Topic: THE TRUISM (Read 57219 times)

bk · « **on:** February 28, 2007, 12:28:42 AM »

Well, you've read the notes, the notes were true, and now it is time for you to post until the cows come home - is that a truism? Or a mooism?

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #1 on:** February 28, 2007, 12:30:17 AM »

Hmm... I think "yesterday" is still unlocked.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #2 on:** February 28, 2007, 12:30:29 AM »

In any case....

Good Morning!

bk · « **Reply #3 on:** February 28, 2007, 12:30:35 AM »

And the word of the day is: AGNOMEN!

bk · « **Reply #4 on:** February 28, 2007, 12:33:17 AM »

Will we never get to page two?

bk · « **Reply #5 on:** February 28, 2007, 12:33:39 AM »

For he made his home in dat fish's agnomen

bk · « **Reply #6 on:** February 28, 2007, 12:34:59 AM »

Welcome five GUESTS. Who are you people?

bk · « **Reply #7 on:** February 28, 2007, 12:35:37 AM »

I think it will be fairly close as to whether we shatter our one remaining record to shatter.

bk · « **Reply #8 on:** February 28, 2007, 12:36:19 AM »

Really close. As close as two peas in a wicker basket in the middle of a cherry orchard.

bk · « **Reply #9 on:** February 28, 2007, 12:36:49 AM »

Yesterday is locked
See the pretty countryside

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #10 on:** February 28, 2007, 12:36:58 AM »

Hmm... Well, I had planned to get an early start tomorrow... well, today... Hmm...

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #11 on:** February 28, 2007, 12:37:56 AM »

Quote from: bk on February 28, 2007, 12:36:49 AM

Yesterday is locked
See the pretty countryside

Merrily we post along
Post along

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #12 on:** February 28, 2007, 12:42:28 AM »

And I've always wondered what the frell was Mr. Sondheim thinking when he wrote those 7/8 measures in the middle of all of that...

Through the country side.
Stay on the track.
Plenty of roads to try
Never look back

-Especially when you have a choreographer who can only count in multiples of two.

bk · « **Reply #13 on:** February 28, 2007, 12:44:01 AM »

Jose, do you remember your AGNOMEN?

bk · « **Reply #14 on:** February 28, 2007, 12:44:12 AM »

I do.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #15 on:** February 28, 2007, 12:45:09 AM »

Oh, and I guess that would make the basis for a good - I hope - Ask BK Day Question...

Is there a moment - a lyric/word, harmony, melodic turn, etc. - in a song that you absolutely adore that puzzles you?

Tomovoz · « **Reply #16 on:** February 28, 2007, 12:45:58 AM »

We're opening doors, singing "Here We Are".

Jerry Herman only opened windows.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #17 on:** February 28, 2007, 12:46:14 AM »

Quote from: bk on February 28, 2007, 12:44:01 AM

Jose, do you remember your AGNOMEN?

Yes, I do.

And I always make sure to send her a card every third Thursday in July.

bk · « **Reply #18 on:** February 28, 2007, 12:46:44 AM »

Quote from: JoseSPiano on February 28, 2007, 12:45:09 AM

Oh, and I guess that would make the basis for a good - I hope - Ask BK Day Question...

Is there a moment - a lyric/word, harmony, melodic turn, etc. - in a song that you absolutely adore that puzzles you?

Yes, and it's a great example of what you're talking about - In Johanna - the famous "off" or "blue" note that comes totally out of nowhere, makes no sense, and yet, somehow, works.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #19 on:** February 28, 2007, 12:47:38 AM »

Now, as for my IGNOMEN... Well, that's a totally different basket of fruit.

bk · « **Reply #20 on:** February 28, 2007, 12:48:29 AM »

Well, I must be up quite early to prepare for this little function I must attend at the Music Center. I know there will be many interesting and well-known folks there, but I think it will be fairly annoying and I don't plan to stay too long.

Tomovoz · « **Reply #21 on:** February 28, 2007, 12:48:33 AM »

I always wondered why John Lennon wrote "ten summersets" in "For The Benefit Of Mr Kite".

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #22 on:** February 28, 2007, 12:52:19 AM »

Quote from: bk on February 28, 2007, 12:46:44 AM

Yes, and it's a great example of what you're talking about - In Johanna - the famous "off" or "blue" note that comes totally out of nowhere, makes no sense, and yet, somehow, works.

Satisfied enough to dream you...

Even now I'm at your window...

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #23 on:** February 28, 2007, 12:54:51 AM »

-And I'm still amazed that when Warner Bros. updated the Sweeney Todd vocal score, that they did not transpose "Johanna" nor the first part of "Epiphany" to the show keys (at least the ones in the rental parts). -And the Appendix of "The Beggar Woman's Lullaby" in no way resembles what it "really" is.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #24 on:** February 28, 2007, 12:56:26 AM »

...And then then there's that missing measure in "On the Steps of the Palace" in the later printings of the vocal score for Into the Woods.

George · « **Reply #25 on:** February 28, 2007, 12:58:59 AM »

How could they just lose a measure??

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #26 on:** February 28, 2007, 01:00:34 AM »

Oh... As I'm looking at my vocal score for Sunday in the Park with George...

When you're rehearsing a show, is there any sort of ritual or process or tradition you follow once the show moves out the rehearsal hall and into the theatre?

For example...

-And I picked this up from a college professor of mine...

On the last day of rehearsal in the studio, I tear off a piece of the tape that was used to mark off the set on the floor, and I place it on my score. My professor - who was a director - would place a piece of the tape on his script.

George · « **Reply #27 on:** February 28, 2007, 01:05:25 AM »

BK, when you first mentioned that you had watched "Man of the Year," I thought you were talking about THIS movie!

I never saw the Robin Williams movie, so it's not what first came to my mind.

Plot Synopsis: Mockumentary look at Playgirl Magazine centerfold and 1992 Man of the Year, Dirk Shafer, who kept it a secret from the magazine that he is gay. Most of the film is a fictionalized retelling of Dirk's decision to send a photograph to Playgirl, his selection as a centerfold and then Man of the Year, his many TV interviews, his friend Vivian Paxton posing as his beard, and the pressures from his live-in lover to come out of the closet. Interspersed with this chronological narrative are a black and white look at an evening Dirk spends with Angela Lucassey, a woman from Reno who wins Playgirl's national contest to have a date with Dirk, and an interview with a stripper who tracks Dirk down.

Here's the cover:

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #28 on:** February 28, 2007, 01:06:13 AM »

Quote from: George on February 28, 2007, 12:58:59 AM

How could they just lose a measure??

I dunno. But it's even marked as an edit. In the "original", it's as follows - the following are the measure number markings:

(The lyric during this section is "And I thought: Well, he cares-- This is more than just malice...)

14 15 To->17

However, in the "new" version, it's:

14 To->17

Now, I know that 16 was already edited out. But then 15 too? -Yes, it's basically a "vamp" bar, but still...

Wha' happen'd?

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #29 on:** February 28, 2007, 01:07:27 AM »

Quote from: George on February 28, 2007, 01:05:25 AM

BK, when you first mentioned that you had watched "Man of the Year," I thought you were talking about THIS movie! I never saw the Robin Williams movie, so it's not what first came to my mind.

I had thought the same thing too.

Did they come out with an anniversary edition of it?

News:

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