Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on September 11, 2022, 02:04:32 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes spoke of David Amram and his music, and now it is time for you to post until the storied cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: SUBSTANTIVE!
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Good morning, friends.
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Yesterday I watched a production of [title of show], which I enjoyed. I've always liked the score.
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9/11 again. Hard to believe it's been 21 years.
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Good morning, all!
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I slept very well, but by 6:00 when the alarm rang, I was ready to risde and feed three babies.
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I only remember one dream: I was preparing scores fr some rehearsal. The score was for a show with a ton of cues, and Joshie was there al;ong with my copyist friend Don Oliver. We finished the work and bubndled into a car with (I think) Jack Viertel, and we headed off to rthe band rehearsal. Don or Joshie said, "Wait! We forgot the Jubilee scores," and I said, "That's okay' we won't getr through all of this today."
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Hopefully, unless UPS epically screwed up agasin, there is an eBay package waiting for me. I'm quite excited about it. More to follow . . .
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This is mainly a ME day, following a long day of laundry and food delivery that left myt body very sore and wiped out. I did not play on a trip out of the apartment, but I must pick up that eBay package. After that, I will work on the concert Interlude. Ann or Jen - or both - will come down at some point to pick up a check. I;ve asked Ann to stop at her bank and get me $70 in singles and $30 in quarters to fill my empty ASccess-a-Ride piggy bank. I need the exact $2.75 to give the driver for each trip I take.
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DR George, did I miss the title of what you were ushering for last night?
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DR vixmom, I have seen that Midsomer Murders episode several times now, so I decided to pass and instead I watched a production of the great romantic ballet Giselle, which I still think is a really stupid ballet. This was a production by the National Ballet of Canada, starring Karen Kain. The dancing was great, but here's the plot:
Albrecht, some Duke or Prince in the middle ages, loves a peasant girl Giselle, who lives in some village, so he pretends to be a peasant and lives in a huty close to Giselle's humble home. The hunter Hilarion loves Giselle and hates Albrecht. The royal court on a hunting frolic comes to this village for a break. Albrecht hids fgrom them but Hilarion sneaks in the hut and finds proof of Albrecht;s deception. Giselle dances for the court and a nice lady named Berthe gives her a trinket. Hilarion reveals the truth of Albrecht's identity, and evewn worse, he's Berthe's husband or finacee! Giselle goes mad and kills herself.
So far so good.
Act Two takes place at midnight at Giselle's grave in the spooky forest. Because midnight seems a perfectly logical time to take flowers to a tomb, both Hilarion and Albrecht show up, but therew's a problem. The forest is haunted by Wilis, the ghosts of young gierls who have killed themselves, and there are lot in this vicinity, led a queen, of all things. They have assembled to welcome a new ghost: Giselle! Anyone surprised?
The Wilis catch Hilarion and dance him to death, but Giselle still loves Albrecht and begsthe queen to spare his lifew. They do, morning comes, and hew's all alone.
For a ghost story, it really sucks.
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Good morning, all.
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TCB, in my defense ( re the Dilly Bar) we haven’t had DQ’s in this area, we had a lot of Friendlys and Carvels.
Carvels are still plentiful but Friendlys have all but disappeared
A quick Google showed me DQs now exist on LI so will attempt to visit one and discover the wonders of a Dilly Bar
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Chas…I want to come and hang out on your lovely deck!
It looks like a little piece of heaven!
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Jack I’ve been saying prayers for your dear brothers recovery but a quick search shows I failed to mention that or send vibes here , for that failure I apologize.
Vibes and prayers continue!
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TCB, in my defense ( re the Dilly Bar) we haven’t had DQ’s in this area, we had a lot of Friendlys and Carvels.
Carvels are still plentiful but Friendlys have all but disappeared
A quick Google showed me DQs now exist on LI so will attempt to visit one and discover the wonders of a Dilly Bar
When I was a kid, there were three Dairy Queens in Middletown. In the 1970sd, we were down to two, and now there are none. I loved their Dilly Bars and styrawberry shakes, which I now have to purchase when I'm back in Ohio from United Dairy Farmers.
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It's a somber 9/11, gray and rainy as if the heavens wept fwith the families of those poor souls murdered 21 years ago. I have avoided the television and the roll call of the lost; I weep enough these days.
Instead, I've listened to the Kansas City Chorale sing religious music and several Schubert masses, although I should have listened to a requiem.
