Topic: EXTRA WHIPPED CREAM (Read 26374 times)

Panni · « **Reply #120 on:** August 04, 2004, 01:14:49 PM »

WELCOME, BRANDON!

Panni · « **Reply #121 on:** August 04, 2004, 01:16:21 PM »

Jane, the china behind the frogs is the picture on the gift card that came with the frogs. I thought it would make a nice background -- and it did.

Panni · « **Reply #122 on:** August 04, 2004, 01:17:36 PM »

My back is SO sore from writing. I think I'll pause for lunch and a stretch.

Matt H. · « **Reply #123 on:** August 04, 2004, 01:21:18 PM »

I spent a leisurely afternoon enjoying (finally) THOSE MAGNIFICENT MEN IN THEIR FLYING MACHINES. It's a beautiful transfer, but the Dolby Digital 5.0 sound is really just stereo. I heard sound coming from the front three speakers but next to nothing out of the surrounds, not even the delightful score was pumped into the rear speakers. Ah, well, it's still an enjoyable movie (but I prefer THE GREAT RACE hands down over this; they were released at around the same time and MAGNIFICENT MEN made about twice as much at the box-office.)

Jay · « **Reply #124 on:** August 04, 2004, 01:26:59 PM »

Quote from: bk on August 04, 2004, 12:31:50 PM

...and Follies being another. I do love the Follies album, but it is simply substandard in terms of its production and, man, that could have been one of the greatest cast albums ever recorded with a little TLC.

...and a second disk.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #125 on:** August 04, 2004, 01:29:12 PM »

Quote from: Joy on August 04, 2004, 12:31:27 PM

Yeah, I know, he almost poked my eye out, too.

Aughhhh!

Too....

........much...

..................information.....

Must...

........blank...

...................thoughts......

Aughghghghgh!

Jay · « **Reply #126 on:** August 04, 2004, 01:30:53 PM »

Quote from: Panni on August 04, 2004, 01:17:36 PM

My back is SO sore from writing. I think I'll pause for lunch and a stretch.

It would be easier if you typed with your hands instead.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #127 on:** August 04, 2004, 01:35:29 PM »

Quote from: Jay on August 04, 2004, 01:30:53 PM

It would be easier if you typed with your hands instead.

I think you need a "time out," DRJay.

This may be the worst pun you ever posted.

I'd groan, but.....

Jrand74 · « **Reply #128 on:** August 04, 2004, 01:38:25 PM »

I wish I knew my lines for this #*$^ play. I know soon, I will...but I don't right now. St Genesius!!!

Congrats on the new baby girl - female type....and good proving vibes to DRAnn's sister. A negative is very difficult to prove.

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #129 on:** August 04, 2004, 01:48:03 PM »

Quote from: Jay on August 04, 2004, 01:30:53 PM

It would be easier if you typed with your hands instead.

Jay, you too kind. I was thinking of something along the "famous practioners of working on one's back" line.

der Brucer (for every Nice Jewish Boy there's a Nasty Shaigitz)

William E. Lurie · « **Reply #130 on:** August 04, 2004, 01:50:41 PM »

Thanks for the IRMA answer Matt. I don't know why the show has dropped out of sight in the US. It's perfect for a revival and with one unit set and a cast of 14 it would not be that expensive to do. It's one show where the book and the score are both good, and I can think of several of today's Broadway performers who could be easily cast in it (although most of them are not ticket-selling names to the general public, but then neither were Elizabeth Seal, Keith Michel and Clive Revil in 1960).

Matt H. · « **Reply #131 on:** August 04, 2004, 02:07:27 PM »

I've put in THE CHEAP DETECTIVE for watching tonight before RENO 911! That nutty little show is definitely one of my guilty pleasures.

I like THE CHEAP DETECTIVE, but I don't think it's as funny as MURDER BY DEATH.

Matt H. · « **Reply #132 on:** August 04, 2004, 02:09:08 PM »

WEL, IRMA is not done by amateur groups any more either. I've been pushing for it to be taken up by one of the community theaters around here for years (I've been pushing THE RINK, too, without success).

