Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on July 22, 2022, 12:10:10 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes had high spirits, and now it is time for you to post until the high spirited cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: PEPPY!
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Welcome fifty-nine GUESTS!
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Great newspaper clippings, BK!
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Good morning, all!
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Well, those were fun notes!
BK, did your Bluth shows have a band or orchestra?
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In the 1970s, I first encountered the name of Toby Bluth as an illustrator of erotic images for several adult magazines. I have a very vague memory that I read an interview with him.
Then, in the 1980s, I discoverred that he, like me, had a fascnation with Babes in Toyland. In 1989 or 1990, I orchestrated the Gershwin musical Strike Up the Band for California Music Theatre, either before or after they produced Bluth's adaptation of Babes in Toyland with Robert Morse as the Toymaker.
Bluth also worked on a rather horrid animated film of Babes in Toyland as well as this illustrated book of his adaptation.
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After being up until nearly 11:00p.m. last night, I set the alarm for 6:00. At 5:00, three cays decided I wasa not going to sleep in, and I struggled out of bed around 5:30. I had one dream I no longer remember, but it seems to be nudging my brain cells to remember it, and I keep getting brief flashes of something I am unable at the moment to reconstruct.
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So, on monday I got this orchestration job for my friend Martin, and I will spend much of my day doing some research and listening.
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I think I've passed the point where any more information on Trump Treason will work me into a rage, although I wish there had been more footage of his attempts to film a message on Jan. 7; that was my favorite part of the hearings.
I just want the powers-that-be to remember the penalty for treason is execution. I want to see every person involved with Trump's attempted coup to be lined up and executed. These bastards deserve no less.
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Good morning, all.
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Interesting, that Bluth-Toyland connection.
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It is Friday -- a fact that may have been mentioned once or twice already, but it bears repeating.
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Good morning, all.
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Really tired.
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I wish I had another hour to sleep away.
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Earlier this past week something got me revved up to pull out a movie I've loved the few times I'd seen it before -- TOPSY-TURVY, about Gilbert and Sullivan and the creation of The Mikado. It had been several years since my last look at it, and I had always intended to dive into director Mike Leigh's commentary.
So I watched it one evening and rewatched with the commentary the next evening, and that has cemented my love and admiration for this film for all time -- and for The Mikado itself, more than ever before, since being introduced to it in my early teens.
And that's my contribution to the TOD. I must run off and do some things, but I will try to expound on this later.
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I have now been wondering if the character Toby Bluth in Arrested Development was named for “the” Toby Bluth.
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If so, I would wonder why.
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Elmore I am so pleased about the orchestration job!
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Chas, I too love Topsy Turkey, although I do not think my version of the dvd has commentary.
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I must pull it out and see
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I was introduced to the Mikado as a teenager too, and it was my introduction to the wonderful world of Gilbert and Sullivan.
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A lot of introductions in that last sentence
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Chas, I too love Topsy Turkey, although I do not think my version of the dvd has commentary.
Quoted for posterity.
As to how much posterity will appreciate the gesture ... well, who among us can say?
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What did Topsy do at the end of UNCLE TOM'S CABIN?
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She took off her makeup and went back to the hotel.
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It is 8:37 a.m. I am waiting for my 8 a.m. doctor call......
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I enjoyed the notes and the clippings.
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Page Two UNLOCKED WINDOW dance.
I encourage everyone who hasn't seen this episode of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour to find it stat!
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Good morning.
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Earlier this past week something got me revved up to pull out a movie I've loved the few times I'd seen it before -- TOPSY-TURVY, about Gilbert and Sullivan and the creation of The Mikado. It had been several years since my last look at it, and I had always intended to dive into director Mike Leigh's commentary.
So I watched it one evening and rewatched with the commentary the next evening, and that has cemented my love and admiration for this film for all time -- and for The Mikado itself, more than ever before, since being introduced to it in my early teens.
And that's my contribution to the TOD. I must run off and do some things, but I will try to expound on this later.
I saw Topsy-Turvy in its first run at the wonderful Paris Theatre, across from the Plaza Hotel. I went with a co-worker from Barnes & Noble, who loved Gibert & Sullivan. She shortly after that, moved out of NYC, and I cannot believe I have forgotten her name! When it was over, I felt thart if they'd added another two hours and given us all of The Mikado, I would have been really happy.
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I have something in my eye - maybe litter - and I cannot get it to drop out. I need eye drops.
