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Well, you've read the notes, the notes were perfectly perfect, and now it is time for you to post until the perfectly perfect cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: FRABJOUS!
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Welcome six GUESTS.
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As I was saying...
Well...
I need to take a couple of minutes now to pack up the stuff I need for my day on Governor's Island tomorrow/later today at The Vendys. I have to be on the 7:30am ferry, and since the 1 Train is not running this weekend, that means I need to hop on the A to get to the N/R by 6:15.
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Otherwise, it truly was a most FRABJOUS reading, book-signing and gathering at Joe Allen.
Thank You, Bruce!
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Here, as promised, is our new Kritzerland announcement, perhaps the most outre title we've done - read on MacDuff - you know the drill - it's $19.98 plus 3.75 shipping via paypal to kritzerland at adelphia dot net. This one just tickles me large.
“ACTUALLY FILMED IN THE DARK CORNERS OF THIS SICK WORLD!”
Kritzerland is proud to present a world premiere limited edition soundtrack release:
Sadismo
Music Composed and Conducted by Les Baxter
In 1962 a documentary called Mondo Cane was unleashed on the world and became a box-office sensation. The film was such a huge success that it spawned its own genre – the mondo film, and soon everyone was rushing out their own mondo shock docs – Mondo Cane 2, Malamondo, Women of the World, Africa Addio, Addio Zio Tom, and some really low-budget knockoffs like Mondo Bizarro and Mondo Hollywood. A latecomer to the game was 1967’s Sadismo (alternate title, of course, was Mondo Sadismo), a shock doc about torture and cruelty and things taboo and exotic practices from around the world. The film was released by American International, and while it would be fun to write about the film in detail, the fact is that it would be near impossible to do so, since the film has never been available on home video and most likely would not have received any television airings due to its extreme subject matter. Even the imdb listing has almost virtually no information. But, a perusal of the film’s pressbook gives a pretty good idea of what audiences were in for.
“HOW MUCH SHOCK CAN YOU STAND?”
That’s what the lurid ads screamed, along with other great bits of hyperbolic tag lines – “Every conceivable, brutal TORTURE known to man civilized or savage…” “A catalog of cruelty” “SEE the rack – thumb screw – iron maiden – torture drugs that make men slaves – bizarre human sacrifices – today!” – well, you get the idea.
As was its practice back then, American International had the US release scored by Les Baxter. Baxter had rescored any number of AIP pickups from other countries, and for Sadismo he came up with a score that one can only imagine suited the film to a “T” (for Torture, of course). By the time of Sadismo, Baxter, who was born in 1922, had already achieved some major successes in his career: In 1950 he began arranging and conducting for Capitol Records. He wrote his first film score in 1953 for the sailing travelogue Tanga Tika, but it was his series of hit recordings with his own orchestra that put him on the map – the song from “Ruby,” “The Poor People of Paris,” and his classic cover of Alex North and Hy Zaret’s “Unchained Melody.” “The Poor People of Paris” alone sold over a million copies and was Baxter’s first Gold Record. He then did a series of concept albums featuring his own compositions, with such titles as Ritual of the Savage, The Passions, Tamboo, and Ports of Pleasure – these all did very well and are now considered classics of what has become known as Exotica. All throughout the 1950s Baxter regularly did film scores, including Untamed Youth, Jungle Heat, The Invisible Boy, The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold, The Fiend Who Walked the West, Macabre, and many others. In 1959, Baxter joined up with AIP and began turning out score after score, some for their own productions, and some for the US releases of things they picked up elsewhere – a small sampling includes Goliath and the Barbarians, Master of the World, Reptilicus, Mario Bava’s Black Sunday and Black Sabbath, House of Usher, Pit and the Pendulum, The Comedy of Terrors, Tales of Terror, The Raven, Panic in Year Zero, Beach Party, Pajama Party, Beach Blanket Bingo, The Dunwich Horror, Cry of the Banshee – according to Baxter, he never turned anything down and he was one of the busiest film composers throughout the 1960s.
Baxter’s score for Sadismo is Baxter in full Exotica mode, and he truly puts the mondo in the music – which means you get Yma Sumac-like wordless vocals, you get xylophones and fluttering flutes, weird and wonderful orchestral colors (no strings), exotic and tantalizing themes, and even some bossa nova, honky-tonk, and blues. If you want an eclectic soundtrack, look no further. We feel this is a monumental release if only for the fact that it’s the first CD called Sadismo. The source material used for this release was the 15ips two-track mono music tapes housed in the MGM vaults.
So, get out your rack, your thumb screw, and your iron maiden and prepare to enter the dark corners of this sick world courtesy of the great Les Baxter. You’ll be glad you came.
