Speaking of cows, has Borden's totally folded? I haven't seen hide ner hair of Elsie or Elmer in ages.
So what are you doing for the big T Day Mr. Ron?
As much as I love some of those old-school Broadway voices and writers, I think Broadway very likely would have ceased to exist by now if all we had were Mermans and Porters and R&Hs. They were the popular artists of their time - not now. I know a lot of people feel that Broadway is a dying art. I say it's an evolving art. If it DIDN'T evolve it'd be completely defunct.
From what I've heard, it's mostly a DEvolving art.
Re: last night's 3D MEDIUM.
Does anyone else here feel like different writers wrote the last 2 episodes?
Doing? DOING?
Well, a pork loin roast.
The cranberry-pear relish mentioned two days ago.
And something with yams...
Oh, yes...I'm moved to do "The Yam", I think.
Where is the Devo jukebox musical?
When a problem comes along
You must whip it
Before the cream sits out too long
You must whip it
When something's going wrong
You must whip it
I have a theory -- yes, a theory!
It's that there are so many people out there who want to believe that they, too, can have a career in entertainment...that they, too, can sing, or dance...that they're willing to embrace (yes, EMBRACE!) any mediocre form of same as proof that ANYONE can be a star despite a lack of talent.
And I don't mean a singing voice, or the ability to tap or do a little dancing...
And that's why the phenomenon of "American Idol" works so well in the TV ratings. I haven't heard a single song by Kelly or Clay since the competition that I would want to hear again. They're being mass-marketed and the target audience is that mass that buy into the "anyone can be a star" theory. The current state of affairs is being driven by this.
Real talent is RARE and there is not a profusion of it and it is not rife in all the arts....there are few, true, talented artists out there...and they get wasted, for the most part, singing mediocre material and performing mediocre choreography.
Nowhere does it rear its tacky, ugly head more obviously than in Hollywood, but it's on Broadway, too.
(Huge exhalation of breath)!
Parking cars and pumping gas as punishment for someone following their dream, even if they may not have what others would consider "the right stuff?" Wow. I guess, then, for all the auditions I've gone to and wasn't cast cause I didn't have "the right stuff," I might as well go grab my overalls and an oil rag now and quit wasting my time... ;)
Parking cars and pumping gas as punishment for someone following their dream, even if they may not have what others would consider "the right stuff?" Wow. I guess, then, for all the auditions I've gone to and wasn't cast cause I didn't have "the right stuff," I might as well go grab my overalls and an oil rag now and quit wasting my time... ;)
DO you know the way to San Jose?
I've got a lot of friends in San Jose
Woh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
Nothing wrong with being rejected at an audition. But if you aren't going on auditions, you'll never know if you might have been cast.
There are all sorts of dreams, and they often change...or die...
I've had dreams, and I've had reality. Reality won. The key has been to channel the dreams into different areas.
If you're not going to audition, you're never going to be cast.
If your "temporary" job won't let you audition, then you've chosen a new career.
Just some ruminations...well intended...truly...
I will HUNT YOU DOWN and make you listen to John Lithgow's Greatest Hits until you want to rip your very eyes from their sockets.
...we have a lot of rock singers and younger singers coming out with albums of standards and the standards are not well served by these voices. Carly Simon sounds thin and reedy, Rod Stewart...well...There is no better example than that god awful music from the Cole Porter musical. If he had had voices like those originally singing his songs, they never would have been classics.
My favorite singer from the 40s: Jane Froman.
I love that husky contralto...and I wish there was one out there who sang in a similar way.
Anyone know of one?
DR Jason - speaking of singers, I'm seriously looking into tickets for Barbara Cook at the Met, Friday, January 20, 2006, and need some seating advice. These locations are all the same price, $95.:
Prime Orchestra
Balance Orchestra
Rear Orchestra
Side Parterre
Rear Grand Tier
For $25 less: Dress Circle
For another $25 less: Balcony
I'm willing to pay any of these prices, but would like your input as to whether, considering the type of performance, it's worth the $95. If so, which of those locations would you recommend? I'm inclining toward the Dress Circle, moderate that I am. Thoughts?
?? What is 'nozzing?'
What kind of voice does the Vixter have?
What kind of voice does the Vixter have?
Who am I? Dear Abby? Ann Landers? Confidentially Yours?
Believe me, Ron...I know. I'm doing the best I can to figure out a way to get out of my "temporary" job and get back to where I started. And I know they were well intended ruminations. No worries about that. :)
Sad news today...
Sam, the Ugliest Dog in the World, has passed away. He was 14 years old.
Then you're not helping, are you!!!
:D :D
?? What is 'nozzing?'
The threat alone is sufficient.
Those Lithgow soup commercials are among the greatest so-called "entertainment" atrocities ever captured on video.
I can see it now...blurbs for commercials:
"Greatest...Entertainment...Ever!"