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It is finally Friday here in Johnston SC.
It is mostly cloudy and 78 degrees. Expected high is 97.
Humidity is currently 91%.
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Porch man - aka Joey Walton - is busy at work replacing the faulty screening on my back porch.
He sent me a text last night telling me he would be here early and didn't want to wake me.
I was not awakened by him, but I got up at 8:30 a.m. and he had just arrived.
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Larry, I'm with you on the treason issue.
At the very least, citizenship should be stripped from those who perpetrated and partcipated.
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Earlier this past week something got me revved up to pull out a movie I've loved the few times I'd seen it before -- TOPSY-TURVY, about Gilbert and Sullivan and the creation of The Mikado. It had been several years since my last look at it, and I had always intended to dive into director Mike Leigh's commentary.
So I watched it one evening and rewatched with the commentary the next evening, and that has cemented my love and admiration for this film for all time -- and for The Mikado itself, more than ever before, since being introduced to it in my early teens.
And that's my contribution to the TOD. I must run off and do some things, but I will try to expound on this later.
Great movie. Watching it last year for the first time since seeing it in the theater fully convinced me.
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Topsy-Turvy is the only Mike Leigh film I've seen. I had long ago tried another of his (I think it was Naked), and just couldn't get into it. Well, those days are past, because after listening to him talk about G&S for well over three hours in total and how this film is actually consistent with his other works in certain crucial aspects, I'm ready.
(Vixmom: this is the Criterion edition, which I VERY highly recommend.)
He is all about the working class - how it functions, the fact that it's made up of individuals as opposed to just an undefined mass of humanity, and its relation to the world around it. So, although Topsy-Turvy is, on the surface, a bio-pic about G&S and their operas and the Victorian theatre, he zeroes in on the nuts and bolts of each individual's function in that world. His close-ups of makeup, wig lines, perspiration are one thing. (In addition to the theatrical conditions, London happens to be experiencing a record breaking summer heat wave.) His devotion to gradually zeroing in on the chorus as an ensemble made up of a variety of individuals, and how that shapes events, are another.
I'm not done yet. Back later with more.
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Back for another minute:
Leigh is equally huge on the details of relationships, not least those of Mr. & Mrs. Gilbert, Mr. Sullivan and his mistress Fanny Ronalds, and Richard D'oyly Carte and his partner and future Missus, Helen Lenoir. All of these are beautifully depicted, and those moments centered on the Gilberts are subtle but hard hitting. Between the actors and Leigh, I wondered if I was slipping into a Bergman film for just a moment or two.
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Earlier this past week something got me revved up to pull out a movie I've loved the few times I'd seen it before -- TOPSY-TURVY, about Gilbert and Sullivan and the creation of The Mikado. It had been several years since my last look at it, and I had always intended to dive into director Mike Leigh's commentary.
So I watched it one evening and rewatched with the commentary the next evening, and that has cemented my love and admiration for this film for all time -- and for The Mikado itself, more than ever before, since being introduced to it in my early teens.
And that's my contribution to the TOD. I must run off and do some things, but I will try to expound on this later.
I saw Topsy-Turvy in its first run at the wonderful Paris Theatre, across from the Plaza Hotel. I went with a co-worker from Barnes & Noble, who loved Gibert & Sullivan. She shortly after that, moved out of NYC, and I cannot believe I have forgotten her name! When it was over, I felt thart if they'd added another two hours and given us all of The Mikado, I would have been really happy.
And you's get no argument from me, sir!
I simply can't get over how he cast the film with everyone -- every actor/singer and musician -- singing and playing exactly what you hear. It just might be the most honest film depicting music-in-performance ever. But there are a couple of musical things i would LOVE to ask him about, which I felt he didn't touch on in interviews or commentary:
1. The actors playing Sullivan and his assistant conductor both studied some conducting with two different teachers in preparation for the movie. Sullivan's conducting is deliberately very stylized in the manner of older techniques and with regard to his actual character. The assistant is a younger man whose technique is more modern and less showy. My question is whether, in a couple of places, a decision was made to deliberately take a tempo quite a bit slower than those I'm more used to over the years. My idea is that this could be in keeping with the works being new at the time and having not yet settled in with the opera company. It's not a criticism, just an observation and a question.
