Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on April 07, 2017, 12:10:16 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes revisited, and now it is time for you to post until the revisited cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: KENNING!
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First post after BK!
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No more videos?? No more Nick Tubbs to send me off to dreamland?
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More tomorrow - never had time to upload the remaining four.
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OH, all right. I guess I can wait.
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BK, I know it isn't Wednesday, but would you ever have Shirley Jones as a guest star for a Kritzerland show?
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And the word of the day is: KENNING!
I was totally unfamiliar with this word.
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I've never seen any version of The Crucible. Should I?
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I've never seen any version of The Crucible. Should I?
It is an incredible play.
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I liked the Daniel Day-Lewis film of THE CRUCIBLE, but BK didn't care for it. Perhaps you would enjoy the opera.
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I first saw THE CRUCIBLE at the Seattle Rep when I was in the 8th grade. Our English and Drama classes got to attend a student matinee on a field trip. The production blew my mind as far as what theater was capable of achieving. Up until that time, I had basically only seen musicals on stage.
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Good night, George.
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I liked the Daniel Day-Lewis film of THE CRUCIBLE, but BK didn't care for it. Perhaps you would enjoy the opera.
Thanks for the tip. I just looked at what's available on Amazon. I think tomorrow at work I'll see if anything is available (for free) through Interlibrary Loan. If something is, I can preview the entire recording, and not just 30-second clips. Then if I like it enough, I can buy something. If I don't like it, I haven't wasted any money. :)
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Good night, George.
Good night, Tom.
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Good morning, all.
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Good morning, all.
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Good morning, a little late.
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I really could have used some more sleep. Or some better sleep. What I had NO use for were any more dreams about the Chinese billionaire who'd bought up and enlarged/renovated the little apartment (which eventually morphed into a whole city block) I'd lived in in Beverly Hills, or the twenty-something film star who made appearances for fans by being driven around lying down in the back of the '70s muscle car that would enter a parking lot and go in circles a few times before coming to a stop in imitation of the famous scene in the movie in which his name of his character was Ray, or the one about being somewhere (?) with a bunch of friends which I can't bring into focus now but which probably was the most realistic one in the bunch.
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Vacation fun vibes to vixmom!
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Vacation fun vibes to vixmom!
Yes! And I, DR ChasSmith, just happen to know what Lunacon is, having been to a couple of them when it was held in Rye, NY because a few friends were involved with a few of the programs back in 1994/95.
I wonder what the draw was for the likes of vixmom and vixdad, but I hope they have a wonderful weekend there.
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Good morning, all!
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I am still seething about all the political events that occurred in DC yesterday.
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I awoke around 3:15 this morning and had one helluva time getting back to sleep. I have to deal with yesterday's fresh hell, and I do not look forward to it.
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I do look forward to Come From Away tonight.
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In 1988, the Brooklyn Academy of Music and Channel 13 produced a Gershwin Festival for George's centenary. There was a gala concert, for which I was librarian and fill-in orchestrator, with guest stars including Julia Migenes, Madeline Kahn, Maureen McGovern, Larry Kert, Leonard Bernstein, Greg Birch, Chris Walken, Chita Rivera, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Rosemary Clooney, and Johnny Green. This was followed by a week run of Of Thee I Sing and Let Them Eat Cake in concert. Rge wqhoke affair was conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas.
Johnny had arranged many of Fred Astaire's recordings from the 1930s, and there was a whole sequence planned around those Astaire arrangements, which are quite wonderful. I ended up working most of the rehearsal week with Johnny; he was a bit of a curmudgeon, prickly and curt, yet he and I bonded, and I looked forward to spending each day gossiping, bitching and laughing, and working with him. He liked me because I was there to work, I had plenty to do, and I accomplished it. There was a great deal of needless PBS money spent - while they pleaded poverty - and much wasted time by unprepared directors and choreographers.
One day, while I was asking questions about Johnny's career, he mentioned the score to Raintree County. I had seen the film, and I knew from all my cast and soundtrack recording that the recording was a very rare and very desired commodity. We talked about that, but I wanted to talk more about the work on the film Oliver!, his 30s recording work, and his conducting the Rodgers & Hart show A Connecticut Yankee. After the gala, when we said goodbye, and he returned to LA, I creid like a baby; it was as though I'd lost a grandfather. He died not long after, and I still miss him enormously.
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What a fascinating story!
