Topic: SALLY OF THE TROPICS (Read 39930 times)

TCB · « **Reply #180 on:** November 13, 2003, 02:15:15 PM »

No, Maya, the picture is of Horace Vandergelder at the Harmonia Gardens scene of Hello, Dolly!

When I played Harold, I was about thirty years younger and about one hundred pounds lighter.

The photo below, with me on the left, is closer to what I looked like when I was Harold.

Maya · « **Reply #181 on:** November 13, 2003, 02:20:29 PM »

Hmmm....Okay, TCB...that's why I got confused. The only pic that is showing up for me is the one with you as Horace. I wonder if it's just the computer I'm on right now.

I would loved though to have seen you onstage as a cranky-but-loveable old codger. Just cause you're so easy-going here, you know!

Matt H.--I think you're right about Black Comedy. As much as Noises Off even, this play is based on split second timing. It's hard not to get laughs for it though....so witty!

Jay--the scary thing is that Nanny casting makes perfect sense!

I'm sad I'm probably not going to get to see Mr. Sheffield play Mr. Cladwell.

Maya · « **Reply #182 on:** November 13, 2003, 02:22:53 PM »

Ok, the pic showed up now!

It looks great! TCB, I love how your moustache hasn't changed all that much, hehe!

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #183 on:** November 13, 2003, 02:25:33 PM »

Quote from: [size=2]Maya [/size] on November 13, 2003, 01:58:54 PM

Ron--You know, it's funny...sometimes when I hear Barbara Cook singing I think she sounds like the other Babs, only as a lyric soprano. But she just strikes me as too....hmmm....legit (never mind the goyishness, that isn't a big deal)....to play Fanny Brice very well. Does that make any sense at all?

Maya: Did you know that one of Barbara Cook's most celebrated roles -- that of Cunegonde in "Candide" -- was a prostitute? Of course, she was a high-born lady sold into prostitution, but when Candide freed her, she remained a slut with pretentiousness!

Nothing prissy about Barbara Cook! Did you mean Streisand was somehow "not" legit? Or did you mean low-brow?

Maya · « **Reply #184 on:** November 13, 2003, 02:28:23 PM »

LOL, Ron, good point. I do adore Babs Cook, and I'm sure that if I had seen her she would have totally won me over.

I wish I had more familiarity with the Candide score. As it were, all I really know is that remarkable overture and "Glitter and Be Gay." Something tells me the "Queen of the Night" aria is easier to sing!

bk · « **Reply #185 on:** November 13, 2003, 02:29:26 PM »

Good review by Jrand of the Gypsy CD. But the best review is the one two below it - wherein the reviewer basically just cadges Ken Mandelbaum's entire review.

Matt H. · « **Reply #186 on:** November 13, 2003, 02:30:48 PM »

Great photo, TCB. We know what bk looked like in days gone by (a SHE LOVES ME reference). Some of the rest of us should scan some photos and post with us in previous incarnations.

Jason · « **Reply #187 on:** November 13, 2003, 02:32:23 PM »

I'm soooo very close. Pardon the vanity posts.

Jason · « **Reply #188 on:** November 13, 2003, 02:32:33 PM »

PPPPPPPUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUSH!

Jason · « **Reply #189 on:** November 13, 2003, 02:32:49 PM »

*Plop!*

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #190 on:** November 13, 2003, 02:33:10 PM »

TCB: You were a child of the 70s! Did you ever wear flowers in your hair? Did you go to San Francisco?

Did you ever protest anything and get arrested?

I see that photo and I think "Hair" and "Jesus Christ Superstar" and "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" and "Someday, We'll Be Together" and "Bennie and the Jets"!

If you'd been around in the 20s, you'd have been a Jazz Baby, wouldn't you!!!

Emily · « **Reply #191 on:** November 13, 2003, 02:40:58 PM »

awww... oh cute...

Jason has give birth to... to... A 500 LB WOMAN DRESSED UP LIKE WONDER WOMAN WITH FULL MEMBERSHIP?!? Oh the humanity!

Maya · « **Reply #192 on:** November 13, 2003, 02:45:20 PM »

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Jason has give birth to... to... A 500 LB WOMAN DRESSED UP LIKE WONDER WOMAN WITH FULL MEMBERSHIP?!? Oh the humanity!

Hahaha! Poor Jason....I wouldn't wish that fate on anyone! OW!

Maya · « **Reply #193 on:** November 13, 2003, 02:46:36 PM »

One more post...

Macbeth is opening at 7:30....please send me happy vibes!

Matt H. · « **Reply #194 on:** November 13, 2003, 02:47:23 PM »

OK, let's see: jug ears, huge forehead. Yep, that's me in first grade.

