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[elmore3003]

I've finished the piano part, and I found a lot of things to check tomorrow in the band parts.

I am meeting Susanna Moross and her husband Peter Tarjan for breakfast tomorrow at 8:30. After that I will zip down to City Center.

[elmore3003]

I would like to thank all of you who have offered me vibes for my callback tomorrow night.  I think just about every actor that is over 40 and still breathing will be at callbacks.  It is going to be a very long night.

You have one advantage: you knew the original king.

And meeting you will mean that I will also know the original queen!

Good try, Old Man!

[Jrand74]

Time for Jean Harlow

[Ben]

I would like to thank all of you who have offered me vibes for my callback tomorrow night.  I think just about every actor that is over 40 and still breathing will be at callbacks.  It is going to be a very long night.

You have one advantage: you knew the original king.

And meeting you will mean that I will also know the original queen!

Good try, Old Man!

Now boys! You're both pretty.

[Jane]

Last night we watched the terrific documentary WAITING FOR SUPERMAN.  It was always interesting while at times sad, frustrating, and inspiring.

[George]

Wow, it activated itself not in ninety minutes but in eighteen minutes.  Suddenly my iPhone, which normally has no more than one bar in the house, has four bars.  Amazing!

Nice!

[Ginny]

Greetings from Lima, Ohio's beautiful west side!  We arrived in time for Fr. Richard to conduct Evening Prayer.  We then had a Fat Tuesday pancake supper, at which I ate food that is far richer than my usual.  My stomach is beginning to calm down...

[TCB]

I would like to thank all of you who have offered me vibes for my callback tomorrow night.  I think just about every actor that is over 40 and still breathing will be at callbacks.  It is going to be a very long night.

TCB, last night I told Christian that you said "Hi" and he said that you were one of his absolute most favorite people to work with!!

That is very nice of him to say.  I have known Christian's family since I was a little kid.  His grandmother was one of the legends of Tacoma musicals in the 50s and 60s.  I first worked with his father in SOUND OF MUSIC in 1968  His dad has worked aa a performerfor all of his adult life.  Even when we have lost touch for periods of time, we have always reconnected eventually.  Even though I have been around his father, I never knew there was a Christian.  Then a few years ago, I was cast in an Agatha Christie play, and Christian was also cast in the show.  When he told me who his grandmother was AND then who his father was; I almost passed out.

[TCB]

Christian is a very talented actor, writer, musician, and singer.  In addition he is one oif the nicest and funniest people I know.

[TCB]

Christian is a very talented actor, writer, musician, and singer.  In addition he is one oif the nicest and funniest people I know.

I was hoping that he might go out for the role of Prince John in LION IN WINTER, but he is already tied up with CANNIBAL.

[TCB]

I seem to have brought things to a standstill again.

[Jennifer]

I just watched the PBS LES MIS 25th anniversary concert. It was very good! Loved seeing Norm Lewis and Lea Salonga. And the Jean Valjean ((Alfie Boe) was very good. I would definitely recommend it.

[FJL]

Break a leg, dear TCB!

[TCB]

What role did Norm Lewis play?  I couldn't get past Act One.  I thought the performance was rather poor compared to the wonderful 10th Anniversary Concert.

[TCB]

Break a leg, dear TCB!

Thank you, Fred.

[George]

What role did Norm Lewis play?  I couldn't get past Act One.  I thought the performance was rather poor compared to the wonderful 10th Anniversary Concert.

He played Javert.  I though that he was very good...in my humble opinion (IMHO in Internet lingo).

[George]

I found out today that my former boss has cancer.  It's a rare and aggressive form of thyroid cancer.  I wasn't particularly fond of him, but no one deserves that, so I wrote a nice post on his caring bridge page

~~~Vibes for a Quick Recovery for Cillaliz's Former Boss!!~~~

[George]

And now, I'm off to rehearsal.

Be back later!

[TCB]

What role did Norm Lewis play?  I couldn't get past Act One.  I thought the performance was rather poor compared to the wonderful 10th Anniversary Concert.

He played Javert.  I though that he was very good...in my humble opinion (IMHO in Internet lingo).

Oh yes, I thought he was very gtood, too.

[TCB]

G'night!

[Jane]

I found out today that my former boss has cancer.  It's a rare and aggressive form of thyroid cancer.  I wasn't particularly fond of him, but no one deserves that, so I wrote a nice post on his caring bridge page

~~~Vibes for a Quick Recovery for Cillaliz's Former Boss!!~~~

Or an easy end.  I'm not sure anyone recovers from this.

