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« Reply #60 on: May 14, 2004, 08:54:53 AM »

No rhymes for me I am afraid! My brain doesn't work that good in the morning! LOL!

CD player: Various Eurovision CDs from DR Tomovoz (hmmm...those Turkish ones sound interesting!)

VHS: Tons of stuff taped off of TCM this week.

DVD player: CITY OF MISSING GIRLS with a VERY young Gale (billed as Gail) Storm.

and my Bollywood movie(s) for this week (I am taking a long 5 day weekend so I will watch 2 Indian movies):
WOH KAUN THI? and BEES SALL BAAD, two ghost thrillers from the early 60s. Both in scary black and white. I am in the middle of WOH KAUN THI? right now and it is quite good and quite creepy: A handsome young doctor who just inherited a lot of money keeps seeing a ghost woman dressed all in white!



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« Reply #61 on: May 14, 2004, 09:25:07 AM »

http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1875136

Stephen Schwartz on NPR gives fascinating insight into his process.  (We've much in common.)  Do yourself a favor and listen to it all.

When I was working on Working at Signature Theatre a few years ago, Mr. Schwartz was "in residence" for rehearsals.  -Actually, it was this version that was the basis for the subsequent Long Wharf version, and the one that got recorded out in L.A.  *I was one of the first people to play the Grocery Checker's Song - and finding the right sound on the keyboard for all those "beeps" was "fun" too!  Well...

Mr. Schwartz was in the process of getting the final drafts of music for "Gepetto" done at the time.  In fact, if I remember correctly, he was under quite the deadline. Well, there was one afternoon where I had to come in to do some keyboard programming, and it just so happened that Mr. Schwartz was also in the "pit" too working on his music.  I was all set to leave, but he said my work wouldn't bother him (I had headphones for the keyboard, but I wasn't sure if all the button pushing would bother him).  So, for about an hour or so, I sat next to him - well, actually just behind him while he worked away.  It was very neat to hear and see him work.  He was working mainly on Gepetto's big ballad, and to hear him sing it was kind of emotional.  (And it's just too bad Drew Carey was chosen to play the part for Disney.)

-And the NPR interview is very good too.  I liked the snippet they played last week - especially since it gave a plug for our production of Children of Eden at Ford's.  -Which Mr. Schwartz seemed very pleased with too.  :D
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« Reply #62 on: May 14, 2004, 09:34:52 AM »

Media Check


DVD Player:  NORTH BY NORTHWEST (The third time making it to the top of the DVD pile, but, so far, it hasn’t made it out of the box.)

CD Player:  ULTIMATE MANILOW (I can’t help it, I love his music.)

Video Player:   The Tacoma Little Theatre’s 85th Anniversary Gala (Damn, I’m good!  Just kidding)
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« Reply #63 on: May 14, 2004, 09:42:38 AM »

My apologies for my absence this week, Dear BK and Dear Readers.  I'm afraid I was a tad under the weather.  (Now where did an expression like that come from?)

I have kept up with the witty columns and cherce posts, however.  First things first:

Belated happy birthday greetings to Dear Reader Robin and to Dear Wife of Dear Reader Charles Pogue Julieanne!
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« Reply #64 on: May 14, 2004, 09:47:49 AM »

Excellent poetic posts!

If the answer Panni sent me by e-mail for the girl on the right is who she thinks it is, she is incorrect.  The girl on the extreme right of that sequence is the real-life version of a major character in KT.
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« Reply #65 on: May 14, 2004, 09:55:53 AM »

Jay, don't you want to tell us what you saw tonight?

Of course I do!  I saw the national tour of Urinetown, at the historic Wilshire Theatre in the Hills of Beverly.

I'd not seen the show before.  The OBC recording of the show clued me in to the notion that this show has great tongue-in-cheek fun parodying various Broadway musical styles and conventions.  What was new to me was how the artistic team made brash use of choregraphy to achieve that objective as well.   It was great fun!

Mr. Jeff McCarthy, from the original cast, played Officer Lockstock to huge laughs.  Miss Christiane Noll was delightful as Hope Cladwell.  She has a gorgeous voice and is quite easy on the eyes.  I look forward to seeing her in a meaty starring role sometime soon.  Mr. Ron Holgate was pure ham (appropriately so) as Caldwell B. Cladwell and Mr. Charlie Pollock was spot on as Bobby Strong, as was Miss Meghan Strange as Little Sally, and Miss Beth McVey as Penelope Pennywise.
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« Reply #66 on: May 14, 2004, 09:57:31 AM »

In a message yesterday, BK wrote:

"Oh, RLP, don't be such a poop.  Just be happy, dear.  We're all happy - if people want to make one sentence posts to run the numbers up, let them.  We've got quality, we've got quantity - or, to quote Mr. Maltby and Mr. Shire - "I want it all""

I was responding to TCB's lament about having slipped in his number of posts.  

I reminded him of what everyone here learned very early on in response to the daily rush to beat the previous day's numbers:  Post one-sentence -- or one-word -- posts.  Quantity long ago was established as the desired goal.



