Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on January 19, 2014, 12:26:17 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes spoke of dinner and the postmortem, and now it is time for you to post until the postmortem cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: BOSKY!
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BOSKY!
GLORY OSKY!
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In the "Leave it to Diva" department :) - Milla had to unfortunately bow out of the Midwinter Madness festival in last week of February (I gather shw has a movie in March, not sure how that factored in). Then, since the director Michael Ormond was really doing the show especially to work with Milla (I knew that factoid, they'd had a great success together on The Crucible at St. Bart's two months ago and were aching to work together again) - he decided to step aside.
There's a wonderful performer who will likely step in for Milla, but finding a director for the 30-minute piece at such closeness in time has been tough. (It seems directors book much farther in advance than this. If anyone here or reading here has any ideas... or even anyone reading here who would want to talk about maybe doing it, please message me or contact me on the blog.
Here's the info on the show
http://music-and-comedy.blogspot.com/2014/01/info-about-our-one-act-parody-musical.html
(likely rehearsing between Feb. 10 and 24)
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Morning all.
That is all.
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What a shame, DR FJL.
~ ~ ~ SUPER-STRENGTH VIBES ~ ~ ~ for a quick and successful resolution of your dilemma!
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What a shame, DR FJL.
~ ~ ~ SUPER-STRENGTH VIBES ~ ~ ~ for a quick and successful resolution of your dilemma!
Thanks so much, David!
Sorry if I made a passion play of it, I'll go re-word to calm it down - but LOL - more like a pain in the neck, since their names were already in the advertising and that's hard to pull back. And the change happened just two days after the casting was made public, though it had been in place for a month. And Milla does seem to have a nice loyal following that we'd aimed toward in publicizing, which would have been more than great with the number of seats to fill (55 seats, 3 perfs)
On the other hand - Much better to know five weeks in advance than closer to the date, of course.
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Sunday morning greetings! By 6:30am, Richard and I were both well on our way to being ready to leave for Lima when he received a text message from the senior warden at church. Their exchange eventually resulted in cancellation for today, so we're all dressed
up with nowhere to go. Personally, I thought the call should have been made last night...
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BOSKY!
GLORY OSKY!
THAT'S WHY I'M A JERK.
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Good morning, all.
Coffee and hot fresh cinnamon rolls. yeah, baby.
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Good morning, all! I slept well, except for a very peculiar paranormal experience somewhere in the middle of the night: I awoke and became aware of rustling, shuffling sounds of some sort, and the apartment seemed filled with people, as if I were in the middle of a crowd at a very quiet party. It rattled me, because my first reaction was, I'm dying and my family's come for me; the same things happened in the days before my mother's and father's deaths. My dad reported that the room was filled with angels, and my mother was talking to her dead family members. So, after determining I wasn't dying, I rolled over and went back to sleep.
I need to make a short market run, and then I will spend the day on the choral arrangement, part deux. I think I m now happy with part un.
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Good morning!
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Well, I finally saw The Book of Mormon. I'm glad I saw it and I'm also glad I didn't pay full price. It's very funny but unbelievably crude, as I had heard. The actors, especially the two leads, were great. It's not a show I'd want to see again.
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I also saw the new musical version of The Bridges of Madison County, which I loved. Kelli O'Hara was just great as was the rest of the cast. And I really liked the music. I think I'll be getting the CD of the cast recording.
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Hugh Jackman coming back to Broadway in a Jez Butterworth play "THE RIVER" next year. Will premium prices finally go over $500?
To celebrate: I updated "I Raid My Keogh" to tune of "I Go To Rio" (sung by Jan Horvath)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7UReYZx2wI
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Well, I finally saw The Book of Mormon. I'm glad I saw it and I'm also glad I didn't pay full price. It's very funny but unbelievably crude, as I had heard. The actors, especially the two leads, were great. It's not a show I'd want to see again.
