Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on May 15, 2016, 02:02:24 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes were a two-show notes, and now it is time for you to post until the two-show cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: LICIT!
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First post after BK!
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From yesterday:
I saw Christian tonight.
That's cool! Was he there in the audience or was he performing?
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Guess I am not the only one not sleeping tonight.
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Time to close my eyes if I sleep or not.
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Time to close my eyes if I sleep or not.
I'm getting pretty sleepy, myself.
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I'm off to sleep.
Good night Jane, and anyone else lurking out there.
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From yesterday:
I saw Christian tonight.
That's cool! Was he there in the audience or was he performing?
He was there as the host for the roast. Kind of a roast host!
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Hi HHWers:
I try to read BK's blog with some regularity, but post rarely. Such is life with kids in school.
Having been to Bruce's show tonight, however, I wanted to compliment him on a marvelous musical review. L.A. Now and Then will resonate deeply with those of us who grew up or are still growing up here .... and that includes not only my daughter, but dear BK (who is still growing up?!).
Whether you knew L.A. then, experience it now, only in passing or never at all, who could not be taken by its soul, heart, charm, sadness and humor? I teared up, I laughed loud. (spoiler: a ballet wrestler). Robert Yacko, who I've seen perform at Kritzerland, is not only a marvelous singer but poignant actor. The entire cast was gave it their all, singing and shimmying their way through the eras.
It's Bruce's love letter to not only his Los Angeles, but all of the things we remember and miss from childhood, wherever we grew up.
I'm looking forward to the cast album and hope the show will have other runs beyond this one. :) :)
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Good morning, all.
And an early one it is for the likes of moi on a Sunday morn'.
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Great photos. I look forward to many more.
How utterly bizarre about the box office. We don't experience that here in our similarly sized theaters. Regardless of the system used, however manual or computerized it is, we know what the reservations are.
Sure, someone might not show up -- but that's on them, and it's not a regular occurrence. It most definitely doesn't happen in droves.
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Good morning to all
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And a big HHW Welcome Back to DR lechienfou. While reading the notes I intended to ask after her whereabouts. And voila!... there she be.
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I must soon decide whether to take the train or drive into the city for this evening's performance of Do I hear a Waltz?.
It's the train, methinks -- as I'm more in the mood to relax and read, or even snooze, following so closely on the heels of five days full of driving.
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More coffee!
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Vibes to BK for great reviews from those critics!!!
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Hi HHWers:
I try to read BK's blog with some regularity, but post rarely. Such is life with kids in school.
Having been to Bruce's show tonight, however, I wanted to compliment him on a marvelous musical review. L.A. Now and Then will resonate deeply with those of us who grew up or are still growing up here .... and that includes not only my daughter, but dear BK (who is still growing up?!).
Whether you knew L.A. then, experience it now, only in passing or never at all, who could not be taken by its soul, heart, charm, sadness and humor? I teared up, I laughed loud. (spoiler: a ballet wrestler). Robert Yacko, who I've seen perform at Kritzerland, is not only a marvelous singer but poignant actor. The entire cast was gave it their all, singing and shimmying their way through the eras.
It's Bruce's love letter to not only his Los Angeles, but all of the things we remember and miss from childhood, wherever we grew up.
I'm looking forward to the cast album and hope the show will have other runs beyond this one. :) :)
Wonderful to hear!
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Good morning, all! I was up far too late playing with my Blu-Ray player,
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I decided to watch Zeffirelli's film Callas Forever, and it took me about 45 minutes playing with the settings and switching back and forth to DVD to adjust the player to wide screen, and other picture things, By the time I got to bed it was nearly 1:00. I am a bit drowsy this morning.
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This morning, I will play a bit more with the player, check out some other DVDs from other regions, and maybe nap.
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This afternoon I will have dinner with Susanna Tarjan, Jerome Moross' daughter, then see Encores! with her and take her to the closing party.
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I printed out Peter Foley's draft of my Provencal Carols arrangement for Soprano-Alto-Tenor-Bass Chorus, which he adapted from the men's chorus arrangement, and i need to spend some time looking through it today and tomorrow as well.
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BK, I am really happy that the revue is playing to happy audiences, but Miss BO doesn't seem qualified to handle anyone's tickets.
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COFFEE!
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I have been asked to do a Penn State University podcast on musical theatre orchestration. I wonder how far I can put my foot in my mouth this time?
