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« Reply #90 on: May 23, 2004, 05:59:29 PM »
Chat is open.  Time for various and sundried butt cheeks to hie themselves in.
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« Reply #91 on: May 23, 2004, 06:01:52 PM »
SWW we noticed our allergies were better in LA than in Ashland.  Returning home to fresh paint in one’s bedroom doesn’t help either.  It rained the first few days after our return and we couldn’t leave the windows open.  One night I woke up and found I wasn’t breathing very well.  Thankfully it is better now but my eyes are still very itchy.  Aside from the allergy situation you make Rehoboth sound very charming.
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« Reply #92 on: May 23, 2004, 06:47:04 PM »
Quote from: Jennifer on May 23, 2004, 05:19:54 PM
Okay I'm sure absolutely nobody here cares.  But I was so very happy on Friday that Y&R won two of the last three awards (best show and best actress). Yeah!
(the rest of the show pretty much stunk for me).

Young & Rubicam?!?!?
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« Reply #93 on: May 23, 2004, 06:52:36 PM »
Chat was hopping! Swishy Sarah got her drivers license and we were all warned to stay off the streets...

Panni ate spaghetti and sausage whilest Sandra chomped on chocolate...

...Robin got all excited about a Married Monster from Outer Space...

...and Jason inquired about Mexican wrestlers...

it was wild, baby, wild!
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« Reply #94 on: May 23, 2004, 07:00:45 PM »
Surely those topics can be woven into a film scipt MBarnum. Guess you did not check in on TCB and Ann as you drove through Tacoma.
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« Reply #95 on: May 23, 2004, 07:08:11 PM »
Swishy Sarah congratulations on your new driver’s license!! :)
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« Reply #96 on: May 23, 2004, 07:17:54 PM »
Here is the Wonderdog aka Abie aka Wussburger...
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« Reply #97 on: May 23, 2004, 07:19:25 PM »
Please excuse the stupid costume. the picture was taken at the Humane Society for the holidays.
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« Reply #98 on: May 23, 2004, 07:24:54 PM »
So whassup wid dis?  Dear BK won't talk about Urinetown.  Dear Reader Panni holds back on Company.

Spill yer guts, Dear Friends!
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« Reply #99 on: May 23, 2004, 07:28:42 PM »
Oh, and Dear BK, if you did not see Dear Reader Charles Pogue's post from yesterday, the antiquarian book fair in Pasadena is next weekend, on Saturday and Sunday the 29th and 30th.
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« Reply #100 on: May 23, 2004, 07:28:55 PM »
Abie is a cutie.
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« Reply #101 on: May 23, 2004, 07:30:13 PM »
Quote from: Panni on May 23, 2004, 07:17:54 PM
Here is the Wonderdog aka Abie aka Wussburger...

Cute puppy. Shakalakala!
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« Reply #102 on: May 23, 2004, 07:31:39 PM »
Wasn't Donna Shakalakala a member of President Clinton's cabinet?
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« Reply #103 on: May 23, 2004, 07:35:17 PM »
i am accessing the site from another computer. my room where my computer is being redone so i had to take it apart and put it in another room.

So i will be posting a little less for the next week.
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« Reply #104 on: May 23, 2004, 07:39:19 PM »
Hello, all!  I'm sorry I missed Chat, which I really look forward to.  I was attending a soiree at Mr Tony Walton's glorious apartment to meet the WHERE'S CHARLEY? cast.  Both the company and food were quite wonderful.   I liked  the cast very much and I spent a lot of time with Mr Noah Racey, who will play Charley, and Miss Mary Illes, who will play Donna Lucia.  I think it will be a lot of fun at Camp Goodspeed this summer.
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« Reply #105 on: May 23, 2004, 08:01:13 PM »
Goodnight.
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« Reply #106 on: May 23, 2004, 08:04:47 PM »
Quote from: Jennifer on May 23, 2004, 05:16:20 PM
It was supposed to rain this weekend, but instead it has been nice out.  Got lots of flowers, but have not planted a thing yet. :(
Maybe you and der Brucer can go on a planting splurge tomorrow!

It's an idea.
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« Reply #107 on: May 23, 2004, 08:08:04 PM »
Some brief thoughts on COMPANY (I hate doing reviews; I hate being reviewed)…  I was strangely underwhelmed.  Didn’t grab me. I was not moved.
There were some nice star turns – Jean Louisa Kelly (the young girl who falls in love with Mr. Holland in Mr. Holland’s Opus) was an excellent Amy. Her “Getting Married Today” was not just a showstopper, but a character study of woman unraveling before our eyes. “
Amy Pietz was touching and hilarious as April the stewardess. And I liked Christopher Sieber as Bobby – although he never really seemed to enjoy the life he was living – there was sadness underneath everything in his performance right from the beginning - so his wanting out at the end was no big journey. I never truly believed Judith Light as Joanne. Mind you, they might as well hang up that part like the jersey of a famous football player. “Sorry-Grateful” worked well. Caddy Huffman’s sexy dance didn’t quite have the desired effect.  
Bobby’s brief homosexual encounter is mentioned and dropped in a scene that I gather was added in the 1996 production. Why do it then? Once you introduce the seal, you have to make it juggle balls, no?
Interesting note of another recent addition: In Act 2 Bobby is given some hash (I think) - which he eats - so that "Side by Side by Side," becomes a vaudeville-like dream/drug induced sequence. I'm just reporting, folks. Reasons I cannot give you.
The 24 piece orchestra was fine, but the sound system made everything sound a little tinny.
A general note - I think it’s a mistake not to put this piece back in the era in which it belongs. So much has changed that it’s silly to try and make this anything other than the 1970’s.
That’s it –I was glad to have a chance to listen to the wonderful score and lyrics again. So although the production was not as great as I would have wanted it to be – I’m still glad I went.
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« Reply #108 on: May 23, 2004, 08:09:21 PM »
I will, of course, talk about Urinetown in tomorrow's notes.