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David Amram was married to a mezzo-soprano I really liked. Was it Marcia Baldwin? I have a memory that he composed an opera of Twelfth Night for her.
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The dark clothes are in the dryer and the light clothes are in the washer.
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I liked the Amram Story very much. Interesting.
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Now I am also excited about DR ELMORE's package.
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Today is SUPERMAN day on the Decades channel so we are being treated to many, many episodes.
Of course MR BK released the Superman tv music cues on CD some years back....and it is a favorite of mine.
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I have added my own dialog to a few episodes - and they are even more enjoyable.
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Of course the added dialog is unprintable.
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Yes DR CHAS SMITH certainly has a party deck!
Mine is much smaller and not as festive.....but you can see our Pet Semetery from there.
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Good morning, all.
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Yes, very much enjoyed the Amram story.
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Yes DR CHAS SMITH certainly has a party deck!
Mine is much smaller and not as festive.....but you can see our Pet Semetery from there.
Right. Ours is out in the opposite direction and just uphill from the level of the yard.
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I must get ready soon to go to a matinee of LA CAGE AUX FOLLES that a few friends are involved in, a couple of them in the cast and a couple in the band. I have no idea how large the band is, but I know the two keyboardists and very likely others as well.
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Good morning!
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Wordle: 5/6
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I also was not familiar with Dilly bars. There's a Dairy Queen in the shopping center I go to at least once a week, but I was only there once.
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Happy Sunday to everyone. There's a new Broadway Radio Show up on the site for your listening pleasure. We take a break from interviews to hear Musical Missives...how correspondence, whether it be letters, telegrams, etc have been used as show tunes in musicals. Lots of great songs and performances....check it out!
http://www.haineshisway.com/the-broadway-radio-show-2/
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Thank you, DR Donald, for the weekly reminder.
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I think DR elmore should write a book with his summaries of the great ballet plots.
I would buy and read that!
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Thank you, DR slingshot! Maybe I'll do that with opera plots as well! I could call it Opera and Ballet Plotzed!
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Well, my eBay package was indeed waiting for me. I've lost so many packages, thanks to the dyslexic or moronic USPS personnel who are unable to deliver to the correct addresses, that I was afraid it would not bve in the lobby.
Well, it was!
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I am a huge fan of Marc Blitzstein's Threepenny Opera adaptation, buty I never knew what text played forseven yewars or so at the Theatre de Lys in the Village because the rental libretto of Blitzstein's version had to be revised to accommodate the score. Here's why.
In the 1954 production with Lotte Lenya, Jo Sullivan, Bea Arthur, etc., "Pirate Jenny," which Brecht and Weill gave to Polly in Act One Scene Two, was given to Lotte Lenya in the brothel scene. So, when Polly told the wedding guests she would sing a little song, she sang somethiung called "The Bide-a-wee in Soho," which was Blitzstein's adaptation of "The Bilbao song" from the Weill-Brecht Happy End. It could not be included in the rental because it's an interpolation from another show.
I found on eBay a copy of the libretto of the actual production script with the Bide-a-wee song included. I am very happy. Another musical theatre question solved!
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I have a recording of Jo Sullivan Loesser singing "The Bide-a-wee in Soho" from several years ago, but now I know how Blitzstein adapted the text to accommodate the number.
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What a wonderful artifact, and great find! Congratulations, sir!
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Music Box Theatre at Hollywood and La Brea, very interesting, too.
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Re BK's notes on The Devil's Hand and the location shots --
I remember saying I'd found that shot of the Picfair, but I remember absolutely nothing of the movie itself! But I guess there really isn't much to remember anyway. :)
I watched it on a crappy double feature DVD with The Strangler, and I'll have to take it out again and have another look at these.
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DR Vixmom I had to look up Dilly Bar. Now that I know what it is I will pass.
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Even before I had Carvel soft ice cream cone I didn't care for DQ. I grew up with Fosters Freeze which was superior to DQ.
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On days we went to the beach it was a treat to stop on the way home for a Fosters.
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Technically neither DQ or Fosters is ice cream, they are what we used to call ice milk. No wonder once I had Carvel's I was hooked.
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DR Singdaw I noticed that the cookie table at the wedding also has boxes to fill with cookies. I am guessing there weren't that many people at the wedding if everyone was invited to take home a box of cookies.
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That is very cool, DR elmore3003.
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Good eyes, DR Jane. Makes a little more sense.
