Good morning, all! Today is my last day on the vocal book of "The Brain From Planet X," so my finishing up the show - still some tweaks and a couple of vocal score pages I wanty to redo - is nigh. Also, today, a very warm trek to NYPL Theatre Collection. I need to stop at Staples and purchase some CD cases.
DR MBarnum, it sounds as though you are having a wnderful time. There is a young(
) man in the New York City Gay Men's Chorus who could be your twin, only his hair seems redder. Same shiney face.
TOD:
Too many flops, too little time! Some deservedly closed like KELLY or PORTOFINO, and some undeservedly, like OH, BROTHER! (word of mouth before the reviews was fantastic) or RAGS, the only one of the four I saw. RAGS was problematic and confused but worthy of a 6-12 month run, if only for the great cast and often wonderful score.
So, my choice, because I love
La Kermesse Heroique, the film on which it's based, would be CARNIVAL IN FLANDERS, because I like the two songs I know from it. Of course the biggest flop I would kill to have seen is the original 1956, 73-performance flop of Lillian Hellman and Leonard Bernstein, CANDIDE.