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(Oddly, whenever somebody mentions 1988, I immediately recall being glued to that televised Bernstein birthday concert.)
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Good morning
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Friday morning greetings! Easing into the day before Richard and I take off to do several errands and go out for lunch.
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DR Elmore, I'm so glad you liked BEAUTIFUL and that you got to visit with some friends. The show is coming to Cincinnati next month and I'm thinking of taking Rob and Mary Linda. Looking forward to your reaction to COME FROM AWAY.
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Page 2 Dance!!!
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Good Morning everybody!
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The email response to this week's fresh hell has bee sent. Luckily, I found te original emails from 2015 as backup.
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In 1988, the Brooklyn Academy of Music and Channel 13 produced a Gershwin Festival for George's centenary. There was a gala concert, for which I was librarian and fill-in orchestrator, with guest stars including Julia Migenes, Madeline Kahn, Maureen McGovern, Larry Kert, Leonard Bernstein, Greg Birch, Chris Walken, Chita Rivera, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Rosemary Clooney, and Johnny Green. This was followed by a week run of Of Thee I Sing and Let Them Eat Cake in concert. Rge wqhoke affair was conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas.
Johnny had arranged many of Fred Astaire's recordings from the 1930s, and there was a whole sequence planned around those Astaire arrangements, which are quite wonderful. I ended up working most of the rehearsal week with Johnny; he was a bit of a curmudgeon, prickly and curt, yet he and I bonded, and I looked forward to spending each day gossiping, bitching and laughing, and working with him. He liked me because I was there to work, I had plenty to do, and I accomplished it. There was a great deal of needless PBS money spent - while they pleaded poverty - and much wasted time by unprepared directors and choreographers.
One day, while I was asking questions about Johnny's career, he mentioned the score to Raintree County. I had seen the film, and I knew from all my cast and soundtrack recording that the recording was a very rare and very desired commodity. We talked about that, but I wanted to talk more about the work on the film Oliver!, his 30s recording work, and his conducting the Rodgers & Hart show A Connecticut Yankee. After the gala, when we said goodbye, and he returned to LA, I creid like a baby; it was as though I'd lost a grandfather. He died not long after, and I still miss him enormously.
That's a very nice (if bittersweet) story, Larry.
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I'm up, I'm up - Two for the Road arrived and that's all happening today. I also didn't sleep very well - maybe seven hours, if that.
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We've asked Shirley before but her husband always either didn't pass it on or said she was busy.
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We've asked Shirley before but her husband always either didn't pass it on or said she was busy.
Did she re-marry after Marty Ingels passed away?
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Great story, Elmore.
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I had to do more work on yesterday's problem, and now I wait for answers.
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Well, this is pretty cool! Harlequin Productions just announced their 2018 season (http://olyarts.org/2017/04/06/harlequin-announces-its-2018-season/), and they're going to do "Ruthless! The Mother of All Musicals"!
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Nice story from DR ELMORE.
Vacation vibes for DR VIXMOM.
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Today I received a lovely package from DR GINNY that included DH RICHARD'S copies of their theatre going last week.
Most excellent.
THANKS DR GINNY AND RICHARD
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I too enjoy THE CRUCIBLE very much. I have been in it twice and have seen it two other times.
I don't particularly like the Daniel Day-Lewis version, but it could be because I watched it while I was rehearsing a production and all the lines changes seemed weird.....
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I like to see it LIVE!!!!
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I have played Rev. Samuel Parris and Thomas Putnam.....Parris was more fun because he was bad and had many more scenes and lines.....
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Back from a Philly cheesesteak sandwich and a few fries and picking up no mail.
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You're welcome, DR JRand - enjoy!
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MR BK I think I was thrown out of the group on FaceBook - the woman who was harassing you told me to go slop the hogs on my own page..... LOL.....or maybe she just deleted the thread.....
I won't miss those silly posts on her page - they never amounted to much.....but maybe one in fifteen had something interesting in it.....
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Actually, I recommended she block me if she did not want comments - hence she probably did. She was a first-class idiot.
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Good evening!
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Sorry about Don Rickles, though paraphrasing BK, 90 is a pretty good run.
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I don't believe I've ever seen The Crucible.
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Touching story DR elmore.
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Well, it's time for me to take another Trip to Bountiful, Of course, I don't know what the audience will be like. Hopefully, they enjoy it...as always. ;)
Be back later.