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Good news from DR ELMORE about his new player!
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Congrats to MR BK & CO on their great success yesterday and more vibes for next week!
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Good news from DR ELMORE about his new player!
And his podcast! Foot or no foot.
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BK, I am really happy that the revue is playing to happy audiences, but Miss BO doesn't seem qualified to handle anyone's tickets.
MISS BO - sounds like a wonderful parody contest. I'd watch it, even if live tickets might not sell too well.
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Page 2!
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Sunday morning greetings! Fr. Richard attended church last night, so we've had a quiet morning at home today. Rob and Mary Linda returned from attending her sister's grad school graduation in Syracuse and their cat was very glad to see them.
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I think I am going to summer-ize my apartment today before i accomplish anything else. I need to clear a space around the air conditioner, and that involves moving a couple of filing cabinets.
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I'm off to sleep.
Good night Jane, and anyone else lurking out there.
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I slept until 8:00.
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Hi DR lechienfou. Thank you for your report on the show. It is good to see you back.
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I think I am going to summer-ize my apartment today before i accomplish anything else. I need to clear a space around the air conditioner, and that involves moving a couple of filing cabinets.
That'll bring on a cold snap, for sure! Like when we got all the screens in our windows a few weeks ago...
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Yes. Cool week expected.
I have to go to a rehearsal today. NOT my idea....but what can you do? If you are a mere player - you do as the director asks you to do.....otherwise there is chaos.
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I shall return later.
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I think I am going to summer-ize my apartment today before i accomplish anything else. I need to clear a space around the air conditioner, and that involves moving a couple of filing cabinets.
That'll bring on a cold snap, for sure! Like when we got all the screens in our windows a few weeks ago...
The move is accomplished. I've lost living space in this tiny apartment, which I miss, but it's necessary. I'll get used to it.
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Good morning. Here is my best sighting from yesterday:
http://andthisiswhatisawtoday.blogspot.com/2016/05/desert-bighorn-sheep.html
It is safe, Vixmom. No sipers.
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That is just soooo cool DR Laura!
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This morning we saw a Great White Egret aka White Heron. They aren't very common around here, or maybe too many other places, and Keith joined a site that tracks them. He has now put a pin on the map for his sighting.
Keith was lucky and saw it fly it. I could tell by his voice that I wanted to run to the window to view something exciting. By the time I got there he already had the landscope focused on it.
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Good morning. Here is my best sighting from yesterday:
http://andthisiswhatisawtoday.blogspot.com/2016/05/desert-bighorn-sheep.html
It is safe, Vixmom. No sipers.
Nice!
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Good afternoon!
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Great news on the show, BK (except for Ms. BO). Looking forward to reading the reviews when I can find the time.
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Dad is still in the hospital. They did an endoscopy on him this morning that went very well. Turns out he should be eating softer foods, which is what he had for lunch and that seemed to have gone very well. Perhaps he can regain some strength soon.
The word is he may be released tomorrow to a rehab center for a week.
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Dance competition was a mix of good and could have been better. Some lessons learned, but the big problem was that the floor was tiny and they had 11 couples dancing all at once, which made it seem like we were dancing in Times Square on New Year's Eve. Avoiding other people was impossible too much of the time.
We won a couple of prizes, but not all.
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Good morning. Here is my best sighting from yesterday:
http://andthisiswhatisawtoday.blogspot.com/2016/05/desert-bighorn-sheep.html
It is safe, Vixmom. No sipers.
Nice!
Beautiful.
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Hi DR lechienfou. Thank you for your report on the show. It is good to see you back.
Ditto on both accounts.
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Dance competition was a mix of good and could have been better. Some lessons learned, but the big problem was that the floor was tiny and they had 11 couples dancing all at once, which made it seem like we were dancing in Times Square on New Year's Eve. Avoiding other people was impossible too much of the time.
We won a couple of prizes, but not all.
Congrats, John!
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Thank you, George.
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Well, it's time to go to the theater for our one and only matinee.
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I've showered, so now I just need to get dressed, get the money till and head out.
Until later.
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Wonderful photos, Laura!
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I'm up, I'm up - over ten hours of sleep for sure. And good sleep it was.
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And not too long to wait until I have to see this damn Camp Rock thing.