Hey, Kevin, glad to hear you finally got to see the show. I'm think I'm with you on this one. I saw it through the lottery just after it opened in 2011. While I think it's very funny and was extremely well done I don't need to see it again and I don't think of it in the pantheon of "great musicals"
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Well, I finally saw The Book of Mormon. I'm glad I saw it and I'm also glad I didn't pay full price. It's very funny but unbelievably crude, as I had heard. The actors, especially the two leads, were great. It's not a show I'd want to see again.
Hey, Kevin, glad to hear you finally got to see the show. I'm think I'm with you on this one. I saw it through the lottery just after it opened in 2011. While I think it's very funny and was extremely well done I don't need to see it again and I don't think of it in the pantheon of "great musicals"
Ditto from me! I'm amazed it's done as well as it has. I laughed and was happy it moved so quickly, but it's like the talking turd in SOUTH PARK: it's crude and raunchy, but not particularly something I care about nor wish to see again. I also found the musical arrangements better than the music.
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Good morning! This looks to be a lovely Sunday. Well, a semi-lovely Sunday.
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Good morning! This looks to be a lovely Sunday. Well, a semi-lovely Sunday.
Beware of what follows even a semi-lovely Sunday, DR Kerry.
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Nice to see we're in agreement, DRs Ben and elmore!
Oh, I almost forgot. After I won the lottery, the next winners were a family of four. The two children were approximately 6 and 8. They were so excited to win and I was wondering why the children would be so thrilled since they naturally would not be going to the show. Well, two hours later when I got to my seat there were the two children, no parents in sight! I couldn't believe it. The usher kept coming over and talking to them and mentioned they had seen the show before!! I was shocked that the parents would let them see the show, not to mention they were by themselves (which I wouldn't do for any show)! I have to say they were very well behaved. I suppose some of the language went over their heads but there are also some graphic visuals!!
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Oh my dear Kevin. I am afraid that the language did not go over the children's heads. In fact, I'm pretty sure they could have explained anything you didn't understand.
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Good morning.
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Page one? Really?
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I was up at seven, wrote some stuff down, and then fell back asleep around nine and am now up.
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This is ridiculous! Where is everyone?
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Time for a bit of a frenzy.
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Or two.
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Before i get back to the choral arrangement.
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I took a break to edit a few Facebook photos.
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And take us to page 2.
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And i believe this will put us there.
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Bingo!
My work is done.
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Wow. It really is page one. Or was, by the time I finish this li'l contribution.
One of my garage door openers just broke! :)
It's a two-car garage, and the side I use all the time has been a little wonky recently, but I guess its twenty years of age is catching up with it. When I raised it a while ago, it went all the way up, but a wire came off a pulley or the pulley broke off of something or the big spring on one side popped... or something. Anyhoo, I closed it manually and it almost came crashing down (I hadn't yet seen that the spring wasn't connected). So, tomorrow, I call the place down the road and let them fix it, or, worst case, tell me I need a new one.
As we all know, if it isn't one thing, it's another. Oy!
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Nice to see we're in agreement, DRs Ben and elmore!
Oh, I almost forgot. After I won the lottery, the next winners were a family of four. The two children were approximately 6 and 8. They were so excited to win and I was wondering why the children would be so thrilled since they naturally would not be going to the show. Well, two hours later when I got to my seat there were the two children, no parents in sight! I couldn't believe it. The usher kept coming over and talking to them and mentioned they had seen the show before!! I was shocked that the parents would let them see the show, not to mention they were by themselves (which I wouldn't do for any show)! I have to say they were very well behaved. I suppose some of the language went over their heads but there are also some graphic visuals!!
I'm surprised that there wasn't a) an age restriction and b) a rule that little children cannot be left alone.
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Oh, and to make matters even more hilarious...
Before I realized it was really not going to work at all, I went inside and rummaged around for the garage door keys that I hadn't used in just about those twenty years (because the door opener system provides its own locking). I thought I might be able to use the door manually for a day or two till it's fixed.
