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Title: THE HAND - THE HAND
Post by: bk on April 23, 2025, 12:21:26 AM
Well, you've read the notes, the notes spoke of the hand - the hand, and now it is time for you to post until the five-fingered cows come home.
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Post by: bk on April 23, 2025, 12:23:15 AM
And the word of the day is: PANACHE!
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Post by: bk on April 23, 2025, 12:23:54 AM
And now - Dino at the piano.
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Post by: George on April 23, 2025, 01:15:58 AM
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Post by: Jane on April 23, 2025, 01:57:44 AM
I fell asleep a little after 9:00 after having trouble keeping my eyes open all afternoon and now I'm awake.
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Post by: Jane on April 23, 2025, 01:58:46 AM
I thought I had posted yesterday that Keith also got Wordle in three.
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Post by: Jane on April 23, 2025, 02:00:59 AM
I need to try and go back to sleep. 
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Post by: John G. on April 23, 2025, 04:38:39 AM
Good morning, all.
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Post by: John G. on April 23, 2025, 04:39:03 AM
Need to get ready for work.
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Post by: Jrand74 on April 23, 2025, 04:42:59 AM
Wednesday.

Today is getting day so I shall be off in 20 minutes or so.
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Post by: Jrand74 on April 23, 2025, 04:45:02 AM
I remember on our local non-network-affiliated Channel 4 - in 1960-62 - they were would show a movie at 10 a.m. and the same movie at 10 p.m. for five days in a row.

They were almost all old RKO movies - but there was always a new title card that read "C & C Productions Presents...."

That's when I saw all the Astaire/Rogers movies and King Kong and Mighty Joe Young.
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Post by: elmore3003 on April 23, 2025, 04:50:58 AM
Good morning, all!
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Post by: elmore3003 on April 23, 2025, 04:55:39 AM
I slept late, but I am up and moving now. I was having a dream in which I and everal other young people of college age were finding that our DVD of Psycho, although purchased in a store, was a bad, incomplete bootleg. Then severasl others turned out to be duds, and the mystery began.
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Post by: elmore3003 on April 23, 2025, 04:56:40 AM
I'm very tired this morning. I read all of yesterday's posts and I now remember nothing.
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Post by: elmore3003 on April 23, 2025, 04:57:10 AM
Except that DR John G has a blue dress.
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Post by: elmore3003 on April 23, 2025, 05:12:07 AM
Former DR Edisaurus's cat Major was euthanized yesterday. He was suffering from surgery, diabetes, and cancer, and her hopes to bring him home alive never happened. She posted this photo six hours ago on Facebook. She realized that in 12 years of loving and living with Major, she had many photos of him, but not one with her, so one of the technicians took this yesterday.

My heart breaks for her.
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Post by: vixmom on April 23, 2025, 05:31:45 AM
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Post by: vixmom on April 23, 2025, 05:35:27 AM
I was momentarily confused by Rodz’s late night post “ I saw the ex-husband’s trailer “ as I didn’t know he had had a husband, especially one that was an actor….or I suppose lived in a trailer.
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Post by: vixmom on April 23, 2025, 05:36:06 AM
Then I saw an ad for the show or is it a movie?
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Post by: vixmom on April 23, 2025, 05:36:18 AM
I think I am still confused
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Post by: vixmom on April 23, 2025, 05:36:41 AM
And sleepy
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Post by: vixmom on April 23, 2025, 05:36:50 AM
But I must to work
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Post by: vixmom on April 23, 2025, 05:37:10 AM
Byeeeee
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Post by: Freddie on April 23, 2025, 06:16:03 AM
Former DR Edisaurus's cat Major was euthanized yesterday. He was suffering from surgery, diabetes, and cancer, and her hopes to bring him home alive never happened. She posted this photo six hours ago on Facebook. She realized that in 12 years of loving and living with Major, she had many photos of him, but not one with her, so one of the technicians took this yesterday.

My heart breaks for her.

:( More hugs for Edisaurus.
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Post by: Freddie on April 23, 2025, 06:20:30 AM
BK wrote in the Notes: "I do not react well to bullying and harassment, and especially when it’s done to purposely inflict emotional damage. "

BK, I gather you might prefer taking it public as a way of dealing with it, but is what this person is doing to you bullying and harassing you in a way that it might rise to the level of elder abuse against you?

We joke on HHW from time to time about whether there's "gaslighting" going on, but could gaslighting really be being done to you?
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Post by: Freddie on April 23, 2025, 06:21:47 AM
George, that was a really nice theedur picture in the posts last night.
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Post by: Freddie on April 23, 2025, 06:22:08 AM
More Modern Major Miracle vibes for BK!
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Post by: Jrand74 on April 23, 2025, 06:42:59 AM
Yes that was a nice theeder photo from DR GEORGE last night.
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Post by: John G. on April 23, 2025, 06:46:28 AM
Hugs for Edisaurus.
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Post by: John G. on April 23, 2025, 06:46:55 AM
Then I saw an ad for the show or is it a movie?

It’s a movie.
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Post by: John G. on April 23, 2025, 06:47:04 AM
Two!
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Post by: John G. on April 23, 2025, 06:47:23 AM
I got 2 inches of rain this morning.
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Post by: John G. on April 23, 2025, 06:47:49 AM
There are some very happy plants this morning.
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Post by: Jrand74 on April 23, 2025, 06:50:28 AM
At one getting place there was a 43" 4K tv for $138 and a 53" 4K tv for $238.....so you ight check your local WalMart if you are in the market for one.

I don't think I would have it delivered - but go to the store and purchase it.  Most of the bad reviews are from folks who got a broken tv set delivered.
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Post by: Jrand74 on April 23, 2025, 06:50:59 AM
Suddenly I want to watch NASHVILLE - maybe I will do that tonight.