George · « **Reply #133 on:** August 04, 2004, 02:15:48 PM »

Quote from: DERBRUCER on August 04, 2004, 12:50:36 PM

"Ragtime" jumps first to mind. Also "1776" and "Shenandoah".

Then one of my favorite "musical shows" is one in which "music" plays a starring role, but none is performed on-stage - "Amadeus".

der Brucer (who thinks throwing animated films like "Hunchback of Notre Dame" into the mix might be interesting)

Der Brucer, have you heard the German cast recording of Hunchback? I don't speak any German (even though my mother is German) and I love it. Just listening to the songs and seeing the pictures (and NOT having "cute" gargoyles) really makes me think that this could be such a great show in English...if Disney would let them end it with Quasimodo and Esmerelda dying. From what I have been told, that's how Menken and Schwartz ended the stage version.

And Good Luck to DR Ann's sister and Congratulations to DR (Uncle Again) Stuart!

George · « **Reply #134 on:** August 04, 2004, 02:18:55 PM »

And Welcome, New D(ear) R(eader) Brandon!

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #135 on:** August 04, 2004, 02:19:27 PM »

Quote from: Matt H. on August 04, 2004, 02:09:08 PM

(I've been pushing THE RINK, too, without success).

So, you want to do Chita or Liza?
(Or is it Rita or Liza?)

der casting director Brucer

Jane · « **Reply #136 on:** August 04, 2004, 02:37:03 PM »

Ann I just had a thought. Are the police looking for finger prints in the car that might not match your family and friend’s?

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #137 on:** August 04, 2004, 03:18:11 PM »

Quote from: Dan (the Man) on August 04, 2004, 08:12:41 AM

PG is also one of my favorite musicals

Oh the pain, oh the shame! I got conned into being in the cast of PG in a little theatre production in Key West - my primary (and only) qualification for the part was the inability to say a very form NO!.

Interview:

Q. Have you ever been in a Musical?
A. No

Q. Can you sing.
A. No

Q Can you dance?
A. No

Q Are you willing to try?
A. I'd try anything

YOUR HIRED!

Now I could get away with the "Once A Year Day" number - that was a polka, a dance cultured gentlemen learned in school or at the country club.

The "Steam Heat" number was another story. Now I know my left foot from my right foot - years in the military made left-right second nature. It seems however that ersatz Fosse choreography and stiff, formal, military precision are not kissin' cousins. It's "Left, Right, Left Right" - and it refers to FEET! It is not "Left, left, front, back, right, left, right, right left, left, thrust" -and it does not refer to HIPS! There was no way that poor director was going to undo six years of rigorous military drill with 2 weeks screaming "Loosen up for Chrisakes!" at dance rehearsal.

Of course, I never learn. I still fell for the "Nobody else will even try - are you afraid?" pitch when I was cast as Mordred in "Camelot". My dancing was crap, but my Arrogant, Snotty, Ungrateful, Scheming Bastard was right on. "The Seven Deadly Virtues" was a song I could sing from the heart!

Little did I know that "Arrogant, Scheming Bastards" were in demand. I got a call to please come read for a part at California's First Theatre (which does classic "Perils of Pauline Dramas" from the late Nineteenth Century). I showed up at the appointed hour, was handed a script and was told to read the part of

(Sneering Villain who prompts lots of Boos and has to duck flying peanuts from the audience). I noticed that the director kept running different damsels in distress through the heroine parts, but I kept reading Sir Nasty. As I learned at the end of the evening, the director had seen my Mordred and had (without asking) pre-cast me for the part. When I found out that this "Great Honor" entailed shows Thursday thru Sunday for 12 weeks and my reward was all the peanuts I could catch, I took a bye.

