Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on October 13, 2024, 12:54:25 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes were both stultifying and stupefying, and now it is time for you to post until the stultified and stupefied cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: IDEATE!
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Good morning, friends.
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And others.
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Glad you enjoyed (and will enjoy again) Sweeney, DR George.
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Nice to have a full orchestra.
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I function at my highest level when I eat fresh, in-season produce:
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I shall celebrate by eating Yorkshire pudding whilst wearing no bra.
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That'll show those clergy!
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~~~CONTINUED MULTIPLE MODERN MAJOR MIRACLE VIBES~~~ for the likes o' BK!!!!!
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Forgot to mention we watched "Will and Harper" the other day on Netflix. A road trip documentary with Will Ferrell and the former head writer of Saturday Night Live, who now identifies as transgender. Difficult in spots, but ultimately uplifting.
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Good morning, all!
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I slept rather well until Stella got into her "OMG, no one loves me so please broadly exhibit your affection for me NOW!" mode and made my life hell for some time as she climbed all over me, forcing her face into my hands. Annabelle says that Stella thinks I'm her mother.
It was all rather irritating, since all I wanted to do was sleep and Stella was preventing that for at least an hour.
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At 6:00 the alarm rangand I decided I wanted to sleep in. Annabelle crawled under the blankets with me, Thatch curled up in the curvew iof my back, and Stella noisily romped about the apartment. I did doze off since it was 7:03 wjen I checked the clock and got out of bed and dressed.
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I missed the fact that yesterday was Leonard's birthday? He's so beautiful.
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Yesterday, I only received 206 emails, about 90% of them political.
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DR singdaw, I did see the Cast Recording List emails about Life Begins at 8:40. This project was too ugly and too deceitful to want to go back and discuss:
1. my music prep team and I were sacked by the Library of Congress after I requested the unprepared and maladroit conductor be replaced by a competent one; I suggested Rob Berman.
2. I asked to be removed from the credits.
3. The conductor and his "director" included material that was never to my knowledge put into the score and the new material was orchestrated by Glen Daum.
4. I wasn't at the concert before the recording, but I was told the conductor was stil unprepared.
5. The inept and maladroit conductor was replaced halfway through the recording and conductor Eric Stern finished the recording.
6. It should have been a 2-CD set.
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The turmoil of 2009-2010 work on that score still rankles. What hurts even more is that I kept my music prep team working between 2007 and 2014 with projects like the Chicago Humanities Festival, and, now that I need work, I'm never asked to work on any of their projects.
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But who's bitter?
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What a lot of unpleasantness! Sorry, DR elmore3003.
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I function at my highest level when I eat fresh, in-season produce:
LOL!
It's certainly the season for that!
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But who's bitter?
Is this a poll? :)
In regard to that:
This was in the Ben Brantley interview with Patti LuPone and Mia Farrow.
"Both women said they have many regrets. 'Only a sociopath would have no regrets,' Farrow said. 'That song, ‘Non, je ne regrette rien’? Impossible!'”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/04/theater/mia-farrow-patti-lupone-broadway-roommate.html
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Good morning, all
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Lots of weird dreams, including one in which I am driving backwards and can't stop.
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I, too, enjoyed George's Sweeney repor.
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Vibes for BK for a nice big modern major miracle!
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I, too, enjoyed George's Sweeney repor.
Yes, that was most enjoyable. Thank you, George, for posting about the experience!
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I, too, enjoyed George's Sweeney repor.
I did, too! I got caught up in unpleasant memories and forgot about Sondheim and Todd.
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Two!
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I'm still mad you had to endure all of that Life Begins at 8:30 mishegas, Elmore.
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Lots of weird dreams, including one in which I am driving backwards and can't stop.
That brings to my mind this from Harold Rome's score for PINS AND NEEDLES.
"You can't stand still on freedom's track
If you don't go forward, you go back
You can't giddyup by saying Whoa
And sitting on your status quo!"
Barbra Streisand sings "Sitting on Your Status Quo"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjyyLcVnN9M
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This is fun! YouTube brought me this.
Seth Rudetsky - Deconstructs "Sitting On Your Status Quo" from Pins and Needle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gDFzmlW5J8&t=2s
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What a lot of unpleasantness! Sorry, DR elmore3003.
But going through those posts on castrecl, they're all really lovely about Larry!
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I feel like YouTube is offering to send me down a rabbit hole of Seth Rudetsky's deconstructions.