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Post by: Jrand74 on April 23, 2025, 06:52:00 AM
I have six days until my theeder days begin.....and goes on and on until September.

I am trying to enjoy these few these final few days of inactivity.
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Post by: John G. on April 23, 2025, 07:07:19 AM
Except that DR John G has a blue dress.

It’s a skirt. But I am glad it was memorable.
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Post by: elmore3003 on April 23, 2025, 07:12:19 AM
Suddenly I want to watch NASHVILLE - maybe I will do that tonight.



I love that film! Now I want to see it again.
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Post by: elmore3003 on April 23, 2025, 07:12:54 AM
Kitty cleanup is finished. Now I need to make a bed and vacuum. I need a maid.
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Post by: Jrand74 on April 23, 2025, 07:23:33 AM
LOL DR ELMORE - maybe I will listen to the soundtrack this afternoon beforehand.
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Post by: elmore3003 on April 23, 2025, 07:28:24 AM
I've got "It Never Entered My Mind," one of my favorite Rodgers & Hart songs, stuck in my head.
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Post by: Jrand74 on April 23, 2025, 07:32:53 AM
Someone in Dubai tried to hack my Facebook page this morning.
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Post by: MichaelG on April 23, 2025, 08:34:11 AM
Good morning, all.
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Post by: MichaelG on April 23, 2025, 08:35:27 AM
I've been cooking for a long time, but I'm a newbie to baking. Yesterday I baked my first-ever chocolate cake from scratch and brought it into our opera chorus rehearsal. It was a hit!
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Post by: MichaelG on April 23, 2025, 08:36:33 AM
That encourages me to keep expanding my cake repertoire beyond two (lemon drizzle and chocolate) during rehearsal season.
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Post by: MichaelG on April 23, 2025, 08:37:32 AM
One of my fellow choristers has never had a lemon drizzle cake and loves lemon desserts, so that will probably be next since I haven't shared it with the chorus before.
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Post by: MichaelG on April 23, 2025, 08:38:09 AM
So after seeing Love Life I've been on a Lerner kick, especially the shows outside of the big hits.
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Post by: MichaelG on April 23, 2025, 08:39:45 AM
Which leads me to the TOD: BK (or DR elmore, or anyone else who might know), do you know the story behind the Dance a Little Closer Broadway cast recording? How did it get made, given the show's quick close, and then how did it see the light of day 4 years later?
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Post by: Freddie on April 23, 2025, 08:40:47 AM
Except that DR John G has a blue dress.

It’s a skirt. But I am glad it was memorable.


Trying to keep within the parameters of a family site, but if a man wore an Alice Blue Gown, could a possible parody title be Phallus Blue Gown?  (Asking for a friend.)
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Post by: Rodzinski on April 23, 2025, 08:40:48 AM
Good morn!
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Post by: Freddie on April 23, 2025, 08:44:17 AM
A rather wild rendition:

Mitzi Gaynor's take on "Alice Blue Gown"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckAljDtvoZ8

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Post by: Jane on April 23, 2025, 08:56:14 AM
I think I am still confused

;D
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Post by: Jane on April 23, 2025, 08:56:55 AM
I never did go back to sleep last night.
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Post by: Jane on April 23, 2025, 08:57:07 AM
There are some very happy plants this morning.

:)
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Post by: Jane on April 23, 2025, 08:57:50 AM
Someone in Dubai tried to hack my Facebook page this morning.

 :o
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Post by: Jane on April 23, 2025, 08:58:06 AM
I've been cooking for a long time, but I'm a newbie to baking. Yesterday I baked my first-ever chocolate cake from scratch and brought it into our opera chorus rehearsal. It was a hit!

Yum.
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Post by: Jrand74 on April 23, 2025, 09:00:19 AM
I think DR MICHAEL G should share a photo of his upcoming Lemon Drizzle Cake
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Post by: Jane on April 23, 2025, 09:01:09 AM
I agree.
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Post by: Jane on April 23, 2025, 09:02:19 AM
I just realized today is the 23rd, two days after Keith's birthday, and the anniversary of our becomming a couple two days after his seventeenth birthday.
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Post by: Freddie on April 23, 2025, 09:04:53 AM
I just realized today is the 23rd, two days after Keith's birthday, and the anniversary of our becomming a couple two days after his seventeenth birthday.


Congratulations, Jane and Keith!
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Post by: elmore3003 on April 23, 2025, 09:35:04 AM
Which leads me to the TOD: BK (or DR elmore, or anyone else who might know), do you know the story behind the Dance a Little Closer Broadway cast recording? How did it get made, given the show's quick close, and then how did it see the light of day 4 years later?

I saw the turkey; it was awful. When I heard the demo, Ithought the show was still set in the early 1940s. I was floored when I saw it and it was set in the present. I see the recording was produced by Robert Sher. He certainly didn't pay for the recording, so he had to raise the funding. Lerner and Strouse may have put money into it, and I don't know how soon after closing the recording was actually made.
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Post by: ChasSmith on April 23, 2025, 09:42:11 AM
Good morning - oh, damn it to HELL - afternoon, all.
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Post by: ChasSmith on April 23, 2025, 09:45:15 AM
I've been busier than all get-out this morning. I came up to my desk at 9 a.m. and it's taken till after NOON to get caught up making a phone call, sending emails, replying to other emails, and even accepting yet another show gig for May.