Okay, let's cut to the chase here. I found the keys, had a little trouble inserting one into the lock...and of course nothing will happen. It turns slightly, but, everything being broken, that does me no good. The door is too heavy to lift without the spring system working. And get this: the key is now stuck in the lock.
Oh, the good times we'll have, looking back and laughing at all of this!
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What a shame, DR FJL.
~ ~ ~ SUPER-STRENGTH VIBES ~ ~ ~ for a quick and successful resolution of your dilemma!
DITTO!!!!
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DR Chas I expect your 20 year old garage door opener will need replacing. Good luck the door is fixed quickly!
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I've been futzing and finessing - I completely rewrote the last of what I'd done last night - the idea was right but not the execution and I'd figured that out at seven in the morning and why I was up and writing those notes down. But it took a while to get it at least in the ballpark so I could move on to chapter ten, which I finally began and have written a page of.
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Anything is possible, but it looks like
Peter Pan (http://news.yahoo.com/nbc-live-remake-39-peter-pan-39-174410088.html)
is the next choice for NBC's live musical presention. Sometime in December of 2014 is the date.
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Did one new page, took a shower, got some good ideas and then did four more pages. That's it for now. I'll leave for the theater in about thirty minutes, see the show, then eat something, then come home and relax - I'll definitely write another two or three pages.
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We took a nice walk and said hello to the horses and cows along the way. In one field they each had a patch of hay they were eating from. A horse decided to share with a cow so the cow decided to go where the horse had been eating. It sounds boring but it was cute to watch them.
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FJL, sorry to read about the interuptions to the production. Vibes that everything works out soon.
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BOSKY!
GLORY OSKY!
THAT'S WHY I'M A JERK.
No, that's why the lady is a tramp.
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Hugh Jackman coming back to Broadway in a Jez Butterworth play "THE RIVER" next year. Will premium prices finally go over $500?
To celebrate: I updated "I Raid My Keogh" to tune of "I Go To Rio" (sung by Jan Horvath)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7UReYZx2wI
Very clever, Fred! :D
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All day yesterday I was confused as to why we had a topic of the day; when we normally never have one on Sunday. This morning when I read the notes, I figured out the error of my ways.
That, also, explains why the church was locked yesterday (that's a joke).
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Anything is possible, but it looks like
Peter Pan (http://news.yahoo.com/nbc-live-remake-39-peter-pan-39-174410088.html)
is the next choice for NBC's live musical presention. Sometime in December of 2014 is the date.
I imagine it will star Lady Gaga as Peter, and Jay-Z as Hook / Mr. Darling.
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All day yesterday I was confused as to why we had a topic of the day; when we normally never have one on Sunday. This morning when I read the notes, I figured out the error of my ways.
That, also, explains why the church was locked yesterday (that's a joke).
I will probably be confused all week, TCB. We canceled church for today because a marathon closed off the street that accesses our church. So we had church yesterday afternoon (which I missed because I had tickets to "Peter and the Starcatcher."
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I was siting in my recliner watching TV, with Nicky sleeping on my lap. I dozed off and my hand came down and smacked Nicky in the head. That was two hours ago, and he is stil not speaking to me. In fact, he climbed into a large box so he doesn't have to hear me apologizing again and again.
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All day yesterday I was confused as to why we had a topic of the day; when we normally never have one on Sunday. This morning when I read the notes, I figured out the error of my ways.
That, also, explains why the church was locked yesterday (that's a joke).
I will probably be confused all week, TCB. We canceled church for today because a marathon closed off the street that accesses our church. So we had church yesterday afternoon (which I missed because I had tickets to "Peter and the Starcatcher."
Well, at least you have a good reason for being confused.
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I suppose that Cathy and Brent are too old for a "live" TV version of PETER PAN
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All day yesterday I was confused as to why we had a topic of the day; when we normally never have one on Sunday. This morning when I read the notes, I figured out the error of my ways.
