Topic: HERBIE AND LEADVILLE JOHNNY BROWN (Read 17713 times)

bk · « **on:** July 02, 2009, 12:19:12 AM »

Well, you've read the notes, the notes were the notes, and now it is time for you to post until the cows come home - they're currently singing Colorado, My Home Sweet Home.

bk · « **Reply #1 on:** July 02, 2009, 12:20:49 AM »

And the word of the day is: CALASH!

bk · « **Reply #2 on:** July 02, 2009, 12:21:50 AM »

Welcome nine GUESTS!

George · « **Reply #3 on:** July 02, 2009, 01:21:02 AM »

I'm such a goon...I think he was the father-in-law!

Dopey me!

George · « **Reply #4 on:** July 02, 2009, 01:24:45 AM »

I'm back from last night's performance of "R&J" (I've been home for about an hour) and we had a great audience! There were about 40 or so people, our largest audience...and it was a Wednesday! The show was about 3 hours and 10 minutes, but the audience was with us the whole way. Hopefully, we'll get audiences like this for the rest of the run.

George · « **Reply #5 on:** July 02, 2009, 01:31:23 AM »

And now I'm off to bed.

bk · « **Reply #6 on:** July 02, 2009, 01:32:14 AM »

I had no idea season four of The Partridge Family had been released - my second favorite episode that I did is from that season.

Ben · « **Reply #7 on:** July 02, 2009, 04:33:04 AM »

It's a short day for me. I have some material to review and then at 12:30 I'm leaving for Long Island.

Michael · « **Reply #8 on:** July 02, 2009, 05:33:33 AM »

Quote from: bk on July 02, 2009, 12:19:12 AM

Well, you've read the notes, the notes were the notes, and now it is time for you to post until the cows come home - they're currently singing Colorado, My Home Sweet Home.

Interesting side note about Colorado, My Home Sweet Home

The song was there on opening night, but was dropped shortly after the opening.

It was however one of the five songs that were retained for the film.

Two others were instrumentals and one new song written for the film.

That made 12 songs that were dropped from the stage version

Michael · « **Reply #9 on:** July 02, 2009, 05:47:27 AM »

And BTW

Tammy Grimes won the TONY AWARD for BEST FEATURED ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL!!

Even though she was the star and played the title role her name was below the title on the posters so the TONY committee said she was a supporting player.

This is not so strange. Tom Bosley the year before won for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for Fiorello!. He played the title role as well, but his name was below the title.

Nowadays the producers can request an actor billed above the title be placed in the featured category as Angela Lansbury was this past year.

But the committee decides in the end where a performer will be placed

Michael · « **Reply #10 on:** July 02, 2009, 05:49:02 AM »

TOD

Movie: Mary Poppins
Operetta: The Mikado (D'Oyle Carte Opera)
Musical: Fiddler On the Roof (Tour. Paul Lipson star)

Michael · « **Reply #11 on:** July 02, 2009, 06:01:33 AM »

Quote from: bk on July 02, 2009, 01:32:14 AM

I had no idea season four of The Partridge Family had been released - my second favorite episode that I did is from that season.

And here are some photos from the two episodes that you appeared on that season.

THE LAST OF HOWARD (play on the Sondheim film THE LAST OF SHEILA)

Michael · « **Reply #12 on:** July 02, 2009, 06:04:24 AM »

Some more from THE LAST OF HOWARD

You guess where the next step backwards is going to land BK

Michael · « **Reply #13 on:** July 02, 2009, 06:06:44 AM »

Here are some shots from the other episode.

Dan (the Man) · « **Reply #14 on:** July 02, 2009, 06:13:34 AM »

Quote from: bk on July 02, 2009, 12:20:49 AM

And the word of the day is: CALASH!

I sho enjoy the shumptuous shoprano, Maria Calash.

Dan (the Man) · « **Reply #15 on:** July 02, 2009, 06:38:15 AM »

TOD:

I'm pretty sure that the first musical I ever saw was PURLIE. My parents had always said that they had taken us kids to such shows as MAN OF LA MANCHA, HELLO, DOLLY and FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, but I don't remember seeing them at all.

Even though I was not yet into musical theatre, I enjoyed the show a lot. The performers were funny and the songs were catchy (I remember being shocked I knew one of the songs--"I Got Love") Looking it up on ibdb.com, I must have seen Robert Guillaume and someone named Patti Jo in the leads. It was in the ANTA theatre.

Something I remember so clearly and still sticks in my head was how taken I was with the marquee--it was like the album art in bright kelly green, which was my absolutely favorite color at the time. I had my dad take a picture of it but I've never been able to find that snapshot.

Druxy · « **Reply #16 on:** July 02, 2009, 06:40:40 AM »

Quote from: Michael S on July 02, 2009, 05:47:27 AM

And BTW

Tammy Grimes won the TONY AWARD for BEST FEATURED ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL!!

Even though she was the star and played the title role her name was below the title on the posters so the TONY committee said she was a supporting player.