I keep saying "After such-and-such, I'm done for a while", and then another thing comes along. I guess I really shouldn't complain, right?
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Post by: ChasSmith on April 23, 2025, 09:49:44 AM
Former DR Edisaurus's cat Major was euthanized yesterday. He was suffering from surgery, diabetes, and cancer, and her hopes to bring him home alive never happened. She posted this photo six hours ago on Facebook. She realized that in 12 years of loving and living with Major, she had many photos of him, but not one with her, so one of the technicians took this yesterday.

My heart breaks for her.

I am so sorry to read this. What a sad and horrible ordeal.

It's one thing when your beloved companion is old and has health issues and you know the end is coming. But how horrible, if surgery was tried and it didn't succeed. HUGE vibes of comfort for FDR Edisaurus.
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Post by: ChasSmith on April 23, 2025, 09:53:05 AM
At one getting place there was a 43" 4K tv for $138 and a 53" 4K tv for $238.....so you ight check your local WalMart if you are in the market for one.

I don't think I would have it delivered - but go to the store and purchase it.  Most of the bad reviews are from folks who got a broken tv set delivered.

Were you just browsing them yourself, DR Jrand74, or was this in reply to someone else shopping around for a TV? Those prices are incredible. But I'm completely out of touch with what TV machinery costs nowadays.
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Post by: ChasSmith on April 23, 2025, 09:56:10 AM
I've seen The Beast With Five Fingers, but I think only a couple of times - and years ago - because my memories of much of it are pretty vague.
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Post by: John G. on April 23, 2025, 10:21:43 AM
Dance a Little Closer was in previews on my second visit to New York. Somehow I noticed Alan Jay Lerner leaving the theater after a preview and stepped into an elevator at the Marquis Marriott with him and others on the show’s creative team. I had picked up a Playbill someone had discarded. He asked if I had seen the show. I lied and said I enjoyed it.

I don’t know if I would have enjoyed the show, but I love Charles Strouse’s music for it. There are four or five songs I really love, especially There’s Always One You Can’t Forget and I Never Want to See You Again.
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Post by: John G. on April 23, 2025, 10:22:42 AM
Wasn’t that Brent Barrett’s Broadway debut?
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Post by: Jrand74 on April 23, 2025, 11:53:09 AM
DR CHAS SMITH I just happened to go down that aisle to get to the food for the pair of keets and I was surprised at the prices.

I remember MR BK was talking about getting a 4K TV to see some new Blu Rays  -

I doubt with the tariffs we will ever see such low prices in the near future.....but I just don't NEED another TV.
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Post by: Freddie on April 23, 2025, 12:11:39 PM
I saw this posted (by Andrew Milner) on FB. 

Very quick but fun and cute.

"Did Cass Elliot come up with the musical Hamilton ?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDd2EYUGS34

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Post by: elmore3003 on April 23, 2025, 12:20:08 PM
I've seen The Beast With Five Fingers, but I think only a couple of times - and years ago - because my memories of much of it are pretty vague.

U've seen it once, maybe 20 years ago or longer.
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Post by: bk on April 23, 2025, 12:28:49 PM
I'm up, I'm up - eight hours of sleep.
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Post by: bk on April 23, 2025, 12:29:02 PM
Got a modern major miracle.
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Post by: bk on April 23, 2025, 12:29:25 PM
Got a dinner invite from the Pearl's, so I'll be joining them.
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Post by: Jane on April 23, 2025, 01:10:22 PM
I just realized today is the 23rd, two days after Keith's birthday, and the anniversary of our becomming a couple two days after his seventeenth birthday.


Congratulations, Jane and Keith!

Thank you.
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Post by: Jane on April 23, 2025, 01:12:54 PM
Got a dinner invite from the Pearl's, so I'll be joining them.

Enjoy your evening.
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Post by: elmore3003 on April 23, 2025, 01:27:52 PM
Oy! I decided to join or friend as many cat sites or animal rescue groups I could cozy up to on Facebook, Instagram, TilTok, Bluesky, and X, so that when Annabelle & Thatch is published, I can do a big blitz for potential buyers. On X, just now, I trned down several cats because their posts were too coy for words:

Blair is a pretty tuxedo cat and this is his post: hi mine name bur. i thimk im…8…? emorgé from forests’s fier to ambolish prisom's.

shura (all black cat): 6 yeers olde , love to sit in thee bath 🛁 amd playe wiff strawers 🥤 middol childe but iym the biggist

Little Clee (another pretty black cat(: helo iam cleo (clee type).  i, m elven yers old and So smol its imbarasing  . canaut speall, nevre went to schol.

Oy! Gives me headache!



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Post by: ChasSmith on April 23, 2025, 01:31:52 PM
Oy!
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Post by: John G. on April 23, 2025, 01:32:42 PM
Oy! I decided to join or friend as many cat sites or animal rescue groups I could cozy up to on Facebook, Instagram, TilTok, Bluesky, and X, so that when Annabelle & Thatch is published, I can do a big blitz for potential buyers. On X, just now, I trned down several cats because their posts were too coy for words:

Blair is a pretty tuxedo cat and this is his post: hi mine name bur. i thimk im…8…? emorgé from forests’s fier to ambolish prisom's.

shura (all black cat): 6 yeers olde , love to sit in thee bath 🛁 amd playe wiff strawers 🥤 middol childe but iym the biggist

Little Clee (another pretty black cat(: helo iam cleo (clee type).  i, m elven yers old and So smol its imbarasing  . canaut speall, nevre went to schol.

Oy! Gives me headache!