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« Reply #67 on: May 14, 2004, 10:07:05 AM »

Welcome eight GUESTS.  Join us in our poetic day.
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« Reply #68 on: May 14, 2004, 10:19:28 AM »

I have not, alas, contributed a poem to today's proceedings. I am not very good at poetry extempore so I shall add a little ditty composed by the wonderfully acerbic Miss Dorothy Parker:

<ahem>

Life is a Glorious Cycle of Song
A Medley of Extemporania
And Love Is A Thing That Can Never Go Wrong...
And I Am Marie of Rumania


<bow, exit left>
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« Reply #69 on: May 14, 2004, 10:21:41 AM »

Love Dorothy Parker!
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« Reply #70 on: May 14, 2004, 10:23:36 AM »

Anna must stop posting, get off her butt and work Haiku:

Errands must be done
Words that dance and sing written
Phonecalls made, answered
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« Reply #71 on: May 14, 2004, 10:25:52 AM »

I just finished listening to Man Tora, the Manhattan Transfer's concert from Tokyo and in a half hour I will mosey over to BBC 2 and listen to Part 4 (the final installment) of the Doris Day retrospective.
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« Reply #72 on: May 14, 2004, 10:29:08 AM »

When MGM did That's Entertainment, was that a metrospective?
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« Reply #73 on: May 14, 2004, 10:53:26 AM »

WOW!

Even the highly-esteemed Ms. Barbara Cook gets sick!?!?!  ;)

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/86168.html
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« Reply #74 on: May 14, 2004, 12:01:42 PM »

I saw a number from Bombay Dreams on Good Morning America this morning.  The number was lip-synched which really bothered me, since to me the best part of a musical is hearing the people sing.  

I was just wondering how many of the numbers in the show are done this way.
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« Reply #75 on: May 14, 2004, 12:07:05 PM »

Jennifer---
I have not seen (and have no desire to see) BOMBAY DREAMS, but it was probably lip-synched for television and is not done that way in the theatre.  This is often the case when a number from a show is teledvised.
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« Reply #76 on: May 14, 2004, 12:07:07 PM »

Can someone teach me how to haiku.

Is it just 5-7-5?  Or is there a special technique involved?
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« Reply #77 on: May 14, 2004, 12:30:33 PM »

... Found the strangest site -- for movie/TV fans who happen to be foot fetishists ("Foot-Lovers' Database") -- which lists scenes from movies/TV from the POV of feet, so to speak. ...
So, what was the review they gave for Tootsie?   ;)
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« Reply #78 on: May 14, 2004, 12:39:24 PM »

Can someone teach me how to haiku.

Is it just 5-7-5?  Or is there a special technique involved?

Jenn, there are tons of schools of tradition on composing haikus.  Some even say that you do not have to strictly adhere to the 5-7-5 rule.  But for the most part, 5-7-5 is the way to go.
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« Reply #79 on: May 14, 2004, 12:42:52 PM »

Jennifer,

Here's one of MANY Web sites on how to compose Haiku.

http://www.cc.matsuyama-u.ac.jp/~shiki/Start-Writing.html

Google "composing haiku" and you'll get lots of sites to choose from
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« Reply #80 on: May 14, 2004, 12:47:25 PM »

DR Ben, thanks for the haiku site.  I had actually seen another one.  But their explanations are SO LONG!
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« Reply #81 on: May 14, 2004, 01:26:50 PM »

Is DR Jane still in Los Angeles, or is she currently in Tarnation?
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« Reply #82 on: May 14, 2004, 01:29:06 PM »

Mr. Orr, it is nice to see you around these here parts, even if you are only lurking.
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« Reply #83 on: May 14, 2004, 01:31:04 PM »

I would have thought Jane would have been back by now.
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« Reply #84 on: May 14, 2004, 01:41:41 PM »

In the CD player:  Rod McKuen: Early Harvest...Rod as a folk singer.

And...

DICK HAYMES:  It Might As Well Be Spring

Off to the Reds/Dodgers game later this evening with Mr. Drake...
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« Reply #85 on: May 14, 2004, 01:44:52 PM »

In the CD player:  Rod McKuen: Early Harvest...Rod as a folk singer.

And...

DICK HAYMES:  It Might As Well Be Spring

Off to the Reds/Dodgers game later this evening with Mr. Drake...

Larry or Alfred?



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« Reply #86 on: May 14, 2004, 01:53:23 PM »

Come now people, we started out so well this morning with a large and eclectic number of posts, but we seem to have slowed to a crawl (except for me, of the Magic Fingers -- why yes I do rent out to motels)  We must not allow this deluge of chere posts to slow to a trickle.  We must not allow Friday the 14th to become a day synonymous with low posts!
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« Reply #87 on: May 14, 2004, 01:56:51 PM »

A whole semester acting like a nerd,
in writing essays, and in counting "hee-uhs,"
in wond'ring at the oddities absurd
that dangle from my English teacher's ea-uhs.
At last it's through, the final final done,
the papers writ, my teachers' problem now;
no school today- now I can have some fun,
sit on my futon, watch cartoons, and chow.
Until I get my grades and must account
for each and every mark my dad will see,
it's Cherry Coke- unlimited amount-
and animated aardvarks on TV.
    It's summer- I can do just as I please.
    Too bad outside's one hundred eight degrees.
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« Reply #88 on: May 14, 2004, 01:56:58 PM »

In our discussions of chorus people glimpsed in films who later became stars, I thought of Julie Newmar as one of the femme fatales in THE BAND WAGON (she flashes by very hurriedly in "The Girl Hunt," but it's her a year before playing Dorcas in SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS.

In watching DUBARRY WAS A LADY last week, I noticed one of the calendar girls who went on to big success in movies and TV - Marilyn Maxwell.
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« Reply #89 on: May 14, 2004, 02:01:49 PM »

And, of course, that's Gower Champion in the strawberry blonde hair whirling across the screen with Cyd Charisse in TILL THE CLOUDS ROLL BY.
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