This release is limited to 1000 copies only. The price is $19.98 plus shipping.
CD will ship by the first week of November – however, preorders placed directly through Kritzerland usually ship one to five weeks earlier (we’ve been averaging four weeks early). To place an order, see the cover, or hear audio samples, just visit www.kritzerland.com.
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Well we have arrived safely on the Island of Long/ The Vixter has gone to sleep and I will be off t the land of Nod myself in a few minutes
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the reading was a lot of fun
and despite the vixter and I gettiing caught in the UN traffic and the trafffic accident at Central Patk South we arrived just as it was beginning and were able to snag two front row sheets
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Bruce signed some books and spoke with people afterward
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Hi ;D
Nice pictures 8)
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Sleep. Late. Fast. ;)
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It's official, I'm both stage directing and musical directing Sunset Blvd
And really, that's all I have to say now. If I stop posting for longer than a week, someone please check to see that I haven't fallen in a swimming pool.
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Great pictures, Vixmom! And congrats to BK on the reading and get-together...it sounded like great fun!
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Ordered the new CD. It certainly sounds interesting! ;D
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Morning all.
That is all.
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Good Morning!
I'm up, I'm up... And before I go...
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Another pic from last night...
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And another... *I'm still not sure exactly what this young lady was asking of bk.
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OH! LOOK!
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And now I must hie myself to the train to get to the ferry to get to the island. Etc., etc., etc.
Laters...
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Monkey looks to be in one piece after his scary ordeal with rude guards at MOMA
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Sounds like everyone had a wonderful time last night!
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Matthew, that sounds like an awful lot of work for one man! But I know you can do it!
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CONGRATS to DR MATTHEW! Whew! It's going to be fun!
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CD ordered! Sadismo!!!
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Recording vibes for MR BK today.
Of course it is a workday for me. Oh well.
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Just this time last week - I was playing the lead in a hit play......well, that's show biz!
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TOD:
WILDCAT!!
Whew! Now that I read about it, I was lucky that Lucy was in for the matinee that I saw.....but it was fabulous!
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Good morning, all!
The photo of BK and Monkey made me laugh out loud, DR Jose! I hope I did not disturb the Oaf Above Me.
I had a Fed Ex fright last night; before I went to bed, I checked the Fed Ex trackoing and only seven cartons of the 22 seemed to be riding toward Ohio. No one at Fed Ex customer service had any idea where the other 15 cartons could have gone. They were kind enough to tell me they've had a glitch in their system this past week, and, sure enough, all 22 cartons are now trackable, although 7 cartons are zooming eastward while 15 of their companions are sitting in limbo like so much fish. As long as they're in the Fed Ex system, I'm more than content.
Today and tomorrow are catch up days for me: I have lots of BABES IN TOYLAND and LADY OF THE SLIPPER things to deal with on the computer, perhaps some house cleaning and organizing, before next week's recording sessions begin again.
Break a leg today, BK!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Safe Travel & Weather Vibes and Xylophones tomorrow for BK! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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And so to the TOD:
First show was the national company of CAMELOT with Kathryn Grayson, Louis Hayward, Arthur Treacher, Cincinnati Shubert Theatre, around 1962. It was a beautiful production but, at 16, even I could see it was a bore. My only memories are how spectacular and lavish were the scenery and costumes and how beautiful the score was. The orchestra was fantastic. I'd been playing the OBC lp to death, so it was fun to hear all of the incidental music and numbers that weren't recorded.
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Promises, Promises in April of 1971 at the Shubert Theatre with Anthony (now Tony) Roberts and Jenny O'Hara, sister of Jill O'Hara, the original Fran.
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Good morning, all.
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Great photos from last night.
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Has anyone heard from DR Thom since his surgery?
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Off to work......oh well.
Today is my parents' 62nd Wedding Anniversary, and there is a surprise party at my house tonight....I hope it doesn't go on too late.
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Happy anniversary to your parents, JRand. Wow. 62 years.
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TOD: First show I saw on Broadway was "42nd Street" with Jerry Orbach, Lee Roy Reams and much of the original cast. I think the Peggy was Mary Cardorette.
I had seen "Side by Side by Sondheim" on tour with Hermione Gingold before that. Fun production. Great songs.
First play I saw on Broadway was "Fences," I think, with Billy Dee Williams.
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Nice reading about the book signing and dinner!
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DR Jane, re: ALONE.
I just finished LIVE TO TELL. I did like ALONE. But I think I liked HIDE and THE NEIGHBOR better. Once you get to know the characters it's fun to get read more books about them.
I have the last 3 books in the FBI Profiler series to read. I think you will like these too. But I have another book to read first.
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Wow for sure re: the anniversary. Congrats to your parents!