My blood sugar went up reading that.
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Post by: singdaw on April 23, 2025, 01:34:23 PM
~~~HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, DR JANE & DH KEITH!!!~~~
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Post by: singdaw on April 23, 2025, 01:35:20 PM
A nap was had, at long last.
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Post by: singdaw on April 23, 2025, 01:36:08 PM
We missed the 2 Coachella weekends, but this weekend will be a Country dealie.
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Post by: singdaw on April 23, 2025, 01:38:46 PM
So far, though, not as crowded in town. People or traffic. I am not complaining.
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Post by: singdaw on April 23, 2025, 01:40:06 PM
Congratulations on the MMM, BK.
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Post by: Freddie on April 23, 2025, 01:42:20 PM
Coachella could be one of Tevye's daughters in a Fiddler update, if you read it to scan like Chavaleh.
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Post by: Freddie on April 23, 2025, 01:42:59 PM
Great modern major miracle news!
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Post by: Jrand74 on April 23, 2025, 02:20:52 PM
Congrats to MR BK on the MMM.
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Post by: Jrand74 on April 23, 2025, 02:21:57 PM
I am seeing recently a Bounty commercial featuring music from Pirates of Penzance which always makes me laugh.

So my question for ASK BK DAY:

What was your exposure to Gilbert & Sullivan?

All Dear Readers are welcome to chime in.
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Post by: MichaelG on April 23, 2025, 02:24:03 PM
Which leads me to the TOD: BK (or DR elmore, or anyone else who might know), do you know the story behind the Dance a Little Closer Broadway cast recording? How did it get made, given the show's quick close, and then how did it see the light of day 4 years later?

I saw the turkey; it was awful. When I heard the demo, I thought the show was still set in the early 1940s. I was floored when I saw it and it was set in the present. I see the recording was produced by Robert Sher. He certainly didn't pay for the recording, so he had to raise the funding. Lerner and Strouse may have put money into it, and I don't know how soon after closing the recording was actually made.

The album says it was recorded on May 25, two weeks after it opened/closed.

I suspected Lerner and/or Strouse paid for the recording and then eventually found someone to release it. Especially with Lerner's wife as the female lead.
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Post by: MichaelG on April 23, 2025, 02:34:07 PM
The CD offers in memoriam credits to Lerner and Frederick Brisson, "without whose talents and perseverance there would be no show and no recording."
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Post by: MichaelG on April 23, 2025, 02:36:11 PM
I am seeing recently a Bounty commercial featuring music from Pirates of Penzance which always makes me laugh.

So my question for ASK BK DAY:

What was your exposure to Gilbert & Sullivan?

All Dear Readers are welcome to chime in.

G&S is what converted me from a trumpeter to a singer. They put the trumpets and trombones onstage for the entrance of the peers in Iolanthe and it seemed to me the stage was better than the pit. Plus I had gotten as good as I was ever going to get as a trumpeter, so singing opened up new adventures and new repertoire.
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Post by: MichaelG on April 23, 2025, 02:36:55 PM
So my stage debut was the following year as a chorister in Utopia Ltd.
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Post by: Jrand74 on April 23, 2025, 02:43:11 PM
Frederick Brisson?  The Lizard of Roz?
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Post by: Freddie on April 23, 2025, 02:50:41 PM
Pirates! The Penzance Musical, adapted by Rupert Holmes, opens on The Broad Way tomorrow night. 
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Post by: ChasSmith on April 23, 2025, 03:03:35 PM
My introduction to G&S was seeing the 1939 color film version of The Mikado on TV in glorious black and white. I'm thinking this was around 1962/1963, based on where we were living. At some point, though, I also saw the Groucho Marx/Bell Telephone Hour version. IMDb says that was broadcast in 1960, and I wonder if it was ever shown again. If only 1960, then that was my first exposure to the piece, even though I always think of that Kenny Baker film as being the first. Anyhoo, I was very quickly hooked, and I soon began acquiring the D'oyly Carte recordings and eventually the vocal scores. In fact, those vocal scores led me to discovering Broadway ones. The Mikado, Pirates, and Pinafore were my first loves, followed by Iolanthe. I saw the D'oyly Carte on tour in my first year at school in Cleveland, doing Mikado and Iolanthe, and I think it was the year before that that their filmed-on-stage version of the former made the rounds while I was in high school, and I went to that a few times, transfixed. Years later I saw Dudley Moore play Koko at the Wiltern in L.A. in the touring Jonathan Miller production which I really loved at the time. I need to watch that again.
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Post by: elmore3003 on April 23, 2025, 03:08:52 PM
Frederick Brisson?  The Lizard of Roz?

The very one. I came to G&S from singing highlights in high school chorus. By the tine I was a senior I had heard excerpts from HMS Pinafore and the complete Mikado. As a college freshman, I discovered the recording library. and once a week I would check out a vocal score from the music library and go to the music library to hear a complete score. My favorites were Iolanthe and The Yeoman of the Guard. My first G&S recording was the EMI-Angel The Yeoman of the Guard, and by the time I graduated I had all of the complete EMI sets available in the USA. I then started buying the complete London-Decca D'Oyly Carte recordings with dialogue, although much of the acting in the dialogue wasn't too good. At that time, too, Richmond, the Decca budget label, was releasing all the early monaural reocordings, and I fell in love with Ella Hallman, Margaret Mitchell, Darrel Fancourt, and Alan Styler.
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Post by: elmore3003 on April 23, 2025, 03:10:58 PM
My introduction to G&S was seeing the 1939 color film version of The Mikado on TV in glorious black and white. I'm thinking this was around 1962/1963, based on where we were living. At some point, though, I also saw the Groucho Marx/Bell Telephone Hour version. IMDb says that was broadcast in 1960, and I wonder if it was ever shown again. If only 1960, then that was my first exposure to the piece, even though I always think of that Kenny Baker film as being the first. Anyhoo, I was very quickly hooked, and I soon began acquiring the D'oyly Carte recordings and eventually the vocal scores. In fact, those vocal scores led me to discovering Broadway ones. The Mikado, Pirates, and Pinafore were my first loves, followed by Iolanthe. I saw the D'oyly Carte on tour in my first year at school in Cleveland, doing Mikado and Iolanthe, and I think it was the year before that that their filmed-on-stage version of the former made the rounds while I was in high school, and I went to that a few times, transfixed. Years later I saw Dudley Moore play Koko at the Wiltern in L.A. in the touring Jonathan Miller production which I really loved at the time. I need to watch that again.

I've never seen the 1939 film, but around 1966, there was a new D'Oyly Carte film of The Mikado with Valerie Masterson as Yum-Yum.  I saw that. I saw the Groucho Marx abridgement abd loved it. Great cast: Helen Traubel, Robert Rounseville, Barbara Meister, who later played Maria in the first national tour of The Sound of Music.
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Post by: Rodzinski on April 23, 2025, 03:12:16 PM
The junior high where I grew up out on Gilbert & Sullivan shows every year. My brother was the captain of the Pinafore one year and was so proud. He was awesome and I like to think he would have been a star today. Unfortunately, he did not live to be a part of the Mikado the next year, though my sister was Pitty Pat. A couple years later another sister was Buttercup.
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Post by: Rodzinski on April 23, 2025, 03:13:03 PM
I still have my D’Oyly Carte Pinafore LP set.
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Post by: bk on April 23, 2025, 03:17:42 PM
I will shamefully say that I had nor have much exposure to Gilbert and Sullivan. I don't think I've ever seen any Gilbert and Sullivan thing all the way through. I know I saw a bit of Groucho in The Mikado and I have the Criterion DVD of The Mikado. Never have seen any version of Pirates.
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Post by: Jane on April 23, 2025, 03:29:48 PM
I am seeing recently a Bounty commercial featuring music from Pirates of Penzance which always makes me laugh.

So my question for ASK BK DAY:

What was your exposure to Gilbert & Sullivan?

All Dear Readers are welcome to chime in.

