Good morning, all! And a special one to DR S. Woody White! Why are we up? Much as I hate to say it, I think it's because we have to be. Are you working today? I have a trek to Toyland to dig out LADY OF THE SLIPPER scores to continue the editing.
Last night, before dinner with our DR Jose, I had a lovely conversation with the head of the Institute about the project and other various subjects, all of which were interesting and promising. I think he was as puzzled as we all were over losing the potential new office but he seems happy - as are we all - that another space has come up.
BK, I hope things work out well with NYMF, but it's reccently come to my attention that each of their productions is required to raise its own funding. I thought that NYMF funded everything, so it shows one can work on three of their productions and remain clueless! I hope this potential producer has a nice bank account. DR Jose and I went to a NYMF-produced reading recently and after the two readings, the money was lined up for the production. It had great lyrics and music but it's book was in need of work.
TOD: All I can think of is TOM JONES, mostly because its "silent film" opening sequence was no unique in 1964. It's still one of my favorite movies. The BBC version with Max Beesly may be more faithful to Henry Fielding's comic novel, but a lot of the BBC production's look and casting choices reflect a big debt to Tony Richardson's film.