I've never been able to get a part I’ve wanted, and I've always been pre-cast in shows I didn't originally consider doing. I tried out for the Burton part in "Night of the Iguana" - I read the part really well, but -well, you've seen my rosy cheeked college pictures. No way says the Director - but stick around, I think I'll have something for you this summer. Thus was my casting-without-try-out as Capt. Fisby in "Teahouse of the August Moon". Try for Burton and end up as Glenn Ford ::sigh::

Now my chance for Dramatic Glory are gone (of course if BK wants to play an aging Jerry, I could sure enjoy stabbing him as Peter). I might still be able to pull off Harold Ryan in "Happy Birthday Wanda June":

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PENELOPE:.. This is a simple minded play about men who enjoy killing, and men who don't.

HAROLD: I am Harold Ryan , her husband. I have killed perhaps two hundred men in wars of various sorts -- as a professional soldier. I have killed thousands of other animals as well -- for sport.

Yes - bring on the scenery!

Oh well - there's still Sheridan Whiteside

der Brucer

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #138 on:** August 04, 2004, 03:29:26 PM »

Okay, Jay.

Your "time out" has been successfully completed.

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #139 on:** August 04, 2004, 03:52:45 PM »

Quote from: George on August 04, 2004, 02:15:48 PM

Der Brucer, have you heard the German cast recording of Hunchback? I don't speak any German (even though my mother is German) and I love it. Just listening to the songs and seeing the pictures (and NOT having "cute" gargoyles) really makes me think that this could be such a great show in English...if Disney would let them end it with Quasimodo and Esmerelda dying. From what I have been told, that's how Menken and Schwartz ended the stage version.

Well, aren't you the trouble-maker

I thought the stage version was "still in planning"!

A little googling turned up: Musical Schwartz which posts:

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Thoughts on Disney's German Cast Recording

by Edward R. Cox

The highest compliment for the musical art form, IMHO (in my humble opinion), is when another artform embraces it and creates a satisfying experience. Such was the case of Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame. The highest compliment for both of these, is for the animated feature to be rethought, and presented live on the musical stage, the original home for such works. With it's soul soaring melodies by award-winning Alan Menkin (Little Shop of Horrors, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin), and perfectly matched character-driven lyrics by Stephen Schwartz (Godspell, Pippin, Children of Eden, Prince of Egypt), this version of the classic tale by Victor Hugo, finally gave singing voice to characters and situations that have been embraced the world over.

[More detail, song list, and some lyrics are on this very nice site.]

Now you have my whistle whetted, and I want to hear the German Version. HA! Out-of Stock!

Now have it pre-ordered used from Ms Amazon - we shall see.

der Brucer (who suspects that the Wagnerian tenor of the work plays well in German)

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #140 on:** August 04, 2004, 04:39:38 PM »

Man! When the lulls hit, they hit hard!

Work day's over.

Time to go home now!

Jane · « **Reply #141 on:** August 04, 2004, 04:50:42 PM »

Poor RLP out there alone and I can't stay to visit. I must feed Bogie. At least you get to home home now.

Panni · « **Reply #142 on:** August 04, 2004, 05:02:23 PM »

I don't get to go home when the day ends - I AM home. Therefore I never get to finish working. Sigh...
(The good part is that if in the middle of the day I feel like going out for a walk or an ice cream or simply lying down and reading a book - I CAN.)

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #143 on:** August 04, 2004, 05:05:01 PM »

Quote from: Panni on August 04, 2004, 05:02:23 PM

I don't get to go home when the day ends - I AM home. Therefore I never get to finish working. Sigh...
(The good part is that if in the middle of the day I feel like going out for a walk or an ice cream or simply lying down and reading a book - I CAN.)

Ah, but can you CAN-CAN?

der Brucer (with your aching back maybe you should save it for another day)

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #144 on:** August 04, 2004, 05:28:43 PM »

My, oh my -what wonderful seredipitous things we uncover while on HHW!

For a lark, I entered "Hungarina Frogs" in my serach engine, and voila:

There is a Hungarian Preschool called Happy Kidsthat has their own web site, and they have a class called:

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Funny Frogs
We have been having busy days in the Funny Frogs classroom. We are getting used to our daily routine and memorising each other's names - quite a big task ! We have Ami, Emi, Mason, Will, Erik, Zander, Martin, Dodo, Robi, Dávid and Kevin to remember every day!
We have been painting, gluing, playing with play-dough and puzzles. During circle time we read books and sing our morning songs. We have been enjoying the sunny days outside on the swing, see-saw and in the sandpit building sand castles!
We are looking forward to spend a fun-filled school year together.