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David Amram's incidental score to On the Waterfront does not appear to be on iTunes, but is available for streaming on Amazon Music.
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Good eyes, DR Jane. Makes a little more sense.
Morning eyes work better ;)
It does make more sense.
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Gorgeous day here. There will be an outdoor walk this afternoon.
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DR George, did I miss the title of what you were ushering for last night?
I might not have specified, but it was This Flat Earth (https://harlequinproductions.org/show/this-flat-earth-2/) that I also ushered for last weekend, about a middle-school girl who doesn't want you go back to school after a shooting where a classmate was killed. :-\
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Now I am also excited about DR ELMORE's package.
:o Jrand, this is a family site!!
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Thank you, DR slingshot! Maybe I'll do that with opera plots as well! I could call it Opera and Ballet Plotzed!
;D
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What a wonderful artifact, and great find! Congratulations, sir!
Ditto and Ditto!
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I must get ready soon to go to a matinee of LA CAGE AUX FOLLES that a few friends are involved in, a couple of them in the cast and a couple in the band. I have no idea how large the band is, but I know the two keyboardists and very likely others as well.
Was just thinking of The Best of Times.
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Now I am also excited about DR ELMORE's package.
:o Jrand, this is a family site!!
There's little to be excited about, sadly.
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ABOUT TIME!
Page 3 Dance!
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DR George, did I miss the title of what you were ushering for last night?
I might not have specified, but it was This Flat Earth (https://harlequinproductions.org/show/this-flat-earth-2/) that I also ushered for last weekend, about a middle-school girl who doesn't want you go back to school after a shooting where a classmate was killed. :-\
A very difficult subject. How can parents help their children with something they can't understand.
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DR George, did I miss the title of what you were ushering for last night?
I might not have specified, but it was This Flat Earth (https://harlequinproductions.org/show/this-flat-earth-2/) that I also ushered for last weekend, about a middle-school girl who doesn't want you go back to school after a shooting where a classmate was killed. :-\
A very difficult subject. How can parents help their children with something they can't understand.
Exactly.
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We have a lovely setting here with three ponds.
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Enjoying this setting are a pair of swans, a pair until this morning when a coyote killed one of them.
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We are very, very sad.
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Oh my, the things people find to criticize.
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After greeting the crowds outside of Windsor Castle.......
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Harry escorted his wife to their car, opening and closing the door for Megan. OK, I agree that is sweet.
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William is being criticized as he and Kate entered their car separately ::)
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I told Keith if we were in the public eye he would be in trouble. He looked at me and asked if Megan was pregnant ;D
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Up from a nap that wasn’t long enough.
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DR ELMORE that's great. That's why I keep looking at things on EBAY!
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I am going to watch the Men's Finals of the U.S. Open....
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I like a Dilly Bar. But they would always melt and fall off the stick before I could finish them.
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Sunday afternoon greetings! Friday and today I worked at the 66th annual used book sale.
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TCB, in my defense ( re the Dilly Bar) we haven’t had DQ’s in this area, we had a lot of Friendlys and Carvels.
Carvels are still plentiful but Friendlys have all but disappeared
A quick Google showed me DQs now exist on LI so will attempt to visit one and discover the wonders of a Dilly Bar
When I was a kid, there were three Dairy Queens in Middletown. In the 1970sd, we were down to two, and now there are none. I loved their Dilly Bars and styrawberry shakes, which I now have to purchase when I'm back in Ohio from United Dairy Farmers.
DR Elmore, you need to come back and we’ll take you to the fairly new Dairy Queen on Roosevelt Blvd.
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In The Ink Black Heart, Cormoran Strike gets attacked by a cockatoo. I empathize all too well.
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DR Jeanne, you asked what I thought of the new Woody Allen. It might have been more fun in the service of something other than the author’s amusement. Much of the book has short pieces that make fun of Hollywood. If it had been more like Patrick Bronstein Presents, the jokes would have landed better. At times, the rims shots were louder than the jokes.
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Been rifling through the freezer to get rid of stuff before the new fridge comes tomorrow.
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The excitement has been unsurpassable.
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In The Ink Black Heart, Cormoran Strike gets attacked by a cockatoo. I empathize all too well.
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TCB, in my defense ( re the Dilly Bar) we haven’t had DQ’s in this area, we had a lot of Friendlys and Carvels.