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For the TOD:
On tour it would have to be either CATS or LES MIS. I remember my parents taking us to those when I was little.
On broadway it would probably have to be either SUNSET BLVD or MISS SAIGON.
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I'm up after a good night's sleep that could have been one hour longer.
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My first Broadway show was 1776 - I went to see with with all the lttle old blue haired ladies from the library - I must have been 12 or so
I ended up with front row center mezzanine and I kept fixing my hair because I swear Benjamin Franklin spent the entire show looking directly at ME!
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The first show I saw after I moved to New York (in August of 1980) was 42nd Street with the entire original cast. It was August 30th, five days after David Merrick had made the announcement on stage at opening night that Gower Champion had died that afternoon. The show was thrilling and I felt part of New York and knew that I would be here for the rest of my life! 30 years later, as Bruce said last night, and Stephen Sondheim said before that, I'm Still Here.
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The first show I ever saw on Broadway was The Wiz on...I think it was March 12, 1977
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It could have been March 10, 1977
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Last night I had a most splendid time at Movie Night. Some friends show movies outside on a screen on the outside of their garage. The sound isn't very good, but it was still great fun. Last night's feature was Napolean Dynamite. It was pretty cold out but they havd a raging fire in the fireplace on the patio and we had movie popcorn, munchies, movie candy, beer, wine and Ouzo. Ouzo is great with Good and Plenty.... It was a small crowd last night, there were only 9 of us, 10 if you count the guy who came to socialize but left before the movie started. We laughed and laughed....roasted marshmallows and were very silly.
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I was awakened several times during the night by thunderstorms. Finally At about 7:30 AM my weather radio said SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING, so I got up and brought the girls downstairs....it just rained. No wind, no hail and no thunder. I could have slept a lot longer, but I'm up and can start doing laundry etc...so it's ok
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Last night I had a most splendid time at Movie Night. Some friends show movies outside on a screen on the outside of their garage. The sound isn't very good, but it was still great fun. Last night's feature was Napolean Dynamite. It was pretty cold out but they havd a raging fire in the fireplace on the patio and we had movie popcorn, munchies, movie candy, beer, wine and Ouzo. Ouzo is great with Good and Plenty.... It was a small crowd last night, there were only 9 of us, 10 if you count the guy who came to socialize but left before the movie started. We laughed and laughed....roasted marshmallows and were very silly.
Sounds wonderful.
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Congrats, Matthew, on the additional job. Vibes for the remainder of the rehearsal period and, of course, the performances.
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First professional play, Jesus Christ Super Star on tour in San Antonio early 70s
First play on Broadway, Cats and then Phantom during a NYC trip early 90s
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Hello from San Francisco.
I managed to stay up the extra three hours so I could get to sleep at my usually time EST time, but at PST. I did wake up at my usual time this AM so I think I'm back on schedule.
Glad to see that the reading went well
and the Vixter is all grown up.
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Tour: FIddler On The Roof with Paul Lipson at Place Des Arts in Montreal. I must have been five or six.
Broadway 13 years later I saw and (don't remember the order) The Magic Show, Pippin (with Mike Rupert as Pippin) and Chicago (with the original Broadway cast except for Chita Rivera)
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Gotta love the NY HHWers -- I know they sure made "The Brain" trip fun a few years back.
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LOL -- DR Jose looks like Clark Kent in his avatar!
....Super Enabler!
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Here, as promised, is our new Kritzerland announcement, perhaps the most outre title we've done - read on MacDuff - you know the drill - it's $19.98 plus 3.75 shipping via paypal to kritzerland at adelphia dot net. This one just tickles me large.
“ACTUALLY FILMED IN THE DARK CORNERS OF THIS SICK WORLD!”
Kritzerland is proud to present a world premiere limited edition soundtrack release:
Sadismo
Music Composed and Conducted by Les Baxter
In 1962 a documentary called Mondo Cane was unleashed on the world and became a box-office sensation. The film was such a huge success that it spawned its own genre – the mondo film, and soon everyone was rushing out their own mondo shock docs – Mondo Cane 2, Malamondo, Women of the World, Africa Addio, Addio Zio Tom, and some really low-budget knockoffs like Mondo Bizarro and Mondo Hollywood. A latecomer to the game was 1967’s Sadismo (alternate title, of course, was Mondo Sadismo), a shock doc about torture and cruelty and things taboo and exotic practices from around the world. The film was released by American International, and while it would be fun to write about the film in detail, the fact is that it would be near impossible to do so, since the film has never been available on home video and most likely would not have received any television airings due to its extreme subject matter. Even the imdb listing has almost virtually no information. But, a perusal of the film’s pressbook gives a pretty good idea of what audiences were in for.