I guess it can tell when you watch something all the way through, and then keeps offering you much more in the same vein.
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So many more commercials before the videos on YouTube lately, for some reason.
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I wonder what I watched on YouTube that lets the system "know" or "assume" (can computer systems do those things?) that I'd find this type of coverage of Hurricane precautions entertaining.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_2_CREZlqY8
I guess there's nothing there that you wouldn't see at a pool or in a Joshua Logan production or in a Frankie Avalon-Annette Funicello movie.
But I wouldn't want to be watching that on an office computer.
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Maybe it follows when you watch a Barbra Streisand YouTube, followed by a Seth Rudetsky deconstruction of a Barbra Streisand YouTube?
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It's one guest and me.
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And DR JOHN G.
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The wedding yesterday was nice, but when I got home for some reason I was exhausted and fell asleep.
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Now I am preparing for two meetings and hoping they don't take ALL DAY.
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I'm still mad you had to endure all of that Life Begins at 8:30 mishegas, Elmore.
I'm mostly angry over what a good recording this could have been; there were at least three cut songs that should have been included as an appendix and both the Library of Congress and Robert Kimball dumped me and my team for the conductor I asked them to replace and who then proceeded to prove everything I said about him was true. He's been getting by for 10 years or more now on the credit for this recording when in fact he was removed from the sessions and another and better conductor finished it for him.
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The wedding yesterday was nice, but when I got home for some reason I was exhausted and fell asleep.
Great that you had a good time, even if it was exhausting.
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In case anyone else is following what's going on at the York theatre, with the abrupt resignations there:
This was posted on Saturday evening (yesterday) on TalkinBroadway All that Chat by "JDKlain" - whom I'd bet is the delightful Jane Klain from CASTRECL.
https://www.talkinbroadway.com/allthatchat_new/d.php?id=2606585
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I'm still mad you had to endure all of that Life Begins at 8:30 mishegas, Elmore.
I'm mostly angry over what a good recording this could have been; there were at least three cut songs that should have been included as an appendix and both the Library of Congress and Robert Kimball dumped me and my team for the conductor I asked them to replace and who then proceeded to prove everything I said about him was true. He's been getting by for 10 years or more now on the credit for this recording when in fact he was removed from the sessions and another and better conductor finished it for him.
Hoping you are writing memoirs. Your memories are an important part of theater music history.
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Time to stir.
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On a happier note, on this day in 1903, a new extravaganza, Babes in Toyland opened on Broadway at the Majestic Theatre at Columbus Circle. It had opened in June at Chicaho's Grand Opera House for a three-month run before touring east to Pittsburgh, Baltimore, and Washington DC, before opening on Broadway. During the tour, one song was replaced, a cast member was replaced, several cast membewrs were switched about, and a new song, "I Can't Do the Sum," was written for the Broadway opening.
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Good morning, all.
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I have been lazing about this morning, and that will have to come to an end now.
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Those are valuable reminiscences, DR Elmore, even while they are about awful situations. I came here later and didn’t know about this thing. What a crime that particular recording disaster is.
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Sunday morning greetings! I’m not sure why I haven’t posted for a week, but here I am.
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DR Rodzinski, there was a production of “Dirty Work at the Crossroads” at my Detroit high school in the spring of 1966. I helped with props and got to perform the offstage policeman’s whistle.
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Another vote for several volumes of DR elmore3003's memoirs.
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:)
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Going out for brunch.
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This afternoon, napping and packing.
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Not necessarily in that order.
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One more.
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PAGE THREE
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It's Sunday! So, it's time for a new episode of the Broadway Radio Show... this week is a new Diva Shout Out episode where we look at the musicals and recordings of PEARL BAILEY!
Enjoy!
http://www.haineshisway.com/the-broadway-radio-show-2/
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Good morning.
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Finishing episode six of The Gilded Age.
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Roger Ebert once wrote that no one has been able to capture the awe and majesty of fireworks on film. In To Catch a Thief, they're used effectively, but they're used for a different and more blatantly sexual reason.
In The Gilded Age, fireworks are used to mark the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge. It's all boring, despite the oohs and ahs of the cast.
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Roger Ebert once wrote that no one has been able to capture the awe and majesty of fireworks on film. In To Catch a Thief, they're used effectively, but they're used for a different and more blatantly sexual reason.
In The Gilded Age, fireworks are used to mark the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge. It's all boring, despite the oohs and ahs of the cast.
