Topic: ON LOCATION (Read 14586 times)

Panni · « **Reply #30 on:** September 02, 2004, 07:37:46 AM »

One of my very favorite lyrics -- "My Time of Day" from GUYS AND DOLLS -- and I heard in some interview years ago that it was also one of Frank Loesser's favorites...

My time of day is the dark time
A couple of deals before dawn
When the street belongs to the cop
And the janitor with the mop
And the grocery clerks are all gone.

When the smell of the rainwashed pavement
Comes up clean, and fresh, and cold
And the streetlamp light
Fills the gutter with gold

That's my time of day
My time of day

And you're the only doll I've ever wanted to share it with me.

Panni · « **Reply #31 on:** September 02, 2004, 07:39:24 AM »

And one for Herr Mahler.

Matt H. · « **Reply #32 on:** September 02, 2004, 07:41:24 AM »

Most of Sondheim's lyrics are so astute that it's hard to pick a few. I think "I'm Still Here" is one of the great story songs in all Broadway history. The lyrics to "Move On" bring me to tears when paired with that exquisite melody. I also adore "There Won't Be Trumpets" very much.

My favorite Sondheim song is "Losing My Mind" from FOLLIES, the perfect song expressing the angst of a lost love so I guess that is my favorite lyric of all:

The sun comes up
I think about you
The coffee cup
I think about you
I want you so
It's like I'm losing my mind.

The morning ends
I think about you
I talk to friends
I think about you
And do they know?
It's like I'm losing my mind.

All afternoon doing every little chore
The thought of you stays bright
Sometimes I stand in the middle of the floor
Not going left, not going right

I dim the lights
And think about you
Spend sleepless nights
And think about you
You said you loved me
Or were you just being kind?
Or am I losing my mind?

Panni · « **Reply #33 on:** September 02, 2004, 07:49:12 AM »

Heard from DR Elmore - who could use some major HHW GOOD VIBES...

At the moment he's living at the recording office because his book cases collapsed yet again. A carpenter friend has taken the situation in hand and he's hoping to be back in his place by Sunday.
Meanwhile, today he sees the surgeon about his abscess, which he thinks will get some minor surgery. Next week, it's the ear nose throat specialist about his ear infection!
He concludes - not surprisingly - "I'm getting tired of all this nonsense."

Elan · « **Reply #34 on:** September 02, 2004, 07:53:53 AM »

My extreme apologies for being so E&T all this time; will attempt to do better in the future. In the meantime, let's have a much too long post:

Michael: "One Tin Soldier" is a great lyric. There's a "how- the- heck- did- they- think- of- THAT?" version of the song sung by Combo Fiasco (an Australian cabaret trio), in which the song is medleyed with "Children Will Listen" to stunning results.

Someone asked about Zippel: I find his work very, well, workmanlike, rarely inspiring. There are some great bits in "City of Angels," though.

Michael John Lachiusa frustrates me to no end... there's no question that he's incredibly talented, but I always feel like he never brushes up his songs to strip away the excess. He does have one lyric that I love though, from Marie Christine's "Way Back to Paradise"

Quote

Study all men
Learn what they lack
Sweeten and stroke before you attack
Put up a front and then slip through the back
Be on your way back to paradise!

Besides the folks already mentioned, I have to add Tom Lehrer, whose "Alma" finds rhymes for Gropius, Mahler, Werfel, Bauhaus, and Erde. Also, his use of "jammed" rhymes (or whatever you call it when you rhyme the middle of a word at the end of a line) is just great:

Quote

When you attend a funeral
It's sad to think that sooner'r
later those you love will do the same for you
and you may have thought it tragic
not to mention other adject-
tives
to think of all the weeping they will do

and finally, "When you are old and Gray" contains a bridge with sixteen non-repeating rhymes

Quote

An awful debility
A lessened utility
A loss of mobility
Is a strong possibility
In all probability
I'll lose my virility
And you your fertility
And desirability
And this liability
Of total sterility
Will lead to hostility
and a sense of futility
So let's act with agility
While we still have facility
For we'll soon reach senility
and lose the ability

Just incredible.

Panni · « **Reply #35 on:** September 02, 2004, 07:56:18 AM »

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, RLP!