“HOW MUCH SHOCK CAN YOU STAND?”
That’s what the lurid ads screamed, along with other great bits of hyperbolic tag lines – “Every conceivable, brutal TORTURE known to man civilized or savage…” “A catalog of cruelty” “SEE the rack – thumb screw – iron maiden – torture drugs that make men slaves – bizarre human sacrifices – today!” – well, you get the idea.
As was its practice back then, American International had the US release scored by Les Baxter. Baxter had rescored any number of AIP pickups from other countries, and for Sadismo he came up with a score that one can only imagine suited the film to a “T” (for Torture, of course). By the time of Sadismo, Baxter, who was born in 1922, had already achieved some major successes in his career: In 1950 he began arranging and conducting for Capitol Records. He wrote his first film score in 1953 for the sailing travelogue Tanga Tika, but it was his series of hit recordings with his own orchestra that put him on the map – the song from “Ruby,” “The Poor People of Paris,” and his classic cover of Alex North and Hy Zaret’s “Unchained Melody.” “The Poor People of Paris” alone sold over a million copies and was Baxter’s first Gold Record. He then did a series of concept albums featuring his own compositions, with such titles as Ritual of the Savage, The Passions, Tamboo, and Ports of Pleasure – these all did very well and are now considered classics of what has become known as Exotica. All throughout the 1950s Baxter regularly did film scores, including Untamed Youth, Jungle Heat, The Invisible Boy, The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold, The Fiend Who Walked the West, Macabre, and many others. In 1959, Baxter joined up with AIP and began turning out score after score, some for their own productions, and some for the US releases of things they picked up elsewhere – a small sampling includes Goliath and the Barbarians, Master of the World, Reptilicus, Mario Bava’s Black Sunday and Black Sabbath, House of Usher, Pit and the Pendulum, The Comedy of Terrors, Tales of Terror, The Raven, Panic in Year Zero, Beach Party, Pajama Party, Beach Blanket Bingo, The Dunwich Horror, Cry of the Banshee – according to Baxter, he never turned anything down and he was one of the busiest film composers throughout the 1960s.
Baxter’s score for Sadismo is Baxter in full Exotica mode, and he truly puts the mondo in the music – which means you get Yma Sumac-like wordless vocals, you get xylophones and fluttering flutes, weird and wonderful orchestral colors (no strings), exotic and tantalizing themes, and even some bossa nova, honky-tonk, and blues. If you want an eclectic soundtrack, look no further. We feel this is a monumental release if only for the fact that it’s the first CD called Sadismo. The source material used for this release was the 15ips two-track mono music tapes housed in the MGM vaults.
So, get out your rack, your thumb screw, and your iron maiden and prepare to enter the dark corners of this sick world courtesy of the great Les Baxter. You’ll be glad you came.
This release is limited to 1000 copies only. The price is $19.98 plus shipping.
CD will ship by the first week of November – however, preorders placed directly through Kritzerland usually ship one to five weeks earlier (we’ve been averaging four weeks early). To place an order, see the cover, or hear audio samples, just visit www.kritzerland.com.
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Did I call that one, or what? ;D
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Gotta love the NY HHWers -- I know they sure made "The Brain" trip fun a few years back.
Plus the other "Out of Towner" HHWs that made that trip ... great bunch of folks and a great time.
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I saw a lot of Equity stuff at the old Valley Music Hall in SLC (which is now a Mormon "Ward House", believe it or don't). I know I saw MacDonald (These are the days of our lives. . .) Carey in "South Pacific" when I was probably 7 or so. But my first "real" professional show was probably the National Tour of "1776" with most of the original cast, in Seattle. I also saw the National Tour of "Zorba." My first Broadway show "on Broadway" was the Original Cast of "Pippin," as well as (the very next day) "A Little Night Music," which had *just* opened. I believe the only reason I got a ticket was because of my Uncle's close personal friendship (to coin a phrase) with Stephen Sondheim.
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Today in San Francisco
I'm going to Chinatown and I want to go to one street in particular
Grant Avenue, San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
I understand it looks down from Chinatown over a foggy bay.
I'm going to travel there in a trolley, and in a trolley up you climb,
Dong! Dong! You're in Hong Kong, and I'm planning to having myself a time
I'm planning to eat, if I'm are in the mood Shark-fin soup, bean cake fish.
The boy/girl who will serves me all my food I hope is another tasty dish!
Grant Avenue is a western street with eastern manners,
Tall pagodas and golden banners
Throw their shadows through the lantern glow.
You can shop for precious jade
or teakwood tables or silk brocade
Or see a bold and brassy night club show,
On the most exciting thoroughfare I hope to know.