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Page two? Really?
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Page two? REALLY?
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This will NOT do and let me tell you we'd best get a frenzy or five going on.
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Everyone should check this list and read the upcoming regulations for flying within the USA. If your state is not compliant with the federal regulations your driver's license will not be acceptable and you will need an enhanced driver's license.
https://www.dhs.gov/current-status-states-territories
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Let's move on.
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Three!
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Page three? Really?
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We aren't all at Come From Away.
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So where are we?
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I'm only here for a short time.
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I need some sleep.
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Watching the first episode of season 3 of Brokenwood Mysteries.
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Fun stuff.
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I hope DR Jeanne is doing well.
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The critics were kinder to War Paint than I would have been,
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They liked the score and took the book to task, which was true, but I think I liked Jesse Green's summation best: When you have a musical with five showstoppers in a row and still feel underwhelmed, something's wrong.
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No faulting the cast. Patti LuPone and Christine Ebersole are wonderful in their individual ways.
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Hello, 0 guests!
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Who are your favorite Broadway dames?
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I think Bernadette Peters in Sunday in the Park is one of my all-time favorite female performances, along with Anita Morris in Nine.
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Patti LuPone in Anything Goes and Gypsy.
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Christine Ebersole in Grey Gardens.
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Lonette McKee in Show Boat
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Jane Powell in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
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Chita Rivera in Kiss of the Spider Woman
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And still nobody to join me in moving this off page three.
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Page three? Really?
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And Vixmom didn't take me on her weekend retreat with her.
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Hope she's having fun.
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I need to get ready for bed.
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Got a competition in the morning.
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But we can move off this page. Surely.
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Surely.
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Well, maybe not so fast.
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One more.
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Four!
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Good night, all.
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Laundry, Show Boat, bourbon and 1 week or so until NYC!!!
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Vacation fun vibes to vixmom!
Yes! And I, DR ChasSmith, just happen to know what Lunacon is, having been to a couple of them when it was held in Rye, NY because a few friends were involved with a few of the programs back in 1994/95.
I wonder what the draw was for the likes of vixmom and vixdad, but I hope they have a wonderful weekend there.
Ben Nova was the primary reason
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I was on crew for the crucible in college we hasd some really great actors in that play. I wonder what happened to them
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Good evening.
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So where are we?
One of us is in Tarrytown
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Waiting for the 1030 showing of
Rocky horror
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Yes it's 1140
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Guess its a time warp
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I am home from a lovely evening. My friend Roy came by and we smoked some pot, which I had not done since his visit last year, then went to see Come From Away. It's absolutely glorious and worth seeing just for the band's onstage jam session at the end. I thought the cast and their amazingly rapid turns from passenger to Newfoundlander to another character were excellent.
I worked with the show's director at Goodspeed in 1998 on Redhead and I absolutely detested him. We did not work well together. Still, I found his work on Come From Away absolutely topnotch. I left the theatre wanting to run to the box office and buy another ticket.
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Good to hear about COME FROM AWAY, DR POTHEAD......
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I like Bernadette Peters in SUNDAY...... but strangely enough, I don't like her in anything else....
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I am home from a lovely evening. My friend Roy came by and we smoked some pot, which I had not done since his visit last year, then went to see Come From Away. It's absolutely glorious and worth seeing just for the band's onstage jam session at the end. I thought the cast and their amazingly rapid turns from passenger to Newfoundlander to another character were excellent.
I worked with the show's director at Goodspeed in 1998 on Redhead and I absolutely detested him. We did not work well together. Still, I found his work on Come From Away absolutely topnotch. I left the theatre wanting to run to the box office and buy another ticket.
Excellent review! I'm hoping to see that when I'm in town!
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I hope DR Jeanne is doing well.
DITTO!
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Everyone should check this list and read the upcoming regulations for flying within the USA. If your state is not compliant with the federal regulations your driver's license will not be acceptable and you will need an enhanced driver's license.
https://www.dhs.gov/current-status-states-territories
DR John did you miss my post? Texas is on the map to check if you can fly with your drivers license or if you need a passport.
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Tonight we watched A MONSTER CALLS. I wish now I had read the book. Has anyone read it and watched the movie?
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'Meet the Encores! Orchestra: Seymour "Red" Press!'
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SOTs-qWrPoo
This was filmed at the orchestra reading/rehearsal for The New Yorkers. Red was wearing a tux for the opening of Sunday in the Park With George that evening.
