Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on May 03, 2014, 12:43:18 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes were mostly productive, and now it is time for you to post until the mostly productive cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: BOLE!
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Today will be an easy day. If I get up early enough (and if I just want to), I'll go to work for a few hours to make up some time because of having to leave early to get to the theater. If I don't want to, I'll stay home, watch TV and do some laundry before going to the theater tonight.
Tough choices, I know. ;)
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What wonderful posts from last night. I enjoyed all of the posts from DR CILLA LIZ about her day trip...and the videos.
VIBES to DR FJL on his upcoming tribunal.
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Continued vibes to MR BK......
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Today is the day....yes today is the day....
Dancing With the Putnam County Stars.....I am hoping we are somewhere in the middle of the pack rather than at the bottom of the heap....but we shall see.
I have just learned that two of the judges are CLOSE friends with one of the competitors, so I see his star rising in the East like the Sun.
Time will tell.
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TOD:
There was a West Side Story jazz LP that I liked very much, but I can't remember the name of the group.....
And there used to be Broadway music LP's that were on sale at the grocery store for 49 cents....each one had the music from two shows....usually in suites that were a lot like overtures....I particularly remember the one that featured MY FAIR LADY and THE KING AND I.
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Morning all.
That is all.
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Good morning, all! I have a bit of work to accomplish this morning for Rob Berman's Trinity Church concerts, and then I will meet Bruce Pomahac for lunch before we see Inventing Mary Martin at the York Theatre.
I've got to put together this morning notes for the first of the three concerts, Jerome Kern's 1917 Princess Theatre show, Oh, Boy!. I'll give him notes on what happened in the world and the New York stage in 1917, a short thing on the Princess Theatre, how Ray Comstock, and Elizabeth Marbury became its producers, and a synopsis of the show and hw the songs fit into the plot.
I just got this new Sheldon Harnick 2-CD set assembled for his 90th birthday, and I love it!
http://www.musicaltheaterproject.org/sheldon-harnick-hidden-treasures/
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TOD:
There was a West Side Story jazz LP that I liked very much, but I can't remember the name of the group.....
And there used to be Broadway music LP's that were on sale at the grocery store for 49 cents....each one had the music from two shows....usually in suites that were a lot like overtures....I particularly remember the one that featured MY FAIR LADY and THE KING AND I.
would it be this one?
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5128R4QFK0L._SX300__PJautoripBadge,BottomRight,4,-40_OU11__.jpg)
or perhaps this one?
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/719XdqVbA8L.jpg)
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good morning to all
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VIBES to DR FJL on his upcoming tribunal.
Thanks, Jrand!
Two days from 10 am to 5 pm are scheduled, which it seems is the norm for scheduling.
I gather it's just before a judge, not a jury (so to Dan M, where it takes place likely doesn't matter for the result re Bronx vs. Manhattan, except for witnesses getting there) - and I assume it's a "public hearing" only the way any trial is open for people who want to see it, and since the transcript becomes public info, the way the entire investigation report did. But except for rare cases, i assume no one REALLY shows up to watch who's not really involved or interested.
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I also liked the jazz influenced covers of Broadway and films more than the Ferrante & Teicher/Ray Connif/101 Strings/Percy Faith type of albums. I found the latter types to be way over the top for my taste.
BUT sometimes you could find a rarity. A track of music cut from the show and the album being the only source for it. Like I once found "The Quests" a musical sequence cut from Camelot
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or maybe this one?
(http://www.jazz.com/assets/2008/6/24/albumcoverAndréPrevin-WestSideStory.jpg)
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Break a leg to DR JRand and partner!
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And the word of the day is: BOLE!
And The Song Of The Day Is: I TALK TO THE TREES
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DR Jane that is interesting that you actually fall asleep reading. Do you wake up the next day not remembering parts of what you read? I like to be really alert when i read so i don't even read when i am sleepy. I often fall asleep with the tv on but never watching a program. I often watch programs i have recorded at night. But I stop the show as soon as i feel sleepy.
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Saturday morning greetings! I'm off at noon to sell books at our inventory reduction sale, so will be E & T most of the afternoon.
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Break a leg wishes to Jrand!
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Nice reviews of Inventing Mary martin
http://www.theatermania.com/new-york-city-theater/reviews/04-2014/inventing-mary-martin_68397.html
http://www.theaterscene.net/ts/articles.nsf/OBMus/1E0502F99B8D4BBF85257CC8006E47D5?OpenDocument
http://www.theaterpizzazz.com/inventing-mary-martin-revue-lifetime/
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Thanks DR JENNIFER.
Hmmmm DR MIKE it could be one of those......I am going to look at some covers on EBAY to see if I can come up with it....