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Oh, I see I didn't post this yesterday, due to being gone for most of the day and evening. This blogger/reviewer (which is basically what ALL reviewers are today), came on opening night - http://www.newsfromme.com/2016/05/14/city-celebration/
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I just got an e-mail offering me something, a brain enhancer. Okay then.
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Oh, I see I didn't post this yesterday, due to being gone for most of the day and evening. This blogger/reviewer (which is basically what ALL reviewers are today), came on opening night - http://www.newsfromme.com/2016/05/14/city-celebration/
Nice thoughts on the show.
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Let's move on.
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Three!
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Just finished watching Deadpool. It wasn't bad, but it's not my kind of movie. It surprisingly had a decent message.
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Godo Afternoon
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I'll just leave that last type-o there
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I'm living in a technological void - says the tech man himself. I've troubleshooted EVERYTHING that has to do with the connections for the computer running the power point at Church - EXCEPT the computer - after all, it's rather new. Alas, I do believe the computer is the issue. I'll be heading to the genius bar on Wednesday.
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Tonight, I get to sub on piano for a production of Grease - no rehearsal, just going in and doing it. After all, it's just Grease - it is the word, you know.
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Tonight, I get to sub on piano for a production of Grease - no rehearsal, just going in and doing it. After all, it's just Grease - it is the word, you know.
Break Legs (fingers?), Matthew!!
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Oh, I see I didn't post this yesterday, due to being gone for most of the day and evening. This blogger/reviewer (which is basically what ALL reviewers are today), came on opening night - http://www.newsfromme.com/2016/05/14/city-celebration/
That's great, BK!
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Oops, I haven't been sitting here like so much fish all afternoon, just forgot to log out. I've been to Target, Starbucks, and to visit Mom.
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And he mentioned that he loved your Li'l Abner!
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I'm living in a technological void - says the tech man himself. I've troubleshooted EVERYTHING that has to do with the connections for the computer running the power point at Church - EXCEPT the computer - after all, it's rather new. Alas, I do believe the computer is the issue. I'll be heading to the genius bar on Wednesday.
"Troubleshooted"...or should it be troubleshot?
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Greetings from City Center, where I have arrived indecently early in order to secure parking. Decided to drive, after all.
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Standing inside, grateful the doors are open. It's freezing out there. Apparently no one informed the city of Noo Yawk that it's May 15th.
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We got applause at a scene change! That's nice. :)
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Good evening!
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Nice photos, DR Laura!
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Yes, DR TCB. I saw and loved "She Loves Me." I would really like to see it again.
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I wish I had planned to go to NY this weekend to see "Do I Hear a Waltz?"
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I did see a show today, though: "The Wizard of Oz" at the National Theatre.
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"Oz" was a lot of fun. I had seen it in London a few years ago but had forgotten a few things about it. There were a few hilarious references that only I seemed to get (e.g., the cowardly lion says to the Wizard: "I am proud to say that I am a friend of Dorothy." )
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Well, it was a cool day. It's only 59 degrees now. But--the sun is still out--no rain!
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Nice review, BK! I'm glad the show is going so well!
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Intermission is over and they all came back.
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There are only 16 people, but they like it.
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Intermission is over and they all came back.
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That's a good sign, DR George!
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Health vibes for DR John G's father!
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Good morning. Here is my best sighting from yesterday:
http://andthisiswhatisawtoday.blogspot.com/2016/05/desert-bighorn-sheep.html
It is safe, Vixmom. No sipers.
yay!! We saw these when we were in Banth and Jasper I didn't know they also lived so far South
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Ginny I missed your post yesterday.. We will miss each other unless you decide to hang around a few more days. We will be leaving here in the 28th and arriving in Orlando on the 1st
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DR Vixmom, did you see my post last night about Orlando? Richard and I will be there June 22-29 for ALA and I wondered if our visits would overlap. We're staying at a Fairfield Inn near the convention center.
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Ginny I missed your post yesterday.. We will miss each other unless you decide to hang around a few more days. We will be leaving here in the 28th and arriving in Orlando on the 1st
Oops, you were answering while I was re-asking! We're leaving Orlando on the 29th and taking an easterly route home - up I-95 to Walterboro, SC, then I-26 and 40 to Knoxville where we'll pick up 75 for home. Maybe we'll pass you on 95!
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Four!