Ron Pulliam, HHW
;)
Poor Sam the Ugly Dog. He had to be put down because his heart was giving out. :(
DR Vixmom: Believe it or not (I'm walking on air) - I have actually seen "Hogan's Heroes" with my very own eyes! In reruns, of course, but I've seen it! When I first read your "Nozzing" post, I must have been speed reading or something 'cause I thought you'd written,
"I sing nozzing."
Hence the misunderstanding. :P
Walking in the Air... do you know where we can sheet music for this? I've been huntng for this ever since we saw the Celtic Women special on PBS . The Vixter fell in love with it and wants to give the music to her teacher so that she can sing it for their next concert
All my interenet searches have come up with arrangements for choruses and she wants the solo piece that was arranged and orchestrated by David Downes
There. That's better.
We shall miss you while you are away , dear Ben!
Angela is not a voice you really can "listen" to on a CD, but it's the whole package that works onstage. Never saw her in Mame, but she was really good in Gypsy and much more than that in Sweeney.
Differences of opinions are fine - especially when accompanied by smilies, so don't anyone go getting red-faced and storming off or I will hunt you down and make you listen to Rent for three days straight.
Who am I? Dear Abby? Ann Landers? Confidentially Yours?
I cannot wait to see the film of RENT; I loved the show, and went into it expecting to loathe it. However, I'd rather have my ears drilled than listen to a Michael John LaChiusa score. I'm still in shock over the horrors of THE WILD PARTY.
...and I have this mint condition Marie Christine...
DR elmore, I want to see Rent this weekend, too. I was hoping to see it with my niece, but she has to leave right after Thanksgiving dinner.
Well, Agravaine, you asked for it and you got it.
, I'd rather have my ears drilled than listen to a Michael John LaChiusa score. I'm still in shock over the horrors of THE WILD PARTY.
BTW Ginny, I still can't seem to get online from home, if the Vixdad can't get us up and running over the Thanksgiving break I'll just print out the pictures of you and mail them to you!
Times Square on New Years Eve after returning from a seven hour international flight?
Wy Soinintly (in my awful Three Stooges takeoff) ;)
My favorite singer from the 40s: Jane Froman.
I love that husky contralto...and I wish there was one out there who sang in a similar way.
Anyone know of one?
Ron, I too like Carly Simon, but when she's singing her pop/rock/folky stuff as opposed to the standards which I don't find her voice suited for...unlike I find Astaire's voice, which despite its flaws, knew how to put those songs over...It's why not only Porter loved him, but also Gershwin and Berlin. The wrote songs specifically for his vocal stylings.
I don't need perfect voices...just voices that know how to serve and sell the song. Jimmy Durante singing Young At Heart can be incredibly moving.
A modern singer who I think knows how to sing a standard is someone like K.D. Lang.
And if I see an X-Box 360, my sister asked if I could pick one up for her. Like that's going to happen--people were camped out last night in a nor'easter at stores in the hopes of getting one. Crazy!
A what?
Dude, it's the latest thing!
I dig whatchyersayin', daddy-o!
But...whatsit?
I cannot wait to see the film of RENT; I loved the show, and went into it expecting to loathe it. However, I'd rather have my ears drilled than listen to a Michael John LaChiusa score. I'm still in shock over the horrors of THE WILD PARTY.
TOD: Well maybe it's my composer side coming through, but I think it was the change in pop music styles, which infiltrated the Broadway sound at least by the early 60s (one could make a case for the mid to late 50s), which required a different vocal technique. I agree that by the time "Hair" came around the "old style" was pretty much on its last legs, but I think the change had happened before that. Also, not to state the obvious (well, probably to state the obvious), but there was a generational thing happening, too--the Drakes and Raitts were moving on to older character parts, and the younger leading men/women had been raised in the late 40s and 50s and thereby were exposed to the pop music styles of the day, which were obviously less operatic than earlier pop music.
WAKE UP!!!! ;D
I was comparing Gogi Grant to Jane Froman, not Helen Morgan.
I realized that, DRMattH, so I deleted my post just now.
Doesn't look like I'll start any new DVDs tonight. I'll probably start to re-watch something already on the "seen" shelves. Have no clue what that will be at this point.
I'm thinking maybe a Hercule Ppoirot or Jane Marple mystery.
Did you finally finish watching all your "Angel" boxed sets? I don't recall your mentioning it if you did.
I have boxed sets of the Jack Ryan movies and Indiana Jones movies I haven't watched yet.
I have both Marilyn boxes, but have watched only two or three of the films.
I guess I need to go clean the living room now and then settle in for some DVD/TV viewing.
I will return later tonight with some TV thoughts.
I can't get anyone to say "Hey!" or "Boo!"
DR Ron (and others who watch the Idol jokes), I found "Operatunity" (BBC) to be far more worthwhile - for the viewer and for those involved. There was serious training given to those who had talent. I'm not an Opera fan, but I found the programme fascinating.