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AH...it was this one:
(http://eil.com/images/main/Robert+Prince+%2D+N%2EY%2E+Export%3A+Op%2E+Jazz+%2F+West+Side+Story+%2D+LP+RECORD-490150.jpg)
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What was up with those strange pants Ricky Martin was wearing on the TV version of DANCING WITH THE STARS last week?
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I am downloading the Oscar Peterson and Dave Brubeck WSS albums....
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Ricky Martin on the Tv version of Dancing with the Stars last week - exciting number, but the pants needed tailoring around the - well - boxer shorts area
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHcxOHwzIfI
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Good morning, all! I have a bit of work to accomplish this morning for Rob Berman's Trinity Church concerts, and then I will meet Bruce Pomahac for lunch before we see Inventing Mary Martin at the York Theatre.
I hear that I will be in the audience as well. I am so this show's target audience that they might as well write "Dear FJL" in the program.
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I think Skip is going either tomorrow or next weekend.
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I am determined to make up for my E&T-ness in posting numbers during tax season, or at least so it seems.
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Good morning, all.
Got to sleep in a little bit, then I drove a station wagon load of JUNK to the dumpsters, an annual thing my town has been doing for the past several years.
Edit: Trash and recycling are weird issues around here. After years of rough starts, we finally have a good, easy to understand and manage, recycling program available to us. But this town in particular has never provided a way to easily get rid of one's large trash items, not even a place where you could haul things and pay a small price per lb. to drop it off. Also, none of the weekly trash/recycle pickup is handled by the city. You choose one of the commercial companies to do it, and it does cost a shiny dime or two. So when they started this annual "clean-up day" several years back, in which they'd provide dumpsters, etc., it became an instant success.
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I'm theoretically "here" for the first of the three Trinity concerts, but I will have just been on the road all day the previous day (very quick trip to see family), so no guarantees I'll have it in me to get up and into the city for that one. But I'm in for the second and third.
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Julie Andrews and "STAR" - I think it's been linked here recently, but it's always worth listening to
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6bk5mVPaR0
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Favorite line in that STAR lyric: "Known from Maine to Cooch Behar"
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Almost seems to call for a parody about Joy Behar.
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Good Morning all:
TOD:
A TASTE OF HONEY, (Herb Albert)
WHERE DO I BEGIN (LOVE STORY)
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TOD:
I have all of those West Side Story albums on LP. Actually, I'd better check on that "ballet" one -- I think I have it, but I suspect I haven't listened to it. This will be rectified.
I love the Shelley Manne / Andre Previn albums based on shows. Oddly, and unforgivably, the one I have NEVER come across on LP (which all my others are on) is Li'l Abner. It's time to get off the dime and move the CD into my Amazon cart and begin enjoying it once and for all.
Like DR Mike, I far prefer jazz interpretations of show scores over the 101 Strings / Ray Conniff / etc. approach. Those certainly have their place, and can be enjoyable at times, but for me, most of them were like unto "elevator music" that rarely captured the essence of what I love about show scores.
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Goodbye for Now!!! :) 8) :-*
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There are a huge number of West Side Story in jazz albums - more than for any other show, I think. The Kenton is a classic, as is the Peterson, but I love Cal Tjader's version and several others. The Robert Prince album is a must-have, a wonderful performance of the WSS dances, and his piece is also wonderful. Not as fond of the Shelly Manne/Previn version - and Brubeck has a very good one, too.
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Has Kate finished a book yet?
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I don't think we'll ever know.
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I've been up since six-thirty - really wanted to sleep more than four hours, but alas...
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Hard to tell how the voice is at this early part of the day. She of the Evil Eye has arrived and I guess I'll do some sort of jog.
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Hard to tell how the voice is at this early part of the day. She of the Evil Eye has arrived and I guess I'll do some sort of jog.
And when you're feeling better, you can do some sort of jig.
(Oy.) (But hey, it's a post.)
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BK, Did you mean me regarding Finishing the book?
If you did and you meant RED GOLD, yes I finished it several weeks ago and posted that I did and that I REALLY ENJOYED IT!
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GOODBYE FOR NOW! :-*
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I am hoping to score a copy of the Prince LP....we shall see. I just ordered the Cal Tjader CD.
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Off to see INVENTING MARY MARTIN.
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I am hoping to score a copy of the Prince LP....we shall see. I just ordered the Cal Tjader CD.
The Tjader is one I never knew about. Just placed it in my cart to remind me. (Right after ordering LI'L ABNER.)
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I had to do a bit of ketching-up (or maybe, after reading this post, kvetching up).