That, also, explains why the church was locked yesterday (that's a joke).
I will probably be confused all week, TCB. We canceled church for today because a marathon closed off the street that accesses our church. So we had church yesterday afternoon (which I missed because I had tickets to "Peter and the Starcatcher."
That means you had a free Sunday :)
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I was siting in my recliner watching TV, with Nicky sleeping on my lap. I dozed off and my hand came down and smacked Nicky in the head. That was two hours ago, and he is stil not speaking to me. In fact, he climbed into a large box so he doesn't have to hear me apologizing again and again.
Poor Nicky but he sure holds a grudge.
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RE: yesterday's memories of Acres of Books. Sadly, the Acres in Long Beach is also now gone...I think it was dead before I left LA in 2005. I still get up to Ohio Bookstore every few months or so and what a lifetime of continuity it brings. The now-owner was working in the shop when I was a young teenager buying books and I believe his right-hand man retired last year or so, but had been working there since he was a teenager when I was a customer back in the day. The place and set-up still is very similar to when I left. The only thing that is different is the back room in the basement used to have old records, mostly 78's, and has now become their book bindery. They still sell old Life and Look magazines. But even as wonderful as it is, it is disheartening to realize it is a dinosaur...I go there and find holes on shelves where I bought stuff years ago andthat have never been restocked. I tried to sell my parents books there when my mother passed away a few years ago and they don't even buy fiction anymore. So many downtowns have died off or dwindled, sadly Cincy is no different. But on Main street, I used to go on book buying sprees to Acres of Books, then down a couple of blocks to Neville's Antiques which used to sell books (and old sheet music), then a few doors down to Neville's was Ohio Bookstore...the only one left standing now.
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I just called our new neighbors to thank them for the bottle of wine they left to wish us a happy new year and to let us know they are building a temporary shelter to live in while they build their home. Amazingly the bottle didn't break since it was outside in the cold until the 17th.
I expect they feel a bit guilty about the location of the temporary shelter as it is outside our fence at the edge of their property line. Fortunately the house will be much farther away.
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All day yesterday I was confused as to why we had a topic of the day; when we normally never have one on Sunday. This morning when I read the notes, I figured out the error of my ways.
That, also, explains why the church was locked yesterday (that's a joke).
I will probably be confused all week, TCB. We canceled church for today because a marathon closed off the street that accesses our church. So we had church yesterday afternoon (which I missed because I had tickets to "Peter and the Starcatcher."
That means you had a free Sunday :)
As long as I didn't want to go anywhere. That road also accesses my subdivision.
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the key is now stuck in the lock.
Hope the solution is quick and not too costly.
I once managed to snap the head off a key, leaving the remainder in the lock.
Of my rental car. :P
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Hello, everyone.
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What a shame, DR FJL.
~ ~ ~ SUPER-STRENGTH VIBES ~ ~ ~ for a quick and successful resolution of your dilemma!
DITTO! Maybe you'll find a replacement as quickly as BK did for his revue.
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I called the rental place. It was 10 minutes before their closing time. The representative put me on hold until after they had closed, and then left the office.
I had to call a mobile locksmith myself to extricate myself from that situation. The next day, I gave the rental company a piece of my mind.
They ultimately reimbursed me for the locksmith, at least, which they didn't have to do.
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Hello, DR Jeanne. :)
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Finally - PAGE 3!
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Good morning, all! I slept well, except for a very peculiar paranormal experience somewhere in the middle of the night: I awoke and became aware of rustling, shuffling sounds of some sort, and the apartment seemed filled with people, as if I were in the middle of a crowd at a very quiet party. It rattled me, because my first reaction was, I'm dying and my family's come for me; the same things happened in the days before my mother's and father's deaths. My dad reported that the room was filled with angels, and my mother was talking to her dead family members. So, after determining I wasn't dying, I rolled over and went back to sleep.
How frightening. Glad you were able to go back to sleep.