G&S is what converted me from a trumpeter to a singer. They put the trumpets and trombones onstage for the entrance of the peers in Iolanthe and it seemed to me the stage was better than the pit. Plus I had gotten as good as I was ever going to get as a trumpeter, so singing opened up new adventures and new repertoire.

Very interesting :)
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Post by: Jane on April 23, 2025, 03:30:57 PM
The junior high where I grew up out on Gilbert & Sullivan shows every year. My brother was the captain of the Pinafore one year and was so proud. He was awesome and I like to think he would have been a star today. Unfortunately, he did not live to be a part of the Mikado the next year, though my sister was Pitty Pat. A couple years later another sister was Buttercup.

This is a nice memory of your brother.
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Post by: Jane on April 23, 2025, 03:32:10 PM
Keith got Wordle in five today.
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Post by: Jrand74 on April 23, 2025, 03:46:10 PM
DR RODZINSKI this is new family information....most interesting and worthy of exploration.
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Post by: Jrand74 on April 23, 2025, 03:49:34 PM
MR BK I am most surprised at your lack of experience in G/S as I would think it would be most right up your alley.

I highly suggest that you explore and direct a production of HMS Pinafore.....or if not....at least play a part in the show....especially Sir Joseph Porter.....but I cannot fault you because I ignored them all until I worked on them.

Most excellent posts from DR CHAS SMITH and DR ELMORE.
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Post by: Jrand74 on April 23, 2025, 03:52:50 PM
DR RODZINSKI the D'Oyly Carte recording of HMS PINAFORE was the one I purchased to work on my first production.

I still have it....it is glorious!
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Post by: Jrand74 on April 23, 2025, 03:53:31 PM
DR MICHAEL G - what a great story!
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Post by: MichaelG on April 23, 2025, 03:53:58 PM
My G&S introduction was seeing the summer music camp productions of Patience one year and The Grand Duke the next. I'm glad they were in that order!
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Post by: Jrand74 on April 23, 2025, 03:59:31 PM
The 1985 production that woke me up.

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Post by: Jrand74 on April 23, 2025, 04:01:47 PM
A couple of years later I cast John C. Baughman in the Ray Walston role  in DAMN YANKEES and he was even more of a sensation.
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Post by: Jrand74 on April 23, 2025, 04:04:34 PM
Here he is.

(https://scontent-ord5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/492239571_122227007480220142_4215052625924090727_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_s600x600_tt6&_nc_cat=111&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=127cfc&_nc_ohc=R9XOQn8sYtgQ7kNvwEjNbfI&_nc_oc=AdnZIQojemGlXD9RlcdiQnI5S1j-2u7x1oSNV9OzGHlGfGdwQI1-L3nsi4nfRESpjR7cTQxoPfPGLC68oX07Eq_C&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent-ord5-1.xx&_nc_gid=IMF7gWjgFMOk95IxJueIYw&oh=00_AfGxuA4oBzVJbDYokD5LHEwliwBwMGOUMIO18RE-2WmGnw&oe=680F416F)

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Post by: Jrand74 on April 23, 2025, 04:05:13 PM
He was one of those folks who knew what it was about and what to do and played the audience like a violin.
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Post by: ChasSmith on April 23, 2025, 04:21:06 PM
My introduction to G&S was seeing the 1939 color film version of The Mikado on TV in glorious black and white. I'm thinking this was around 1962/1963, based on where we were living. At some point, though, I also saw the Groucho Marx/Bell Telephone Hour version. IMDb says that was broadcast in 1960, and I wonder if it was ever shown again. If only 1960, then that was my first exposure to the piece, even though I always think of that Kenny Baker film as being the first. Anyhoo, I was very quickly hooked, and I soon began acquiring the D'oyly Carte recordings and eventually the vocal scores. In fact, those vocal scores led me to discovering Broadway ones. The Mikado, Pirates, and Pinafore were my first loves, followed by Iolanthe. I saw the D'oyly Carte on tour in my first year at school in Cleveland, doing Mikado and Iolanthe, and I think it was the year before that that their filmed-on-stage version of the former made the rounds while I was in high school, and I went to that a few times, transfixed. Years later I saw Dudley Moore play Koko at the Wiltern in L.A. in the touring Jonathan Miller production which I really loved at the time. I need to watch that again.

I've never seen the 1939 film, but around 1966, there was a new D'Oyly Carte film of The Mikado with Valerie Masterson as Yum-Yum.  I saw that. I saw the Groucho Marx abridgement abd loved it. Great cast: Helen Traubel, Robert Rounseville, Barbara Meister, who later played Maria in the first national tour of The Sound of Music.

That would be the filmed-on-stage movie I thrilled to a year or so before going off to Cleveland and seeing that production live.

The Criterion release that BK mentioned is the 1939 film with Kenny Baker as Nanki-Poo and Martyn Green as Koko.
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Post by: Jrand74 on April 23, 2025, 04:21:23 PM
DR FREDDIE thank you for reminding me of the Rupert Holmes PIRATES opening on BROADWAY tonight!

I wish it the greatest success!!!!
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Post by: ChasSmith on April 23, 2025, 04:24:22 PM
The junior high where I grew up out on Gilbert & Sullivan shows every year. My brother was the captain of the Pinafore one year and was so proud. He was awesome and I like to think he would have been a star today. Unfortunately, he did not live to be a part of the Mikado the next year, though my sister was Pitty Pat. A couple years later another sister was Buttercup.

Amazing, that a junior high school would carry on a G&S tradition. Those were the days. Try finding that now. Maybe...somewhere in the world?
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Post by: Jrand74 on April 23, 2025, 04:24:39 PM
The Mikado is the only G/S that I can't appreciate.....but I am sure that is only ME.
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Post by: Jrand74 on April 23, 2025, 04:25:12 PM
Buttercup is a wonderful role........
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Post by: Jrand74 on April 23, 2025, 04:25:33 PM
Her reveal at the end is wonderful!
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Post by: Jrand74 on April 23, 2025, 04:33:09 PM
A Many Years Ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOyI9e_Rp2o
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Post by: Freddie on April 23, 2025, 04:35:01 PM
The junior high where I grew up out on Gilbert & Sullivan shows every year. My brother was the captain of the Pinafore one year and was so proud. He was awesome and I like to think he would have been a star today. Unfortunately, he did not live to be a part of the Mikado the next year, though my sister was Pitty Pat. A couple years later another sister was Buttercup.


:(


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Post by: Freddie on April 23, 2025, 04:40:03 PM
DR FREDDIE thank you for reminding me of the Rupert Holmes PIRATES opening on BROADWAY tonight!

I wish it the greatest success!!!!

Tonight is likely a press performance.  It officially opens tomorrow night.
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Post by: Freddie on April 23, 2025, 04:40:19 PM
Corrected post:

Page Five!
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Post by: Jrand74 on April 23, 2025, 05:04:26 PM
AH thanks DR FREDDIE.....
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Post by: Jrand74 on April 23, 2025, 05:06:03 PM
The combination of Holmes & G/S seems most excellent and NOW.....
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Post by: Jrand74 on April 23, 2025, 05:06:50 PM
Tony Awards for all!
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Post by: George on April 23, 2025, 05:07:15 PM
I thought I had posted yesterday that Keith also got Wordle in three.

Congrats to Keith!
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Post by: Jrand74 on April 23, 2025, 05:07:29 PM
Until next season when Frances Farmer will be the queen of the awards.
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Post by: George on April 23, 2025, 05:08:26 PM
~~~Additional Vibes for a Modern Major Miracle for BK!!~~~
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Post by: Jrand74 on April 23, 2025, 05:08:46 PM
In my delusional dreams in one last thrill on the way to the cemetery.
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Post by: George on April 23, 2025, 05:09:50 PM
Former DR Edisaurus's cat Major was euthanized yesterday. He was suffering from surgery, diabetes, and cancer, and her hopes to bring him home alive never happened. She posted this photo six hours ago on Facebook. She realized that in 12 years of loving and living with Major, she had many photos of him, but not one with her, so one of the technicians took this yesterday.