To DR FJL: Good luck in the public hearing, hope that the venue is friendly for your side.
Re: West Side Story versions
I like all of the aforementioned. ALSO, love the so-called elevator music. Ferrante & Teicher were great, etc. It may not be a cup of tea to all.
Segue, from cup of tea. One who is not mine is Seth MacFarlane. I hear him sing and think of the "American Dad" opening, so I can't erase that memory. His humor has stayed in the toilet all these years, and I find that such humor takes very little effort, cf. any 11 year-old boy child.
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Kvetch #2:
Hated the (unfortunately) Bernstein conducted so-named operatic version. The singers apart from that recording are usually among my favorites, but for me, the operatic singing style is too overpowering for the singing of most "pop" songs. I tried to, and wanted to, like it. After all it was LB, but if it doesn't jell, it isn't aspic, and this didn't jell for me (paraphrased from Martin Balsam's Det. Arbogast).
I also did not care much for the mid-1990s version, save for Little Richard's high-camp of "I Feel Pretty" and Aretha Franklin's "Somewhere". For me, Aretha Franklin is right up there with Ella and the Divine Miss Sarah. I know that the intentions were good, but for me, too uneven, as most of the other performers are not people I like to listen to.
But, who am I? I'm not a music expert, nor a musicologist. I like Ferrante & Teicher, Ray Conniff, Leroy Holmes and any number of lounge types, which is a put-down term I think. I do tend toward orchestral music, so maybe I'm just a musical misfit. If I should ever enter Lincoln Center again, the pillars may fall, who knows?
I am playing kvetch today it seems.
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Hello Everyone.....the latest Broadway Radio Show is up and running on this here fabulous website....and it's a very fabulous show....I chat with the amazing Karen Mason who tells wonderful stories about working as the back-up Norma Desmond in Sunset Blvd for 3 years (she covered for Glenn, Betty and Elaine!), being the original Tanya in Mamma Mia on Broadway, working with Frank Wildhorn on Wonderland, and her perspective on the whole Rebecca scandal (she was contracted to play the delightfully evil Mrs Danvers!).....Karen will be doing her newest cabaret show Secrets of The Ancient Divas in SF, LA and Chicago during May and June and you can get more details at her website www.karenmason.com (http://www.karenmason.com)
Enjoy The Show!
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I liked the MAKING OF videos of the Jose C-Kiri T South Pacific AND West Side Story....most entertaining!
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Bacon-wrapped onion rings:
(http://i1282.photobucket.com/albums/a532/singdaw1/bacononionrings_zpsfd4e4104.jpg)
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Read a recipe for grilled bacon-wrapped peaches, which I may try, if I ever get my life back again.
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TOD:
Percy Faith's recordings of the scores for "Do I Hear a Waltz?" "Kismet" and "Subways Are for Sleeping."
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Need to write more. Ugh.
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Well I have on my jeans, flannel shirt, and Stetson, and I am off to DWTPCS carrying my tuxedo.
I will be happy with anything except LAST place. Pray for Rosemary's Baby. We don't dance until the second group, so I can't even have a glass of wine until the whole damn thing is almost over!
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Well I have on my jeans, flannel shirt, and Stetson, and I am off to DWTPCS carrying my tuxedo.
I will be happy with anything except LAST place. Pray for Rosemary's Baby. We don't dance until the second group, so I can't even have a glass of wine until the whole damn thing is almost over!
VIBES FOR A WIN! Best wishes DR Jrand!
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Bacon-wrapped onion rings:
(http://i1282.photobucket.com/albums/a532/singdaw1/bacononionrings_zpsfd4e4104.jpg)
If they're gluten-free, I'll bite! :D
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TOD:
There was a West Side Story jazz LP that I liked very much, but I can't remember the name of the group.....
And there used to be Broadway music LP's that were on sale at the grocery store for 49 cents....each one had the music from two shows....usually in suites that were a lot like overtures....I particularly remember the one that featured MY FAIR LADY and THE KING AND I.
Were those 101 String recordings? I had several of those.
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Oh, why not!
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T h r e e !
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Wonderful Donald radio show - love Karen Mason. Check it out.
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Did a two-mile jog, had poached eggs on an English muffin, did some banking and now I'm home. Have the air on, which I hate, but if I didn't it would be a broiler by three. This way I'll get it down to 69 and shut it off for the stumble-through.
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DR Cilla I enjoyed reading about your yesterday.
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From DR John:
Next week brings some changes. Starting Tuesday, I'll be working two days a week from home. Not having to face the rush traffic twice in the same week could be too much to handle. But if I try real hard, I could get used to it.
