Oh, what a feast for the eyes hhw has been these last few days! I have been delighting in Tomovoz's gorgeous photos of France--only hoping he will eventually post one of DR François and perhaps some of his very self and Colin in exotic settings!
And rather a lot of fun to follow DR Panni's travels today, from LA all the way to Buda or Pest, whichever one she is in, and to see the pix of her and DD. Vicarious fun for me here at the office indeed.
CD Player at the Office: I am listening to Doug Cohen's musical No Way to Treat a Lady. But it is not, I repeat, not the Original York Theatre Production produced by our very own BK. It is rather the original Italian production, retitled Serial Killer per Signora. The CD has 30 tracks, one minute and eighteen seconds, much of the dialogue. I can't understand much of it at all, of course, but the performers are delightful. Right now, I'm listening to "Quella Bellissima Gente", i.e. "One of the Beautiful People".
And that is just one of the CD's I have recently acquired in my semi-annual buying orgy. Some others that have just arrived:
Sail Away, OLC. Well, this was reissued by the Record Company That Dare Not Speak Its Name--or even take orders on its website. I don't have the OBC, and this recording is not quite what I expected. No overture. Stritch doesn't sing the title song, and there is no "Little Ones' ABC's". But it does have an added song "Brookville Darby and Joan", pure Coward, an apparently idyllic elderly couple explaining that, despite appearances, they actually loath one another. And it is great to have La Stritch singing "Why Do the Wrong People Travel?"
Little Me, the Martin Short/Faith Prince revival produced by our very own BK. This one totally delights me (despite the cutting of the one song in all musical comedy that mentions Esperanto). Thank you, thank you, thank you Mr. BK for including so much of the dialogue. It's like being at the show.
And I have a whole box from Footlight to go through! I feel so good, I could dance the old yahoo step! (Oh, a Carol Channing reference!)