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Rather amazingly, YouTube just presented that video to me. I wasn't looking for anything at all.
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Interesting day in a few ways.
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Finished with my viewing, and had some popcorn for my evening snack.
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Page four? Really?
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Did vixmom finish a book? Yes or no?
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We did get another five-star review on Amazon - don't know the person who left it.
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If we can get five stars on Amazon then we can get five PAGES here.
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Listening to Raintree County.
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Cast another person - slow going and I'm quite bored of it - just need one gal and one guy now and if the guy is problematic then Guy will be the guy and that will be that.
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Good evening!
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Page 4? Really?
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One more post should do it.
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Page 5
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Well, another strange weather day in the Northwest.
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We did have a wind storm today.
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Of course, Oregon out did us by having a bigger storm first.
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The top winds in Tacoma was 53 mph.
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There were stronger winds on the coast.
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And even Olympia beat us by 1 mph.
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My power never went out, but thousands lost their power in the Northwest.
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Sandy wasn't feeling well today, so he had to cancel lunch.
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I decided to go down to the Emerald Queen and have lunch anyway.
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Three different recordings of Show Boat this eve. A studio cast, 1971 London and the 1994 Broadway. I could listen to this show forever.
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It was very tasty.
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I filled one whole plate with salads of different kinds.
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I had a garbanzo bean salad, a kidney bean salad, a pea salad, a shrimp salad, and even some potato salad.
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After all that, I had some chicken, some mashed potatoes, and a cup of chowder.
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That was enough food to last me through rest of the day.
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All of the portions were small, but still, it was a lot of food.
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I need to do my income tax this weekend.
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I think I will be okay.
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Lucky I bought the new car last year, so I can take the sales tax off my total.
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We did have a wind storm today.
When there are white caps on the river you know it is windy.
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Sandy wasn't feeling well today, so he had to cancel lunch.
I am sorry.
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The top winds in Tacoma was 53 mph.
I believe we were only 39 mph here and that was windy enough. We were lucky and did not lose power.
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That was weird. I got bumped out of HHW without even knowing it.
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Three years ago, last month, that was a massive mudslide north of Seattle near the town of Oso. At the time, it killed 43 people.
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Tonight, about a mile from the last slide, the earth is beginning to move again.
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Scary situation.
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Well, it's time for me to take another Trip to Bountiful, Of course, I don't know what the audience will be like. Hopefully, they enjoy it...as always. ;)
Be back later.
Tonight, we had a small but appreciative audience. BOTH Susan (the light board operator and the director's wife) and I had operator errors! :-\
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First, I missed the turning on of the the radio, and then instead of turning up the volume manually when the daughter-in-law turns up the radio, I set off the next cue that turned the radio off. Dopey me!
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Fortunately, Daya and Jeff (the actors) adjusted their lines and kept going. If you didn't know that mistakes were made, you wouldn't have noticed anything wrong. :D
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I am home from a lovely evening. My friend Roy came by and we smoked some pot, which I had not done since his visit last year, then went to see Come From Away. It's absolutely glorious and worth seeing just for the band's onstage jam session at the end. I thought the cast and their amazingly rapid turns from passenger to Newfoundlander to another character were excellent.
I worked with the show's director at Goodspeed in 1998 on Redhead and I absolutely detested him. We did not work well together. Still, I found his work on Come From Away absolutely topnotch. I left the theatre wanting to run to the box office and buy another ticket.
The music director is from Olympia! I know him! ;D
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Fortunately, Daya and Jeff (the actors) adjusted their lines and kept going. If you didn't know that mistakes were made, you wouldn't have noticed anything wrong. :D
Deya Ozburn?
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Fortunately, Daya and Jeff (the actors) adjusted their lines and kept going. If you didn't know that mistakes were made, you wouldn't have noticed anything wrong. :D
Deya Ozburn?
Yes...I don't really know her, so apologies for my misspelling her name.
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My power never went out, but thousands lost their power in the Northwest.
I got home tonight at about 11:00 (I went shopping after the show), and my power had gone out for a moment.
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That's no big deal. I just didn't know she was in the show.
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Hello, Tom!
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That's no big deal. I just didn't know she was in the show.
Yes, she's very good.
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I need to do my income tax this weekend.
I need to do mine too, but I won't have any time this weekend.