Their teacher is:

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Réka Váradi

Hi! I am Réka Váradi from Gyöngyös. I lived in the United States for almost 6 years. I received my degree in Elementary Education from D'Youville College, Buffalo, New York.

I have been working with children for almost 7 years and this is my 3rd year of teaching.

My favourite activities are: constructive language activities and drama with children. I am really looking forward to having a wonderful year with my Funny Frogs! In my free time I like running, reading and hiking.[/size]

The school describes itself:

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The „HAPPY KIDS” academic program is based on an international early childhood curriculum developed specifically for international schools worldwide.

In addition to the basic subjects we offer the teaching of both english and hungarian languages to native and non native speakers.

As information technology and the Internet become more and more an essential part of daily life – both at home and in the workplace – the use of computers and the Internet for the 21st century will be as common place as pen and paper.

Recognising this fact, each classroom has its own „technology center” using the latest age appropriate learning software and computer assisted language learning programs. Children will not only see the computer but also be able to ue it as a daily part of their activity program.

These are some fortunate kids!

der world-traveling Brucer

(Maybe we need HHW internet penpals in far away places, with starnge sounding names)

Panni · « **Reply #145 on:** August 04, 2004, 05:52:36 PM »

That sure doesn't sound like the Hungarian school I went to in Budapest. I have a class photo and the teacher looks like the ugly sister of the Wicked Witch of the West. She acted like her, too. I remember an incident once at nap time... During nap time one was not to move or speak -- OR ELSE. (This was during the Communist era - so I'm sure if you broke the rule you'd be sent to the Baby Gulag.) Well, I NEVER napped as a child. What a waste of time! So I would pull the cover of my little sleeping bag over my head so the Witch thought I was sleeping - and I would make up stories in my head and play with the barrettes from my hair. Well, one day I made the mistake of putting one of these barrettes in my mouth -- and I accidentally swallowed it. I started to choke. But to make a noise or ask for help was not an option as far as I was concerned. So I used all the willpower I possessed to stay calm -- and I stuck my hand as far as it would go down my throat and retrieved the barrette! (Lucky that I've always had small hands.) I think had I not been able to do that, they would have found me quite dead after nap time. And no Panni would be here to post.
...You and your Hungarian Frogs, DB!

Jane · « **Reply #146 on:** August 04, 2004, 06:03:04 PM »

Another great story by Panni!

Michael · « **Reply #147 on:** August 04, 2004, 06:03:04 PM »

Okay here are some other musical winners vs losers

The Sound of Music and Fiorello or Gypsy
Two Gentlemen of Verona or Follies
Man of La Mancha or Sweet Charity or Mame
1776 or Promises Promises
A Chorus Line or Chicago
Ain't Misbehavin or On the 20th Century
Nine or Dreamgirls
Cats or Merlin
La Cage Aux Folles or Sunday in the Park With George
City of Angeles or Grand Hotel
Crazy For You or Falsettos
Passion or Beauty and the Beast
The Lion King or Ragtime
Fosse or Parade

Michael · « **Reply #148 on:** August 04, 2004, 06:07:25 PM »

First Brit Musical was Oliver! and I acted in that one. But this first Brit musicals had to be The Mikado with the Doyle Carte Opera Company. Then there were Canadian musicals like Anne of Green Gables, Cruel Tears (a country western take on Othello set in the Prairies), Billy Bishop Goes to War, Quebecois translated version of Les Miserables, A Michel Trembley musical whose name I forget at the moment,

Michael · « **Reply #149 on:** August 04, 2004, 06:09:36 PM »

Question for BK: When a song is "licensed" for inclusion on another recording (Liz Callaway's A Place Called Home on a Jaimie Le Roy) are they allowed to remix or do any changes to it and are there supposed to be any financial compensation?

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