Good morning, all! One band part to write this morning, and I'm finished with the Men's Chorus holiday concert. Back to Ashley Brown's scores tomorrow. I have a couple of hours at Toyland this morning, and I will hopefully have some time for my laundry this afternoon before the rehearsal, which begins at 6:30, Riverside Church.
DR Michael Shayne, since I saw the original Broadway cast of SWEENEY TODD six times, I can verify that the performance, with intermission, ran generally 2:50; the one exception was the final performance (Sunday matinee) of Lansbury and Cariou, which ran about 3:10 because of the crazy fans, the constant applause and tossed floral tributes. The curtain calls went on forever.
t's my understanding that the film's shutdown when Depp left the set to be with his hospitalized daughter is the reason for the omission of the ghosts and the Ballad.
DR Jose, this is Kim's second marriage, and I believe it's happening on Jan 2. Her husband is an American psychiarist with a practice in London; they've been dating for a while now. I haven't seen Kim since 2002 so this is a fairly new turn of events for me in the past five years. She did write me at one point that she was dating him, but iI couldn't say how long ago it was.
BK, I am on the biggest Arthur Fiedler kick at the moment. What a wonderful conductor. Some of the Pops things were puff and fluff but it's always played with grace, panache, style and real elegance. When it comes to the light classics, Fiedler leaves many of our contemporaries who work but lack style, panache, elegance, and grace in the dust.
I've got to finalize my shopping lists in the next two days because next week I have several packages to post. Since the Macbeths are now off the shopping list for good, I seem to have a shorter list this year. I'm still thinking about sending Lady M a good book on painless methods of suicide, so if any DR knows of one, please send me the amazon.com URL.
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