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[JoseSPiano]

Thanks for the head's up!  Are you a Jane Monheit fan?  She collaborated with Sergio on her latest, with a lovely Sergio-produced and played version of his spectacular "So Many Stars."

Yes, I do like Jane Monheit too.  And I guess I have yet to buy her latest album, hmm...

[DERBRUCER]

...but my fear is we'll get digital projection and I want to see FILM -

Get used to digital. "Film" will soon join pre-recorded reel-to-reel tape, dictaphones, mimeograph machines and manual typewriters in your local museum.

der Brucer

[JoseSPiano]

Well, time for me to head to bed.  I have another leisurely day ahead of me tomorrow.  

Goodnight.

[DERBRUCER]

Good Evening!  Thank you all for your kind suggestions... it seems as if the general concesus is that it is OK to bringthe Vixter to see the show...

The show we saw this evening had quite a few tweeners, and no squeels or shreeks were to be heard.

The language is tame ("shit" used twice in a lyric is the worst), the sex virtually non-existent, and children are not put in grave peril (only Toby for a bit).

Jaws and Jurassic Park, neither rated R,  wre both gorier and more nightmare inducing than ST.

 



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The most stomach turning scene is NOT a throat slashing, it is when young Tobias removes from his mouth the end of a human finger he has been chewing on.

By all means, if she wants to go, is aware that there will be bloody scenes, take her along.

der Brucer

[George]

Think of it as a film set to a thematic musical score  - Sondheim's music tells the story and Burton films it. Forget about lyrics and tune into the orchestra.

der Brucer

That might work...I'll try that next time.

[DERBRUCER]

I wondered about that comment too.  Nightmares?  Really?  Who knows?  Maybe A.O. Scott has a barber in his past who may hold a grudge against him?  

As for the violence having a sense of "whimsy", well, I think it's more a matter of the violence being "expected".  The way that Sweeney dispatches his victims is very "natural", it does not come as a surprise.  I also think the "singing while slashing" approach also helps to soften the shock.

The nightmare quality comes not from the acts of violence, but rather from the random, unexpected nature of the acts. ST induces the kind of terror that the freeway sniper did.

der Brucer

[DERBRUCER]

We went to the 9:30 PM showing of ST; the theatre was about 75% full and about 80% of the audience was under 22 years old.

There was no talking
There was no inappropriate laughing
There were no cell phones ringing
Nobody walked out
A good time seemed to be had by all.

While waiting in line we chatted with a few teens behind us. None had seen/heard the show. The girl with the pierced lip, and sporting a  Harry Potter shirt, was intereted in seeing Depp. She reeled off the names of the actors in ST who were also in the HP films. A guy with a close cropped lavendar/fushia tinged mohawk and ear rings, sporting a ST shirt (black with a glistening razor superimposed on a giant blood splotch) was a Burton fan, and was surprised at Burton doing a film without Danny Elfman, the kid's favorite composer.

Now this is Rehoboth Beach - most of the permanent winter resident youngsters have professionals for parents.  This is also a town that makes a big splash with their own week long Film Festival, and the multiplex dedicates one screen to art films year round.

Maybe we're just lucky!

der Brucer
 

[George]

My cat just discovered my backpack and climbed in!  She just barely fits, but she's in:

[bk]

I have finished watching things and now it's late and I must write Ye Olde Notes.

[DERBRUCER]

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der Brucer

[DERBRUCER]

My cat just discovered my backpack and climbed in!  She just barely fits, but she's in:

Just don't leave the lid off of your crock pot!

der Brucer

[DERBRUCER]

My cat just discovered my backpack

And is she wearing her collar with a name tag?

der Brucer

[George]

Just don't leave the lid off of your crock pot!

der Brucer

Fortunately, it's downstairs on top of the fridge...she never goes down there.

[George]

And is she wearing her collar with a name tag?

der Brucer

Umm...can't you see it in the picture.

[DERBRUCER]

Umm...can't you see it in the picture.

No. Maybe if she's real good, Santa will care enough to buy her one.

der nagging Brucer

[George]

No. Maybe if she's real good, Santa will care enough to buy her one.

der nagging Brucer

Of course, that was the plan all along!  She needed something to open up on Christmas.

[singdaw]

Do any DRs know anything about Jamie Campbel Bower?

I don't really, but I have a good friend who does some business with his mother.  She's apparently an uncanny recording industry executive who now consults/freelances.  At some point someone connected with the film sought her advice/input on a project.  She agreed to help out, if they would give her son an audition for ST.  And he grabbed the opportunity and went on to win the role!

[singdaw]

DR TCB -

Many FELICITATIONS on your remarkable milestone!        

[singdaw]

DR Matt H -

I will be anxiously awaiting your report to know if I now must re-buy all of the That's Entertainment films.  [Sigh].

I have read that the box will contain an exclusive bonus disc with 3 to 5 hours of ADDITIONAL extra features.

[singdaw]

DR JoseSPiano - enjoying the Tonic Sol Fa clips - thanks!

[singdaw]

Does DR tb have to be up early this morning for the apparent 7:00 AM opening of Borders everywhere?    

[singdaw]

Cute kitty, DR George!!!!   Is that Ebonie?

[George]

Cute kitty, DR George!!!!   Is that Ebonie?

That's her.  Solid black...no other color at all.

[singdaw]

Ebonie is probably better versed in show music than most kitties!  

[singdaw]

By the way...

How are you liking the German cast albums of Wicked and A New Brain?

[George]

By the way...

How are you liking the German cast albums of Wicked and A New Brain?

I love Wicked and I like A New Brain.  ANB is a live recording, which is a plus for me, but the singers aren't the greatest singers, not that that is a requirement, but they're definitely theater singers, which is good.

[singdaw]

I am waiting for my order from "Sound of Music"  

HHW costs me SO much money!  

[George]

Of course!