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Ginny I missed your post yesterday.. We will miss each other unless you decide to hang around a few more days. We will be leaving here in the 28th and arriving in Orlando on the 1st
Oops, you were answering while I was re-asking! We're leaving Orlando on the 29th and taking an easterly route home - up I-95 to Walterboro, SC, then I-26 and 40 to Knoxville where we'll pick up 75 for home. Maybe we'll pass you on 95!
Maybe we can meet at a Cracker Barrel in sc on the 29th!
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Dad was able to come home this afternoon. He feels much better. He sounds better, too.
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Oh John I am so pleased to hear this.
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Ginny I missed your post yesterday.. We will miss each other unless you decide to hang around a few more days. We will be leaving here in the 28th and arriving in Orlando on the 1st
Oops, you were answering while I was re-asking! We're leaving Orlando on the 29th and taking an easterly route home - up I-95 to Walterboro, SC, then I-26 and 40 to Knoxville where we'll pick up 75 for home. Maybe we'll pass you on 95!
Maybe we can meet at a Cracker Barrel in sc on the 29th!
Will you be that far south by then?
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Dad was able to come home this afternoon. He feels much better. He sounds better, too.
Good news!
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Thank you, Ginny and Vixmom and all who sent vibes. Yesterday was Mom and Dad's 61st anniversary, so I now that they're glad to be together and at home.
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Ginny I missed your post yesterday.. We will miss each other unless you decide to hang around a few more days. We will be leaving here in the 28th and arriving in Orlando on the 1st
Oops, you were answering while I was re-asking! We're leaving Orlando on the 29th and taking an easterly route home - up I-95 to Walterboro, SC, then I-26 and 40 to Knoxville where we'll pick up 75 for home. Maybe we'll pass you on 95!
Maybe we can meet at a Cracker Barrel in sc on the 29th!
Will you be that far south by then?
I am not really sure , but I have your cell and you have mine so we'll see where we end up on the evening of the 28th!
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Thank you, Ginny and Vixmom and all who sent vibes. Yesterday was Mom and Dad's 61st anniversary, so I now that they're glad to be together and at home.
And happy anniversary to your Folks!!
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Intermission is over and they all came back.
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That's a good sign, DR George!
Yes it is!
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Hello, everyone.
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Dad was able to come home this afternoon. He feels much better. He sounds better, too.
Wonderful news, John!
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So glad to hear that your dad is feeling better, John G. Did they find out what the problem was?
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Good to hear that Larry's DVD is up and running. I would not wish to be DVDless.
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Good to hear that Larry's DVD is up and running. I would not wish to be DVDless.
I would go crazy! :o
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I have been asked to do a Penn State University podcast on musical theatre orchestration. I wonder how far I can put my foot in my mouth this time?
I'd really like to hear that. Have you accepted?
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Good morning. Here is my best sighting from yesterday:
http://andthisiswhatisawtoday.blogspot.com/2016/05/desert-bighorn-sheep.html
It is safe, Vixmom. No sipers.
Great photos, Laura.
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Oops, I haven't been sitting here like so much fish all afternoon, just forgot to log out. I've been to Target, Starbucks, and to visit Mom.
Target on a Sunday? You're a brave shopper, DR Ginny.
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Bruce, will the cast album be recorded in the studio?
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Bad news. One of my favorite Indian restaurants closed--for the second time. They closed a couple years ago, then reopened and were better than ever. Another Indian restaurant is taking the space, but what I've seen of the menu looks completely different. Sigh. The food was so good and sooo cheap. I ate at the place next door and didn't check the price first. I was shocked to learn--after I'd eaten--that it was three times what I'm used to paying! Won't be going back there!
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TTFN.
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The matinee is done and I'm heading home.
Be back later.
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Bad news. One of my favorite Indian restaurants closed--for the second time. They closed a couple years ago, then reopened and were better than ever. Another Indian restaurant is taking the space, but what I've seen of the menu looks completely different. Sigh. The food was so good and sooo cheap. I ate at the place next door and didn't check the price first. I was shocked to learn--after I'd eaten--that it was three times what I'm used to paying! Won't be going back there!
I hate it when that happens. Hope you can find some good and affordable Indian food soon.
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Thank you, DRs George and Jeanne.