2. Gilbert is completely dissatisfied with the Mikado's song and he cuts it the night before opening. But it, too, was brand new and bereft of the layers of tradition in comedic business later adopted by the company. And I think that adds to the fact that perhaps the song itself just wasn't "ready" for prime time. Well, it was, because when reinstated, the audience loves it. But it is fairly plain in its execution and would become a more colorful scene in later years.
3. The fact that the musicians in the pit are really playing this music is incredible and thrilling. But you can tell that a larger orchestra is used on the actual soundtrack, and that's borne out in the end credits. No problem there, but I would give anything to hear the G&S operas played in a proper theater of that sort with the actual size of orchestra that would have fit in those pits. I don't think I ever got the feeling that we were ever hearing that band play un-enhanced.
4. Damn it to HELL, what was 4?
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I probably have more (too much more) to say, but for now I'll jump back to DR Elmore's comment about wanting to see the whole damned opera. Well, I wanted to see the whole damned opera, too, so much so that I took out my:
-Criterion edition of the 1939 Kenny Baker & Martyn Green film which my family and I saw on TV in non-glorious black and white (it's a beautiful Technicolor film).
-DVD of the D'oyly Carte's filmed-on-stage Mikado of 1966, which I saw a few times the one week or so that it played in a theater in Fort Lauderdale. It is lacking in many ways, but it's an incredible document of the very production I saw a year or so later in Cleveland when the D'oyly Carte brought it around on tour. (Also saw Iolanthe, which I'll never forget.)
-DVD of the greatly truncated Groucho Marx TV version which we also saw when I was a kid. Actually, that would have been quite a bit earlier, and my first introduction to the piece and to G&S.
-DVD of the English National Opera re-imagining, which I saw live at the Wiltern in the late 1980s with Dudley Moore playing Koko.
I didn't watch every one of these all the way through, but it was a wonderful trip through that world and I'll return to each one of them individually.
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I yield the floor.
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DR George, I have mixed feelings about Troppo. I really like the star, Thomas Jane from The Expanse. I am not sure about the rest of it. We will finish watching the season to find out the mysteries involved.
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George, the show you should be watching is The Orville. It is now on Hulu and better than ever.
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Good morning, friends.
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We think The Orville is the best Science Fiction show on the air, far superior to any of the Star Trek or Star Wars shows.
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Regarding last night's hearing:
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If interested in The Orville or not, I wish everyone would please sign the petition to save this show.
https://www.change.org/p/hulu-renew-the-orville-season-4
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Congrats.
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The Gilbert & Sullivan DVDs to avoid are the ones from the Stratford Festival with their prancy airy-fairy stagings, synthesized orchestra, and, in The Gondoliers, a man in drag playing the Duchess.
The early 1980s BBC series are pretty lousy as well - poor international casting and abridged texts - but the double bill of Trial By Jury and Cox & Box is fanrtastic.
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The Gilbert & Sullivan DVDs to avoid are the ones from the Stratford Festival with their prancy airy-fairy stagings, synthesized orchestra, and, in The Gondoliers, a man in drag playing the Duchess.
The early 1980s BBC series are pretty lousy as well - poor international casting and abridged texts - but the double bill of Trial By Jury and Cox & Box is fanrtastic.
Thank you! It's mostly by accident of omission that I've skipped over those all of these years. I did watch a couple of them on PBS back then and wasn't inspired. I'll keep an eye out for that double bill, though.
For recordings, I collected all the stereo era D'oyly Cartes, then later went back and picked up the earlier ones with Martyn Green, etc. I still have all of those. But for whatever reason, I never had the Sir Macolm Sargents.
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(Synthesized orchestra!!?)
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I’m intrigued by Ethan Hawke’s series about Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward.
https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/ethan-hawke-interview-2022
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The Gilbert & Sullivan DVDs to avoid are the ones from the Stratford Festival with their prancy airy-fairy stagings, synthesized orchestra, and, in The Gondoliers, a man in drag playing the Duchess.
The early 1980s BBC series are pretty lousy as well - poor international casting and abridged texts - but the double bill of Trial By Jury and Cox & Box is fanrtastic.
I’m not fond of the Australian versions from the Sydney Opera House. I find them sluggish and overstuffed.
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I wish I had seen more Mike Leigh films than I have, but the ones I have are special. Life Is Sweet is my favorite. Naked is hard to watch. The performances in Secrets & Lies are devastating. Vera Drake has career-best work from Imelda Staunton.
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Oh, and Mr. Turner is fascinating.
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Three!
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I guess I’ve seen more than I realized.