So dear Hainies
You know you
Can't have a new way of living
Till you're living all the way
On Grant Avenue. -
Paying attention?
Pop Quiz:
-Where is that?--
Answer:
San Francisco, That's where's that!
California U.S.A.
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Saturday morning greetings! It's a gorgeous fall day here in SW Ohio and soon I will go out for a walk around the neighborhood. Have to be back in time for the Michigan kick-off at noon - Go, Blue!
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First National Tour - Les Miserables - 1990 in SF
First Broadway Show - Cats - 1999
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Happy 62nd wedding anniversary to the parents of DR JRand!
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Let's Have Lunch dance here for Page 3
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DR Matthew - congratulations on your added responsibility for SB!
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And the word of the day is: FRABJOUS!
And The Song Of The Day Is: THE JABBERWOCKY
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TOD - first professional show was the Forrest Tucker/Joan Weldon tour of The Music Man at the Riviera in Detroit. I saw one more show at the Riviera, Florence Henderson in The Sound of Music before it was replaced by the Fisher Theatre. First show I saw there was The Unsinkable Molly Brown, with BK's pal Karen Morrow in the title role and Harve (be still, my heart) Presnell as Johnny.
First show on Broadway was the original cast of Cabaret, in the summer of 1967. My mother worked at National Bank of Detroit with someone whose brother had a connection to Lotte Lenya and we had her house seats, 4th row center orchestra. Afterwards, we waited at the stage door and met 4 of the 5 principles and I still have the program book with their autographs. There's a second Joel Grey signature on it from when Richard and I met him outside Cincinnati's Music Hall almost 20 years later.
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TOD: Like Elmore, my first brush with Boradway was at the Schubert Theatre in Cincinnati where all the major road shows came in. I think the first thing I ever saw there was OLIVER, we went as a class in either eighth or ninth grade when studying Dickens. Davey Jones was playing the Artful Dodger and, I'm not sure, but I think Georgia Brown was playing Nancy. Can't remember who was Fagin and I'm not digging out the programme to find out.
Another time we saw a tour of BAREFOOT IN THE PARK with Margaret O'Brien in the lead. What I remember of the show was she had a terrible head cold, but valiantly croaked through the performance anyway. I think the first show that I paid for and went on my own (my date and I...)was HOSTILE WITNESS starring Ray Milland touring in his Broadway hit. Character actor Melville Cooper was also in the show, playing the judge.
I saw many things at the Schubert in the late sixties/early seventies before it closed...GINGERBREAD LADY with Nancy Kelly; ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN with Brian Murray; MAN OF LA MANCHA with Keith Andes, 1776, and HADRIAN THE 7TH with Hume Cronin giving one of the best and most memorable performances I've ever seen.
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TOD
BANJO EYES with Eddie Cantor
Music by Vernon Duke. The Most famous song that came from that show was NOT A CARE IN THE WORLD
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TOD:
First Broadway tour:
CHICAGO starring Tom Wopat
First Broadway shows:
AVENUE Q starring a lot of muppets and CURTAINS starring David Hyde Pierce (I don't recall which was first as I saw them both during the same weeks visit to NYC)
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Glad that the book reading and the HHW get-to-gather were both fun! Looking forward to more pictures. Glad monkey was in attendance! Shouldn' there be a snap of him with each HHWer?
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TOD: Like Elmore, my first brush with Boradway was at the Schubert Theatre in Cincinnati where all the major road shows came in. I think the first thing I ever saw there was OLIVER, we went as a class in either eighth or ninth grade when studying Dickens. Davey Jones was playing the Artful Dodger and, I'm not sure, but I think Georgia Brown was playing Nancy. Can't remember who was Fagin and I'm not digging out the programme to find out.
DR Charles Pogue,you most likely saw OLIVER! on its way to Broadway so I would guess you saw everyone on the OBC. The Fagin would be Clive Revill.
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Glad everything went so wonderfully for you yestrday!
Hopefull we all have a great day today as well!
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It's official, I'm both stage directing and musical directing Sunset Blvd
And really, that's all I have to say now. If I stop posting for longer than a week, someone please check to see that I haven't fallen in a swimming pool.
Congrats & ;D
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DR Jrand, happy 62nd anniversary to your parents!!! :)
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Last night I had a most splendid time at Movie Night. Some friends show movies outside on a screen on the outside of their garage. The sound isn't very good, but it was still great fun. Last night's feature was Napolean Dynamite. It was pretty cold out but they havd a raging fire in the fireplace on the patio and we had movie popcorn, munchies, movie candy, beer, wine and Ouzo. Ouzo is great with Good and Plenty.... It was a small crowd last night, there were only 9 of us, 10 if you count the guy who came to socialize but left before the movie started. We laughed and laughed....roasted marshmallows and were very silly.
