Topic: ONE GRECIAN URN (Read 76290 times)

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #30 on:** January 07, 2007, 02:19:31 AM »

I just did a DVD check of "The Music Man" and Zaneeta does say "Ye gods".

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #31 on:** January 07, 2007, 02:20:20 AM »

I can, of course, imagine recent productions changing it to the more PC and less-controversial "Ye gads" to appease the pentecostal-minded.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #32 on:** January 07, 2007, 02:20:55 AM »

Such is the nature of the world we somehow manage to live in today.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #33 on:** January 07, 2007, 02:23:13 AM »

Personally, anyone who jumps to condemn folks to hellfire and eternal damnation for not behaving the way their religion demands or for saying things that their religion objects to strikes me as being very REPRESSIVE and totally NOT "freedom" in the "American sense" of the word.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #34 on:** January 07, 2007, 02:23:53 AM »

"Well, what's the matter? You wanted the truth, didn't ya?
Now look - I'm bigger than you are, and you're gonna stand there and get it all, so you might just well stop wigglin'."

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #35 on:** January 07, 2007, 02:24:00 AM »

But it could be that I'm simply insensitive to the needs of others.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #36 on:** January 07, 2007, 02:24:51 AM »

Quote from: JoseSPiano on January 07, 2007, 02:23:53 AM

"Well, what's the matter? You wanted the truth, didn't ya?
Now look - I'm bigger than you are, and you're gonna stand there and get it all, so you might just well stop wigglin'."

Oh, thithter, thithter!

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #37 on:** January 07, 2007, 02:25:28 AM »

*Alas, when that last bit of dialogue I posted is read out loud today - say, at a first read-thru... My how times have changed.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #38 on:** January 07, 2007, 02:26:49 AM »

Quote from: Ron Pulliam on January 07, 2007, 02:20:20 AM

I can, of course, imagine recent productions changing it to the more PC and less-controversial "Ye gads" to appease the pentecostal-minded.

I'm actually wondering if "ye gods" would have made it past the censors back then.

Hmm... I wonder if I can dig up my script... Or if there's a cue in the piano/vocal score... Hmm....

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #39 on:** January 07, 2007, 02:31:33 AM »

I couldn't make myself any plainer if I'se a Quaker on his day off.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #40 on:** January 07, 2007, 02:33:10 AM »

I been usin' the Think System on you from the parlor.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #41 on:** January 07, 2007, 02:34:06 AM »

Back when? Re: the censors?

You mean in the late 50s on Broadway?

Or in 1962 on film?

I assure you, Zaneeta goes through the entire film squealing "Ye gods".

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #42 on:** January 07, 2007, 02:34:24 AM »

For the first time in my life I got my foot caught in the door.

*And by that time, I'm usually wiping away a couple of tears.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #43 on:** January 07, 2007, 02:34:46 AM »

Quote from: JoseSPiano on January 07, 2007, 02:31:33 AM

I couldn't make myself any plainer if I'se a Quaker on his day off.

Don't get me started....

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #44 on:** January 07, 2007, 02:36:32 AM »

Quote from: Ron Pulliam on January 07, 2007, 02:34:06 AM

Back when? Re: the censors?

You mean in the late 50s on Broadway?

Or in 1962 on film?

I assure you, Zaneeta goes through the entire film squealing "Ye gods".

I actually just pulled out my DVD too...

However, I seem to remember seeing "ye gads" in the printed script. Maybe not.

-It is late/early ya' know.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #45 on:** January 07, 2007, 02:36:42 AM »

"Mama! A man with a suitcase followed me home."

"Did he say anything?"

"He tried."

"Did you say anything?"

"Of course not, Mama!"

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #46 on:** January 07, 2007, 02:38:12 AM »

Shi-poopi!

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #47 on:** January 07, 2007, 02:38:59 AM »

Jose, is there an IHOP or Waffle House anywhere near you where you could go for breakfast?

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #48 on:** January 07, 2007, 02:40:20 AM »

I could go for a pecan waffle and syrup, a hard-fried egg, three strips of bacon, some toast and a couple of cups of coffee.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #49 on:** January 07, 2007, 02:40:31 AM »

Hash browns would be nice, too.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #50 on:** January 07, 2007, 02:41:15 AM »

And I have to say - this is not a quote from the show/movie - that the dance break for "Marian, The Librarian" is very hard to play - even when you simplify it down to the "basics". On the flipside, the dance break in "Shipoopi" is loads of fun to play, especially at the ragtime section.

And still today, I have a "habit" of shouting out "Shipoopi!" in rehearsals at the end of a dance number. Whether it's the "Shipoopi" or The Music Man or not.

-That or "Sarava!"

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #51 on:** January 07, 2007, 02:42:43 AM »

On the other hand, the orchestrations in the film version of "Marian the Librarian" are exquisite...especially during the dance.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #52 on:** January 07, 2007, 02:43:13 AM »

But I absolutely believe you about the difficulty of playing the music on piano.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #53 on:** January 07, 2007, 02:43:52 AM »

One thing we NEVER did in any musical rehearsal in any production I was involved with was to criticize the piano player.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #54 on:** January 07, 2007, 02:45:35 AM »

I'm feeling the call of my mattress warmer.

"Ron.......come to bed."

"Ron......the sheets are nice and warm."

"Ron.....Ron.....why do you tarry?"

(My mattress warmer is very erudite and absolutely would use the word "tarry").

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #55 on:** January 07, 2007, 02:46:50 AM »

Didn't Irving Berlin rhyme "tarry" with "marry" in "Annie Get Your Gun"?

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #56 on:** January 07, 2007, 02:48:22 AM »

If you're checking that DVD, Jose....go to the scene after "Gary Indiana"....it's in the library. The two teens are planning to meet while looking at books in the stacks....

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #57 on:** January 07, 2007, 02:48:37 AM »

Quote from: Ron Pulliam on January 07, 2007, 02:38:59 AM

Jose, is there an IHOP or Waffle House anywhere near you where you could go for breakfast?

Hmmm... I think there is an IHOP down on 125th. However, there are a slew of 24-hour diners that I would consider first. But, I'd have to say, a double order of hash browns "scattered, smothered, covered, chunked, topped, diced, peppered, and capped" would make for some mighty fine eatin' right now.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #58 on:** January 07, 2007, 02:49:46 AM »

Well, that's it for me. I'm ready for the sand man.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #59 on:** January 07, 2007, 02:50:11 AM »

Quote from: JoseSPiano on January 07, 2007, 02:48:37 AM

Hmmm... I think there is an IHOP down on 125th. However, there are a slew of 24-hour diners that I would consider first. But, I'd have to say, a double order of hash browns "scattered, smothered, covered, chunked, topped, diced, peppered, and capped" would make for some mighty fine eatin' right now.

With onions?

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