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Yes, confirmed, Naked is definitely the one I tried to watch and couldn't get through it. I look forward to trying a couple of those others.
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The Gilbert & Sullivan DVDs to avoid are the ones from the Stratford Festival with their prancy airy-fairy stagings, synthesized orchestra, and, in The Gondoliers, a man in drag playing the Duchess.
The early 1980s BBC series are pretty lousy as well - poor international casting and abridged texts - but the double bill of Trial By Jury and Cox & Box is fanrtastic.
Thank you! It's mostly by accident of omission that I've skipped over those all of these years. I did watch a couple of them on PBS back then and wasn't inspired. I'll keep an eye out for that double bill, though.
For recordings, I collected all the stereo era D'oyly Cartes, then later went back and picked up the earlier ones with Martyn Green, etc. I still have all of those. But for whatever reason, I never had the Sir Macolm Sargents.
My first complete G&S recording was Sir Malcolm's The Yeoman of the Guard. I have all of his series and they vary but I love his Yeoman, Ruddigore, Iolanthe, Patience, and Trial by Jury. The Pinafore and Pirates aren't bad, especially because so much of The Pirates of Penzance seems to be a parody of early Verdi opera.
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The Gilbert & Sullivan DVDs to avoid are the ones from the Stratford Festival with their prancy airy-fairy stagings, synthesized orchestra, and, in The Gondoliers, a man in drag playing the Duchess.
The early 1980s BBC series are pretty lousy as well - poor international casting and abridged texts - but the double bill of Trial By Jury and Cox & Box is fanrtastic.
I’m not fond of the Australian versions from the Sydney Opera House. I find them sluggish and overstuffed.
Their Die Fledermaus is rather interesting.
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Knock on wood, I think my back issues may be clearing up after four days of hell.
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The Gilbert & Sullivan DVDs to avoid are the ones from the Stratford Festival with their prancy airy-fairy stagings, synthesized orchestra, and, in The Gondoliers, a man in drag playing the Duchess.
The early 1980s BBC series are pretty lousy as well - poor international casting and abridged texts - but the double bill of Trial By Jury and Cox & Box is fanrtastic.
I’m not fond of the Australian versions from the Sydney Opera House. I find them sluggish and overstuffed.
Their Die Fledermaus is rather interesting.
Their Gondoliers is yawn-inducing.
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TOD:
The rest of The Batman, Downton Abbey: A New Era
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Hmmm.....my first G/S recording was HMS PINAFORE on the London Jubilee label....with the D'Oyly Carte company and James Walker conducting.
I also got the Glyndebourne Chorus and the Pro Arte Orchestra conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent.
I may also have the Angel recording on CD.
AND both those LP sets were right next to a Broadway show mentioned in the notes....HIGH SPIRITS.
Now I want to see HMS PINAFORE again. I think it's my favorite....although I like all of the G/S catalog.
Lots of fun kids in this production I choreographed back in 1985.
(https://scontent-ord5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/294395105_10228997831235669_4643883503648622657_n.jpg?_nc_cat=105&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=C_2JvQf-AhAAX-06A2d&_nc_oc=AQk19cndtK1cY_mPyX5b9KYmrMD_SeHbatldE_VeJVh8zkCJ0QuloHI770y6JVI2vMUzQCcwArgM5zIZGPk3lTbZ&_nc_ht=scontent-ord5-1.xx&oh=00_AT9a6fKvWs7ZjkQ2GiS6DSEixrIIPZxbpuOC3ryXLEjZ8w&oe=62DF85C3)
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Good back news DR ELMORE.
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Nice photo, DR Jrand71.
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Knock on wood, I think my back issues may be clearing up after four days of hell.
Huzzah!
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This is Informa. She narrates and guides you through the 6 required annual training courses on protecting private data, which haven't been updated in 10 years.
How I hate her.
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But I am now recertified for another year.
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So there's that.
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Our ride to the airport departs the domicile tomorrow morning at 4:30am.
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Assuming the flight is not cancelled, we expect to be in Philadelphia around 10:00am.
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Wow! Congrats, Ron!
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This is Informa. She narrates and guides you through the 6 required annual training courses on protecting private data, which haven't been updated in 10 years.
How I hate her.
Any relation to Philia or Domina?
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And congrats to you, John!
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George, the show you should be watching is The Orville. It is now on Hulu and better than ever.