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I'm more than an hour into The Hateful Eight, and I'm loving it. Ennio Morricone's score is sparse but wonderful, and the sort of Agatha Christie setup is fun. I don't know that he can keep this fun going for another 90 minutes, but I'm along the ride. Jennifer Jason Leigh is just deliciously awful. The rest of the cast is a having a great time.
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So glad to hear that your dad is feeling better, John G. Did they find out what the problem was?
Yes, great to hear the news!!!
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Congrats on that great review from Mark Evanier, BK!!!
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Greetings from City Center, where I have arrived indecently early in order to secure parking. Decided to drive, after all.
Skip is also seeing the Encores show this evening.
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Dad is still in the hospital. They did an endoscopy on him this morning that went very well. Turns out he should be eating softer foods, which is what he had for lunch and that seemed to have gone very well. Perhaps he can regain some strength soon.
The word is he may be released tomorrow to a rehab center for a week.
Vibes softer foods continues to help. I'm sorry this has dragged out so long and hope he will be home in the near future.
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Oh, I see I didn't post this yesterday, due to being gone for most of the day and evening. This blogger/reviewer (which is basically what ALL reviewers are today), came on opening night - http://www.newsfromme.com/2016/05/14/city-celebration/
Wonderful!!!
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I just got an e-mail offering me something, a brain enhancer. Okay then.
;D
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I'll just leave that last type-o there
It is a cute one.
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Dad was able to come home this afternoon. He feels much better. He sounds better, too.
This is a happy surprise :)
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Bad news. One of my favorite Indian restaurants closed--for the second time. They closed a couple years ago, then reopened and were better than ever. Another Indian restaurant is taking the space, but what I've seen of the menu looks completely different. Sigh. The food was so good and sooo cheap. I ate at the place next door and didn't check the price first. I was shocked to learn--after I'd eaten--that it was three times what I'm used to paying! Won't be going back there!
What a shame.
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This afternoon we saw Keanu. The kitten is really cute. While not great, the rest of the movie was entertaining. The leads have a good chemistry.
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Ginny I missed your post yesterday.. We will miss each other unless you decide to hang around a few more days. We will be leaving here in the 28th and arriving in Orlando on the 1st
Oops, you were answering while I was re-asking! We're leaving Orlando on the 29th and taking an easterly route home - up I-95 to Walterboro, SC, then I-26 and 40 to Knoxville where we'll pick up 75 for home. Maybe we'll pass you on 95!
Maybe we can meet at a Cracker Barrel in sc on the 29th!
Will you be that far south by then?
I am not really sure , but I have your cell and you have mine so we'll see where we end up on the evening of the 28th!
We'll still be in Orlando on the 28th, heading north on the 29th. The only stop I have planned is to hop off 95 at Flagler Beach to take a peek at the Atlantic Ocean. As best I can tell, that's the closest we'll be to the coast.
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On May 15th last year we said goodbye to our Ashland home and drove to a hotel near us. About now we would have been eating at a Mexican restaurant near the hotel that we had never tried before.
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Back from Camp Rock - what a reprehensibly bad show and I have to say that even a community theater who would make this choice (which this was) needs to reexamine those choices because it does no one a lick of good to be in a horribly written show that has no reason for being other than Disney and the people who made what I'm sure was a wretched TV movie for the Disney Channel, wanted to make a buck on their "brand". Sorry, if that's the reason you're making a show, then that show will always be crass and terrible. I actually know one of the two people who adapted this for the stage, and my estimation of this person's talent is what it always was - hack. And the songs are even worse, one dreadful song after another by people who wouldn't know how to craft a song if it hit them in the ASS. Every song ends with the final word of the song. Apparently no one in this part of Disney has ever heard of a button or a rideout or even a complete song, since the majority of the songs last less than 1:30. The production was also not to my liking - here's the deal - design a set wherein you don't have to have the audience sit there for a full ten minutes in act one (over the course of the act, not all at once) and watch a staircase being moved for no reason at all. I can only tell you that in the forty-five years I've been directing professionally, I have NEVER EVER made the audience sit for ten SECONDS during a set change or scene change - it's the first thing I address with the set designer and the creatives, that my shows don't stop - they are fluid. Anyway, I have a headache from it all.
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But on a better note, Rob Stevens' review of the LA show is out and it's a rave:
http://www.haineshisway.com/2016/05/l-a-now-and-then-reviewed-by-rob-stevens/
And unlike the majority of "critics" in this town, Rob calls it as he sees it. The show he saw the night before ours he was really not kind to and from everything I've heard he's the only one with the nerve to say it - I've talked to three or four people who've seen it and they really didn't like it.