Of course there was no public "Voting" in "Operatunity" and that is the real gimmick that gets people to watch "Idol". - a perceived involvement in a manipulative concept that has conned millions. As of course is "Big Brother". Horses for courses - but then I do not watch much Televison at all these days.
I think Big Brother evictions were voted by the public in the original Dutch programme and here in OZ. It may have changed!
Does anyone remember what he or she was doing 42 years ago today (assuming you were alive and aware of your surroundings)?
I think George is reviewing the directory, so he's still round and about.
Economics class, before we were dismissed and told to go home.
Something just broke....
...yes?
Someone's water?
A piece of glass or china?
A bone?
WIND????
I thought maybe you meant a news story, but I haven't found anything out of the ordinary...
...What???
Tell us, George!
TCB...please post something!
Does anyone remember what he or she was doing 42 years ago today (assuming you were alive and aware of your surroundings)?
Sometimes I get the feeling I have when I dream I'm on a stage or on the street or in a room with others and suddenly realize I'm naked. And yet nobody is even looking.
On the day of Kennedy's assassination, I was in the second grade classroom of Miss Mary Lou Kasarda.
Our house is beginning to smell like Thanksgiving. When I came home from work, DH Richard had just taken 2 pumpkin pies out of the oven. I just took out a pecan pie. Mmmm.
Today I made the Cranberry Pear Relish/Salad. . .AND
Two Apple Butter Pumpkin Pies. . .AND
Three Plain Ole Pumpkin Pies. . .
Yep, it's beginning to smell a lot like Thanksgiving. . . ;D
Oh, dear, I hope Jrand hasn't gone off in a huff. That stuff is really disturbing to me - Jason was obviously joking and put in a smiley just to be certain. Oh, well.
JRand, 34 pounds-great work. Good luck through the holidays.
Does anyone remember what he or she was doing 42 years ago today (assuming you were alive and aware of your surroundings)?
http://www.fiftiesweb.com/kennedy/kennedy-assassination-22.htm (http://www.fiftiesweb.com/kennedy/kennedy-assassination-22.htm)
the niece of Cedric Gibbons,
So it was probably she who picked up the empty Vodka bottles thrown over the fence. ;D
No doubt! :o
She probably heard a few choice words as well! ;D
Does anyone remember what he or she was doing 42 years ago today (assuming you were alive and aware of your surroundings)?
http://www.fiftiesweb.com/kennedy/kennedy-assassination-22.htm (http://www.fiftiesweb.com/kennedy/kennedy-assassination-22.htm)
Well, I did stop at Target tonight, but I wound up not making any of my expected DVD purchases. I found out that there were double-disc versions of THE WAR OF THE WORLDS, THE POLAR EXPRESS and KING KONG (the last actually coming in a tin box.) I suddenly felt overwhelmed and confused and suffered from consumer burnout. I came straight home and opened up a bottle of George Duboeuf's New Wine for 2005 to calm my nerves.
Speaking of operatic voices, have you yet heard the group called "Il Divo"?"Il Divo" were "big" here last year - as they were in the UK.
Dear TCB - you just keep getting younger with each passing year! You're already younger than springtime. . .what happens in the fall? ;)
42 years ago today I was bumbling around in my mom's tummy trying to figure out if it was time to pop out yet!
Well, I'm putting myself to bed a little earlier tonight. I have an 8 a.m. dental check-up and cleaning tomorrow, and that hour will come very fast.
Good night, all.
"Il Divo" were "big" here last year - as they were in the UK.
(ie before their American publicity tour).
Well, I did stop at Target tonight, but I wound up not making any of my expected DVD purchases. I found out that there were double-disc versions of THE WAR OF THE WORLDS, THE POLAR EXPRESS and KING KONG (the last actually coming in a tin box.) I suddenly felt overwhelmed and confused and suffered from consumer burnout. I came straight home and opened up a bottle of George Duboeuf's New Wine for 2005 to calm my nerves.
I recall quite clearly a kid named Frank Church running off the playgoround screaming, "Maybe they'll shoot Johnson on Monday and we'll get another day off!" This is probably the first clear memory from my early childhood. I still recall the entire weekend being taken up with news reports on tv--there were no cartoons, which was the big tragedy for someone of my age.
Like many of us, he probably "tries to remember the kind of
September...."
Do you like them?Very much so Ron.
Very much so Ron.
I don't care for most opera (as an entertainment to view) but I do like the voices of quite a few opera singers!
Does that mean that the "C" in TCB stands for Callow? ???
I like the diversity of their styles and the blend they attain.I could have done without "My Way". The song from "the Mission" is wonderful.
Very much so Ron.
I don't care for most opera (as an entertainment to view) but I do like the voices of quite a few opera singers!
I could have done without "My Way". The song from "the Mission" is wonderful.
Oh! An Oz reference. Our Joan.
I prefer Jose Carrares (to Pavarotti) - something more fragile there to love. I like Domingo least of "The Three Tenors"
Did mention that I was in a Kindergarten Christmas production?