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« Reply #90 on: September 25, 2010, 12:32:54 PM »

Well, just when I'm happy with no recording trauma, I get a phone call about one of our singers being unhappy singing one of Herbert's German lieder bcause she says it's a man's song. The cover of the music says it's composed for either an Alto or a Baritone but she's having la problem . I'm so used to singers singing in classical song about their affection for the same sex that I wasn't bothered as she was. Marilyn Horne sings "I dream of Jeannie with the light brown hair," Benjamin Britten arranges "The Trees They Grow So High" for a tenor, the Boswell Sisters and Ethel Waters recorded "Dinah," and we've got Jeanne Lehman singing two masculine songs written for star Madge Ellis, a male impersonator from vaudeville, on the recording, and I have no problem with a woman singing the song. I guess this singer will be turning down any offers to sing Geschwitz, the lesbian in Alban Berg's opera LULU!

So, the gist is, I've got to find a baritone with a classically trained instrument to sing this damned number now, three weeks before we record it and I'm not happy at the moment.
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« Reply #91 on: September 25, 2010, 12:43:34 PM »

It's a very warm but beautiful day in Manhattan. We were watching some television and happened on to Ion TV which shows re-runs of Mash. Guess which episode they happened to be playing? Mr. Kimmel's. It's the one where he was a wounded soldier and there is a "cease fire". He's not in much of the show but he's got good screen time.
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« Reply #92 on: September 25, 2010, 01:12:01 PM »

I also liked the picture with the Vixter and thought the one with Monkey was funny!
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« Reply #93 on: September 25, 2010, 02:31:38 PM »

DR elmore QUICK FINDING A WONDERFUL BARITONE VIBES!!!
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« Reply #94 on: September 25, 2010, 02:52:55 PM »

DR elmore QUICK FINDING A WONDERFUL BARITONE VIBES!!!

Thanks! It's all covered. I called steven LaBrie, who's singing in a quartet that session, and he will add the song to his list.
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« Reply #95 on: September 25, 2010, 03:20:41 PM »

MOST EXCELLENT VIBES AND XYLOPHONES FOR CONTINUED GOOD WEATHER AND AN ON-TIME, SAFE, AND STRESS FREE FLIGHT TO BK
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« Reply #96 on: September 25, 2010, 03:22:09 PM »

Hi Ben!

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« Reply #97 on: September 25, 2010, 03:44:25 PM »

T.O.D.


First Broadway musical I saw was the tourig company of ONCE UPON A MATTRESS, starring Imogene Coca, King Donovan (Mr. Imogene Coca), and Edward Everett Horton.  It was a wonderful production and the whole day would have been perfect if Ms Coca hadn't been such a bitch to an adorable young man who just wanted her autograph.

First Broadway musical on Broadway was HELLO, DOLLY! starring Pearl Bailey, Cab Calloway, and the All-Black cast.
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« Reply #98 on: September 25, 2010, 03:48:24 PM »

Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Jrand Sr.
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« Reply #99 on: September 25, 2010, 03:55:25 PM »





Did I call that one, or what?   ;D

Someone would have to read your posts to know for sure!
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« Reply #100 on: September 25, 2010, 04:03:54 PM »

DR Elmore - yay for Steven LaBrie being a team player and stepping up to do the song!
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« Reply #101 on: September 25, 2010, 04:04:26 PM »

Congratulations on the 'rents' anniversary, JRand!
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« Reply #102 on: September 25, 2010, 04:10:43 PM »

Yay for Steven LaBrie - period!
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« Reply #103 on: September 25, 2010, 04:15:17 PM »

My first live theater was The Music Man.  My father, brother & sister had seen it in NY and loved it.  When it came to L.A. my mother and I went together & we too loved it.  My memory says it starred Robert Preston.  I haven't a clue who else.  If only I had known to save a ticket or something.
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« Reply #104 on: September 25, 2010, 04:17:34 PM »

Thanks all for the congrats regading my lab work yesterday.  They were much improved, but we still have a ways to go.