My heart breaks for her.
(http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=7941.0;attach=26088)

:'(
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Post by: George on April 23, 2025, 05:10:13 PM
Wordle 1,404 4/6

⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩
⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Very nice, Vixmom.
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Post by: Jrand74 on April 23, 2025, 05:10:57 PM
Watching some Stanley Cup games and waiting for The Amazing Race.
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Post by: George on April 23, 2025, 05:11:55 PM
George, that was a really nice theedur picture in the posts last night.

Thanks, Freddie!  Seeing it up close, it really is a nice set.  I hope that I can see the show, but I might not be able to.
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Post by: Jrand74 on April 23, 2025, 05:12:01 PM
Havent done wordle yeet
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Post by: George on April 23, 2025, 05:12:12 PM
Yes that was a nice theeder photo from DR GEORGE last night.

Thanks, Jrand!
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Post by: Jane on April 23, 2025, 05:12:26 PM
I thought I had posted yesterday that Keith also got Wordle in three.

Congrats to Keith!

Thanks.
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Post by: George on April 23, 2025, 05:13:14 PM
At one getting place there was a 43" 4K tv for $138 and a 53" 4K tv for $238.....so you ight check your local WalMart if you are in the market for one.

I don't think I would have it delivered - but go to the store and purchase it.  Most of the bad reviews are from folks who got a broken tv set delivered.