There's lots of fireworks in the video for the Katy Perry song "Firework"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGJuMBdaqIw
- as long as rhyming "boom, boom, boom" with "moon, moon, moon" doesn't bother you
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Wow, that Katy Perry video has 1.4-Billion views! I wonder which sites she posts her link on. :)
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That's even more views that Bobby Banas and the Nitty Gritty.
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:)
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Glad you enjoyed (and will enjoy again) Sweeney, DR George.
Thanks, Singdaw. I forget how wonderful a large orchestra can sound for show scores!
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I function at my highest level when I eat fresh, in-season produce:
(http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=7749.0;attach=23774)
;D
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~~~CONTINUED MULTIPLE MODERN MAJOR MIRACLE VIBES~~~ for the likes o' BK!!!!!
~~~SUPER DITTO!!~~~
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DR singdaw, I did see the Cast Recording List emails about Life Begins at 8:40. This project was too ugly and too deceitful to want to go back and discuss:
1. my music prep team and I were sacked by the Library of Congress after I requested the unprepared and maladroit conductor be replaced by a competent one; I suggested Rob Berman.
2. I asked to be removed from the credits.
3. The conductor and his "director" included material that was never to my knowledge put into the score and the new material was orchestratyed by Glen Daum.
4. I wasn't at the concert before the recoprding, but I was told the conductor was stilprepared.
5. The inept and maladropit conductor was replaced halfway through the recording and conductor Eric Stern finished the recording.
6. It should hav e been a 2-CD set.
Oh, my goodness! :o
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The turmoil of 2009-2010 work on that score still rankles. What hurts even more is that I kept my music prep team working between 2007 and 2014 with projects like the Chicago Humanities Festival, and, now that I need work, I'm never asked to work on any of their projects.
That's terrible.
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I, too, enjoyed George's Sweeney repor.
Thanks, John.
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I, too, enjoyed George's Sweeney repor.
Yes, that was most enjoyable. Thank you, George, for posting about the experience!
Thanks, Freddie.
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I, too, enjoyed George's Sweeney repor.
I did, too! I got caught up in unpleasant memories and forgot about Sondheim and Todd.
Thanks, Larry.
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Roger Ebert once wrote that no one has been able to capture the awe and majesty of fireworks on film. In To Catch a Thief, they're used effectively, but they're used for a different and more blatantly sexual reason.
In The Gilded Age, fireworks are used to mark the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge. It's all boring, despite the oohs and ahs of the cast.
Yes, to the first one.
I agree, fireworks are more beautiful in person.
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New Years Day in Sydney we watched the fireworks on a big screen while working out. While lovely, they did not come close to the beauty of what we saw the night before.
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I'm up, I'm up - surely, nine hours of sleep.
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Mr. Morgan should sue his board. There are many people who would come forward on his behalf.
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Guess I'll go see what Gelson's has to offer me on the pleasant Valley Sunday.
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:)
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That's wonderful, singdaw!
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:)
True. Or if Vixmom would just win the lottery.
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I ain't asking for much.
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I wonder who will play the USAA Christmas party.
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It's supposedly on Dec. 7, the night of Joy's dance party, so I won't be able to go.
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Still, if it's somebody great ...
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I think Earth, Wind and Fire were my faves.
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Four!
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I wonder who will play the USAA Christmas party.
Is USAA where you used to work?
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I think Earth, Wind and Fire were my faves.
Pretty good.
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383 Guests on a Sunday evening? Must be a holiday weekend (or something).
If it's a light posting day, maybe it'll at least be a high page-view day.
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So much drama DR FREDDIE.
Interesting.
My meetings had a smidge of drama but nothing like that. A person stood up in NEW BUSINESS and said that we should do more to prepare folks for college and what happens after they do a show or two with us. She wants to conduct an audition workshop and also present a cabaret show as a fundraiser for us.
She has been in a total of ONE show.
Afterwards I told a couple of my fellow board members that I really didn't realize we were doing such a lousy job......
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My friend Karen did win the acting award of the season.....I directed her in two roles in FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON.....and she gave a very heartfelt and sincere acceptance speech.....it was very nice.
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tonight at 8 p.m. on TCM is Call Her Savage with Clara Bow.
Her experience in this talkie was parodied in the recent BABYLON when the actress bounded onstage and said "Hello, everybody" and blew out every circuit in the sound equipment......
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So much drama DR FREDDIE.
Interesting.
