Topic: SUPERNOTES (Read 8789 times)

Jrand73 · « **Reply #30 on:** July 16, 2011, 05:11:17 AM »

I don't know from the TOD.....I shall wait to see a few more lists.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #31 on:** July 16, 2011, 05:14:38 AM »

Page Two Cheaper By the Dozen Dance. The Joe Scales action sequence!

Jrand73 · « **Reply #32 on:** July 16, 2011, 05:15:36 AM »

Don't ask me why the boys are wearing their hats in the house.

vixmom · « **Reply #33 on:** July 16, 2011, 05:29:07 AM »

1776 was the first broadway show i ever saw

vixmom · « **Reply #34 on:** July 16, 2011, 05:29:40 AM »

Easy MRI vibes for Tommy

Laura · « **Reply #35 on:** July 16, 2011, 05:38:45 AM »

TOD: Comedy? I hear Michelle Bachman is pretty funny.

Ginny · « **Reply #36 on:** July 16, 2011, 05:46:29 AM »

Saturday morning greetings! We had a very restful night here in Williamsburg, KY - in fact, Richard's isn't over yet

I think it's best to let him sleep because he has another early morning tomorrow. The Lima folks who were at the Synod already know not to expect me.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #37 on:** July 16, 2011, 05:49:47 AM »

Off to work.....temperature predicted to be 90 degrees......we shall see.

Oh well.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #38 on:** July 16, 2011, 06:14:36 AM »

Good morning, all! I slept late because I had the chance. There were strange dreams but I remember none of them now.

Today is a relatively quiet day. I have second edits of the EILEEN third act and appendix to work on so I can send any fixes to London tomorrow. After last week's disastrous Saturday at Toyland, I am not even attempting anything there this morning. I have to listen to the new KNICKERBOCKER HOLIDAY recording and follow the vocal score, so I may spend a bit of time listening to other Kurt Weill scores as well. Tonight I am meeting my friend Bruce pomahac for dinner and a catch up on his three weeks out of town with various projects.

DR JRand60, I remember our discussion on 1776 from July 4, and I'm still amazed such a wonderful show doesn't meet your approval. I saw most of the the original Broadway cast in August 1969, about five months after it opened, and I remember how stunned I was at the end of the show; I didn't want to leave my seat. I wanted to see it again; that original cast - I did not see the strident Betty Buckley, but her standby Gretchen Cryer - was pretty wonderful. A year later, I saw the national tour, with a flimsy facsimile of Jo Mielziner's original set and a cast that was nearly as wonderful. but the magic of the show at the 46th Street Theatre wasn't there. The one good thing about the film is that Pat Zipprodt got a chance to redesign Martha Jefferson's costume and it's a vast improvement over the Broadway model.

Roundabout, who had for a while a fantastic ability to revive a classic musical and destroy it, actually did a pretty good job with 1778, which I saw Off-Broadway and again in its Broadway transfer, except for the fact that Brent Spiner was no Willam Daniels, Pat Hingle as Franklin was completely unintelligible, and Michael Cumpsty was continually singing under pitch. I also saw William Daniels on Broadway as Egermann the second time I saw A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC. He was the only really good cast replacement in that production.

So, I have to deal today with the bank; my new debit card continues to be problematic. I am not happy about this.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #39 on:** July 16, 2011, 06:15:45 AM »

Quote from: Laura on July 16, 2011, 05:38:45 AM

TOD: Comedy? I hear Michelle Bachman is pretty funny.

A laugh riot. If she weren't so pathetically stupid.

And a liar.

And a bigot.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #40 on:** July 16, 2011, 06:35:53 AM »

DR John G, most current translations of Alexandre Dumas, pere and fils, Victor Hugo, Balzac, and other French writers were made in the 19th Century, and anything that was offensive to Victoran American and British readers was expurgated. Most of the Oxford World Classics editions and other reprints of Dumas use these 19th Century editions, sometimes updating the translation but doing little to return to the authors' original text. As a result, the lesbians in THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO are usually modified to the status of just good friends.

I don't know how the 19th Century readers dealt with Zola's novel NANA, one of the great backstage novels - based on the star Hortense Schneider and Offenbach's opera bouffe company at the Theatre des Varieties - filled with such vital interests as prostitution and lesbianism. It sounds just like the original company of BABES IN TOYLAND!

Only Penguin Books, to my knowledge, has been commissioning new translations, and Robin Buss' translation of THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO is really, really excellent. So is the new translation of THE THREE MUSKETEERS.