Sounds good :)
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From DR Cilla:
The Goldie fries are dipped in beer batter and they were also fabulous.
Yum. I intensely dislike beer, beer batter on the other hand I enjoy very much.
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BK, Did you mean me regarding Finishing the book?
If you did and you meant RED GOLD, yes I finished it several weeks ago and posted that I did and that I REALLY ENJOYED IT!
I can find no post - I've searched every way I know how, so maybe you think you posted. I've been watching for it. Last post I saw you were on chapter twelve. Maybe someone else can find it?
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Aha, I found it - it didn't come up searching Red Gold because you typed it REDGOLD. Don't know how I missed it, but glad to see you liked it! Have Kevin post an amazon review.
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DR Singdaw I hope your rash has improved.
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DR Jane that is interesting that you actually fall asleep reading. Do you wake up the next day not remembering parts of what you read? I like to be really alert when i read so i don't even read when i am sleepy. I often fall asleep with the tv on but never watching a program. I often watch programs i have recorded at night. But I stop the show as soon as i feel sleepy.
Sometimes I have to go back a page or two depending how long I was sleep-reading, something I really believe I do. Most often, if I sleep the rest of the night without reading again, I can pick up where I left off in the morning. I find reading a little bit in the morning jogs my memory if it is sluggish.
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Well I have on my jeans, flannel shirt, and Stetson, and I am off to DWTPCS carrying my tuxedo.
I will be happy with anything except LAST place. Pray for Rosemary's Baby. We don't dance until the second group, so I can't even have a glass of wine until the whole damn thing is almost over!
Vibes you are pleased with your performance and you are happy with your standing!!!
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on: April 13, 2014, 04:38:08 PM
From DR Kate:
I have finished REDGOLD :) ;) :D 8) :-*
I so enjoyed it!!!
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Aha, I found it - it didn't come up searching Red Gold because you typed it REDGOLD. Don't know how I missed it, but glad to see you liked it! Have Kevin post an amazon review.
I searched "Gold" to find it, but then I searched under Kate's post and not in the Search option.
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Happy Saturday, all!
BK, have a great stumble through. I do wish I could make tomorrow evening. I can't tell you how I am counting the hours until this reading is over. It has not been fun for me.
Going to see INTO THE WOODS tonight at 3D Theatricals, where I did PARADE last year. They should have hired me for the Mysterious Man of the Woods, so I could play the father of the guy I played 20 years ago. Then again, It's kinda nice at my age to be told that I look too young for a role. :D
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DR ryacko I'm sorry you aren't enjoying the reading.
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DR ryacko I'm sorry you aren't enjoying the reading.
Thanks, DR Jane. I'll manage. It's just a difficult set of circumstances. My mother passed, then right after that, in the second week of rehearsals, the composer of this reading died unexpectedly, and the script is filled with talk about coffins and death. Just not what I need right now. It's over Monday night. I'll manage and then I'll forget about it for good.
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And then you go right into a delicious Kritzerland show - which I have finally chosen.
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It came to me so naturally as if it's what it always was meant to be. Funny how that happens.
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Good morning, all! I have a bit of work to accomplish this morning for Rob Berman's Trinity Church concerts, and then I will meet Bruce Pomahac for lunch before we see Inventing Mary Martin at the York Theatre.
I've got to put together this morning notes for the first of the three concerts, Jerome Kern's 1917 Princess Theatre show, Oh, Boy!. I'll give him notes on what happened in the world and the New York stage in 1917, a short thing on the Princess Theatre, how Ray Comstock, and Elizabeth Marbury became its producers, and a synopsis of the show and hw the songs fit into the plot.
I just got this new Sheldon Harnick 2-CD set assembled for his 90th birthday, and I love it!
http://www.musicaltheaterproject.org/sheldon-harnick-hidden-treasures/ (http://www.musicaltheaterproject.org/sheldon-harnick-hidden-treasures/)
I just ordered that and the Hugh Martin (http://www.musicaltheaterproject.org/recordings/coming-soon/) CD, as well. :)
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Today will be an easy day. If I get up early enough (and if I just want to), I'll go to work for a few hours to make up some time because of having to leave early to get to the theater. If I don't want to, I'll stay home, watch TV and do some laundry before going to the theater tonight.
Tough choices, I know. ;)
I did not go to work today.
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I am hoping to score a copy of the Prince LP....we shall see. I just ordered the Cal Tjader CD.
Wow! I never thought of you as a Prince fan. Which do you prefer; "Purple Rain" or "When Doves Cry?"
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BK I see you found DR Kate's post. But I think it is easier to just read HER past posts vs doing a search of a word since you do not know how she wrote it. She could have simply said she loved the book without naming it.
