Haines His Way

Back from lunch...had sauteed chicken with green beans, broccoli, mushrooms and zucchini in a tomato sauce with a side of "special rice."

It was very tasty.  

The best part of this was that there were four of us and we learned, at the end of the meal, that someone had paid for our lunch!!!

Turns out it was the County's assistant Public Defender who had seen us sit down...one of my companions had visited her table briefly upon entering.  We were all very pleasantly surprised.

Don't you wish you had ordered the lobster now?  Dessert?

As for Miss McCarthy - she has a lovely voice, but I feel there's nothing there in terms of her and the song.  The person who liked her because it seemed she was using the best of Liz and Bernadette was spot on - that's exactly what it sounds like - like she had listened to both versions (more Liz than BP), and taken the phrasings she liked.  But, there's no heart, no soul, just a pretty voice singing words.

What I didn't like about Theresa McCarthy and Neil Patrick Harris being cast in this specific show (well, on the recordning, anyway), was that neither seemed vocally right for the parts.  The character of Charles is supposed to be a jaded worldy-wise guy who has given up on the world and Neil is a young man with a nice, sweet voice.  He doesn't sound very mature (although, I really do enjoy his voice in other things that he's done).  And Theresa sounds much too mature for the role.  She has a trained voice with a pronounce (but not distracting) vibrato that belies the innocence of the character...in my humble opinion.

DR Elmore - I'll have to look into that about NARAS.  Thanks for mentioning it.  

DR Jose: You are VERY close. It's the Papermill Playhouse version that is now the official version.

Isn't that what I said?

Oohh... A chocolate taste test is coming up on the 5:00 News!

DR Elmore - I'll have to look into that about NARAS.  Thanks for mentioning it.  

If memory serves, you and Skip are most likely eligible for membership.  I know it's based on number of tracks, but I remember nothing about the membership application now.

Of course there is the possibilty that I've not ordered anything from Amazon.  I know other DRs who forget what they've ordered from whom! (and order twice - to the benefit of others)

Isn't that what I said?

Ooops...All I saw was Goodspeed.

I knew that speed reading tutorial was a sham!!

Sorry...  

TOD - Chicago, sometime between May 1 and October 30, 1893, to attend the World's Columbian Exposition.  Before deciding the exact date, I would do some historical research to select a day when the sky would be blue, the humidity low, and the lake breezes cool.  I would NOT stay at the hotel described in Erik Larson's The Devil in the White City!

Go, Joan & Bill!!!!  I should call them.

If you do, tell him he owes me bigtime for deciphering his illegible scores for a Bolcom concert here a few years ago.  The theater company hired me to renotate everything, as neither the singers nor the players could figure out what the heck they were supposed to do.    As I recall, it was stuff from whatever show had Hotel or Cinema or Paradise or some other noun in the title.    All I remember is listening along with the CD as I feebly attempted to decipher the extremely small scratches on the extremely wide paper (he used something like 3 foot wide scores with 12 staves on them.  Weird.

The new printer was installed today, and it works nicely. Of course. I hope it stays that way.

Hmm...  I'm thinking that I'd like to get snowed in in NYC this weekend... Hmm...

*Knowing that I have some "breathing room" before Lestat kicks in to high gear (for me) is a "dangerous" thing.

DR JMK - "Casino Paradise"?

Would you sell out for a "Sweetie" Jose?

Lots of gray area in this matter.

 

"Grey" if it is in "Narnia".