Topic: THE DROWSY BK (Read 42148 times)

Ben · « **Reply #120 on:** November 22, 2005, 11:20:33 AM »

There. That's better.

vixmom · « **Reply #121 on:** November 22, 2005, 11:23:28 AM »

I wonder if this will work here

http://www.msn.americangreetings.com/display.pd?bfrom=1&prodnum=3067458&path=25203

Jason · « **Reply #122 on:** November 22, 2005, 11:23:45 AM »

Quote from: vixmom on November 22, 2005, 11:17:14 AM

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

Sorry...I don't know that song. I just know the theme song from "The Greatest American Hero." $:-\$

Ben · « **Reply #123 on:** November 22, 2005, 11:24:59 AM »

Cute card, Deb. It worked on my computer.

vixmom · « **Reply #124 on:** November 22, 2005, 11:25:44 AM »

Quote from: Ben on November 22, 2005, 11:20:33 AM

There. That's better.

Ben, world famous BBC radio Broadway play critic and official page turned for the HHW!

vixmom · « **Reply #125 on:** November 22, 2005, 11:26:14 AM »

We shall miss you while you are away , dear Ben!

MBarnum · « **Reply #126 on:** November 22, 2005, 11:28:51 AM »

That calls for an Asha Parekh / Shammi Kapoor Bollywood dance!

Ginny · « **Reply #127 on:** November 22, 2005, 11:30:30 AM »

Congratulations, Ben, on your glowing performance evaluation!

And thanks to all for the Met ticket advice. I've been looking online here at work, but prefer to do ordering (credit card numbers, you know) from my home computer. DR Jason, do you get to peek in on the shows when you're working there?

Ginny · « **Reply #128 on:** November 22, 2005, 11:31:10 AM »

Quote from: vixmom on November 22, 2005, 11:26:14 AM

We shall miss you while you are away , dear Ben!

That's for sure! You will be back by January 16, won't you?

elmore3003 · « **Reply #129 on:** November 22, 2005, 11:36:38 AM »

Quote from: bk on November 22, 2005, 09:18:35 AM

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.

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.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #130 on:** November 22, 2005, 11:37:58 AM »

Quote from: Ron Pulliam on November 22, 2005, 09:41:25 AM

Who am I? Dear Abby? Ann Landers? Confidentially Yours?

Beatrice Barefacts?

Ginny · « **Reply #131 on:** November 22, 2005, 11:42:06 AM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on November 22, 2005, 11:36:38 AM

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.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #132 on:** November 22, 2005, 11:44:42 AM »

Quote from: Ginny on November 22, 2005, 11:42:06 AM

...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.

Ginny · « **Reply #133 on:** November 22, 2005, 11:47:17 AM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on November 22, 2005, 11:44:42 AM

Well, Agravaine, you asked for it and you got it.

Is that like "be careful what you wish for"?

vixmom · « **Reply #134 on:** November 22, 2005, 11:48:21 AM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on November 22, 2005, 11:36:38 AM

, 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.

Dang and I just ordered the special edition 47 hour compilation of all his works for your Christmas present!

vixmom · « **Reply #135 on:** November 22, 2005, 11:50:45 AM »

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!

Ginny · « **Reply #136 on:** November 22, 2005, 11:52:38 AM »

Quote from: vixmom on November 22, 2005, 11:50:45 AM

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!

No hurry, vixmom, but we sure miss having you around evenings and weekends!

Jason · « **Reply #137 on:** November 22, 2005, 11:57:50 AM »

DR Ginny: I get to go in sometimes. Depends on how busy it is and what my fellow coat checkers are doing during the acts. I got to go in for Pavarotti's final act in his final performance of TOSCA. That was cool...

vixmom · « **Reply #138 on:** November 22, 2005, 11:58:24 AM »

I just realized today is my one year anniversary of being a member here! It is also the 14th anniversary of buying my house and 42nd anniversary of the assassisnation of JFK.....

Ben · « **Reply #139 on:** November 22, 2005, 12:03:34 PM »

Yes, Ginny, we will be back in mid-afternoon of December 31st. We leave the evening of December 16th and return some 14 days later.

I have you in my calendar!

Jason · « **Reply #140 on:** November 22, 2005, 12:09:25 PM »

DR Ben and Ant will head directly to Times Square from the airport, I'm sure...

Ben · « **Reply #141 on:** November 22, 2005, 12:14:48 PM »

Times Square on New Years Eve after returning from a seven hour international flight?

Wy Soinintly (in my awful Three Stooges takeoff)

Jason · « **Reply #142 on:** November 22, 2005, 12:17:29 PM »

Quote from: Ben on November 22, 2005, 12:14:48 PM

Times Square on New Years Eve after returning from a seven hour international flight?

Wy Soinintly (in my awful Three Stooges takeoff)

I knew it... You guys are wild and crazy!!

Matt H. · « **Reply #143 on:** November 22, 2005, 12:27:52 PM »

Quote from: Ron Pulliam on November 22, 2005, 10:01:54 AM

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?

Gogi Grant particularly singing the vocals for Ann Blyth in THE HELEN MORGAN STORY. Didn't sound a thing like Helen Morgan, of course, but she had that same sort of contralto.

Ginny · « **Reply #144 on:** November 22, 2005, 12:30:10 PM »

Back to the Met...Is Row A of the Balcony at $55 a better deal than Row Z of the Orchestra at $95? DR Ben, we do have 2 pairs of opera glasses!

Matt H. · « **Reply #145 on:** November 22, 2005, 12:34:03 PM »

Well, I'm back from HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE. What a mammoth production this is! Dwarfs the previous three films by a considerable degree in terms of size and seriousness. And as the transition film between the first three when they're really kids and the last three when they're presumably mature-for-their-years teens, it does what it has to do.

Completely and totally enjoyable and I will be seeing it again next week with some other friends who couldn't go today, but I have to say that the emotions in PRISONER OF AZKABAN resonated with me more than they did with this one.

I did jump out of my seat and holler at one point in the film (during the lake sequence). I won't say any more.

Matt H. · « **Reply #146 on:** November 22, 2005, 12:36:38 PM »

And I think Angela Lansbury is a marvelous show singer, and her vocals in her first four cast albums (WHISTLE, MAME, DEAR WORLD, GYPSY) are pure pleasure for me.

(I left out PRETTYBELLE because I don't have that on CD and haven't listened to the LP in many, many years, but I liked her work in it, too.

Jason · « **Reply #147 on:** November 22, 2005, 12:37:03 PM »

DR Ginny: Go for Row Z in the orchestra if you're willing to pay the extra money. There are no bad seats in the theatre, really, but Row Z is actually pretty decent.

Matt H. · « **Reply #148 on:** November 22, 2005, 12:37:12 PM »

Off to eat my lunch/dinner now and watch last night's CSI: MIAMI.

WBBL./

JMK · « **Reply #149 on:** November 22, 2005, 12:44:26 PM »

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.

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