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Speaking of ROSEMARY'S BABY - ran across this YouTube report on the TV remake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55MHn2StJG4
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Today is the day....yes today is the day....
Dancing With the Putnam County Stars.....I am hoping we are somewhere in the middle of the pack rather than at the bottom of the heap....but we shall see.
I have just learned that two of the judges are CLOSE friends with one of the competitors, so I see his star rising in the East like the Sun.
Time will tell.
~~~Break Legs Vibes for Jrand and Dancing Partner!!~~~
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And I am home from Inventing Mary Martin, which I really enjoyed. I found it very funny, musically very interesting with wonderful David Krane arrangements and a nice band led by Larry Goldberg, and the cast was quite good. I'm very happy for Steve Cole and David.
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From DR Cilla:
The Goldie fries are dipped in beer batter and they were also fabulous.
Yum. I intensely dislike beer, beer batter on the other hand I enjoy very much.
Ditto and ditto.
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And I am home from Inventing Mary Martin, which I really enjoyed. I found it very funny, musically very interesting with wonderful David Krane arrangements and a nice band led by Larry Goldberg, and the cast was quite good. I'm very happy for Steve Cole and David.
I agree with you, Larry. And since I didn't know all that much about intimate details of Mary Martin's life (I'm sure less than you know about her, of course, Larry), it held that extra fascination for me.
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I really felt as it was nearing the end of the story that I would have loved to spend even more time with these performers and the way Steve Cole was telling her life story.
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Thanks, Dan M!
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Strange story about what happened to Bette Midler's big toe during a pedicure, I think
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2619167/Ouch-Bette-Midler-shares-photo-bandaged-toe-blames-injury-cowboy-boots.html
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And then you go right into a delicious Kritzerland show - which I have finally chosen.
Oooh, do tell! :)
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DR ryacko I'm sorry you aren't enjoying the reading.
Thanks, DR Jane. I'll manage. It's just a difficult set of circumstances. My mother passed, then right after that, in the second week of rehearsals, the composer of this reading died unexpectedly, and the script is filled with talk about coffins and death. Just not what I need right now. It's over Monday night. I'll manage and then I'll forget about it for good.
I didn't realize the subject on top of everything else.
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And then you go right into a delicious Kritzerland show - which I have finally chosen.
:)
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From DR Cilla:
The Goldie fries are dipped in beer batter and they were also fabulous.
Yum. I intensely dislike beer, beer batter on the other hand I enjoy very much.
Ditto and ditto.
I have had some delicious beer breads too.
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Strange story about what happened to Bette Midler's big toe during a pedicure, I think
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2619167/Ouch-Bette-Midler-shares-photo-bandaged-toe-blames-injury-cowboy-boots.html
Very little info there and she blamed it on her Texas boots which seems odd. I would understand a pedicure more.
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Filed under "I thought that they were already dead"...Efrem Zimbalist Jr., star of 'The FBI,' dies at 95 (http://www.today.com/entertainment/efrem-zimbalist-jr-star-fbi-dies-95-2D79615845).
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Good morning, all! I have a bit of work to accomplish this morning for Rob Berman's Trinity Church concerts, and then I will meet Bruce Pomahac for lunch before we see Inventing Mary Martin at the York Theatre.
I've got to put together this morning notes for the first of the three concerts, Jerome Kern's 1917 Princess Theatre show, Oh, Boy!. I'll give him notes on what happened in the world and the New York stage in 1917, a short thing on the Princess Theatre, how Ray Comstock, and Elizabeth Marbury became its producers, and a synopsis of the show and hw the songs fit into the plot.
I just got this new Sheldon Harnick 2-CD set assembled for his 90th birthday, and I love it!
http://www.musicaltheaterproject.org/sheldon-harnick-hidden-treasures/ (http://www.musicaltheaterproject.org/sheldon-harnick-hidden-treasures/)
I just ordered that and the Hugh Martin (http://www.musicaltheaterproject.org/recordings/coming-soon/) CD, as well. :)
The Hugh Martin is a good one.
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I really felt as it was nearing the end of the story that I would have loved to spend even more time with these performers and the way Steve Cole was telling her life story.
So, could you figure out why the critics were largely so negative about the production? What's not to like about the songs? Or the fact that they're sung by the likes of Emily Skinner and Jason Graae?
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Made a sour cream apple pie today for a Cinco de Mayo party I'm going to tomorrow. I really shouldn't be partying, but I just need to take some time off.
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That said, it's back to work.
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Wow. It's been raining all afternoon here...and hard, too. It would stop or at least slow down for a bit, but now it's coming down pretty hard, again.
