Different question: We've heard from DR Noel which big musicals he doesn't like at all. Which big hit musicals bother the bejezus out of the rest of the DRs?
I've only referred to one hit musical I didn't like. Nobody's guessed the musical with a big clock on stage that used a score of old hit songs. It wasn't Crazy For You, which had a couple of clever dances.
3. Anachronistic music, that rocks on with little or no feeling for time and place
Didn't Dream, the Johnny Mercer show, have a big clock on stage?
I am heading to Ventura next weekend to see Side By Side By Sondheim with Miss Teri Ralston, the very pregnant Miss Tami Tappan Damiano and Mr. Davis Gaines. They are rotating special guest narrators through the run. Do I get to see Miss Betty Garrett? No. Do I get to see Miss Polly Bergen? No. Do I get to see Miss Donna McKechnie? No. I get Richard Kline.
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Panni is the pic of Pete with the chair over him? ;D
'Morning/Afternoon, all. Just came back from walking and it is again overcast and coolish in the City of Studio. By the afternoon it will probably be hot -- that's what happened yesterday.Since you have Disney channel connections, DR Panni, I guess you already know that Roker self-satirizes on The Proud Family, voicing a character named Al Roker who is, if not the devil himself, then certainly Mephistopheles incarnate, continually trying to forge Faustian deals. Whood'a thunk!
I think I'm channeling Al Roker. Must stop at once!
Eurotrash, n.As I've never encountered the word "Eurotrash" used with such a definition before, I can only comment: Bull**i*.
A large musical usually by at least one European writer, from the last 20 years with some or all of the following characteristics:
1. Little or no dialogue
2. Plot concerns something unusally tragic or sad
3. Anachronistic music, that rocks on with little or no feeling for time and place
4. Cliche lyrics, usually with dull rhyme schemes and false rhymes
5. Self-pity
6. Bad taste
7. Little or no humor or wit
8. Absence of subtext. Characters tell you exactly how they feel (often self-pity) leaving the audience nothing to do or discover
This is, of course, the famous Mandy-Patinkin-Plays-All-The-Parts solo show, right?
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Well, no wonder you didn't like it--you didn't see whole show.
Add to our list of country songs: I'm rather taken with Reba McEntire's "Fancy." A story song about a girl who goes wrong to get her life right, it would fit right in on stage as a female lead's establishing song.
Now, as for MAMMA MIA, I'm glad I've seen it. It certainly was light, tuneful fluff. But I am not sure tomorrow that I'll remember much about it at all. I do remember that each of the three possible fathers were hunks in this production, and each sported a muscular, hairy chest in the final reprise in their spandex wardrobes. THAT was worth waiting for!
Now, as for MAMMA MIA...I do remember that each of the three possible fathers were hunks in this production, and each sported a muscular, hairy chest in the final reprise in their spandex wardrobes. THAT was worth waiting for!They were wearing spandex, and you were looking at their CHESTS? ::)
Free for all day question (well, Noel and I already discussed this in chat, so don't answer, Noel):Hairdressers?
What is the common denominator between Doris Day, Burt Bacharach and Hal David?
(personally, I didn't know this until tonight).
What is the common denominator between Doris Day, Burt Bacharach and Hal David?
(personally, I didn't know this until tonight).
Knock on Wood! This is the in-focus version of the brochure picture, which hopefully will not put us into cinerama!!!
Fabbo foto, TCB!
td - And I win an all-expenses trip to where?
(It's Epstein)
Note to MattH and others - Richard Kline is NOT Richard Kind and vice versa. There seems to be nothing but confusion here - Richard KIND is taking over for Richard Dreyfuss in Sly Fox. Richard KLINE is doing Side by Side by Sondheim. Richard KLINE is best known for his sidekick role in Three's Company. I hope this clears up The Mystery of Kline Kind.
Or Calvin Klein.
actually... this is a much better (and scarier) page five dance:
(http://www3.telus.net/public/cq1/22anew.gif)
in the words of Kate Monster:
"ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww"
Tomovoz will correct me if I'm wrong, but, wasn't "Fancy" a hit for Bobbie Gentry long before Reba?1969 #40 hit in the USA for Bobbie Gentry.
Free for all day question (well, Noel and I already discussed this in chat, so don't answer, Noel):Have a feeling it is not pillow talk with Rock.
What is the common denominator between Doris Day, Burt Bacharach and Hal David?
(personally, I didn't know this until tonight).