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Re:ALMOST LIKE WRITING THE NOTES
« Reply #30 on: March 03, 2008, 05:48:12 AM »
Good morning, all!  The first quarter of 2008 has been awful! I feel that I've won the bed bug battle but it's depleted my bank account. Now I hear the building's under attack from bird mites as well, and I'm praying to God they don't decide this apartment would be a nice place to roost.  

Then there's the current bank problem: my checkcard has now expired. I got a notice from the bank 6 weeks ago that the new card was being sent, and last week I got a letter from them with the new PIN, which I've lost.  Still, no card and I'm unhappy about it.  Every company who does online payments is besieging me with requests for a new card number.  The whole megillah has me so exhausted that I'm thinking any place but here would be a good place to be.

Off to Toyland for a while but first a stop to yell at my bank manager. Oy!
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Re:ALMOST LIKE WRITING THE NOTES
« Reply #31 on: March 03, 2008, 05:54:00 AM »
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« Reply #32 on: March 03, 2008, 05:54:38 AM »
”Race you to the tiki bar!”

photo: The Night of the Iguana
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« Reply #33 on: March 03, 2008, 06:08:22 AM »
Ah, brings back memories of the Tiki Tiki Room at Disney World.
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Re:ALMOST LIKE WRITING THE NOTES
« Reply #34 on: March 03, 2008, 06:10:23 AM »
Quote from: FJL on March 03, 2008, 06:08:22 AM
the Tiki Tiki Room

Or, in DR FJL's case, the Cheeky Cheeky Room!   ;)
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« Reply #35 on: March 03, 2008, 06:12:12 AM »
DR SINGDAW - with my hair piled high upon my head?

See the post yesterday about my British cousin......
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« Reply #36 on: March 03, 2008, 06:13:06 AM »
Frightening picture headline if nouns are verbs:

Clinton and Obama Neck and Neck in Ohio.
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« Reply #37 on: March 03, 2008, 06:19:03 AM »
Quote from: JRand57 on March 03, 2008, 06:12:12 AM
See the post yesterday about my British cousin......

Oh believe me, I noticed!  

I have a "thing" for British men.

Well, for men.    :P
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« Reply #38 on: March 03, 2008, 06:25:53 AM »
LOL....that reminds me of one of my favorite exchanges in WHITE CHRISTMAS:

Bing to Danny:  Oh you mean like that rocket scientist out there.....

Danny:  All right, so she isn't smart.  So she didn't go to Smith.

Bing:  Go to Smith?  She couldn't even spell it!  And another thing.  What's with you.  For the past six months you've been trying to set me up with every female you can.  As long as it's wearing a skirt and a little mascara, you shove it at me.
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« Reply #39 on: March 03, 2008, 06:32:02 AM »
LOL - wonderful headline analysis, Jrand
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« Reply #40 on: March 03, 2008, 07:00:02 AM »
Quote from: FJL on March 03, 2008, 06:32:02 AM
LOL - wonderful headline analysis, Jrand

Good night and good luck....more than ever.  8)
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Re:ALMOST LIKE WRITING THE NOTES
« Reply #41 on: March 03, 2008, 07:33:03 AM »
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Re:ALMOST LIKE WRITING THE NOTES
« Reply #42 on: March 03, 2008, 07:40:59 AM »
TOD:

I'm not even sure that it counts, but Smokey Joe's Cafe is just about the only jukebox musical that works for me: rather than shoehorning the songs around the plot, the writers simply played the show as more of a revue, allowing the songs themselves to suggest their dramatic nature.

I would have loved to see what Harry Chapin would have done with his "Last Protest Singer" project, although I suspect that it wouldn't have gone too far.

Other musicians whose work I'd love to see staged in some form: Rush (I can't be the ONLY person who wants to see someone do "2112" on stage, can I? Okay, maybe I can), Pete Seeger.

And I can't believe that I'm going to admit this in public, but I bet you could make a pretty good staging from Madonna's catalog... (as the last two people on earth who believed that I was straight slink away shaking their heads)
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Re:ALMOST LIKE WRITING THE NOTES
« Reply #43 on: March 03, 2008, 07:44:13 AM »
Quote from: singdaw on March 03, 2008, 01:44:14 AM
Here is what Louis Herthum is looking like these days:


Just as appealing as ever to my way of looking at things.
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« Reply #44 on: March 03, 2008, 07:45:12 AM »
DR ELAN do you really really REALLY want a Broadway of shows attended by ENTIRE audiences wearing t-shirts?