So, we're waiting on the Broadway World review. The only preview I can give you is that its author made it a Critic's Pick.
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But on a better note, Rob Stevens' review of the LA show is out and it's a rave:
http://www.haineshisway.com/2016/05/l-a-now-and-then-reviewed-by-rob-stevens/
And unlike the majority of "critics" in this town, Rob calls it as he sees it. The show he saw the night before ours he was really not kind to and from everything I've heard he's the only one with the nerve to say it - I've talked to three or four people who've seen it and they really didn't like it.
So, we're waiting on the Broadway World review. The only preview I can give you is that its author made it a Critic's Pick.
That was a pleasure to read. I wish i could see the show.
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Back from Camp Rock - what a reprehensibly bad show and I have to say that even a community theater who would make this choice (which this was) needs to reexamine those choices because it does no one a lick of good to be in a horribly written show that has no reason for being other than Disney and the people who made what I'm sure was a wretched TV movie for the Disney Channel, wanted to make a buck on their "brand". Sorry, if that's the reason you're making a show, then that show will always be crass and terrible. I actually know one of the two people who adapted this for the stage, and my estimation of this person's talent is what it always was - hack. And the songs are even worse, one dreadful song after another by people who wouldn't know how to craft a song if it hit them in the ASS. Every song ends with the final word of the song. Apparently no one in this part of Disney has ever heard of a button or a rideout or even a complete song, since the majority of the songs last less than 1:30. The production was also not to my liking - here's the deal - design a set wherein you don't have to have the audience sit there for a full ten minutes in act one (over the course of the act, not all at once) and watch a staircase being moved for no reason at all. I can only tell you that in the forty-five years I've been directing professionally, I have NEVER EVER made the audience sit for ten SECONDS during a set change or scene change - it's the first thing I address with the set designer and the creatives, that my shows don't stop - they are fluid. Anyway, I have a headache from it all.
On the other hand, this is a show I'll be glad to miss.
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Back from Camp Rock - what a reprehensibly bad show and I have to say that even a community theater who would make this choice (which this was) needs to reexamine those choices because it does no one a lick of good to be in a horribly written show that has no reason for being other than Disney and the people who made what I'm sure was a wretched TV movie for the Disney Channel, wanted to make a buck on their "brand". Sorry, if that's the reason you're making a show, then that show will always be crass and terrible. I actually know one of the two people who adapted this for the stage, and my estimation of this person's talent is what it always was - hack. And the songs are even worse, one dreadful song after another by people who wouldn't know how to craft a song if it hit them in the ASS. Every song ends with the final word of the song. Apparently no one in this part of Disney has ever heard of a button or a rideout or even a complete song, since the majority of the songs last less than 1:30. The production was also not to my liking - here's the deal - design a set wherein you don't have to have the audience sit there for a full ten minutes in act one (over the course of the act, not all at once) and watch a staircase being moved for no reason at all. I can only tell you that in the forty-five years I've been directing professionally, I have NEVER EVER made the audience sit for ten SECONDS during a set change or scene change - it's the first thing I address with the set designer and the creatives, that my shows don't stop - they are fluid. Anyway, I have a headache from it all.
On the other hand, this is a show I'll be glad to miss.
Me, too! However, there are people who LOVE to see bad shows...for whatever reason.
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Home from performance and closing night party. My date was Susanna Moross, who talked up The Golden Apple with people concerned with next season.
I thought the show played really well tonight. The cast was in great form and the band sounded really good.
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I am glad you had a good time, Elmore I wish I could have gotten myself there
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Wonderful review Bk. I wish there was going to be a DVD to go along with the cd
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Home from performance and closing night party. My date was Susanna Moross, who talked up The Golden Apple with people concerned with next season.
I thought the show played really well tonight. The cast was in great form and the band sounded really good.
Home here, too, and completely agree that it was superb all around. Truly fabulous.
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I'm more than an hour into The Hateful Eight, and I'm loving it. Ennio Morricone's score is sparse but wonderful, and the sort of Agatha Christie setup is fun. I don't know that he can keep this fun going for another 90 minutes, but I'm along the ride. Jennifer Jason Leigh is just deliciously awful. The rest of the cast is a having a great time.