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Hugh Jackman coming back to Broadway in a Jez Butterworth play "THE RIVER" next year. Will premium prices finally go over $500?
To celebrate: I updated "I Raid My Keogh" to tune of "I Go To Rio" (sung by Jan Horvath)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7UReYZx2wI
Very clever. I love the "I raid my Keogh" concept.
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The first time I went into a Dean & Deluca store I thought I'd have to take out a second mortgage in order to afford to buy dinner.
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Oh my dear Kevin. I am afraid that the language did not go over the children's heads. In fact, I'm pretty sure they could have explained anything you didn't understand.
The children may be able to, but I'm not sure I would!
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Hi, David.
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Garage-door vibes to DR Chaz.
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I'm glad you were reimbursed for the locksmith, Sing. How annoying!
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Something has given me a rash. I put some soothing gel on it, but the gel caused my jeans to stick to my skin. Rather funny, I thought. I rinsed off the "soothing" gel and emailed my doctor. I expect it to pass in a few days, but I thought I should update her, anyway.
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TTFN.
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I called the rental place. It was 10 minutes before their closing time. The representative put me on hold until after they had closed, and then left the office.
I had to call a mobile locksmith myself to extricate myself from that situation. The next day, I gave the rental company a piece of my mind.
They ultimately reimbursed me for the locksmith, at least, which they didn't have to do.
Nice of them to acknowledge the rep forgot about you.
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Oh my dear Kevin. I am afraid that the language did not go over the children's heads. In fact, I'm pretty sure they could have explained anything you didn't understand.
The children may be able to, but I'm not sure I would!
LOL I can identify with that.
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Something has given me a rash. I put some soothing gel on it, but the gel caused my jeans to stick to my skin. Rather funny, I thought. I rinsed off the "soothing" gel and emailed my doctor. I expect it to pass in a few days, but I thought I should update her, anyway.
Last night we watched a Vaseline lotion commercial. The women sprayed, or something, strips of the lotion down her legs and arms then quickly slipped into her snug clothes. The ad then said it was fast absorbing. Watching the commercial it looked to us like she was greasing her body to make it easier to slide the clothes on.
Now I get it, the point was to show her clothes wouldn't stick to her ;)
Vibes the rash is gone by tomorrow.
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Maybe this will finally get DR MBarnum interested in classical music! :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACnGTJvqx0o#t=197
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For DR TCB:
Go, Seahawks!
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I'm falling asleep and my allergies have been worse since we returned home.
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It was a post ;)
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Well, I finally saw The Book of Mormon. I'm glad I saw it and I'm also glad I didn't pay full price. It's very funny but unbelievably crude, as I had heard. The actors, especially the two leads, were great. It's not a show I'd want to see again.
Hey, Kevin, glad to hear you finally got to see the show. I'm think I'm with you on this one. I saw it through the lottery just after it opened in 2011. While I think it's very funny and was extremely well done I don't need to see it again and I don't think of it in the pantheon of "great musicals"
Ditto from me! I'm amazed it's done as well as it has. I laughed and was happy it moved so quickly, but it's like the talking turd in SOUTH PARK: it's crude and raunchy, but not particularly something I care about nor wish to see again. I also found the musical arrangements better than the music.
I laughed. Twice.
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It's been Cocktail Conference all weekend. And I still have a party to go to in a couple of hours. It'll be a long night and a short sleep. I'm sure I'll be in good shape for tomorrow.
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Tomorrow my last class of grad school begins.
I'm fairly exhausted, which just makes me long for June to get here.
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That complete set of Rohmer sounds wonderful. I know someone once said that watching Rohmer was like watching paint dry (I think it was Gene Hackman's character in Night Moves), but I always found his pace perfect, something to luxuriate in.
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I've only seen four or five of his movies. So, I hope the library gets that.
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Tomorrow my last class of grad school begins.
I'm fairly exhausted, which just makes me long for June to get here.