Noel · « **Reply #36 on:** September 02, 2004, 08:10:54 AM »

Hate to nitpick (but songwriting is my business), but Tom Lehrer's Old and Gray rhymes DO repeat. 7 of those words end with Bility. The rhymes come on the final 3 syllables (stress on the first of these three) so, cut off everything that goes before and see how many real rhymes he comes up with in that section:

Bility
Tility
Rility
Stility
Gility
Nility

So that's six. Which is certainly an impressive number.

Someone who'd likely point out this same nitpick about the rhymes in When You Are Old and Gray is
its author
Tom Lehrer.

Emily · « **Reply #37 on:** September 02, 2004, 08:15:08 AM »

Quote from: JRand54 on September 02, 2004, 07:35:24 AM

And whose idea was it to name that *&%# hurricane - Frances?

It was definitely a Republican... that way they could trick people into believing that France's attacking Florida

Am I the only person who thinks Zell Miller is scary? His speech was not something I wanted to see before going to bed.

School started yesterday for me... and so far I am happy with the classes I picked for this term. They are:

1) Constitutional History of Canada before 1867 taught by a 90 year old who is very amusing but also very fragile looking. I worry for his health everytime he lets go of the lectern and appears to be swaying off-balance.

2) Issues in Canadian Democracy taught by an American. Oy. Vey.

3) Canadian Voting and Public Opinion where the main requirement is a group project where you pretend to be a strategist for one of the federal parties and determine what that party needs to do to better it's strategic position in a particular province/region. Sounds very fun.

4) Media and Politics taught by a professor who is the absolute spittin' image of Christopher Fitzgerald (Boq's a prof!)

5) Family and Modern Society - where I am required to do a paper on how one particular sit-com of my choice defines or redefines the concept of "family"

Congratulations Dan on the Canuck-ionary!

Matt H. · « **Reply #38 on:** September 02, 2004, 08:20:17 AM »

I meant to comment on David Zippel, too. I think his lyrics in CITY OF ANGELS -ARE- inspired. "Lost and Found" has some fabulous word play and many of the other songs are equally clever. Love the score to HERCULES, too. I think that's probably Disney's most overlooked animated feature in the last 10 years or so.

Matt H. · « **Reply #39 on:** September 02, 2004, 08:21:57 AM »

Read distressing news this morning about the December release of NEW YORK, NEW YORK on DVD. Oh, I'm glad it's finally going to be available, but it's MGM, and you know what that means: no anamorphic transfer.

Dan-in-Toronto · « **Reply #40 on:** September 02, 2004, 08:22:20 AM »

MY TIME OF DAY is one of my favorites, too.

Other favorite songs by lyricisits-composers:

If You Promise Me A Rose (Bob Merrill/Take Me Along)
Put On Your Sunday Clothes (Jerry Herman/Hello Dolly)
Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better) (Irving Berlin/Annie Get Your Gun)

and from Company, Sondheim's

Sorry-Grateful:

You're always sorry
You're always grateful
You're always wondering what might have been
Then she walks in

And still you're sorry
And still you're grateful
And still you wonder
And still you doubt
And she goes out

Everything's different
Nothing's changed
Only maybe slightly rearranged

You're sorry-grateful
Regretful-happy
Why look for answers
Where none occur?

You always are
What you always were
Which has nothing to do with
All to do with her

You're always sorry
You're always grateful
You hold her thinking
I'm not alone
You're still alone

You don't live for her
You do live with her
You're scared she's starting
To drift away
And scared she'll stay

Good things get better
Bad get worse
Wait, I think I meant that in reverse

You're sorry-grateful
Regretful-happy
Why look for answers
Where none occur
You'll always be
What you always were
Which has nothing to do with
All to do with her

Nothing to do with
All to do with her

Stuart · « **Reply #41 on:** September 02, 2004, 08:23:09 AM »

Mazel Tov to DR DiT on your winning submission. (Don't go there....)

DR Swishy Sarah: Go to College. Graduate.

BK: Sorry about your shower situation.

Godspeed, DR Michael Shayne. May Frances not cause too much damage to your humble abode, or those of any other Floridian (or Carolinian) DRs.

Favorite Lyric? There are several categories of this for me, such as cleverest rhyme (internal and external division), most romantic, most bitter, etc. But probably, for me, the cleverest lyric -- and I know I am going to screw this up without any reference books/CDs handy:

From "Uptown, Downtown":

When she sits
At the Ritz
With a Schlitz
In her mitts,
Oh, it's so
schizo.