Sounds wonderful.
Sure does. :)
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I enjoyed reading the details and seeing the photos from last night. I got an extra kick out of the photo with Monkey and especially liked the one with the Vixter & Bruce.
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DR Jrand, happy 62nd anniversary to your parents!!! :)
Ditto, DR JRand60! I still don't know how I missed that bit of information! I will blame it on my Fed Ex problem.
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Stopped in the office to check the mail. Nothing interesting. I could stay and work, but think I better do laundry instead....
It's raining so I may not go to the outdoor sculpture walk. It's by a house build by Richard Neutra and I've never seen the house, so I may go out there just to take a look. I've been invited there for various things in the past but never made it. Tonight is a birthday party for a friend...it's an early thing so hopefully it won't go too late.
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TOD: Like Elmore, my first brush with Boradway was at the Schubert Theatre in Cincinnati where all the major road shows came in. I think the first thing I ever saw there was OLIVER, we went as a class in either eighth or ninth grade when studying Dickens. Davey Jones was playing the Artful Dodger and, I'm not sure, but I think Georgia Brown was playing Nancy. Can't remember who was Fagin and I'm not digging out the programme to find out.
DR Charles Pogue,you most likely saw OLIVER! on its way to Broadway so I would guess you saw everyone on the OBC. The Fagin would be Clive Revill.
Really? I'm pretty sure it was a National tour after it had already played Broadway. Wasn't it imported to Broadway AFTER it's success in London. Would they really have had a pre-Broadway tour of it? But now I'm curious so I guess I'll have to dig out the programme.
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It was delightful meeting Kevin last night _
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happy 62nd anniversary to JRand's folks
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congratulations to Matthew,,,
YOU CAN DO IT!!!!
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So I dug out the programme for OLIVER! Robin Ramsay played Fagin; Judy Bruce played Nancy...but Davey Jones (billed David Jones) did play The Artful Dodger. I realized a also spelled Shubert incorrectly. Also found the programme for the Guare/MacDermot TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA that played the Shubert and starred Larry Kert and Jill O'Hara.
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i am so tried ai keep falling a sleep = whichis a shame on trhis beautifully beautiful day
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or should I say perfectly perfect?
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Here we are with Bishop Chad, whose consecration ceremony we attended a week ago:
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And here's Richard admiring Astronaut Alan Shepard's Corvette:
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Me with Astronaut Snoopy:
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At dinner with our friends Fernando and Christa:
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TOD: Like Elmore, my first brush with Boradway was at the Schubert Theatre in Cincinnati where all the major road shows came in. I think the first thing I ever saw there was OLIVER, we went as a class in either eighth or ninth grade when studying Dickens. Davey Jones was playing the Artful Dodger and, I'm not sure, but I think Georgia Brown was playing Nancy. Can't remember who was Fagin and I'm not digging out the programme to find out.
DR Charles Pogue,you most likely saw OLIVER! on its way to Broadway so I would guess you saw everyone on the OBC. The Fagin would be Clive Revill.
Really? I'm pretty sure it was a National tour after it had already played Broadway. Wasn't it imported to Broadway AFTER it's success in London. Would they really have had a pre-Broadway tour of it? But now I'm curious so I guess I'll have to dig out the programme.
David Merrick opened OLIVER! in California and the show played its tryout heading east to Broadway. I believe the OBC recording was made in LA. You saw the national tour, which probably began during OLIVER!'s second year on Broadway.
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Well, just when I'm happy with no recording trauma, I get a phone call about one of our singers being unhappy singing one of Herbert's German lieder bcause she says it's a man's song. The cover of the music says it's composed for either an Alto or a Baritone but she's having la problem . I'm so used to singers singing in classical song about their affection for the same sex that I wasn't bothered as she was. Marilyn Horne sings "I dream of Jeannie with the light brown hair," Benjamin Britten arranges "The Trees They Grow So High" for a tenor, the Boswell Sisters and Ethel Waters recorded "Dinah," and we've got Jeanne Lehman singing two masculine songs written for star Madge Ellis, a male impersonator from vaudeville, on the recording, and I have no problem with a woman singing the song. I guess this singer will be turning down any offers to sing Geschwitz, the lesbian in Alban Berg's opera LULU!
So, the gist is, I've got to find a baritone with a classically trained instrument to sing this damned number now, three weeks before we record it and I'm not happy at the moment.
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It's a very warm but beautiful day in Manhattan. We were watching some television and happened on to Ion TV which shows re-runs of Mash. Guess which episode they happened to be playing? Mr. Kimmel's. It's the one where he was a wounded soldier and there is a "cease fire". He's not in much of the show but he's got good screen time.