Yikes! :o Not much worse than any item broken during delivery.
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Post by: George on April 23, 2025, 05:15:01 PM
Someone in Dubai tried to hack my Facebook page this morning.

Oh, no!  Hopefully, you were able to put a stop to it!
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Post by: George on April 23, 2025, 05:15:26 PM
I've been cooking for a long time, but I'm a newbie to baking. Yesterday I baked my first-ever chocolate cake from scratch and brought it into our opera chorus rehearsal. It was a hit!

Congrats, Michael!
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Post by: George on April 23, 2025, 05:16:10 PM
One of my fellow choristers has never had a lemon drizzle cake and loves lemon desserts, so that will probably be next since I haven't shared it with the chorus before.

That sounds very good!
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Post by: George on April 23, 2025, 05:17:03 PM
Except that DR John G has a blue dress.

It’s a skirt. But I am glad it was memorable.


Trying to keep within the parameters of a family site, but if a man wore an Alice Blue Gown, could a possible parody title be Phallus Blue Gown?  (Asking for a friend.)

:))
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Post by: John G. on April 23, 2025, 05:20:40 PM
I was in high school, ushering for Actors Theatre, when they staged a G&S bio musical called Tarantara! Tarantara! I had a ticket gor the student dress rehearsal, which was an overproduced mess at 4 hours. I fell in love with this new music and watched it twice more as they cut it down to 2.45 hours. It never worked but I was hooked.
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Post by: Jrand74 on April 23, 2025, 05:21:20 PM
Missed it.
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Post by: Jrand74 on April 23, 2025, 05:25:02 PM
Four hours!!!!

An eternity reserved for Dance Recitals.
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Post by: Jrand74 on April 23, 2025, 05:26:26 PM
Happy relationship anniversary to DR JANE & KEITH.
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Post by: Jrand74 on April 23, 2025, 05:28:03 PM
Indiana.

https://fox59.com/news/12-year-old-3-other-juveniles-arrested-after-armed-carjacking-on-indys-west-side/
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Post by: Freddie on April 23, 2025, 05:28:13 PM
Until next season when Frances Farmer will be the queen of the awards.



Don't forget the little people!
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Post by: Jrand74 on April 23, 2025, 05:38:32 PM
Who?
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Post by: Freddie on April 23, 2025, 05:41:46 PM
:)
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Post by: Jane on April 23, 2025, 05:48:56 PM
Happy relationship anniversary to DR JANE & KEITH.

Thank you.
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Post by: Jane on April 23, 2025, 05:49:32 PM
Indiana.

https://fox59.com/news/12-year-old-3-other-juveniles-arrested-after-armed-carjacking-on-indys-west-side/

:(
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Post by: Jane on April 23, 2025, 05:50:56 PM
SIX!

(https://cdn10.bigcommerce.com/s-hzdcfim/products/499/images/1230/Six_hot_air_balloons_WEB__58853.1684300342.1000.1200.jpg?c=2)
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Post by: Jane on April 23, 2025, 05:51:29 PM
Who?

;D
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Post by: Rodzinski on April 23, 2025, 06:34:19 PM
Happy Anniversary, Jeith!
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Post by: Rodzinski on April 23, 2025, 06:37:51 PM
I used to work on the Playbills for everything at NY City Center, and there was the annual run of NYGASP, the New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players. Just checked to see if they still exist, and they do, though they have not been in a venue as big as City Center in many years, it seems.
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Post by: Jane on April 23, 2025, 06:49:19 PM
Happy Anniversary, Jeith!

LOL, thank you.
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Post by: George on April 23, 2025, 07:12:25 PM
I was in high school, ushering for Actors Theatre, when they staged a G&S bio musical called Tarantara! Tarantara! I had a ticket gor the student dress rehearsal, which was an overproduced mess at 4 hours. I fell in love with this new music and watched it twice more as they cut it down to 2.45 hours. It never worked but I was hooked.

Theater Artists Olympia produced a locally written musical version of Night of the Living Dead that, on the night before our one and only preview ran three hours and forty-five minutes
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Post by: George on April 23, 2025, 07:12:39 PM
FORTUNATELY, the next night with the audience, it ran a solid three hours just from energy and picking up the pace and not cutting anything!  Eventually, it settled around 2:45 by the end of the run.

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Post by: George on April 23, 2025, 07:31:41 PM
Indiana.

https://fox59.com/news/12-year-old-3-other-juveniles-arrested-after-armed-carjacking-on-indys-west-side/

Oh, my goodness! :o

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Post by: George on April 23, 2025, 07:33:32 PM
SIX!

(https://cdn10.bigcommerce.com/s-hzdcfim/products/499/images/1230/Six_hot_air_balloons_WEB__58853.1684300342.1000.1200.jpg?c=2)

Nice!
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Post by: John G. on April 23, 2025, 07:49:22 PM
Fresh out of the oven.

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Post by: John G. on April 23, 2025, 07:49:53 PM
The first is sour cherry. The back one is blueberry.
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Post by: John G. on April 23, 2025, 07:53:00 PM
Watching a surreal Charley Chase. He plays a woman-shy professor who has to teach at a women’s college in which all of the women are sex starved cuties. He has visions of their barely clad legs dancing in his brain.
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Post by: John G. on April 23, 2025, 07:58:22 PM
Here’s a link:

https://youtu.be/NWCvQpuiZes?si=FWSd21QTXAfnX6JP
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Post by: George on April 23, 2025, 08:03:55 PM
Fresh out of the oven.