I am sure I will think of others later.....

Jrand73 · « **Reply #42 on:** September 02, 2004, 08:25:16 AM »

LOL DREMILY.....France is attacking? Florida? Oh my....I hope they do not storm the Roney Plaza or the Fountainbleau!

Dan-in-Toronto · « **Reply #43 on:** September 02, 2004, 08:39:32 AM »

And from just one more, before I get back to work:

Always True To You In My Fashion/Cole Porter/Kiss Me Kate:

There's a wealthy Hindu priest
Who's a wolf, to say the least,
When the priest goes too far east, I also stray.
Bt I'm always true to you, darlin', in my fashion,
Yes, I'm always true to you, darlin', in my way.

There's a lush from Portland, Ore.
Who is rich but such a bore.
When the bore falls on the floor, I let him lay.
But IATTYDIMF,
Yes, IATTYDIMW.

Mister Harris, plutocrat
Wants to give my cheek a pat,
If the Harris pat
Means a Paris hat,
Bébé, Oolala!
Mais je suis toujours fidèle, darlin', in my fashion,
Oui, je suis toujours fidèle, darlin', in my way.

Dan-in-Toronto · « **Reply #44 on:** September 02, 2004, 08:41:18 AM »

[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]HAPPIEST AND HEALTHIEST OF BIRTHDAYS, RON[/move]

bk · « **Reply #45 on:** September 02, 2004, 08:45:43 AM »

Oops (spoo, spelled backwards) - I was so tired last night I forgot to check our handy-dandy calendar. So, yes, we must all gleefully put on our colored tights and pantaloons, we must break out the cheese slices and ham chunks, we must dance the Hora and the Monkey for it is indeed dear reader Ron Pulliam's very own actual birthday. So, let's have a big haineshisway.com birthday cheer. On the count of three: One, two, three - HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR READER RON PULLIAM!!!

The notes have been amended.

Jane · « **Reply #46 on:** September 02, 2004, 08:51:53 AM »

Dan-in-Toronto congratulations on your win.

SWW, sorry, to me he is now Fletcher, Fletch for short.
Is it possible you have allergies and not a cold? If you haven’t done so since his arrival, I suggest you give Fletcher a bath.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY RON, HAVE A GREAT DAY!

Noel · « **Reply #47 on:** September 02, 2004, 08:54:53 AM »

We can't be having any birthdays overlooked at this natal day-ful time of year, can we?

My memory of the bridge to Uptown Downtown (and yes, it's one of my favorite Sondheim lyrics):

She sits
at the Ritz
with her splits
of Mumm's
and starts to pine
for a stein
with her Village chums
But with a Schlitz
in her mitts
down at Fitz-
roy's bar,
She thinks of the Ritz. Oh,
It's so
Schizo!

(I gasp every time I hear it.)

Matt H. · « **Reply #48 on:** September 02, 2004, 09:00:46 AM »

Since "Uptown, Downtown" is a much better song and more lyrically sophisticated that "The Story of Lucy and Jessie," I'm left only with the idea that Alexis Smith couldn't handle the original song.

I read Ted Chapin's book many months ago, but I don't remember anything specific about this. Was there an explanation for the replacement of this number for Alexis?

Noel · « **Reply #49 on:** September 02, 2004, 09:01:38 AM »

What amazing timing that this is the topic of the day...

Tomorrow, I return to teaching a college course in musical theatre performance. What I have the students do on the first day is a cold reading of a lyric to a song they don't know. So, yesterday, I went to the library in search of songs with texts that are actable. Here's what I came home with:

MRS. S. L. JACOBOWSKY   Jerry Herman
MY OWN SPACE   Lyrics by Fred Ebb   Music by John Kander
ONE OF THE GOOD GUYS   Lyrics: Richard Maltby, Jr.  Music: David Shire
HEY! LOOK ME OVER!   Lyrics: Carolyn Leigh Music: Cy Coleman
YOU'RE LAUGHING AT Me   Irving Berlin
WHO ARE YOU NOW?    Lyrics: Bob Merrill Music: Jule Styne
LIKE IT WAS   Stephen Sondheim
I COULD WRITE A BOOK   Lyrics: Lorenz Hart Music: Richard Rodgers
I'VE GOT FIVE DOLLARS   Lyrics: Lorenz Hart Music: Richard Rodgers
WHAT CHANCE HAVE I WITH LOVE?   Irving Berlin
PASS THAT FOOTBALL  Lyrics: Betty Comden & Adolph Green Music: Leonard Bernstein
IT MIGHT AS WELL BE SPRING Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II    Music: Richard Rodgers
THE PICTURE IN THE HALL   Craig Carnelia

