know what might have happened. The book did not have a title until late. So it's possible i just wrote it as the series name #3 with the author's name. But I'm not sure if this is even the case. But regardless i think the librarian could have figured it out.
So now i'll probably have to wait at least 3 months. I did email the librarian. So if she finds my slip then she could possibly (if she wants to put me second). Of course this happens to the final book in a series i love. And there is supposedly some controversy about it. :(
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Time to watch SKYFALL. :)
While I feel like falling asleep after getting so little last night, I expect the movie will wake me up.
My library has this. I will probably reserve it at some point.
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Actually, that stuff for Superman makes the show look terrible. They do no one a service shooting numbers at an early rehearsal.
BK - they look awful in that broadway.com cut, with that awful stiff intro by the guy playing Superman. The context that it's almost day two of reharsal is so clear in the BWW shoot, not clear at all in the Broadway.com cut. Yikes to the Broadway.com cut!
Since I don't go to that site on a regular basis, I have no idea where to find the SUPERMAN stuff.
Here's the BWW video, which is the good one:
http://broadwayworld.com/article/BWW-TV-In-Rehearsal-with-Edward-Watts-the-Cast-of-Encores-SUPERMAN--Plus-a-Performance-Preview-20130313#
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I have noticed that lately, my pants are rather snug and difficult to button. No connection with my previous post, I am sure.
Wash your pants in cold water and then they won't shrink.
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DR's Cilla & Laura I'm sorry to hear about the losses in your hometowns.
Thanks Jane, and Laura. Laura sorry to hear about your sailor.
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I had a great time working at the book sale. Apparently, we made over $3000 last night and $800 more was deposited at midday. This money is for various scholarships, mostly local. It's amazing what people will buy.
Sounds a lot like our library book sale. I'm not on the friends board anymore, but have agreed to work the sale again. I think it's a lot of fun, too
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Late evening greetings.
Before I hit the hay.
Do people still hit the hay?
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Late evening greetings.
Before I hit the hay.
Do people still hit the hay?
Yes, but now days; hay hits back!
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It is tough, when you are retired, to keep track of the days of the week.
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Thanks to BK, I always know it is Friday.
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Where is everybody?
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Since it is a Friday night, vixmom should be here.
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T.O.D.
I have a hot date with Victor... Herbert.
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What the HELL is going on here?
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Apparently nothing.
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Yesterday over 200 postings, today under our usual number.
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That will not do.
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No GUESTS to speak of, no regulars to speak of, just li'l ol' me.
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Well, I'm off. Tonight, my sister, her boyfriend and I are going to see the group Pearl Django (http://www.traditionsfairtrade.com/events/index.php) perform at Traditions Café (http://www.traditionsfairtrade.com/pages/tradhome.html). I saw them perform about 10 years ago in Seattle and they're fantastic!
Until later!
They were still fantastic! Traditions is a fairly small store with a fairly small restaurant where people perform and the place was packed. We got the last unreserved table. Their first set was about 50 minutes and the second set was a little more than 40 minutes. The group has had several variations of instrumentations over the years but tonight there were five...an accordion, violin, two guitars and and a contra-bass.
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I bought two of their CDs: their latest, "Eleven (http://www.amazon.com/Eleven-Pearl-Django/dp/B007SBHJIA/ref=sr_1_2?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1363416661&sr=1-2&keywords=pearl+django)," and one from 2007, "Modern Times (http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Times-Pearl-Django/dp/B000QEILE2/ref=sr_1_4?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1363416661&sr=1-4&keywords=pearl+django)."