Haines His Way

I used to listen to a lot of Bway, checked out of the Lowell City Library.First LP i bought was the soundtrack to SOUTH PACIFIc(I'd listened to the Library copy of the OBC);The 2nd LP I bought was the OBC of South Pacific, cause even with owning the stk;I missed Mary Martin. Ist Gal Lp was Streisands 2nd LP(The store had sold out of the PEOPLE LP); The first 45 was Streisand's People; Gents were so rare I cant remember which was the first(I bought the WHITE ALBUM in college)First 'rock' I purchased, in high school was Pet Clark's MY LOVE, and then it was off to the races with Miss Clark, as well as Babs,

Taking the car in for service....no longer under warranty, I don't think.....

Then on to work.....oh well.

TOD:

First cast album....given to me BYE BYE BIRDIE, first purchased THE SOUND OF MUSIC.

First female vocalist - Connie Francis "Vacation" 45 rpm....no Annette in the rack.  Album - I don't remember....

First male vocalist - Given to me, Johnny Mathis On Broadway

Off to the races.

TOD: *Sigh* here's where I show just how little taste I had as a youth...

First cast recording purchased: The Michael Damian revivial of "Joseph." Not quite sure why I picked it up, but it was the first show that I saw where I knew the score before seeing the show.
First female vocalist purchased: Cathy Dennis's "Move to This"
First male vocalist: Bryan Adams's "Waking up the Neighbors"
First movie soundtrack: I'm not sure... "Pretty Woman." "St. Elmo's Fire" and "Born on the Fourth of July" all came pretty close to each other.

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[move=right,scroll,6,transparent,100%]FORMER DR PANNI / MARIA (ANNA)![/move][/b]

Good grief, I am giving myself a headache.

I am giving myself a headache.

Take two aspirin and call us tomorrow morning.

Oh God, it IS tomorrow!

[a Follies reference...]

Good morning, all!  I've been up and about for about ninety minutes now and the laundry is in the washers in the basement and the washers down the street at the laundromat.  I had peculiar dreams last night in which I was workng in either the office equipment place I worked in during the 1970s or in a pharmacy.  The pharmacy is certainly possible, given all the crap I've been ingesting/spraying/breathing since Jan 15.  

Today, after puttering about the apartment on bug control, I have to begin the new Patrick Cassidy chart.  I'd like to get it into Fed Ex tomorrow night for Thursday delivery.

I discovered musical theatre in the 9th grade, with a production of Kurt Weill's KNICKERBOCKER HOLIDAY. I believe DR Ginny's husband Richard played the timpani in the orchestra.  I loved movie musicals but I never made the connection between them and shows until 9th grade.

Because my family was essentially poor white trash, cast albums were out of my fanily's budget so my mother was always bringing me home from the market those Camden show recordings: Hill Bowen conducts THE MUSIC MAN, for instance, and I discovered the public library had cast albums, for which I abandoned the few Gilbert & Sullivan recordings I usually checked out.  I was foolishly eclectic at that time and never checked out at the time TENDERLOIN, FIORELLO, or SHE LOVES ME because the info on the recordings didn't appeal to me.  I didn't discover how glorious SHE LOVES ME is until I was a junior in college, and TENDERLOIN - now one of my faves - was a mystery till grad school.

My next two OBC recordings are BYE BYE BIRDIE, which came with my Christmas gift of 1960, I believe, a portable stereo phonograph.  Then came either KISS ME, KATE or CAMELOT.  My faves then were Lerner & Loewe and Rodgers & Hammerstein.  Around 1962, I discovered Bernstein's WEST SIDE STORY and CANDIDE, thanks to Stanley Green's discography in his "World of Musical Comedy."  No stopping me after that.

My first cast album memory is the OBC of MY FAIR LADY

First pop purchase that i bought on my own was the B.J. Thomas LP which included "Raindrops Keep Falling On My head."  At that young age, i remember being puzzled, though, that B.J. thomas himself was not actually in the Butch Cassidy... movie.    First 45 purchased without my parents' help was "One Bad Apple," sung by the Osmond Brothers.

First soundtrack I remember buying on my own (as opposed to the many my parents had bought) was Thoroughly Modern Mille, which was only 99 cents at this great place on Avenue J in Brooklyn.  

For cast albums, I mostly taped them off a nightly program that was on the radio where they played entire show albums, so it's possible that i didn't buy a cast album with my own money until the season of A Chorus Line, Chicago and Pacific Overtures.  I think Pacific Overtures may have been my first own-money purchase.

And re female vocalist 45's, I think i bought Vicki Sue Robinson's "Turn the Beat Around" and Andrea True's "More More More" in the same fateful, life-defining  trip to the record store.

When someone sends an email at 11:30PM on Monday night and says please be here for callbacks tomorrow night, I should assume she means Tuesday- as in today, right?

DR TPunk - great new avatar!

CONGRATULATIONS on your callback, and ***VIBES*** for a knock-'em-dead audition!  

"...and the one that got away was THIS big!"

_{photo: Fool for a Client}

Caption should be:

I saw John Barrowman cut that cake, and I gotta tell you....!"

der Brucer

Pierre, big tough tiger (kitten) that he is, is hiding under my roommate's bed.