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I also liked the picture with the Vixter and thought the one with Monkey was funny!
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DR elmore QUICK FINDING A WONDERFUL BARITONE VIBES!!!
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DR elmore QUICK FINDING A WONDERFUL BARITONE VIBES!!!
Thanks! It's all covered. I called steven LaBrie, who's singing in a quartet that session, and he will add the song to his list.
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MOST EXCELLENT VIBES AND XYLOPHONES FOR CONTINUED GOOD WEATHER AND AN ON-TIME, SAFE, AND STRESS FREE FLIGHT TO BK
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Hi Ben!
Welcome 0 Guests.
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T.O.D.
First Broadway musical I saw was the tourig company of ONCE UPON A MATTRESS, starring Imogene Coca, King Donovan (Mr. Imogene Coca), and Edward Everett Horton. It was a wonderful production and the whole day would have been perfect if Ms Coca hadn't been such a bitch to an adorable young man who just wanted her autograph.
First Broadway musical on Broadway was HELLO, DOLLY! starring Pearl Bailey, Cab Calloway, and the All-Black cast.
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Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Jrand Sr.
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Did I call that one, or what? ;D
Someone would have to read your posts to know for sure!
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DR Elmore - yay for Steven LaBrie being a team player and stepping up to do the song!
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Congratulations on the 'rents' anniversary, JRand!
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Yay for Steven LaBrie - period!
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My first live theater was The Music Man. My father, brother & sister had seen it in NY and loved it. When it came to L.A. my mother and I went together & we too loved it. My memory says it starred Robert Preston. I haven't a clue who else. If only I had known to save a ticket or something.
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Thanks all for the congrats regading my lab work yesterday. They were much improved, but we still have a ways to go.
Oh, and I am still fat.
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So I dug out the programme for OLIVER! Robin Ramsay played Fagin; Judy Bruce played Nancy...but Davey Jones (billed David Jones) did play The Artful Dodger. I realized a also spelled Shubert incorrectly. Also found the programme for the Guare/MacDermot TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA that played the Shubert and starred Larry Kert and Jill O'Hara.
Pogue, bet you'll find Barry Pearl in the Oliver cast.
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I had a very nice day today. The session with Skip and Rebecca Luker was effortless and wonderful. Then Skip and I went to lunch - I ordered some onion rings and had only five, and Skip had some rings and some wings. Then I went to the Brooklyn Diner and met a gal pal I haven't seen in close to eighteen years - she looked great and it was fun catching up with her. She has a fourteen-year-old daughter now and has been through some interesting things, one of which would make a really good Lifetime movie.
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I had the salad I like plus a small side of mac and cheese that was great but tasted more like fettucini alfredo. We shared the coconut cake - I only ate about a third of it, thank goodness.
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Then I booked my car to the airport (leaving at 4:45 in the morning) and came back to the hotel to find my room key card was once again not working for the elevator. They gave me a new one and said the system has been having some hiccups and that they're working on it.
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I'm going to try and go to bed by nine or ten - not sure if I'll post the notes then as it would be seven in LA, so I might post them when I get up - we shall see.
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Finally, might I just say, page FOUR??? Someone get me off this damn page.
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Sorry I couldn't join you guys for lunch, BK. So glad the recording session went so well.
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Wishes for Jrand's folks!
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Yay for Steven LaBrie - period!
I knew he'd perk your spirits up!
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T.O.D.
First Broadway musical I saw was the tourig company of ONCE UPON A MATTRESS, starring Imogene Coca, King Donovan (Mr. Imogene Coca), and Edward Everett Horton. It was a wonderful production and the whole day would have been perfect if Ms Coca hadn't been such a bitch to an adorable young man who just wanted her autograph.
First Broadway musical on Broadway was HELLO, DOLLY! starring Pearl Bailey, Cab Calloway, and the All-Black cast.
The years must have mellowed Ms. Coca. I met her after some forgotten dinner theater production (also starring King Donovan) and wanted my vocal score of "On the 20th Century" autographed. She grabbed the book and leafed through the whole thing looking at all of the photographs and talking about how wonderful that production had been. In the meantime, her full-sized poodles ran through the dining room licking a few of the plates set out for the evening performance.
I met her about 10 years later when I got Judy Kaye to autograph the same book. They were both in a touring production of "20th Century" and Coca said she remembered signing the book.
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DR Elmore - yay for Steven LaBrie being a team player and stepping up to do the song!
Exactly.
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Just turned on the TV for a while and instantly fell asleep for thirty minutes.
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Good Evening!
I'm back from Governor's Island. -Where a delicious time was had by all at The Vendys.
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Alas, The Big Ice Cream Truck did not win A Vendy this year. Again. But our lines were long and our customers were happy.