My meetings had a smidge of drama but nothing like that. A person stood up in NEW BUSINESS and said that we should do more to prepare folks for college and what happens after they do a show or two with us. She wants to conduct an audition workshop and also present a cabaret show as a fundraiser for us.
She has been in a total of ONE show.
Afterwards I told a couple of my fellow board members that I really didn't realize we were doing such a lousy job......
;D and hugs at the same time.
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My friend Karen did win the acting award of the season.....I directed her in two roles in FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON.....and she gave a very heartfelt and sincere acceptance speech.....it was very nice.
Congratulations!
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The noisy builders were across the street doing crap - and making a ton of noise. I took it for a while, researched online, and just walked over there and told them the obvious - that construction of ANY kind is not allowed in the State of California at any time on Sundays or holidays. I said, "It's against the law so stop or give me the name of your company and I call the police and the city who issue permits." They stopped so fast it was amazing. I believe they're packing up now.
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:)
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I wonder who will play the USAA Christmas party.
Is USAA where you used to work?
Yes.
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Good night, friends.
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And others.
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102!104!
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The noisy builders were across the street doing crap - and making a ton of noise. I took it for a while, researched online, and just walked over there and told them the obvious - that construction of ANY kind is not allowed in the State of California at any time on Sundays or holidays. I said, "It's against the law so stop or give me the name of your company and I call the police and the city who issue permits." They stopped so fast it was amazing. I believe they're packing up now.
:o
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:)
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Watching For a Few Dollars More. Lots of shooting.
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I am hoping a library book becomes available before I go to bed.
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There are a few possibilities. With my luck I will either get nothing or they will all become available at once ;)
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'night
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I don't think I have seen this Eastwood film before. A very young Klaus Kinski is one of the bad guys.
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Slow posting day.
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We should be off this page by now.
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And on to page seven at least.
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Maybe everyone is listening to Life Begins at 8:30.
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Or baking pumpkin cookies.
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Or sewing drapes.
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Or shooting fruit from a tree.
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Or moving onward.
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Five!
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Excellent page turn, John G!
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"Page's Turn" could be the title of something.
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Remember "Liza Minnelli Tries To Turn Off a Lamp" from SNL 1982?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVvxOwxuk_w
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Tonight's noir is something called The Sniper. An incel long before they coined the term targets any and all women. Nasty and dark and disturbing, all in 87 minutes.
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Nasty and dark and disturbing, all in 87 minutes.
Sounds like some DataLounge chat board threads!
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Excellent George Antheil score.
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But I may not finish it tonight. Feeling tired.
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Another vote for several volumes of DR elmore3003's memoirs.
Add my vote, too! ;D
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:)
(http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=7749.0;attach=23780)
Perfect! :D
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So much drama DR FREDDIE.
Interesting.
My meetings had a smidge of drama but nothing like that. A person stood up in NEW BUSINESS and said that we should do more to prepare folks for college and what happens after they do a show or two with us. She wants to conduct an audition workshop and also present a cabaret show as a fundraiser for us.
She has been in a total of ONE show.
Afterwards I told a couple of my fellow board members that I really didn't realize we were doing such a lousy job......
Very interesting. ::)
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Some people just think they have all the answers...especially to questions that no one has asked.
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My friend Karen did win the acting award of the season.....I directed her in two roles in FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON.....and she gave a very heartfelt and sincere acceptance speech.....it was very nice.
Congrats to Karen!
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The noisy builders were across the street doing crap - and making a ton of noise. I took it for a while, researched online, and just walked over there and told them the obvious - that construction of ANY kind is not allowed in the State of California at any time on Sundays or holidays. I said, "It's against the law so stop or give me the name of your company and I call the police and the city who issue permits." They stopped so fast it was amazing. I believe they're packing up now.
Good for you, BK!
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:)
(http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=7749.0;attach=23782)
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Tonight's noir is something called The Sniper. An incel long before they coined the term targets any and all women. Nasty and dark and disturbing, all in 87 minutes.
Oh, my! :o
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Remember "Liza Minnelli Tries To Turn Off a Lamp" from SNL 1982?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVvxOwxuk_w
Kristin Wiig is funny! ;D
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Today's Sweeney Todd matinee had about 100 more presold tickets than last night's performance.
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I was assigned to the balcony (the top level of the three balconies) and had to stay off to the side.
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I'm sure that I was assigned to up there because I was able to see it last night from the orchestra level.