[elmore3003]

I've been watching the most wonderful DVD about the dancer Jacques d'Amboise, whose biography I'm currently reading, The DVD has complete performances of three ballets, Balanchine's "Apollo," Jerome Robbins' "Afternoon of a Faun," and Lew Christensen's very funny "Filling Station," the ballet that made d'Amboise a star and sent him to Hollywood for SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS. There are also several Bell Telephone Hour performances of excerpts from "Swan Lake," "Nutcracker," and "Stars and Stripes."

The final section is a 2006 interview with d'Amboise who's about 72 years old at the time, about the dating age for DR MBarnum; it's quite moving.

[elmore3003]

What role did Norm Lewis play?  I couldn't get past Act One.  I thought the performance was rather poor compared to the wonderful 10th Anniversary Concert.

He played Javert.  I though that he was very good...in my humble opinion (IMHO in Internet lingo).

Norm's a really good guy to boot!

[bk]

Just finished watching Inside Job.  If this film does not finally get people to understand what has been going on in this country then this country deserves what it will most surely continue to get.  It is infuriating, nauseating, moving.  It will have you shaking your head, it will have you yelling out loud.  And anyone who thinks our dear president is doing one single thing about the problem other than keeping the staus quo, will learn otherwise.  They will either be alarmed by it, or ignore it.

I remember the debate here when the bailout happened - several of us were very opinionated that the bailout money would help only the rich, which it pretty much did.  And yet, there are those who will not see what's in front of them.  The taxpayers' money has gone into the pockets of people who did not need their stuffed pockets stuffed anymore.  There is only one place that something should have been stuffed and it wasn't their pockets and the stuffing should have been something a lot stronger than money.

I am now going to get a snack.  When will the sheep awaken and do something?  The government is run by the financial industry - if enough people quote Mr. Paddy Chayefsky and shout "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore," and then actually stand up and DO something about it - by the MILLIONS - only then will things change for the better.

[John G.]

Any other shows that should have been recorded then that we have missed?

There may have beena few flops that might have been recorded. The most serious loss besides LOVE LIFE and WHERE'S CHARLEY? is the fantastic Villa-Lobos flop MAGDALENA.

But we did get a recording of it with Judy Kaye. Quite lush and lovely.

You asked if there were any shows then that were not recorded because of the strike. I answered. I love Judy Kaye, who's a dear friend, but I would have killed to hear Irra Petina in the original cast!

Saw that posting later and I agree. But we got a recording, at least. There's still no commercial release of "Love Life" was all I was getting at.

[John G.]

Had a beautiful dinner on the River Walk this evening. The weather was in the low 80s with a breeze and it was just pleasant to sit outside with friends and watch the rest of the world drift by.

Dinner was a three-course pick-your-own deal. I had rabbit terrine with a beautiful salad, arugula with pickled radishes. I could have eaten the radishes all night. Then lamb provencale, followed by something called domino cake, which was largely pound cake, raspberry sauce and whipped cream. I could have eaten that all night, too.

[JoseSPiano]

Good Evening!

Is it Lent yet?

[JoseSPiano]

As for the Topic of the Day...
-Trouble in Tahiti - The whole "There is a garden..." sequence destroys me every time. -And then I get picked up again by "What a movie!".

I had never heard of TROUBLE IN TAHITI, until last weekend when i read that Tacoma Opera is doing it along with PAGLIACCI opening this weekend.

I have a few friends in that double-bill.  From all reports, it should be a wonderful evening of operatic marital discord.

[JoseSPiano]

Any news on the news DR JOSE?

I have one more phone call/meeting this afternoon, and then...

CHORUS:
And then?...
And THEN?...
AND THEN?...

(I don't know what song that is from but I can hear it in my head...)

And then he thought about the game..........  From DAMN YANKEES!

BINGO!

[JoseSPiano]

And now I guess we're all waiting to see if Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark will indeed announce tomorrow that they will shut down the production for 2-3 weeks in order to overhaul the show.

Aren't we?