(http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=7941.0;attach=26090)

Yummy!!
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Post by: bk on April 23, 2025, 09:02:18 PM
Back from dinner with the Pearls. Black Angus Steak House. I found most of the food very ordinary, and the NY steak was almost inedible. Salad was fine, shrimp cocktail was fine, mac and cheese was okay - creme brûlée was fine. Steak - like rubber - tough to cut, tough to chew, flavorless, and the Béarnaise was runny and awful.
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Post by: bk on April 23, 2025, 09:03:26 PM
Cindy enjoyed her food, but Barry did not have a good experience, as they burned a potato casserole and had to remake it and they told him they'd redo his steak so it would come out hot. That took fifteen minutes and the steak hadn't been remade. They comped his meal.
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Post by: bk on April 23, 2025, 09:03:37 PM
Can't say that I need to go back.
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Post by: bk on April 23, 2025, 09:03:45 PM
But conversation was fun.
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Post by: bk on April 23, 2025, 09:04:09 PM
I came right home afterwards.
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Post by: bk on April 23, 2025, 09:04:20 PM
Afterwards I came right home.
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Post by: bk on April 23, 2025, 09:04:35 PM
Maybe I'll try and find something to watch.
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Post by: bk on April 23, 2025, 09:04:52 PM
Maybe I just will.
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Post by: bk on April 23, 2025, 09:05:07 PM
Meanwhile, let's get off this damn page.
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Post by: bk on April 23, 2025, 09:05:24 PM
Can we?
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Post by: bk on April 23, 2025, 09:05:33 PM
Shall we?
Title: Re: THE HAND - THE HAND
Post by: bk on April 23, 2025, 09:05:42 PM
Will we?
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Post by: bk on April 23, 2025, 09:05:49 PM
Could we?
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Post by: bk on April 23, 2025, 09:06:03 PM
Should we?
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Post by: bk on April 23, 2025, 09:06:09 PM
Yes!
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Post by: bk on April 23, 2025, 09:06:22 PM
Damn them, damn them all to HELL.
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Post by: bk on April 23, 2025, 09:06:33 PM
Well, we did it.
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Post by: bk on April 23, 2025, 09:06:42 PM
Now let's get off THIS damn page.
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Post by: John G. on April 23, 2025, 09:28:30 PM
Interesting article on the late Pope's musical tastes.

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/23/g-s1-62132/pope-francis-music-playlist
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Post by: John G. on April 23, 2025, 09:30:55 PM
Finishing up Potterism, which is both wonderful for 1920 and a little too much of its time.
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Post by: John G. on April 23, 2025, 09:31:34 PM
Good night, all.
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Post by: singdaw on April 23, 2025, 10:20:49 PM
Good night, friends.
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Post by: singdaw on April 23, 2025, 10:20:59 PM
And others.
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Post by: George on April 24, 2025, 12:04:07 AM
Cindy enjoyed her food, but Barry did not have a good experience, as they burned a potato casserole and had to remake it and they told him they'd redo his steak so it would come out hot. That took fifteen minutes and the steak hadn't been remade. They comped his meal.

I would hope that they comped his meal! :-\
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Post by: George on April 24, 2025, 12:07:29 AM
Interesting article on the late Pope's musical tastes.

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/23/g-s1-62132/pope-francis-music-playlist

Hmm...no Manhattan Transfer. ::)
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Post by: George on April 24, 2025, 12:07:39 AM
;D
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Post by: George on April 24, 2025, 12:08:16 AM
Tonight's Into the Woods rehearsal went well...for the most part.
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Post by: George on April 24, 2025, 12:08:38 AM
They choreographed the end of the opening section, and the end of the finale.
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Post by: George on April 24, 2025, 12:10:34 AM
The choreographer, Melanie, accidentally left her notes for one other section that she wanted to teach tonight, but Jed, the director, was able to rejigger next week's rehearsals to cover the parts that were missed tonight.
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Post by: George on April 24, 2025, 12:10:51 AM
Melanie and I met when we were in A Christmas Story together a few years ago...and she was the choreographer for that, too.
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Post by: George on April 24, 2025, 12:13:33 AM
After the sections that Melanie worked on, everyone were able to leave except the two princes, and Jed staged both their versions of "Agony."
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Post by: George on April 24, 2025, 12:14:15 AM
I think it's gonna be good. 
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Post by: George on April 24, 2025, 12:15:27 AM
It still, of course, needs work (we just started rehearsals), but there's definitely the beginnings of a good production.
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Post by: George on April 24, 2025, 12:30:18 AM
In my humble opinion.
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Post by: George on April 24, 2025, 12:30:27 AM
One more...
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Post by: George on April 24, 2025, 12:30:38 AM
Gratuitous Post #200!!
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Post by: George on April 24, 2025, 12:32:27 AM
Tomorrow, we won't have rehearsal at the theater.
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Post by: George on April 24, 2025, 12:33:35 AM
The current show, The Curious Savage, is having their Pay-What-You-Can performance, so we'll be at a local church where we had the initial get together.
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Post by: bk on April 24, 2025, 12:40:49 AM
New notes are up.
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Post by: bk on April 24, 2025, 12:40:55 AM
Up are new notes.
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Post by: bk on April 24, 2025, 12:41:02 AM
I've seen them.
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Post by: bk on April 24, 2025, 12:41:14 AM
I've read them.
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Post by: bk on April 24, 2025, 12:41:20 AM
I wrote them.
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Post by: bk on April 24, 2025, 12:41:33 AM
They were eclectic.
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Post by: bk on April 24, 2025, 12:42:08 AM
They talked of this and that.
Title: Re: THE HAND - THE HAND
Post by: bk on April 24, 2025, 12:42:22 AM
Will no one rid me of this meddlesome page?
Title: Re: THE HAND - THE HAND
Post by: bk on April 24, 2025, 12:42:29 AM
See?