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Page FIVE??? No, no, and no again.
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The internet went down five minutes ago - it just came back up so let's hope it stays that way.
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Maybe George will stop with the burrito already and come back and make a few damn posts.
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It was a little more difficult to understand from up there what was being said, but I could still hear everything and see most everything.
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Back to finishing the notes.
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Page FIVE??? No, no, and no again.
I'm not the only one to blame!
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Okay, Georgie, it's up to you now.
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I blame Jose.
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Let's get this done.
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I'll be another ten minutes wrapping up the notes.
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Maybe George will stop with the burrito already and come back and make a few damn posts.
I actually had a Taco Bell Burrito Supreme for dinner after the show today!
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PAGE SIX DANCE!!
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Is there gaslighting going on?
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See,
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I'll be another ten minutes wrapping up the notes.
I'll do what I can do.
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After the show, we have to go through the seats and pick up things like abandoned programs (but not trash) or things that patrons have left behind.
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Several people left their travel cups that one must purchase (or already own) to be able to bring drinks into the theater.
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They're like Sippy Cups for adults. ;)
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I know many other places have them, but here are the WCPA's:
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The lids snap on and don't spill very much if tipped over.
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Anyway, four, count 'em, FOUR were left just outside the level on the program stand after the show!
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They cost $6 each in addition to the cost of the drink, and they don't want to keep the cups?? :o
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AND, if you bring them back for any refill (even sodas, and different performances), you get a dollar of the drink...then after six refills, you've paid for the cup!
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I guess some people just have too much money. ::)
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So, the Center used to keep the found cups, wash and then resell them, unless they were noticeably distressed.
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But, I guess they're not going to do that anymore.
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I brought down the four cups that were used tonight and was told that I (or any other volunteer) could keep them, or they'd be thrown away.
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I took one home.
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:)
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Even though I already have several, I figured that I'll use it or give it away.
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They shouldn't just be thrown away.
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Another volunteer wanted two of them, and a third volunteer took the fourth, so they all went to good homes to be (thoroughly ;) ) washed and reused!
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I have several with different designs, even a couple of specialty cups that were only given away (at first ::) ) at a Center fund raising gala.
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It turns out that they ordered too many, so those specially designed cups were sold after the gala to get rid of them.
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New notes are up.
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Up are new notes.
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Now, other places have their own travel cups like ours, and if patrons bring them, we'll put their drinks in them, but they only get the $1 discount if they're branded with "Washington Center for the Performing Arts."
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I've seen them.
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I've read them.
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Up are new notes.
Whew!!
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I wrote them.
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They are odd.
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Ah, the page that shall not be named.
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I blame Jose.
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I wrote them.
I'll read them. :)
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I blame it on the bossa nova.
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I blame it on Mame.
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I blame it on Rio.
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I don't blame me.
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Although I do blame it on my youth.
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Well, that's enough of the blame game.
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That was a whole mess o' blaming.
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Listening to movie music conducted by Charles Gerhart.
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He made some damn amazing albums, mostly produced by George Korngold.
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I can sleep in, so I don't have to rush to bed.
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Or judgement.
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Or Limbaugh.
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Or Hour.
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I had pulled pork sandwiches for food yesterday - forgot to mention that in the notes.
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From the hot food bar at Gelson's. It was surprisingly good. I got some coleslaw to put on it and pickles, then some burger buns. I'll do that again the next time they have it.
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I ate the bit of cheesecake leftover from Saturday night.
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I had pulled pork sandwiches for food yesterday - forgot to mention that in the notes.
Glad you enjoyed it.
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Why stop now?
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Personally, I'm not a fan of pulled meat of any kind. :P
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We'll stay all night and sing 'em all.
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I ate the bit of cheesecake leftover from Saturday night.
That sounds good.
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What am I, Judy Garland all of a sudden?
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A little earlier tonight, I made some sugar-free instant butterscotch pudding.
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Or should that be Dorothy Gale of Kansas?
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In which case, I'd be a friend of Dorothy.
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I'd like some butterscotch pudding right the HELL now.
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Ah, page eight has made its entrance.
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It's not great (is any instant pudding "great"?), but it isn't bad.
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An d not a moment too soon, if you ask me.
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Ah, page eight has made its entrance.
Whew!!
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In which case, I'd be a friend of Dorothy.
As well you should!
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Who wouldn't want to be friends with Dorothy??
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;D
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Ooo...three sixes!! (My post #140666.)