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And speaking of rain, I need to take a shower.
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I really felt as it was nearing the end of the story that I would have loved to spend even more time with these performers and the way Steve Cole was telling her life story.
So, could you figure out why the critics were largely so negative about the production? What's not to like about the songs? Or the fact that they're sung by the likes of Emily Skinner and Jason Graae?
I think the major dailies have more of an impact on other reviews than we like to think.
But the more positive notices seem to have come from the critics on theater-oriented internet sites who seem to have a predilection to love the subject going in [Matthew Murray being an expected exception], which I think adds up to: if the subject as described appeals to you or intrigues you, they deliver it very well and deliver it with much entertainment and insight. But if it doesn't sound intriguing to a potential audience member to see a revue about the life of Mary Martin, this may not be the show for that person.
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Julie Andrews and "STAR" - I think it's been linked here recently, but it's always worth listening to
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6bk5mVPaR0
This is the extended version of the song that is NOT used in the film.
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Wow. It's been raining all afternoon here...and hard, too. It would stop or at least slow down for a bit, but now it's coming down pretty hard, again.
If it is headed this way I hope it waits until after Keith mows tomorrow, or better yet until after our company that is arriving on Wednesday leaves on Friday.
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Goodbye for Now!!! :) 8) :-*
Streisand sings Sondheim's Goodbye For Now
http://youtu.be/8wfxqhwqsAg (http://youtu.be/8wfxqhwqsAg)
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Good morning, all! I have a bit of work to accomplish this morning for Rob Berman's Trinity Church concerts, and then I will meet Bruce Pomahac for lunch before we see Inventing Mary Martin at the York Theatre.
I've got to put together this morning notes for the first of the three concerts, Jerome Kern's 1917 Princess Theatre show, Oh, Boy!. I'll give him notes on what happened in the world and the New York stage in 1917, a short thing on the Princess Theatre, how Ray Comstock, and Elizabeth Marbury became its producers, and a synopsis of the show and hw the songs fit into the plot.
I just got this new Sheldon Harnick 2-CD set assembled for his 90th birthday, and I love it!
http://www.musicaltheaterproject.org/sheldon-harnick-hidden-treasures/ (http://www.musicaltheaterproject.org/sheldon-harnick-hidden-treasures/)
I just ordered that and the Hugh Martin (http://www.musicaltheaterproject.org/recordings/coming-soon/) CD, as well. :)
Crap. I paid $30 each for these two CDs, but the Harnick CD is on sale for only $12.99 (http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp;jsessionid=AC0315A73DD0FA19F65DBED07B253B01?album_id=1256521)...and the regular price is only $16.99! >:(
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Wow. It's been raining all afternoon here...and hard, too. It would stop or at least slow down for a bit, but now it's coming down pretty hard, again.
If it is headed this way I hope it waits until after Keith mows tomorrow, or better yet until after our company that is arriving on Wednesday leaves on Friday.
Well, it's stopped for now. And so has the washing machine. Now I can put the clothes in the dryer and take a shower.
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BK, Did you mean me regarding Finishing the book?
If you did and you meant RED GOLD, yes I finished it several weeks ago and posted that I did and that I REALLY ENJOYED IT!
Finishing the book
How you have to finish the book
How you watch the rest of the world
From a window
While you finish the book
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Studying the book
Entering the world of the book
Reaching through the world of the book
Like a window,
Back to this one from that.
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Is anyone watching the new tv series FARGO, besides DR Druxy?
We have the 2nd two episodes recorded and ready to watch, however, we still have the first one to record.
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Here's what I did today http://siouxcityjournal.com/news/local/sioux-city-s-amazing-architectural-race/article_77aa1109-2f39-5976-beaf-4bf65dd8ba05.html (http://siouxcityjournal.com/news/local/sioux-city-s-amazing-architectural-race/article_77aa1109-2f39-5976-beaf-4bf65dd8ba05.html)
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Bacon-wrapped onion rings:
(http://i1282.photobucket.com/albums/a532/singdaw1/bacononionrings_zpsfd4e4104.jpg)
YUM.....did you find this in Minnesota?
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DR Cilla I enjoyed reading about your yesterday.
Thanks Jane. It was a great day. So was today. I've never done anything competitive with Paul. He was the one who wanted to cut down the alley so the team of young girls wouldn't follow us. I was totally on board with that. I loved it
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That made me laugh when I read it. The article captured the fun you obviously had.
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Here's what I did today http://siouxcityjournal.com/news/local/sioux-city-s-amazing-architectural-race/article_77aa1109-2f39-5976-beaf-4bf65dd8ba05.html (http://siouxcityjournal.com/news/local/sioux-city-s-amazing-architectural-race/article_77aa1109-2f39-5976-beaf-4bf65dd8ba05.html)
Cilla, congrats to you and Paul!