Jay · « **Reply #195 on:** November 13, 2003, 02:48:33 PM »

Too cute for words!

George · « **Reply #196 on:** November 13, 2003, 02:49:05 PM »

Quote from: Tom from OZ on November 13, 2003, 01:43:56 PM

DR NON Reader Colin is walking Fosca & Magnus (who are quite capable of doing it themselves). He seems to think that golf, gardening and painting are important. Poor misguided man. He had never seen a musical until I introduced hime to the supreme entertainment and weened him off his Australian Rules football addiction. He still thinks sport is important!

Tom, have either of you heard (or even heard of) Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, "The Beautiful Game"? It's about football (soccer) in Ireland in the 1960s. There are some things that I like about it, but it's certainly not ALW's best work. It's the closest thing to Emily's "Australian Rules Football: The Musical" that you're probably going to be able to get. $:-\$

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #197 on:** November 13, 2003, 02:53:49 PM »

BK: Where (or for whom) was Ken Mandelbaum's review of "Gypsy" located? I saw the review you meant...the one from a person in Thousand Oaks...I knew it because I'd read it before, elsewhere.

I'd like to find Mandelbaum's and call Amazon's attention to it....they won't tolerate plagiarism if they know it's there.

SwishySarah · « **Reply #198 on:** November 13, 2003, 02:55:28 PM »

Can't stay for long because my room is a HUGE mess and has to be perfectly clean by tomorrow, as well as my bathroom, and I still have to do my homework. Three comments:

I don't know the Funny Girl characters well enough to post them, but I LOVE the ones that you all have created!

BK: Unfortunately, you CAN spend too much time here at HHW. It affects your Algebra grades, doncha know?

You've inspired me to force my parents to go to Changs tonight. Yum

Be back later to babble about my day! Small tidbit: Watched "A Knights Tale" with Heath Ledger. HE IS SO BEAUTIFUL! "Why God, did you curse me with this face?" HAH! Loving it.

bk · « **Reply #199 on:** November 13, 2003, 02:56:30 PM »

I THINK it was Mandelbaum - it was at one of the Internet sites I know that - if it WAS Mandelbaum you'll find it at broadway.com

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #200 on:** November 13, 2003, 02:57:35 PM »

DR Emily: You have great eyes! That Wonder Woman photo is so small, I thought it was Jason in Halloween costume. When I looked closer and closer, I realized that Wonder Woman has enormous thighs and a considerable tummy.

LOL!

TCB · « **Reply #201 on:** November 13, 2003, 03:01:10 PM »

Quote from: Ron Pulliam on November 13, 2003, 02:33:10 PM

TCB: You were a child of the 70s! Did you ever wear flowers in your hair? Did you go to San Francisco?

Did you ever protest anything and get arrested?

I see that photo and I think "Hair" and "Jesus Christ Superstar" and "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" and "Someday, We'll Be Together" and "Bennie and the Jets"!

If you'd been around in the 20s, you'd have been a Jazz Baby, wouldn't you!!!

The answers are yes, yes, and No - never arrested.

As for the 20s, absolutely a flapper.

TCB · « **Reply #202 on:** November 13, 2003, 03:02:39 PM »

Jason -- I hope all that noise was in regards to your post count, and not to anything else.

TCB · « **Reply #203 on:** November 13, 2003, 03:04:29 PM »

Quote from: Maya on November 13, 2003, 02:46:36 PM

One more post...

Macbeth is opening at 7:30....please send me happy vibes!

Break a leg, Maya, and try not to cheer when they behead Macbeth.

Matt H. · « **Reply #204 on:** November 13, 2003, 03:04:45 PM »

Nice GYPSY review, JRand. Just came from Amazon. Well put! I was a fan of the GYPSY film seemingly alone in the groups I've traveled with down through the years. The only critic I had ever read who liked GYPSY on film as much as I was Douglas McVay in a little British-published volume called MUSICALS ON FILM.

bk · « **Reply #205 on:** November 13, 2003, 03:05:23 PM »

Ron - I couldn't find it at broadway.com but I'm not adept at searching their site - however, didn't someone print the comments here earlier in the week? Perhaps if someone checked Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday's posts, you'll find it.

TCB · « **Reply #206 on:** November 13, 2003, 03:08:28 PM »

Aaahhhh, MattH. you were cute, even then!

TCB · « **Reply #207 on:** November 13, 2003, 03:12:19 PM »

As I approach that magic mark of 251, I don't want any of you to think that I will waste your time with meaningless posts about nothing.

TCB · « **Reply #208 on:** November 13, 2003, 03:13:41 PM »

Did I remember to tell Maya to break a leg?

Jrand73 · « **Reply #209 on:** November 13, 2003, 03:14:59 PM »

That's the one I saw MATT

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