I did watch the first season when it was on Fox, but I don't have Hulu, so I haven't seen it since. :-\
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I really did enjoy the first season and was disappointed that it moved to a pay streaming service. I'm glad that it's gotten even better, though.
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Regarding last night's hearing:
(http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=6935.0;attach=15003)
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If interested in The Orville or not, I wish everyone would please sign the petition to save this show.
https://www.change.org/p/hulu-renew-the-orville-season-4
Signed!
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Nice photo, DR Jrand71.
Agreed!
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Good back news DR ELMORE.
Agreed!!
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Topic of the Day: I'm watching on my phone a (covertly acquired) MP4 video of the Dutch production of Sondheim and Lapine's Passion.
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Dutch is a very different language than English. :o
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And now that we're so close...
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PAGE FOUR PASSION IN DUTCH DANCE!!
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Hmmm.....my first G/S recording was HMS PINAFORE on the London Jubilee label....with the D'Oyly Carte company and James Walker conducting.
I also got the Glyndebourne Chorus and the Pro Arte Orchestra conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent.
I may also have the Angel recording on CD.
AND both those LP sets were right next to a Broadway show mentioned in the notes....HIGH SPIRITS.
Now I want to see HMS PINAFORE again. I think it's my favorite....although I like all of the G/S catalog.
Lots of fun kids in this production I choreographed back in 1985.
(https://scontent-ord5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/294395105_10228997831235669_4643883503648622657_n.jpg?_nc_cat=105&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=C_2JvQf-AhAAX-06A2d&_nc_oc=AQk19cndtK1cY_mPyX5b9KYmrMD_SeHbatldE_VeJVh8zkCJ0QuloHI770y6JVI2vMUzQCcwArgM5zIZGPk3lTbZ&_nc_ht=scontent-ord5-1.xx&oh=00_AT9a6fKvWs7ZjkQ2GiS6DSEixrIIPZxbpuOC3ryXLEjZ8w&oe=62DF85C3)
Cute photo.
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This is Informa. She narrates and guides you through the 6 required annual training courses on protecting private data, which haven't been updated in 10 years.
How I hate her.
Oh my, she looks annoying.
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But I am now recertified for another year.
Good.
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Our ride to the airport departs the domicile tomorrow morning at 4:30am.
Groan.
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SAFE AND EASY TRAVELS FOR DR SINGDAW!
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Assuming the flight is not cancelled, we expect to be in Philadelphia around 10:00am.
I like Philadelphia.
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George, the show you should be watching is The Orville. It is now on Hulu and better than ever.
I did watch the first season when it was on Fox, but I don't have Hulu, so I haven't seen it since. :-\
Thanks for signing the petition. I know you will want to continue watching the show, maybe even get Hulu to do so.
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When we video chat with Freyja we always do it together.
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Lately we have been chatting using her Amazon Glow, again together.
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This morning I had fun with her using the Glow app on my phone. It was great for me because the sound went directly into my ears.
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Freyja know who we are by our names but doesn't say them yet. This morning she asked where the other person was :))
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So, DR JRand, are you called Buttercup, dear little Buttercup?
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George, the show you should be watching is The Orville. It is now on Hulu and better than ever.
I did watch the first season when it was on Fox, but I don't have Hulu, so I haven't seen it since. :-\
Thanks for signing the petition. I know you will want to continue watching the show, maybe even get Hulu to do so.
I really haven't watched much broadcast TV in quite a while, so I've been seriously thinking about getting rid of it and just keeping the internet. That would save me a LOT of money.
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This Dutch Passion that I'm watching had an intermission. :-\ It was right after "I Wish I Could Forget You."
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That kind of makes sense.
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DR George you might consider doing a month trial with Hulu, watch all the episodes of The Orville and other shows of interest, and then cancel everything.
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I may have posted this before, but John Cranko's Gilbert & Sullivan ballet, Pineapple Poll, is a pure delight. The score is taken from all the Sullivan operas, including Cox and Box and his Overture di Ballo. If you know the lyrics, sometimes they match the action, and it's fun watching a waltz for the Captain, his finacee, and her mother jump from Pirates of Penzance to Ruddigore and back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0OLC1qOXzQ&t=457s
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Thank you for that! It's open on another tab and ready to watch later.
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DR Elmore, or anyone who's seen it:
How is that 1953 film The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan?
I know I saw it a couple of times, years ago, and I don't remember a damned thing about it.