The Sopranos  is heading toward its season finale in two weeks (no show next week as far as I can tell) - tonight's episode got good in its second half.  The first half, to me at least, was predictable - they're having to set things straight for the last show.  But there was one very surprising devolpment in the last half-hour.
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« Reply #109 on: May 23, 2004, 08:10:52 PM »
Quote from: Panni on May 23, 2004, 07:19:25 PM
Please excuse the stupid costume. the picture was taken at the Humane Society for the holidays.
HUMANE Society?  They've got the bow tied on so tight the poor pup's tongue is sticking out!

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« Reply #110 on: May 23, 2004, 08:15:24 PM »
It took me all afternoon to hook up the new receiver, and I still haven't gotten the laserdisc machine hooked up, but all that in good time. I got enough hooked up to be able to see a seesaw season finale of ALIAS that was alternately gripping, frustrating, funny, and, of course, leaving us with a HUGE question mark not to be answered for seven months when the show comes back (January 2005). Argh!
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« Reply #111 on: May 23, 2004, 08:18:20 PM »
Dear Panni (and others): What seems like ages ago, I wrote a comparison of the original Company script and the rewrite, which included the "gay" scene.  It's in six parts; the part commenting on that scene is in part five, I think, but the commentary reads better as a whole.

This is another way of boosting our post count for today, by the way.
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« Reply #112 on: May 23, 2004, 08:21:01 PM »
My bad.  I cover the gay issues in part four of the commentary.

What the heck, this is another post, to get our numbers up!
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« Reply #113 on: May 23, 2004, 08:21:21 PM »
Quote from: S. Woody White on May 23, 2004, 08:18:20 PM
Dear Panni (and others): What seems like ages ago, I wrote a comparison of the original Company script and the rewrite, which included the "gay" scene.  It's in six parts; the part commenting on that scene is in part five, I think, but the commentary reads better as a whole.

This is another way of boosting our post count for today, by the way.

Needless to say, the lyrics in You Can Drive a Person Crazy were "I can understand a person if he happens to be gay" and not the ones that were originally written for that line.
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« Reply #114 on: May 23, 2004, 08:24:28 PM »
Jane: Yes, Rehoboth Beach really is a nice place to live.  There are problems, of course, like too much development taking place and not enough infrastructure going in.  But so far, the good have outweighed the bad.

For example, we've got good, fresh produce in the area.  Just tonight, der Brucer and I had fresh, sweet corn for dinner.  Well, that and pork chops.  And taters.  But getting corn that's that fresh from the field is pretty good.  Lightly steamed, with a little melted butter (in my case, seasoned with a few splashes of Tobasco), and that's really yum!
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« Reply #115 on: May 23, 2004, 08:24:52 PM »
And one thing I failed to mention in my earlier Company post:  I had forgotten until last night that Robert, as played by Mr. Christopher Sieber in the Reprise! production, is on stage for almost the entire show.  Talk about exhausting!  Talk about nasty two performance days!
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« Reply #116 on: May 23, 2004, 08:25:10 PM »
Quote from: Jay on May 23, 2004, 08:21:21 PM
Needless to say, the lyrics in You Can Drive a Person Crazy were "You can understand a person if he happens to be gay" and not the ones that were originally written for that line.

You would think that Sondheim would be the last person to bend to PC-ness, particularly in this case.
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« Reply #117 on: May 23, 2004, 08:25:17 PM »
I also got to see the first ninety minutes of the new THE LION IN WINTER. Perhaps it's unfair to judge it until I get to see the whole thing, but I found NOTHING whatsoever about this version that even came close to the original.

Glenn Close has been receiving raves for her performance, but she effects a British accent when it suits her and drops it when it doesn't. Yes, she has effective moments (she's much too talented NOT to have them with this wonderful material), but she just didn't have the requisite hardness for me.

None of the three princes nor the King of France could hold a candle to their movie counterparts (and all of those men went on to wonderful careers in TV and films).

Patrick Stewart held up best in comparison to his movie counterpart, but young as he was at the time, I still bought Peter O'Toole completely as Henry II.

As a curiosity, it's nice to see a new version of the material, but it definitely is not a patch on Anthony Harvey's magnificent original film.
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« Reply #118 on: May 23, 2004, 08:25:25 PM »
Quote from: Jay on May 23, 2004, 08:21:21 PM
Needless to say, the lyrics in You Can Drive a Person Crazy were "You can understand a person if he happens to be gay" and not the ones that were originally written for that line.
I include that change in my commentary.
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« Reply #119 on: May 23, 2004, 08:32:30 PM »
Quote from: S. Woody White on May 23, 2004, 08:24:28 PM
For example, we've got good, fresh produce in the area.  Just tonight, der Brucer and I had fresh, sweet corn for dinner.  Well, that and pork chops.  And taters.  But getting corn that's that fresh from the field is pretty good.  Lightly steamed, with a little melted butter (in my case, seasoned with a few splashes of Tobasco), and that's really yum!

DR SWW, you just made my mouth start to water.  Up the pike a bit, we all travel across the bridges for the Jersey corn but it's not usually ready until late June.  Steamed, boiled or even barbequed, rubbed with the end of a stick of butter, then lightly salted and peppered--yummmmmmmm...

Excuse me while i go empty my drool cup...
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