Exciting. This is also Craig's last semester.
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Is anyone watching the return of "Sherlock" on tv tonight?
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Page three? Really?
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I'd say we best get a frenzy or nine goin' on.
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The matinee was completely sold out, our last in the smaller space. Tomorrow they begin the move to the bigger space. It was a terrific audience and show.
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I stopped and had a ham and swiss on rye, a small fries and some rice pudding.
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The twenty-five minute drive took twenty-five minutes both ways.
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And now, back to writing.
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Is anyone watching the return of "Sherlock" on tv tonight?
Yes. Well, taping it for future viewing.
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FOUR, at last! ;D
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The twenty-five minute drive took twenty-five minutes both ways.
Now that's what I'm talkin' about! :)
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The St. Paul Winter Carnival is coming soon. Its ethos is very similar to Mardi Gras, although of course the particulars are different. The symbolism is the eventual vanquishing of Winter by Summer. They no longer construct an ice palace (too expensive). But there are parades, pageantry, and celebrations for 10 days. They also bury a medallion somewhere on public land, with a clue each day published in the paper. The finder gets $10,000!
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Now that's what I'm talkin' about!
I almost posted these very words in response to something you posted yesterday about food. :)
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The matinee was completely sold out, our last in the smaller space. Tomorrow they begin the move to the bigger space. It was a terrific audience and show.
Congratulations!
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FJL, Mike and BK: I'm sorry to read about all these casting problems. Vibes for great casts all around.
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Well, it's almost time to hit the road for the last cocktail party of the conference. I'd almost rather stay at home. But I know it will be fun.
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Is anyone watching the return of "Sherlock" on tv tonight?
Richard is, but I think I'll go to bed and read The Art Forger by B. A. Shapiro.
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The matinee was completely sold out, our last in the smaller space. Tomorrow they begin the move to the bigger space. It was a terrific audience and show.
:)
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FJL, sorry to read about the interuptions to the production. Vibes that everything works out soon.
Thanks TCB - disruptions, but no interruptions at all, though, at least not yet. We won't go into rehearsal until around Feb. 10. Show dates are Feb 25 to March 2.
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FJL, Mike and BK: I'm sorry to read about all these casting problems. Vibes for great casts all around.
Thanks, John G!
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Hugh Jackman coming back to Broadway in a Jez Butterworth play "THE RIVER" next year. Will premium prices finally go over $500?
To celebrate: I updated "I Raid My Keogh" to tune of "I Go To Rio" (sung by Jan Horvath)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7UReYZx2wI
Very clever. I love the "I raid my Keogh" concept.
Thanks, Jeanne!
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Anything is possible, but it looks like
Peter Pan (http://news.yahoo.com/nbc-live-remake-39-peter-pan-39-174410088.html)
is the next choice for NBC's live musical presention. Sometime in December of 2014 is the date.
I saw this earlier. Interesting choice.
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What a shame, DR FJL.
~ ~ ~ SUPER-STRENGTH VIBES ~ ~ ~ for a quick and successful resolution of your dilemma!
DITTO!!!!
Thanks so much, Jane
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Anything is possible, but it looks like
Peter Pan (http://news.yahoo.com/nbc-live-remake-39-peter-pan-39-174410088.html)
is the next choice for NBC's live musical presention. Sometime in December of 2014 is the date.
I imagine it will star Lady Gaga as Peter, and Jay-Z as Hook / Mr. Darling.
The article I read on tvline.com said there would be a male lead.
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Hugh Jackman coming back to Broadway in a Jez Butterworth play "THE RIVER" next year. Will premium prices finally go over $500?
To celebrate: I updated "I Raid My Keogh" to tune of "I Go To Rio" (sung by Jan Horvath)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7UReYZx2wI
Very clever, Fred! :D
Thank you again, TCB!
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I called the rental place. It was 10 minutes before their closing time. The representative put me on hold until after they had closed, and then left the office.