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And now, I'm off to the theater.
Until later!
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That made me laugh when I read it. The article captured the fun you obviously had.
And the interview was funny. We did go to a bar, but just had one drink and went home.
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Here's what I did today http://siouxcityjournal.com/news/local/sioux-city-s-amazing-architectural-race/article_77aa1109-2f39-5976-beaf-4bf65dd8ba05.html (http://siouxcityjournal.com/news/local/sioux-city-s-amazing-architectural-race/article_77aa1109-2f39-5976-beaf-4bf65dd8ba05.html)
Cilla, congrats to you and Paul!
Thanks. It was just a fun thing to do. The win and cash were a pleasant surprise. Well, we were pretty determined to win, but didn't know about the cash until we got there. John, the guy in one of the photos was our main competition, he said he'd been studying Sioux City History for a long time and was confident about winning. He didn't want to get wet though, so he kept taking the skywalk, which made it harder to find all the buildings. I think he got them all in the end, but we were faster
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LOL, staying dry would hinder one. What a wus.
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LOL, staying dry would hinder one. What a wus.
When we were about to get our last photo we did see him trudging up a hill in the rain. Guess he realized he couldn't get them all without going out in the rain
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Time to make a late dinner. I bought a nice steak with part of my winnings
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Good morning, all! I have a bit of work to accomplish this morning for Rob Berman's Trinity Church concerts, and then I will meet Bruce Pomahac for lunch before we see Inventing Mary Martin at the York Theatre.
I've got to put together this morning notes for the first of the three concerts, Jerome Kern's 1917 Princess Theatre show, Oh, Boy!. I'll give him notes on what happened in the world and the New York stage in 1917, a short thing on the Princess Theatre, how Ray Comstock, and Elizabeth Marbury became its producers, and a synopsis of the show and hw the songs fit into the plot.
I just got this new Sheldon Harnick 2-CD set assembled for his 90th birthday, and I love it!
http://www.musicaltheaterproject.org/sheldon-harnick-hidden-treasures/ (http://www.musicaltheaterproject.org/sheldon-harnick-hidden-treasures/)
I just ordered that and the Hugh Martin (http://www.musicaltheaterproject.org/recordings/coming-soon/) CD, as well. :)
Crap. I paid $30 each for these two CDs, but the Harnick CD is on sale for only $12.99 (http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp;jsessionid=AC0315A73DD0FA19F65DBED07B253B01?album_id=1256521)...and the regular price is only $16.99! >:(
I wasn't going to point that sale that out since you'd already bought yours.
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Sounds like fun, Cillaliz, rain and all.
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Speaking of ROSEMARY'S BABY - ran across this YouTube report on the TV remake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55MHn2StJG4
I am confused by some of the articles I have read about the miniseries. All of them go out of their way to say that this is based on the novel, and not on the film. I don't remember very many diffferences between the two; at least, not enough to make such a distinction.
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Had our stumble-through - cast was great, MD had real issues today and I had to be very strong to get them fixed - way too many crazy mistakes throughout - I can deal with one or two, but when opening vamps change, when songs are started in wrong keys, when transitions aren't what they're supposed to be, then the singers are left hung out to dry and I just won't allow it. Hopefully there will be much practicing between now and sound check. But what songs and what singers. I was so whacked out about the piano stuff that I wasn't really concentrating enough on Sami and my duet (she was having trouble concentrating, too because we didn't know if we were going to be led into some wacky land) - Actually I remembered everything but the first line of one couplet. After we were done, I reviewed all the problem sections and hopefully the problems were rectified in ways that he will understand for the show.
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Then some of us went and had dinner. I had a chili, cheese and onion grilled hot dog and fries - just what I wanted and it was great.
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;D
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Today is my mother's birthday. She would have been 98.
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Boy, do I know how to clear a room!
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Happy observance of TCB's Mom's birthday!
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Good night, all.
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Happy observance of TCB's Mom's birthday!
ditto
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Good night, all.
DItto
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Ditto is ottid spelled backwards.
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This jernt is cleared out.
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Watched a motion picture entitled Jobs.
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Good morning, all! I have a bit of work to accomplish this morning for Rob Berman's Trinity Church concerts, and then I will meet Bruce Pomahac for lunch before we see Inventing Mary Martin at the York Theatre.
I've got to put together this morning notes for the first of the three concerts, Jerome Kern's 1917 Princess Theatre show, Oh, Boy!. I'll give him notes on what happened in the world and the New York stage in 1917, a short thing on the Princess Theatre, how Ray Comstock, and Elizabeth Marbury became its producers, and a synopsis of the show and hw the songs fit into the plot.
