Good morning, all! Mr Moross and Mr Loesser are on my schedule of events today. Frst, a call to the pharmacy for more meds. I'll walk down to pick them up around noon.
While I was looking forward immensely to CHICAGO, I am very apathetic about the new film NINE, since s much of the score is gone, I find a lot of the casting bizarre, and the riginal Broadway production was one of the most glorious productions I have ever seen and heard. Those broads may have been crazy backstage but they were absolutely brilliant onstage, and their singing was glorious. I think it may have been one of the most stylish productions I've ever seen. I have been fortunate to have seen many original productions that have only suffered in revival from poor casting, idiotic direction, ugly design, and misconception; NINE was the epitome of style and [ci]chic[/i] and I remember how amazed I was that Tommy Tune's work was so stunning and different from his hysterically funny work on THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS. I was never crazy about MY ONE AND ONLY, but NINE and the (to me) less successful GRAND HOTEL are two of the greatest stagings I've ever seen. Well, GRAND HOTEL did have one misstep with that strange number in which Karen Akers was hanging off the top of set singing of her unrequited love for Montevecchi.