I had to call a mobile locksmith myself to extricate myself from that situation. The next day, I gave the rental company a piece of my mind.
They ultimately reimbursed me for the locksmith, at least, which they didn't have to do.
Well that was pretty rude of them to put you on hold and then leave.
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What a shame, DR FJL.
~ ~ ~ SUPER-STRENGTH VIBES ~ ~ ~ for a quick and successful resolution of your dilemma!
DITTO! Maybe you'll find a replacement as quickly as BK did for his revue.
Not THAT fast, but we did find a terrific music director today, which we hadn't had firmed up before.
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Jeanne - hope that clears up soon!
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At this rate, we'll be on PAGE FIVE in no time at all!
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TCB - the man who was nominated for best supporting actor for Captain Phillips (don't remember his name) used to be a taxi driver from Minneapolis. There is a large Somali community there and apparently he was discovered there somehow.....or something like that.
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It was 65 degrees here today!!!
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Tomorrow night it will be -5. Go figure
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I did my laundry since it exhausts into the garage and I need to keep the door open when I dry clothes. I also opened a bunch of windows and aired out the house. Man was that nice
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I did a marathon of Orange is the New Black. I like it and I don't like it. A couple of the major story lines are totally different in the book, but you'd have to do that to make it interesting enough for a series. In the book, which is supposedly all true, Piper's girlfriend/person who snitched her out/ was not at the same prison as Piper even though she is at the same prison in the series. Obviously that totally changes the dynamic with her fiance
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Sorry to hear they aren't building the ice castle anymore
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They usually build one in my home town, but don't know if they are this year
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I don't know much. I woke up this morning and every muscle in my body hurt. I don't know why. It took a very hot shower, aleve, stretching, eating breakfast and drinking lots of water before I felt better.
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I have a gift cert for a massage, so I think I'll call tomorrow and see if I can get in.
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5
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Back from the cocktail party. Some good people there to talk with, but I felt old. Really old.
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And now to sleep, perchance to dream.
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TCB - the man who was nominated for best supporting actor for Captain Phillips (don't remember his name) used to be a taxi driver from Minneapolis. There is a large Somali community there and apparently he was discovered there somehow.....or something like that.
Okay. Thank you. I hadn't heard that before.
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Sorry to have been E & T
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This was a very busy weekend
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Saturday night the Vixter and I ventured into NYC to see Twelfth Night
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It is still nice to see you, if only for a quick visit.
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Saturday night the Vixter and I ventured into NYC to see Twelfth Night
I thought you already saw that.
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We sat in the very last seats in the top balcony - and we still could see everything very well as they seats have a sufficient rake so you can see well over the head of the person a head of you
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we didn't have time to visit unfortunately the Vixter got home from work at 4:45 and by 5 PM we were on the road we were in such a rush I did something I NEVER do I took the Midtown tunnel instead of the 59th Street Bridge
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For DR TCB:
Go, Seahawks!
Thank you, Ginny. And they did it!! On to the Super Bowl.
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we didn't have time to visit unfortunately the Vixter got home from work at 4:45 and by 5 PM we were on the road we were in such a rush I did something I NEVER do I took the Midtown tunnel instead of the 59th Street Bridge
I don't think I was ever in the Midtown tunnel.
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we had hoped to eat at John's Pizza but the stated wait time was 45 minutes (and we heard peopel sayingt hey had already waited more than an hour) so we ended up at a restaurant/bar a few doors down , had a couple of unmemorable $15 hamburgers and fries and lousy service (after three tries to get ketchup I finally got up walked across the restaurant and borrowed a bottle from someone at another table)
So we won't be going there again
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In the "Leave it to Diva" department :) - Milla had to unfortunately bow out of the Midwinter Madness festival in last week of February (I gather shw has a movie in March, not sure how that factored in). Then, since the director Michael Ormond was really doing the show especially to work with Milla (I knew that factoid, they'd had a great success together on The Crucible at St. Bart's two months ago and were aching to work together again) - he decided to step aside.