Oh, and I am still fat.
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« Reply #105 on: September 25, 2010, 04:22:55 PM »

So I dug out the programme for OLIVER!  Robin Ramsay played Fagin; Judy Bruce played Nancy...but Davey Jones (billed David Jones) did play The Artful Dodger.  I realized a also spelled Shubert incorrectly.  Also found the programme for the Guare/MacDermot TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA  that played the Shubert and starred Larry Kert and Jill O'Hara.

Pogue, bet you'll find Barry Pearl in the Oliver cast.
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« Reply #106 on: September 25, 2010, 04:26:59 PM »

I had a very nice day today.  The session with Skip and Rebecca Luker was effortless and wonderful.  Then Skip and I went to lunch - I ordered some onion rings and had only five, and Skip had some rings and some wings.  Then I went to the Brooklyn Diner and met a gal pal I haven't seen in close to eighteen years - she looked great and it was fun catching up with her.  She has a fourteen-year-old daughter now and has been through some interesting things, one of which would make a really good Lifetime movie.
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« Reply #107 on: September 25, 2010, 04:28:02 PM »

I had the salad I like plus a small side of mac and cheese that was great but tasted more like fettucini alfredo.  We shared the coconut cake - I only ate about a third of it, thank goodness.
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« Reply #108 on: September 25, 2010, 04:29:18 PM »

Then I booked my car to the airport (leaving at 4:45 in the morning) and came back to the hotel to find my room key card was once again not working for the elevator.  They gave me a new one and said the system has been having some hiccups and that they're working on it.
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« Reply #109 on: September 25, 2010, 04:29:58 PM »

I'm going to try and go to bed by nine or ten - not sure if I'll post the notes then as it would be seven in LA, so I might post them when I get up - we shall see.
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« Reply #110 on: September 25, 2010, 04:30:22 PM »

Finally, might I just say, page FOUR???  Someone get me off this damn page.
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« Reply #111 on: September 25, 2010, 04:33:35 PM »

Sorry I couldn't join you guys for lunch, BK.  So glad the recording session went so well.
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« Reply #112 on: September 25, 2010, 04:34:03 PM »

Wishes for Jrand's folks!
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« Reply #113 on: September 25, 2010, 05:06:56 PM »

Yay for Steven LaBrie - period!

I knew he'd perk your spirits up!
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« Reply #114 on: September 25, 2010, 05:29:50 PM »

T.O.D.


First Broadway musical I saw was the tourig company of ONCE UPON A MATTRESS, starring Imogene Coca, King Donovan (Mr. Imogene Coca), and Edward Everett Horton.  It was a wonderful production and the whole day would have been perfect if Ms Coca hadn't been such a bitch to an adorable young man who just wanted her autograph.

First Broadway musical on Broadway was HELLO, DOLLY! starring Pearl Bailey, Cab Calloway, and the All-Black cast.

The years must have mellowed Ms. Coca. I met her after some forgotten dinner theater production (also starring King Donovan) and wanted my vocal score of "On the 20th Century" autographed. She grabbed the book and leafed through the whole thing looking at all of the photographs and talking about how wonderful that production had been. In the meantime, her full-sized poodles ran through the dining room licking a few of the plates set out for the evening performance.

I met her about 10 years later when I got Judy Kaye to autograph the same book. They were both in a touring production of "20th Century" and Coca said she remembered signing the book.
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« Reply #115 on: September 25, 2010, 05:31:34 PM »

DR Elmore - yay for Steven LaBrie being a team player and stepping up to do the song!
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« Reply #116 on: September 25, 2010, 05:33:10 PM »

Just turned on the TV for a while and instantly fell asleep for thirty minutes.
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« Reply #117 on: September 25, 2010, 05:58:54 PM »

Good Evening!

I'm back from Governor's Island.  -Where a delicious time was had by all at The Vendys.
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« Reply #118 on: September 25, 2010, 06:04:07 PM »

Alas, The Big Ice Cream Truck did not win A Vendy this year. Again. But our lines were long and our customers were happy.
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« Reply #119 on: September 25, 2010, 06:07:58 PM »

Oh...

And over the course of the day, I believed I sliced up about 10 quarts of strawberries, and prepared and served 400 cups of ice cream "samplings": Toasted Curried Coconut with Ginger Syrup, Peppermint Syrup with Scharffenberger Cacao Nibs, and Mixed Berries in Saba.
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