A nice summation, and for my money he does indeed keep the fun going. And "just deliciously awful" is a wonderful description of a wonderfully indescribable character.
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Back from Camp Rock - what a reprehensibly bad show and I have to say that even a community theater who would make this choice (which this was) needs to reexamine those choices because it does no one a lick of good to be in a horribly written show that has no reason for being other than Disney and the people who made what I'm sure was a wretched TV movie for the Disney Channel, wanted to make a buck on their "brand". Sorry, if that's the reason you're making a show, then that show will always be crass and terrible. I actually know one of the two people who adapted this for the stage, and my estimation of this person's talent is what it always was - hack. And the songs are even worse, one dreadful song after another by people who wouldn't know how to craft a song if it hit them in the ASS. Every song ends with the final word of the song. Apparently no one in this part of Disney has ever heard of a button or a rideout or even a complete song, since the majority of the songs last less than 1:30. The production was also not to my liking - here's the deal - design a set wherein you don't have to have the audience sit there for a full ten minutes in act one (over the course of the act, not all at once) and watch a staircase being moved for no reason at all. I can only tell you that in the forty-five years I've been directing professionally, I have NEVER EVER made the audience sit for ten SECONDS during a set change or scene change - it's the first thing I address with the set designer and the creatives, that my shows don't stop - they are fluid. Anyway, I have a headache from it all.
Just want to do my part in helping to memorialize the things this post has to say. Camp Rock? I will happily LOOK for people I can warn away from this thing.
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Home from performance and closing night party. My date was Susanna Moross, who talked up The Golden Apple with people concerned with next season.
Larry, I assume that they're going to use your orchestrations?
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A lull.
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I'very been reading.
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Not sleeping.
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I expect no one is surprised by this
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And a big HHW Welcome Back to DR lechienfou. While reading the notes I intended to ask after her whereabouts. And voila!... there she be.
Thank you for asking. Still living in the great City of Los Angeles, though after seeing Bruce's show I couldn't help but lament all the wonderful things about L.A. that have disappeared. Good evening and good morning to you all!
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Hi DR lechienfou. Thank you for your report on the show. It is good to see you back.
Thank you, thanks for inquiring. Still trundling around the great City of Los Angeles, though BK's show made me very nostalgic for several things that are gone, gone for good. I hope you all are well. Good evening and good morning to everyone in HHW Land :)
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Good evening and good morning to you too.
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Just finished watching Deadpool. It wasn't bad, but it's not my kind of movie. It surprisingly had a decent message.
Couldn't get past the violence. A friend took me, my hubby and twins (14) to see it, and after 20 minutes I had to walk out with the kids. I hear there was quite a lot of humor, but not my kind of film either. I'll take Double, wait, Triple Indemnity ;) ;)
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Just finished watching Deadpool. It wasn't bad, but it's not my kind of movie. It surprisingly had a decent message.
Couldn't get past the violence. A friend took me, my hubby and twins (14) to see it, and after 20 minutes I had to walk out with the kids. I hear there was quite a lot of humor, but not my kind of film either. I'll take Double, wait, Triple Indemnity ;) ;)
It was rated R for a reason. I have friends who saw it when it was in the theater and said that there were little kids in the audience. :o
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Well...
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...since we're so close...
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PAGE SIX DANCE!!
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I'm watching "Key Largo" that I had recorded on TCM last month.
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I'd never seen it before.
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I'm really enjoying it.
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I can't imagine what it would be like if it were made today. :P
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Or {shudder} if someone decided to remake this.
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I don't think I have ever seen it either.
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Well, I slept the entire evening away
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I guess that was because I only got three hours of sleep last night.
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I guess that was because I only it three hours of sleep last night.
That's too bad, Tom.
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Not really. I enjoyed my nap.
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I watched a really strange little movie this afternoon.
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Apparently, it is only available to Amazon Prime members.
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It is called GHOST LIGHT.
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It is about a group of actors who decide to spend the night in their theater watching for paranormal activity.
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Not to be confused with a similar titled film where to win a bet, a guy has to spend the night in a haunted theater.
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This one has very little to do with ghosts, and more to do with assorted theater-types.
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Includes a few scenes from THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST.
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If you watch it expecting a horror film, you will be sadly mistaken.