Charles Pogue · « **Reply #41 on:** July 16, 2011, 06:59:19 AM »

TOD: I don't watch a lot of American comedies or comics much these days. Of the Americans, I really like Patton Oswalt and Ron White. Now that I've got a region-free DVD player, I've been importing a lot of British comedy, which I love: I've several complete seasons of a show called QI (Quite Interesting), essentially a British panel quiz show that is really just a format (like so many British panel quizzes) for the moderator, in this case, Stephen Fry and a panel of four comedians (Alan Davies being the one constant panelist) to riff on various subjects for a half hour. It is terribly witty, quick, and smart. On YouTube I can watch bits of QI also, as well as Mock The Week and Have I Got News For You. On the BBC, I listen religiously to The News Quiz, The Now Show, Just A Minute, The Unbelieveable Truth, and Sorry, I Haven't A Clue which all feature a host of comics and wits I've come to enjoy like Paul Merton David Mitchell, Sue Perkins, Andy Hamilton, Jack Dee, Fred MacCauley, Jo Brand Graham Norton, Barry Cryer, Tim Brooke-Taylor, and on and on. David Mitchell is also part of a comedy team that does a sketch show called That Mitchell and Webb Sound on radio and That Mitchell and Webb Look on telly. I'm also a fan of a British comedian called Al Murray, particularly in his guise as The Pub Landlord. His show is the only live stand-up show I've ever attended.

John G. · « **Reply #42 on:** July 16, 2011, 07:09:26 AM »

Good morning, all.

John G. · « **Reply #43 on:** July 16, 2011, 07:09:55 AM »

Laura, you beat me to the punch. Politicians on both sides seem to be the only ones leaving me laughing anymore.

Druxy · « **Reply #44 on:** July 16, 2011, 07:13:52 AM »

Quote from: Jrand60 on July 16, 2011, 04:33:23 AM

CD ordered.

DR DRUXY I forgot to tell you I ordered your new book. Looking forward to it.

Many thanks.

Druxy · « **Reply #45 on:** July 16, 2011, 07:16:56 AM »

TOD:

I really am not familiar with any of today's new comedians either.

I saw Russell Brand do a short stand-up routine on SNL a few months ago, and thought he was funny, but I have yet to see the ARTHUR remake.

No real plans to do so either.

Druxy · « **Reply #46 on:** July 16, 2011, 07:18:21 AM »

TOD:

Correction:

Ricky Gervais is hilarious.

John G. · « **Reply #47 on:** July 16, 2011, 07:41:19 AM »

Quote from: Druxy on July 16, 2011, 07:18:21 AM

TOD:

Correction:

Ricky Gervais is hilarious.

Most of the time, I would agree. "The Invention of Lying" is an exception.

FJL · « **Reply #48 on:** July 16, 2011, 07:42:29 AM »

The guests disappeared so quickly, almost en masse.

Kerry · « **Reply #49 on:** July 16, 2011, 08:17:12 AM »

Good Saturday Morning!

Laura · « **Reply #50 on:** July 16, 2011, 08:21:22 AM »

Some day we should discuss unfunny comedians. Like Jim Carey.

Ben · « **Reply #51 on:** July 16, 2011, 08:31:20 AM »

Quote from: Laura on July 16, 2011, 08:21:22 AM

Some day we should discuss unfunny comedians. Like Jim Carey.

Took the words right out of my mouth!!!

JMK · « **Reply #52 on:** July 16, 2011, 08:32:01 AM »

Quote from: vixmom on July 16, 2011, 05:29:07 AM

1776 was the first broadway show i ever saw

Me, too, Vixmom.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #53 on:** July 16, 2011, 08:33:14 AM »

Relief! The debit card problem is now over, and it works.

It will be nice when BK wakes up and fixes the posting problems: totday's posts, as DR Ben announced earlier, are showing up as yesterday's on the contents of the "Daily Discussions" page.

I've been listening to the new KNICKERBOCKER HOLIDAY with the vocal score and I am amazed at the number of cuts, 40 bars here, 2 bars there.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #54 on:** July 16, 2011, 08:34:56 AM »

Good Morning!

I'm up, I'm up... And so is the internet. Again.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #55 on:** July 16, 2011, 08:36:30 AM »

Quote from: Jrand60 on July 16, 2011, 04:29:04 AM

DR JOSE drink lots of liquids for your 2-show day!

DR JRand - Well... I usually tend to pace my liquid consumption on show days, if ya' get my drift.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #56 on:** July 16, 2011, 08:38:03 AM »

Quote from: Jrand60 on July 16, 2011, 04:29:27 AM

What number in the show has been getting the best response? What line always kills?

"Kansas City"

"Fifty-One Dollars!"

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #57 on:** July 16, 2011, 08:49:26 AM »

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JoseSPiano · « **Reply #58 on:** July 16, 2011, 08:59:24 AM »

And speaking of a two-show day...

Laters...

bk · « **Reply #59 on:** July 16, 2011, 09:05:28 AM »

I'm up (barely) and she of the Evil Eye is here, and I should jog in about thirty minutes but I'm so tired I'd probably fall asleep but if I don't then I have to kill even more time. We shall see.

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