(So I had to write down that last lyric anyway.)
Probably, I'll also use some of the songs I used for last year's class:

On the S.S. Bernard Cohn   lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner music: Burton Lane
Garbage   Sheldon Harnick
Down in the Depths    Cole Porter
Brother Can You Spare A Dime?   lyrics by E.Y. "Yip" Harburg     music by Jay Gorney
The Gentleman Is a Dope    lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II music: Richard Rodgers
Ten Cents a Dance   Lyrics: Lorenz Hart   Music: Richard Rodgers
Welcome To Holiday Inn   lyrics: Dorothy Fields   music: Cy Coleman
Wait till We're Sixty-Five   lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner  music: Burton Lane
When You Got It, Flaunt it    Mel Brooks
Self-Portrait   Edward Kleban
Why   Jonathan Larson
I Don't Remember Christmas   lyric: Richard Maltby, Jr. music: David Shire
I'm a Stranger Here Myself   lyric: Ogden Nash   music: Kurt Weill
When I'm Not near the Girl I Love    lyrics: E.Y. Harburg music: Burton Lane
He Was Too Good to Me   Lyrics: Lorenz Hart Music: Richard Rodgers
A Little Bit Off   lyric: Richard Maltby, Jr. music: David Shire
I Think I May Want to Remember Today    lyric: Richard Maltby, Jr.   music: David Shire
Crossword Puzzle    lyric: Richard Maltby, Jr.   music: David Shire

Plus, one I couldn't find in the library (appropos of our discussion of The Baker's Wife): Any Day Now Day (Stephen Schwartz)

and ones I have at home, but haven't copied yet
I Like the Likes of You (Harburg)
Get Out of Town (Porter)
Namely You (Mercer)
What Are You Doing New Year's Eve? (Loesser)

Stuart · « **Reply #50 on:** September 02, 2004, 09:06:31 AM »

Quote from: Noel on September 02, 2004, 08:54:53 AM

My memory of the bridge to Uptown Downtown (and yes, it's one of my favorite Sondheim lyrics):

She sits
at the Ritz
with her splits
of Mumm's
and starts to pine
for a stein
with her Village chums
But with a Schlitz
in her mitts
down at Fitz-
roy's bar,
She thinks of the Ritz. Oh,
It's so
Schizo!

(I gasp every time I hear it.)

Dat's it! Thanks, DR Noel

Jay · « **Reply #51 on:** September 02, 2004, 09:06:53 AM »

Happy Birthday, Dear Reader RLP!!!

Jrand73 · « **Reply #52 on:** September 02, 2004, 09:09:28 AM »

Yes there was, DRMATTH - but I can't remember the specifics either.....hmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Stuart · « **Reply #53 on:** September 02, 2004, 09:10:55 AM »

Bon anniversaire, DR RLP.

Matt H. · « **Reply #54 on:** September 02, 2004, 09:11:19 AM »

Well, I remember that "Losing My Mind" was given to Alexis first, and besides not being able to do it justice, it didn't really suit her character, so it was passed off to Dorothy Collins to everyone's relief (and whose version is still unsurpassed in my mind.) But I don't remember the next progression of songs for her in that spot.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #55 on:** September 02, 2004, 09:27:34 AM »

Hmmmmmm....maybe I was thinking of Losing My Mind going to Dorothy...hmmmmmmmmm.

Darn now I have to get the book out again...soon.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #56 on:** September 02, 2004, 09:27:57 AM »

DRRLP - how is the arm doing?

Jrand73 · « **Reply #57 on:** September 02, 2004, 09:28:25 AM »

Wait a minute....did I hear MR BK say that the show is nearly sold out again tonight?

George · « **Reply #58 on:** September 02, 2004, 09:30:11 AM »

~~~HEALTHY VIBES TO D.R. ELMORE!!~~~

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, D.R. RLP!!

George · « **Reply #59 on:** September 02, 2004, 09:31:10 AM »

Can we make it to Page 3hree?!!

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