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Another thing about Topsy-Turvy is Leigh's genius in staging the spark - the moment of inspiration - that kicks off the new opera and the rest of the film.
He plays around a bit with the actual chronology of the Japanese Exhibition in London and the sword, etc., all for perfect dramatic purposes. He puts it right up there on the screen -- the event and moment on which the whole story turns, and it's utterly thrilling. The genius part of it is that it's not overdone, either by actor Jim Broadbent, or the music, or anything. It's a magical moment.
He then jumps out of time and cuts right to a scene from the finished production. We're a whole hour into the movie when this moment finally happens, and it's a quick gift to the audience that we see what this all came to...before he then jumps back into the "present" and the collaborative process actually gets underway. The pacing in this thing is unlike anything else. And the extended "dry" rehearsal scene in which Gilbert begins shaping the performances of Pooh, Pitti, and Koko, is captivating to the nth degree.
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Good afternoon!
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Congrats to DR RonPulliam and DR JohnG for getting Wordle in 2/6. I was so proud to get it in 3!
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So Bannon was found guilty, but now his lawyers say he will appeal.
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And on it goes.
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DR George you might consider doing a month trial with Hulu, watch all the episodes of The Orville and other shows of interest, and then cancel everything.
I've done that before with Star Trek Discovery. ;)
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:)
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Stephen Colbert says, "Trump decided not to act. The same could be said about his performance in Home Alone 2." ;D
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So Bannon was found guilty, but now his lawyers say he will appeal.
Because of course. ::)
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I'm up, I'm up - ten hours of sleep, almost consecutive.
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Lots to do do now to catch up.
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I may have posted this before, but John Cranko's Gilbert & Sullivan ballet, Pineapple Poll, is a pure delight. The score is taken from all the Sullivan operas, including Cox and Box and his Overture di Ballo. If you know the lyrics, sometimes they match the action, and it's fun watching a waltz for the Captain, his finacee, and her mother jump from Pirates of Penzance to Ruddigore and back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0OLC1qOXzQ&t=457s
This is great. And I did sometimes expect somebody to suddenly burst into song.
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DR Elmore, or anyone who's seen it:
How is that 1953 film The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan?
I know I saw it a couple of times, years ago, and I don't remember a damned thing about it.
I've never seen it and I keep hoping Criterion will tackle it.
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BK, I received a wonderful surprise this afternoon. Thank you!
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I may have posted this before, but John Cranko's Gilbert & Sullivan ballet, Pineapple Poll, is a pure delight. The score is taken from all the Sullivan operas, including Cox and Box and his Overture di Ballo. If you know the lyrics, sometimes they match the action, and it's fun watching a waltz for the Captain, his finacee, and her mother jump from Pirates of Penzance to Ruddigore and back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0OLC1qOXzQ&t=457s
This is great. And I did sometimes expect somebody to suddenly burst into song.
It makes me weep with joy. I wish the Australian Ballet would release it on commercial DVD. Their Coppelia, Sleeping Beauty, and La filled mal gardee are quite good.
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I may have posted this before, but John Cranko's Gilbert & Sullivan ballet, Pineapple Poll, is a pure delight. The score is taken from all the Sullivan operas, including Cox and Box and his Overture di Ballo. If you know the lyrics, sometimes they match the action, and it's fun watching a waltz for the Captain, his finacee, and her mother jump from Pirates of Penzance to Ruddigore and back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0OLC1qOXzQ&t=457s
This is great. And I did sometimes expect somebody to suddenly burst into song.
It makes me weep with joy. I wish the Australian Ballet would release it on commercial DVD. Their Coppelia, Sleeping Beauty, and La filled mal gardee are quite good.
Is this the only copy circulating? Someone's off the air VHS tape with iffy tracking? The audio even predates the Beta or VHS Hi-Fi era, I'm pretty sure. But it's totally chatming.
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Just got an email fom "scribd" saying they're raising the monthly subscription fee from $10 to $12.
I would let it go, but there are times when I find a score or something that, at that moment, is invaluable and totally justifies the fee. At that moment. Ah, well.
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Travel vibes for the newly certified DR singdaw.
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That was a nice link for a hot afternoon DR ELMORE.
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Here's the Pineapple Poll page from the G&S Archive:
https://www.gsarchive.net/pine_poll/index.html
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Some Internet wag has scored the video of Senator Josh Hawley running away from the mob to the theme music from "Benny Hill." Genius!
