Haines His Way

I can't think of any people in the theater I actually thought were so very miscast that I saw. I'm sure Raquel Welch was ridiculous as Victor/Victoria, but I didn't see her.

I didn't see her either, but I'd heard that Raquel Welch in Applause also wasn't quite the best actress-to-role match.

OH!  Does anyone know what Mssrs. Karrie and Casnoff have been up to lately?

It's hot here in Richmond too.  But at least no storms today.

*And since the young woman who lives upstairs still keeps her A/C on high - all the time - we have yet to turn on our A/C since the heat started coming back a few weeks ago.

Now I just need to get motivated and get out of here and start checking on some part-time job possibilities... Hmm...

Now I must go to work and make money.

She played Albert's mother.  Like sludge

Elizabeth Allen wasn't exactly miscast in Do I Hear A Waltz but she was prettier than she should have been, making the story less than believable.

Kiss of the Spider Woman had its world premiere in Toronto,

Not to quibble, DR DIT, but KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN had its world premiere in Purchase NY, in a production (that I saw) which featured neither Miss Rivera, nor half the score the work now possesses.  The SpiderWoman/Aurora in that production was played by ersatz producer Lauren Mitchell, while the male roles were taken by John Rubenstein and Kevin Gray.  While not as dreadful as it was made out to be, the work that was done to the show since that initial production significantly improved it.

I didn't see Mary Martin in The Sound of Music, but at age 46 wasn't she a bit long in the tooth for the role?

BK--you surely have a most excellent source for good marimbas:  Cissy and/or David!

Not to quibble, DR DIT, but KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN had its world premiere in Purchase NY.

Who's quibbling - but was the Purchase production a premiere or a workshop? OK, so maybe the line between the two is fuzzy.  

Thanks for all the advice and council. I've decided to back off for a couple of days and give some space to the situation. I'm still feeling a HUGE amount of anxiety and I'm just itching to contact him, but I'm trying my best to be patient and--more importantly--sane. Life is like a box of chocolates. Eat them too fast and you'll throw up on the floor. Not only have I been shoveling in the chocolates, I've been force-feeding them to my friend, as well, and if there's anything I hate more it's vomiting on the floor, so it's time to put the Godiva's up on the high shelf and start rationing out the good stuff. What the hell am I talking about?

[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]BELATED VIBES OF POWER AND GLORY FOR BK!!![/move]

So terribly sorry for being so e & t this weekend, but after my sister's wonderful 3rd of July pool party/picnic on Saturday, I found myself shanghaied by a couple of Irish immigrants and taken to a house located on an island off the Jersey coast and forced to listlessly lie in the sun, frolic in the ocean, check out beach bodies of all persuasions, dine on various forms of seafood, stroll the boards, behold night time skies full of fireworks and spend the late night hours in the pursuit of drunken conversation.  It was actually not as bad as it sounds.  The one stipulation these Irish immigrants have is that their house is kept totally free of all things televised and computerized, so I could not gloat post even if I wanted to.  

You would think that after such a weekend that I was ready to come back to work with my batteries recharged and a smile on my face.  But at some point this morning while I was getting dressed, I realized that this was the first time in days that I was wearing shoes, socks, pants and perhaps underwear.  All I could think to myself was, "This sucks..."

TOD:  The worse case of stage miscasting I ever saw was in a touring company of Pippin years back.  I don't recall the name of the actor who played Pippin at the mo', but he was short, scrawny and pale with long thin hair and glasses and sang in a thin reedy voice.  Not at all in the neighborhood of Pippins that I was accustomed to.  I could sort of see what they were going for by casting this guy as Pippin, but he was much too nerdy and uncharismatic to pull it off.

TOY:  My fav cartoon characters were the Ducks, Donald and Daffy.  I loved allof the Jay Ward Stuff, from Rocky and Bullwinkle to George of the Jungle.  I also remember liking a lot of the Saturday morning stuff:  The Space Kidettes, Frankenstein Jr and the Impossibles, Birdman, The Inhumanoids, Josie and the Pussycats and the Wacky Races.

I'm back, and to prove it, I'm here.  The blechhy business actually went very quickly and painlessly, so thank you for your always-excellent and potent good vibes.  The rights thing has not gone well as yet - their first response was "no" but Tammy has done her job well and is not backing down, so they are now "reconsidering" although they say their answer may still be no.  Tammy's talking to a lawyer now and then we have to make the decision whether to call their bluff (I believe their "no" was really to see if we'd just do the full fold and go away, or if we were going to hang tough) and just tell them "sorry, the author's agent gave us these rights and we're doing the show and if you have a problem we'll see you in court" or whether we have to come up with yet another "plan."  I have another plan in the back of my head, and have had it since last week.  It would be intense to try to implement it, but if we must, we must, and I'll work around the clock to do so.

May I ask you technophiles how you embed images in between lines of text (as in the marimba/xylophone above)?  Inquiring minds want to know.

To imbed an image within the text of a post, you have to link an image that's already somewhere on the Internet.  If you quote my message, you can see the Internet link and code.

You find an image somewhere on the Internet, right click on the picture and click on "Properties."  You should see "Address (URL)" and an Internet address for the individual image.  If you triple click on it (assuming you're using a Windows-based PC...I have no idea about Macs), that Internet address will be completely highlighted.  I'd recommend triple clicking instead of highlighting manually, because the entire address may not show.  Anyway, after it's highlighted, right click on the highlighted area and click "Copy."  Then, create a post at HHW and paste the image link where you want it.  NOW THE IMPORTANT PART:  highlight again the entire Internet link and click the "Insert Image" option above...it's directly under the "Glow" option (fifth from the left in the second row) as part of the "Add YABBC tags" options.  

When you do it this way (as opposed to "attaching" an image file), you can preview it and see exactly what it's going to look like.  I hope this helps!

I'll also add this message to the Technical Support board under the "What is 'Insert Image' " topic, since someone may look there also.