Carvels are still plentiful but Friendlys have all but disappeared
A quick Google showed me DQs now exist on LI so will attempt to visit one and discover the wonders of a Dilly Bar
When I was a kid, there were three Dairy Queens in Middletown. In the 1970sd, we were down to two, and now there are none. I loved their Dilly Bars and styrawberry shakes, which I now have to purchase when I'm back in Ohio from United Dairy Farmers.
DR Elmore, you need to come back and we’ll take you to the fairly new Dairy Queen on Roosevelt Blvd.
Oooooooh! I want to go!
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DR JohnG, how did the pie go over?
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We haven’t had it yet.
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I would be very excited about a new refrigerator.
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But I don't get out much.
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I just flew in from Fresno
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And boy, are my arms tired.
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Four.
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Don't you just hate tailgators?
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Oh, my goodness! :o
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The pie was good but could have great. And I blame myself. First, it needed lemon juice to boost the acidity. I added more fruit but didn’t add more cornstarch. And the crumble topping could have used a little more cinnamon. Nobody complained, but it could have been better.
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Speaking of "it could have been better," watched the Netflix adaptation of Jason Robert Brown's 13. I don't know the original theatrical property, so have nothing to compare it to. It was OK.
I don't think it will be Jrand72's cup of tea, as Debra Messing has a prominent role.
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I have to do something, but I can't remember exactly what.
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The one scene I saw from 13 was so dull I forgot it while I was watching it.
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I am back to Zorba. I may not make it to the end tonight. No patience.
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Can I go to Crete for Christmas?
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Gratuitous post 99!
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I need some time off.
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I don’t think three weeks will do it.
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Can I go to Crete for Christmas?
Yes. And Antarctica for Advent.
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It's only page four but I'm afraid I'm done for.
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Good night, friends.
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Good night, Singdaw.
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Charlbi Dean, a very distinctive-looking young actress, has died at age 32. She’s in a new movie, Triangle of Sadness, that won the Palme d’Or at Cannes. Sad.
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Speaking of "it could have been better," watched the Netflix adaptation of Jason Robert Brown's 13. I don't know the original theatrical property, so have nothing to compare it to. It was OK.
I don't think it will be Jrand72's cup of tea, as Debra Messing has a prominent role.
I have the original cast recording, but I probably haven't listened to it since I got it.
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I have to do something, but I can't remember exactly what.
(http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=6986.0;attach=15338)
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Today, I have done pretty much nothing until my niece called and asked if I would do some shopping for her.
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Since I was doing nothing, I said I'd go
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She said that I could use her debit card and get cash back to pay me back for some stuff I bought for her from England.
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Fortunately, she didn't want a lot of stuff, and everything that she wanted was available at Fred Meyer.
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After I delivered her stuff, I took my A Murder is Announced script and some small note pads to Subway.
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I got a ham, egg and cheese on flatbread...it was quite tasty, and one of the least expensive sandwiches that Subway now has.
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After eating, I wrote out the cue lines and my lines on said small note pads so that I can flip though them to help me memorize my lines.
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Coinkydinkly, whilst (I actually get to say "whilst" as the Inspector ;D ) writing out my lines, I got this week's updated rehearsal schedule.
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I only have to be there on Tuesday.
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Tomorrow and Wednesday, they'll be blocking scenes that I'm not in, and Thursday was already a planned night off.
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I have a lot of lines to learn, and these nights off will help.
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5ive ! ! ! ! !
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Memory vibes for George.
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Memory vibes for George.
Thanks, John!
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Been digging deep into The Ink Black Heart. Hope I can finish it up this week.
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I'm up, i'm up - seven hours of sleep and non-stop stuff from the time I got out of bed until now and I'm still not done, really.
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elmore's threepenny libretto is most interesting for its title page - saying it belonged to the Music Box Theater in LA. So, I did a little research and it did indeed play the Music Box, which was located right at Hollywood Blvd. and La Brea - I only went there three times - all three times to see Oscar Brown, Jr. in 1964. The production of Threepenny opened in October of 1960. I'll post more about it when I open the new topic.
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Ooo...all of a sudden I have heartburn. :P
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I should've gotten some Pepsid when we discussed it here last, but I didn't. ::)
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But my heartburn right now is very minor and the Tums that I just took have already minimized it.
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I need some Pepcid.
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I need some postings.
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New notes are up.
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Up are new notes.
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I saw them so I know it to be true.
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No TCB.
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I hope Tom's okay.
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I just reordered all my medications at once.
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They're all pretty much ending together (for the first time in a very long time), but a couple are early.