There's a wonderful performer who will likely step in for Milla, but finding a director for the 30-minute piece at such closeness in time has been tough. (It seems directors book much farther in advance than this. If anyone here or reading here has any ideas... or even anyone reading here who would want to talk about maybe doing it, please message me or contact me on the blog.
Here's the info on the show
http://music-and-comedy.blogspot.com/2014/01/info-about-our-one-act-parody-musical.html (http://music-and-comedy.blogspot.com/2014/01/info-about-our-one-act-parody-musical.html)
(likely rehearsing between Feb. 10 and 24)
That's too bad, Fred. Good luck for the show...whoever ends up doing it!
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Saturday night the Vixter and I ventured into NYC to see Twelfth Night
I thought you already saw that.
Vixdad bought me two single tickets for Christmas one for Richard III and one for Twelfth Night both for on stage seating- on Christmas Eve my bro and SIL gave me two tickets to Twelfth Night (fortunately a week later)
(I did not tell them when Vixdad presented me with the other tickets!)
It was wonderful to see it again though and nice to share it with the Vixter
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we didn't have time to visit unfortunately the Vixter got home from work at 4:45 and by 5 PM we were on the road we were in such a rush I did something I NEVER do I took the Midtown tunnel instead of the 59th Street Bridge
I don't think I was ever in the Midtown tunnel.
Unless you were traveling between Long Island and Manhattan by car it is unlikely that you would have been :)
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I made a big pot of pea soup today -- half will go to my folks tomorrow and the other half will be dinner tomorrow
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Well I have to work tomorrow so good night all
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we didn't have time to visit unfortunately the Vixter got home from work at 4:45 and by 5 PM we were on the road we were in such a rush I did something I NEVER do I took the Midtown tunnel instead of the 59th Street Bridge
I don't think I was ever in the Midtown tunnel.
Unless you were traveling between Long Island and Manhattan by car it is unlikely that you would have been :)
I never made it to Long Island.
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I made a big pot of pea soup today -- half will go to my folks tomorrow and the other half will be dinner tomorrow
I haven't made pea soup in several years. That sounds good.
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Spent way too much of my evening making a show order for the Kritzerland show, and getting the MD all the music. Done now. Maybe I'll shower again and write a couple of pages, although I've done six already.
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Anything is possible, but it looks like
Peter Pan (http://news.yahoo.com/nbc-live-remake-39-peter-pan-39-174410088.html)
is the next choice for NBC's live musical presention. Sometime in December of 2014 is the date.
Another not-so-new idea. I'll definitely watch it, but it's been done before...several times. ::)
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Here's a wonky, but readable picture of the Nellie McKay autographed album that I got last night:
(http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t127/georged55/NellieMcKaysautograph_zps477ee1f4.png)
I had to scan it twice and patch it together.
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Today, I ushered for a modern interpretation of Mozart's "The Magic Flute (http://www.salzburgerfestspiele.at/archive_detail/programid/4573/id/44/j/2012)" from the Salzburg Festival. The score is not updated, but the visuals were set in what looked like a boarding school...or something like that. The singers were all incredible and the Papageno (http://www.salzburgerfestspiele.at/biography/artistid/10763) was gorgeous! ;)
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What was also very interesting (at least, for American audiences) was the character of Monostatos, who is a Moor (a black man). There were a couple of racial stereotypes shown (one was when the students made fun of him by acting like a monkey with a banana) and the actor was not a black man...he was definitely a white guy with make-up on his face and hands. You'd think that they would've been able to get a black singer for this major production. :-\
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Here's a half hour of the actual production that I saw and this clip features Markus Verba as Papageno:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DidVB4Cwjig
This has French subtitles, though.
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And here's the whole production! (but also with French subtitles):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cWayQJQIDA
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Well...
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...since we're so close...
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PAGE SIX DANCE!!