I just got this new Sheldon Harnick 2-CD set assembled for his 90th birthday, and I love it!
http://www.musicaltheaterproject.org/sheldon-harnick-hidden-treasures/ (http://www.musicaltheaterproject.org/sheldon-harnick-hidden-treasures/)
I just ordered that and the Hugh Martin (http://www.musicaltheaterproject.org/recordings/coming-soon/) CD, as well. :)
Crap. I paid $30 each for these two CDs, but the Harnick CD is on sale for only $12.99 (http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp;jsessionid=AC0315A73DD0FA19F65DBED07B253B01?album_id=1256521)...and the regular price is only $16.99! >:(
I wasn't going to point that sale that out since you'd already bought yours.
Oh, well. It's not the first time that something like that has happened. And when I'd had some stuff stolen a few years ago from my garage, there were a couple of CDs that I bought more than once...I now have two copies of Donna Murphy's The King and I, and three copies each of Kiss of the Spider Woman, The Birdcage AND Das Barbecü. ::)
;)
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Tonight, we had a full house (our first) for "Chamber Music"! They loved the show and the actors gave a great performance. There was one missed sound cue (not my mistake ;)), but other than that, it went really well.
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Good morning, all! I have a bit of work to accomplish this morning for Rob Berman's Trinity Church concerts, and then I will meet Bruce Pomahac for lunch before we see Inventing Mary Martin at the York Theatre.
I've got to put together this morning notes for the first of the three concerts, Jerome Kern's 1917 Princess Theatre show, Oh, Boy!. I'll give him notes on what happened in the world and the New York stage in 1917, a short thing on the Princess Theatre, how Ray Comstock, and Elizabeth Marbury became its producers, and a synopsis of the show and hw the songs fit into the plot.
I just got this new Sheldon Harnick 2-CD set assembled for his 90th birthday, and I love it!
http://www.musicaltheaterproject.org/sheldon-harnick-hidden-treasures/ (http://www.musicaltheaterproject.org/sheldon-harnick-hidden-treasures/)
I just ordered that and the Hugh Martin (http://www.musicaltheaterproject.org/recordings/coming-soon/) CD, as well. :)
Crap. I paid $30 each for these two CDs, but the Harnick CD is on sale for only $12.99 (http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp;jsessionid=AC0315A73DD0FA19F65DBED07B253B01?album_id=1256521)...and the regular price is only $16.99! >:(
I wasn't going to point that sale that out since you'd already bought yours.
Oh, well. It's not the first time that something like that has happened. And when I'd had some stuff stolen a few years ago from my garage, there were a couple of CDs that I bought more than once...I now have two copies of Donna Murphy's The King and I, and three copies each of Kiss of the Spider Woman, The Birdcage AND Das Barbecü. ::)
;)
But what languages are they?
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Sorry that your stumble-through did not go better, BK.
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George, congratulation on you full house tonight.
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Indian and Kristin have been told that they are both too old for the film version of WICKED.
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I hate it when SpellCheck thinks it is smarter than you!
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George, congratulation on you full house tonight.
Thanks, Tom! Hopefully, it'll continue tomorrow and through our last weekend.
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Well, page six is possible.
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I hope!
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It is a very rainy night in the Pacific Northwet.
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Hard to believe it is May. Mother Nature is trying to drown all of the May flowers.
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I don't mean to say it didn't go well - it was fine for the singers - they were great and the songs are all stellar - it was just the MD problems that were problems and hopefully we've now solved them. Luckily, whenever I'm told something was right when I know it wasn't, the singer has a recording and we play it and guess what - it wasn't right - then we adjust. If I hear anything untoward at the sound check we'll still have time to adjust it. As much as I love our MD, this will, I think, be his last time with us and I think he'll be thrilled with that news.
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I'm glad mine are all plastic.
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page six
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I don't mean to say it didn't go well - it was fine for the singers - they were great and the songs are all stellar - it was just the MD problems that were problems and hopefully we've now solved them. Luckily, whenever I'm told something was right when I know it wasn't, the singer has a recording and we play it and guess what - it wasn't right - then we adjust. If I hear anything untoward at the sound check we'll still have time to adjust it. As much as I love our MD, this will, I think, be his last time with us and I think he'll be thrilled with that news.
Is this your usual music director?
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Tacoma Little Theatre has announced their 96th season. They are doing SCROOGE, THE MUSICAL. I so wanted another chance to play Scrooge, but it isn't going to happen now.
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Well, nice chatting with you guys!