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Oh...
And over the course of the day, I believed I sliced up about 10 quarts of strawberries, and prepared and served 400 cups of ice cream "samplings": Toasted Curried Coconut with Ginger Syrup, Peppermint Syrup with Scharffenberger Cacao Nibs, and Mixed Berries in Saba.
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....And when I sat down on the ferry back to Manhattan, it suddenly dawned on me that that was first time I had sat down since 7:30 this morning. I was literally on my feet for 11 hours straight. Whew!
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YEAH! YEAH! YEAH! YEAH! YEAH!
PAGE FIVE!!!!!
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DR Matthew - Congrats on your additional duties.
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Happy Anniversary to the Dear Parents of DR JRand!!!!!
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Oh... And Monkey is currently blushing. ;)
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bk - Glad to hear that your session went well today. Have a good night's sleep, and an uneventful trip to the airport in the morning.
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DR elmore - Is it possible that the Mezzo is dealing with latent homosexual tendencies? ;)
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Why have we not seen any pictures from the NYC festivities?
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I am so overwhelmed by this Complete Works of Bach set I can hardly stand it. In a good way.
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T.O.D.
First Broadway musical I saw was the tourig company of ONCE UPON A MATTRESS, starring Imogene Coca, King Donovan (Mr. Imogene Coca), and Edward Everett Horton. It was a wonderful production and the whole day would have been perfect if Ms Coca hadn't been such a bitch to an adorable young man who just wanted her autograph.
First Broadway musical on Broadway was HELLO, DOLLY! starring Pearl Bailey, Cab Calloway, and the All-Black cast.
Now I want to hear the story of why she was such a bitch.
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DR elmore - Is it possible that the Mezzo is dealing with latent homosexual tendencies? ;)
My thoughts exactly.
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As for the Topic of the Day...
My first Broadway show on tour was either The King & I or Fiddler On the Roof with one of "THE" Tevye's. -I forget which one. But I do remember that it was at the National Theatre in DC. -And I also remember how seeing that house open-up like a story book was so magical.
My first Broadway show on Broadway was Brighton Beach Memoirs - the first replacement cast. John Cryer was playing Eugene. -And then my second Broadway show on Broadway, which I saw the next afternoon (a Wednesday), was Biloxi Blues with the original cast. It was in the second week of previews.
Alas, the first Broadway musical I saw on Broadway - which was the evening following Biloxi Blues - was The Tap Dance Kid. Most of the original cast was still in it. Alas, Alfonso Ribiero was out that night, and I believe the "kid" we saw was only on for the second or third time.
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BK, no Barry Pearl in the cast list of my programme.
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*Oh, and I still remember the one running joke in The Tap Dance Kid:
"First Prize: one weeks in Philadelphia. Second Prize: two weeks in Philadelphia. Yuck-yuck-yuck."
-Or something like that.
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Why have we not seen any pictures from the NYC festivities?
Umm...
I shall attempt to post a few more later. Once I have the energy to do so. ;)
*Although, due to various departure times - and some extremely low-lighting at Joe Allen - there was no group shot taken of the dinner table. :-\
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*Oh, and I still remember the one running joke in The Tap Dance Kid:
"First Prize: one weeks in Philadelphia. Second Prize: two weeks in Philadelphia. Yuck-yuck-yuck."
-Or something like that.
I loved that show on tour. Jerry Zaks took over the direction and Harold Nicholas was playing the grandfather. He was spectacular. And I think the score has a couple of terrific songs, including "Some Day."
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I think I'll move us to the new topic right now so I can put away the computer.
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T.O.D.
First Broadway musical I saw was the tourig company of ONCE UPON A MATTRESS, starring Imogene Coca, King Donovan (Mr. Imogene Coca), and Edward Everett Horton. It was a wonderful production and the whole day would have been perfect if Ms Coca hadn't been such a bitch to an adorable young man who just wanted her autograph.
First Broadway musical on Broadway was HELLO, DOLLY! starring Pearl Bailey, Cab Calloway, and the All-Black cast.
The years must have mellowed Ms. Coca. I met her after some forgotten dinner theater production (also starring King Donovan) and wanted my vocal score of "On the 20th Century" autographed. She grabbed the book and leafed through the whole thing looking at all of the photographs and talking about how wonderful that production had been. In the meantime, her full-sized poodles ran through the dining room licking a few of the plates set out for the evening performance.
I met her about 10 years later when I got Judy Kaye to autograph the same book. They were both in a touring production of "20th Century" and Coca said she remembered signing the book.
And it was those damn full-sized poodles that made her turn on me. The very large dogs with their diamond collars found my crotch to be irresistible. And she started yelling at me because she had perverted dogs.