(https://media1.giphy.com/media/i2yWVtz6oFLCiVXyhF/100.gif?cid=ecf05e4710wbev5jlcrpzdka4voy8okbrh358yyhtwvsdo2w&rid=100.gif&ct=g)
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Thanks for the travel vibes!
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We'll be attending a mini family reunion at the south New Jersey shore.
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Lord, I really dislike people sometime - today's people is a customer who filed a PayPal dispute. I wrote him and told him what the issue had been with the two titles and asked him nicely to close the account and gave him the Kritzerland gmail address. He then sends me a really nasty note saying he doesn't appreciate my "snippy" response, and that he'd e-mailed me before and I'd been "snippy" then, too. I'd already searched his name everywhere to see if we'd corresponded and could find nothing. The reason? Because there's one name on his invoice and PayPal dispute and another on his email. I just wrote him back telling him it's hard to know if we corresponded when the names don't match, and that I'd found our one email exchange, in which there was not a single snippy letter let alone word. It was explanatory and I answered a question he had about my mystery novels. I just refunded him his money and closed the case and will not accept any more orders from him.
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Have a wonderful time.
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Must eat something now.
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Then I'll go back to writing.
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Some Internet wag has scored the video of Senator Josh Hawley running away from the mob to the theme music from "Benny Hill." Genius!
(https://media1.giphy.com/media/i2yWVtz6oFLCiVXyhF/100.gif?cid=ecf05e4710wbev5jlcrpzdka4voy8okbrh358yyhtwvsdo2w&rid=100.gif&ct=g)
;D
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a customer who filed a PayPal dispute.
People are jerks, plain and simple. And now so, more than ever. Sad.
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Here's the Pineapple Poll page from the G&S Archive:
https://www.gsarchive.net/pine_poll/index.html
Thank you. I just watched the Australian video a second time. And I'll say it again, it is completely charming, and of course these things should be properly released.
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:)
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a customer who filed a PayPal dispute.
People are jerks, plain and simple. And now so, more than ever. Sad.
Yes, that is damned incredible, how someone can want to behave like to anyone. But especially the person who has the very thing(s) you want. Uh...hello? Anybody home?
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:)
Perfect!
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Frustrated with too many unwanted calls on my cell phone, I set my phone to silence all calls not in my contact list.
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I hope it works and that I don't miss any important calls.
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Those calls are doubly annoying for me because they ring in my ears which is rather loud.
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Hello, everyone.
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Travel vibes for the newly certified DR singdaw.
Ditto!
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My 2 cents:
Both Fred and Don Bluth were the most ENORMOUSLY talented people. I'm still awed by what they did at Bluth Bros and elsewhere. Bluth Bros Theater was a little hole in the wall, but filled with so many really talented people.
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I came home from acupuncture today feeling verrry relaxed. Relaxed is good, but I may just doze off momentarily.
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Some good news:
An American friend of mine has a Russian friend, a teacher, who was reluctant to leave Russia, as his family is there. His Russian passport allows for limited travel to only a few countries. My friend convinced him to make the leap and met him in Brazil, where the consulate has been very cooperative. He had to be revaxxed, as his Sputnik vaccines are not accepted in the US, and now must go through a waiting period. But it appears he'll obtain a US visa. The war in Ukraine has made life in Russia unbearable for so many Russians, even for many who would have stayed. A brain drain, indeed.
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TTFN.
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Jeanne, thank you for sharing the good news. It was nice of the American friend to meet him in Brazil.
Unbearable as in economically or emotionally? Emotional in oppression or conflict between those who support the war and those that don't?
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'night
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Stephen Colbert says, "Trump decided not to act. The same could be said about his performance in Home Alone 2." ;D
And ditto about his non-performance as a president for four years.
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Good night, friends.
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Some good news:
An American friend of mine has a Russian friend, a teacher, who was reluctant to leave Russia, as his family is there. His Russian passport allows for limited travel to only a few countries. My friend convinced him to make the leap and met him in Brazil, where the consulate has been very cooperative. He had to be revaxxed, as his Sputnik vaccines are not accepted in the US, and now must go through a waiting period. But it appears he'll obtain a US visa. The war in Ukraine has made life in Russia unbearable for so many Russians, even for many who would have stayed. A brain drain, indeed.
Great story.
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Organized a happy hour after work today. It went really well. We had plenty of food and drank and good talk.