Although I might see the Pete Seeger one.

;D
« Last Edit: March 03, 2008, 07:45:38 AM by JRand57 »
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« Reply #45 on: March 03, 2008, 07:46:20 AM »
Good morning!

We're in for a nice late spring day (and it isn't even spring, A Richard Rodgers/Oscar Hammerstein reference) with highs in the 70s. Wow!
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« Reply #46 on: March 03, 2008, 07:46:26 AM »
Bank vibes for DR ELMORE.  I too am waiting for something in the mail, but it is a copy of THE THING THAT WOULDN'T DIE....not anything as important as a Bank Card.

It didn't come today.
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« Reply #47 on: March 03, 2008, 07:47:01 AM »
Happy Birthday to DR Adriana Patti!!
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« Reply #48 on: March 03, 2008, 07:49:58 AM »
I think THE BOY FROM OZ and MAMMA MIA work as entertainments but certainly the scores don't always fit snugly like an original score would do. They're about the most entertaining shows I've seen that would be called jukebox musicals. Entertaining but not great musicals.

JERSEY BOYS seems to be a mammoth hit, but do they try to work those songs in for dramatic purposes? I haven't seen it, so I'm just speculating that they don't.
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Re:ALMOST LIKE WRITING THE NOTES
« Reply #49 on: March 03, 2008, 07:50:51 AM »
Quote from: JRand57 on March 03, 2008, 07:45:12 AM
DR ELAN do you really really REALLY want a Broadway of shows attended by ENTIRE audiences wearing t-shirts?

As long as they're well-behaved and remembered to shower, I've got no problem with that (I don't think that I need two hands to count the number of times I've worn a tie to the theater).
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Re:ALMOST LIKE WRITING THE NOTES
« Reply #50 on: March 03, 2008, 07:50:53 AM »
TV Reminder:

Two hour season (series?) finale to THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES tonight.

New MEDIUM tonight!  Can't wait! Duvalos returns!
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« Reply #51 on: March 03, 2008, 07:52:42 AM »
I do believe I'll be venturing onto my roof for some clean-up later today (after I return from lunch with best friend John). This may curtail my afternoon viewing a bit, but that will also depend on what comes in the mail.
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« Reply #52 on: March 03, 2008, 07:53:40 AM »
Boy From Oz worked because you had the single most charismatic leading man Broadway's seen in three decades working his behind off to sell a bunch of hackneyed numbers to appreciative yentas in the first five rows. (I, of course, was glad to finally hear the opening number from Legs Diamond without having to shell out for the cast recording, but that's just me...)
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« Reply #53 on: March 03, 2008, 07:53:53 AM »
Monday morning greetings!

Wow - HHW is really widescreen right now.

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Re:ALMOST LIKE WRITING THE NOTES
« Reply #54 on: March 03, 2008, 07:53:55 AM »
My bank card expires in October of this year. Usually by this point I would have received a replacement with a two year extension or something. I've heard nothing about it from my bank. Very strange.
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« Reply #55 on: March 03, 2008, 07:55:18 AM »
Happiest of birthdays to no-longer-a-teenager DR Adrianna Patti!
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Re:ALMOST LIKE WRITING THE NOTES
« Reply #56 on: March 03, 2008, 07:56:36 AM »
Quote from: Elan on March 03, 2008, 07:53:40 AM
Boy From Oz worked because you had the single most charismatic leading man Broadway's seen in three decades working his behind off to sell a bunch of hackneyed numbers to appreciative yentas in the first five rows. (I, of course, was glad to finally hear the opening number from Legs Diamond without having to shell out for the cast recording, but that's just me...)

Part of it IS just you, DR Elan. For me, seeing a gay love story told in a musical (even as splintered as it was handled in BOY FROM OZ) was just as important as seeing Hugh Jackman's tour de force. I would have EAGERLY gone to the show even if Kevin Spirtas had gotten to go on.
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Re:ALMOST LIKE WRITING THE NOTES
« Reply #57 on: March 03, 2008, 07:57:01 AM »
Today is my day off, because this is a Tuesday-Saturday work week.

In a while, I'll pick up my mom for some errands and then come home to make the
lasagna that DH Richard requested for tonight's dinner.
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« Reply #58 on: March 03, 2008, 07:57:47 AM »
Let's
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« Reply #59 on: March 03, 2008, 07:58:06 AM »
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