This is not so strange. Tom Bosley the year before won for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for Fiorello!. He played the title role as well, but his name was below the title.

Nowadays the producers can request an actor billed above the title be placed in the featured category as Angela Lansbury was this past year.

But the committee decides in the end where a performer will be placed

When I was representing Howard Keel, he did a summer theatre production of MOLLY BROWN with Tammy Grimes somewhere on the east coast.

What I found interesting is the fact that she had the lead role...which she'd originated...yet Howard got first billing.

Yes, he was my friend and had a bigger name than Tammy, but still....

Druxy · « **Reply #17 on:** July 02, 2009, 06:44:41 AM »

The first musical I ever saw was OKLAHOMA! It was the road company; don't remember the cast, but it played Seattle in the very early 1950s at the Metropolitan Theater.

The Met was torn down over 50 years ago. It was part of the Olympic Hotel which, I assume, is still standing.

Druxy · « **Reply #18 on:** July 02, 2009, 06:48:48 AM »

Actually, OKLAHOMA! was the 2nd professional stage show I'd ever seen. My memories of it are not that vivid.

However, what does remain vivid in my memory is the first professional play I saw, HARVEY with Joe E. Brown.

I saw it when I was 5-years-old and there are moments from it that remain etched in my memory as if I saw it yesterday.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #19 on:** July 02, 2009, 06:51:02 AM »

Good morning, all! I slept late this morning and I had several weird dreams during the night. One of them was one of those "back at school" dreams and I remember that Encores! conductors Rob Fisher and Rob Berman were both in the dream. I also dreamed that I was watching with Bruce Pomahac the Encores! production of FINIAN'S RAINBOW, after it had moved to Broadway, which will happen in another two months, and I was talking to Rob Berman about the small string section.

So, this morning, Ballet Ballads, then the NYPL for a bit. DR FJL, what time are the festivities this evening?

FJL · « **Reply #20 on:** July 02, 2009, 06:53:19 AM »

Larry - we start at 5:00, and Ginny and Richard must leave by 7:00 at the latest for their 7:30 curtain.

It'll be quick, but that'll make every minute more special!!!

Michael · « **Reply #21 on:** July 02, 2009, 06:53:52 AM »

Forgot to mention:

When I lived in Colorado (Denver)

I drove from Aspen over the continental divide to Leadville just because of Molly Brown and I visited the Molly Brown house which was very modest and nothing like it was in the movie

Ginny · « **Reply #22 on:** July 02, 2009, 06:53:53 AM »

Thursday morning greetings! I, too, slept in this morning. I should have had Richard wake me when he left for Morning Prayer, but I slept until he returned at 9am - an unheard-of hour for me! Today, a little shopping around Rockefeller Center before the lovely soiree at the home of DR FJL and Skip.

FJL · « **Reply #23 on:** July 02, 2009, 06:55:34 AM »

Looking forward to seeing you!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #24 on:** July 02, 2009, 06:56:09 AM »

The first musical I ever saw was a junior high school production of KNICKERBOCKER HOLIDAY. The first professional production was the national tour of CAMELOT, with Arthur Treacher, Kathryn Grayson and Louis Hayward, the next was national tour THE SOUND OF MUSIC with Barbara Meister, a friend of my friend Bruce Pomahac, and the next the national tour of HELLO DOLLY! with Mary Martin and Carlton Carpenter.

By that time I was in college; when I discovered the bus route from Oxford to Cincinnati, I started skipping classes on Wednesday to catch matinees at the Shubert Theatre. I can't remember now if the first was the national tour of the Lincoln Center CAROUSEL with John Raitt or CABARET with Signe Hasso.

Michael · « **Reply #25 on:** July 02, 2009, 06:56:16 AM »

OKAY maybe not that modest. but compared to the film.....

Ginny · « **Reply #26 on:** July 02, 2009, 07:03:40 AM »

TOD - the first musical I ever saw was a national tour of The Music Man starring Forrest Tucker and Joan Weldon, at Detroit's Riviera Theatre, in 1959 or 1960. I only saw one more show at the Riviera, a Sound of Music tour starring Florence Henderson. The Riviera was closed when the Fisher Theatre was reopened as a stage house and my first show there was the Molly Brown tour I mentioned yesterday, probably in 1962 or 3. Throughout junior high, high school, and college, I saw many, many shows at the Fisher and then at Hill Auditorium on the campus of The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

Laura · « **Reply #27 on:** July 02, 2009, 07:04:13 AM »

My sister took me to see a couple of high school productions: Oklahoma, My Fair Lady, and Carousel. The first professional production I saw was A Chorus Line on tour.

ArnoldMBrockman · « **Reply #28 on:** July 02, 2009, 07:04:25 AM »

Quote from: bk on July 02, 2009, 12:20:49 AM

And the word of the day is: CALASH!

And The Song Of The Day Is: THE SURREY WITH THE FRINGE ON TOP

ArnoldMBrockman · « **Reply #29 on:** July 02, 2009, 07:09:17 AM »

TOD

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