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Afterward, I went a few doors down to one of my favorite ice cream places. Nice to see that my review from ages ago was still on display.
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I had two scoops of burgundy cherry, one a gelato and the other a sorbet. Both were delicious.
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Back to The Batman.
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HOW DRY IS IT IN TEXAS ?
It’s so dry in Texas that the Baptists are starting to baptize by sprinkling. The Methodists are using wet-wipes. The Presbyterians (and Lutherans) are giving out rain-checks, and the Catholics are praying for the wine to turn back into water.
Now THAT’s Dry!
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"Josh Hawley is a bitch. And he ran like a bitch."
So says a 20-year police veteran who was injured in the riot on Jan. 6.
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Good night, all.
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Some Internet wag has scored the video of Senator Josh Hawley running away from the mob to the theme music from "Benny Hill." Genius!
(https://media1.giphy.com/media/i2yWVtz6oFLCiVXyhF/100.gif?cid=ecf05e4710wbev5jlcrpzdka4voy8okbrh358yyhtwvsdo2w&rid=100.gif&ct=g)
:))
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Lord, I really dislike people sometime - today's people is a customer who filed a PayPal dispute. I wrote him and told him what the issue had been with the two titles and asked him nicely to close the account and gave him the Kritzerland gmail address. He then sends me a really nasty note saying he doesn't appreciate my "snippy" response, and that he'd e-mailed me before and I'd been "snippy" then, too. I'd already searched his name everywhere to see if we'd corresponded and could find nothing. The reason? Because there's one name on his invoice and PayPal dispute and another on his email. I just wrote him back telling him it's hard to know if we corresponded when the names don't match, and that I'd found our one email exchange, in which there was not a single snippy letter let alone word. It was explanatory and I answered a question he had about my mystery novels. I just refunded him his money and closed the case and will not accept any more orders from him.
Oh, my goodness! :o
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Some people's children!
;)
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:)
(http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=6935.0;attach=15009)
;D
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Some good news:
An American friend of mine has a Russian friend, a teacher, who was reluctant to leave Russia, as his family is there. His Russian passport allows for limited travel to only a few countries. My friend convinced him to make the leap and met him in Brazil, where the consulate has been very cooperative. He had to be revaxxed, as his Sputnik vaccines are not accepted in the US, and now must go through a waiting period. But it appears he'll obtain a US visa. The war in Ukraine has made life in Russia unbearable for so many Russians, even for many who would have stayed. A brain drain, indeed.
That's great!
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Stephen Colbert says, "Trump decided not to act. The same could be said about his performance in Home Alone 2." ;D
And ditto about his non-performance as a president for four years.
Exactly!
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Afterward, I went a few doors down to one of my favorite ice cream places. Nice to see that my review from ages ago was still on display.
That's cool, John!
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"Josh Hawley is a bitch. And he ran like a bitch."
So says a 20-year police veteran who was injured in the riot on Jan. 6.
PERFECT!!
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Well, I'm home after playing Phase 10, and I won the second game (of two)!
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And speaking of G&S, has anyone seen or even heard of:
Gilbert and Sullivan's Improbable New Musical: The Fringe Lozenge (https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B08LNG9RK7)?
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The Fringe Lozenge was created for Coily Dart Theatre’s production at The Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2017, where it achieved a sell-out run and was awarded a Fringe Laurel. The songs feature all-new lyrics to Arthur Sullivan’s music, selected from across the range of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas. The musical arrangement have been created by Vicki Hing, based upon the works of Arthur Sullivan. The original music and harmonies have been replicated as closely as possible, though many of the songs have been shortened and some of the melodies used are brief extracts, taken from the original compositions. The lyrics are by Susan Ellerby, inspired by the works of W.S. Gilbert.
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And here's what it says on the back of the script:
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I just happened to come across this early last year and bought both the script and vocal score on a whim.
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I don't know of any local group that woul do it...I just like the idea of it all. :D
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I also got the script and score to Gilbert and Sullivan's Improbable New Musical: Less Miserable (https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B08WZ8XMPK).
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As well as Gilbert and Sullivan's Improbable New Musical: ...and Helen (https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B08WZH58FY).
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PAGE SEVEN G&S DANCE!!
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Page seven.
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This has been the strongest posting month we've had in ages.
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Ages, do you hear me?
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I hear me.
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New notes are written.
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But not posted.
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Soon they will be both written and posted.
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Soon, I promise.
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New notes are up.
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Up are new notes.