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Re: ON MY WAY TO THE CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS
« Reply #30 on: August 12, 2011, 06:01:09 AM »

We will be going to Poughkeepsie for the weekend so I won't be around to listen or view anything.

The train ride up along the Hudson is one of my favorites.  And Poughkeepsie always looks to be an enticing place to visit.  Hope you enjoy your visit!
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Re: ON MY WAY TO THE CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS
« Reply #31 on: August 12, 2011, 06:03:28 AM »

Alas, I should have been in the air an hour and fifteen minutes ago, but due to various delays in getting here this morning - including my own - I missed my flight. Thankfully, there was room on the 12:30pm flight. So, I'll still be getting to San Diego today, just six hours later than originally scheduled/planned.
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Re: ON MY WAY TO THE CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS
« Reply #32 on: August 12, 2011, 06:04:52 AM »

Page Two Poughkeepsie Dance:



(Okay, they are actually from Rhinebeck but that's not too far away...)
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Re: ON MY WAY TO THE CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS
« Reply #33 on: August 12, 2011, 06:06:29 AM »

Congrats to DR JRand on his opening night of CAMELOT!
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Re: ON MY WAY TO THE CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS
« Reply #34 on: August 12, 2011, 06:06:49 AM »

In the meantime, I'm taking up residence in the Airspace Lounge here at BWI. It's basically a pay-for-a-day Admirals Club set up. It's not too bad. Free Wi-Fi, unlimited coffe and soft drinks, snacks, and one meal or alchoholic beverage are included in the one-time fee of $17.50. Kind of a bargain.
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Re: ON MY WAY TO THE CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS
« Reply #35 on: August 12, 2011, 06:07:57 AM »

Alas, I should have been in the air an hour and fifteen minutes ago, but due to various delays in getting here this morning - including my own - I missed my flight. Thankfully, there was room on the 12:30pm flight. So, I'll still be getting to San Diego today, just six hours later than originally scheduled/planned.

You can pass some time by standing in the middle of the lounge and singing "Good Morning, Baltimore" from HAIRSPRAY.

Out loud.
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Re: ON MY WAY TO THE CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS
« Reply #36 on: August 12, 2011, 06:08:34 AM »

We will be going to Poughkeepsie for the weekend so I won't be around to listen or view anything.

The train ride up along the Hudson is one of my favorites.  And Poughkeepsie always looks to be an enticing place to visit.  Hope you enjoy your visit!

I, too, love that train ride up the Hudson River, and I really need to do it again this Fall once the leaves starts to change.

-I'm not sure I'd call Poughkeepsie "enticing", but I do love the campus of Vassar.
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Re: ON MY WAY TO THE CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS
« Reply #37 on: August 12, 2011, 06:09:06 AM »

Alas, I should have been in the air an hour and fifteen minutes ago, but due to various delays in getting here this morning - including my own - I missed my flight. Thankfully, there was room on the 12:30pm flight. So, I'll still be getting to San Diego today, just six hours later than originally scheduled/planned.

You can pass some time by standing in the middle of the lounge and singing "Good Morning, Baltimore" from HAIRSPRAY.

Out loud.


Um.... No.

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« Reply #38 on: August 12, 2011, 06:11:04 AM »

Jose - Does Mr. Brantley's enthusiastic mention of Arena's OKLAHOMA! in his rundown on kisses onstage mean anything for the future of the production?
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Re: ON MY WAY TO THE CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS
« Reply #39 on: August 12, 2011, 06:13:30 AM »

MEdia Check:

iPod:  Two CDs I loaded about two weeks ago and I've yet listened to:  the Vernon Duke/Ogden Nash SWEET BYE AND BYE recording and Irene Dunne Sings Kern

Tivo:  nothing--I'm afraind my Tivo is kaput...

DVD:  nothing new...

On Demand:  I've been watching the latest DR. WHO episodes.  Finished season 5 earlier in the week and I'm up to Episode 5 of Season 6.  Wonderful series!
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Re: ON MY WAY TO THE CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS
« Reply #40 on: August 12, 2011, 06:14:36 AM »

Since I've been fascinated by the many many various clips of Baltimora and TARZAN BOY, and Jose is in Baltimore, here's

the BALTIMORA Tarzan Boy re-mix

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8d1fJT0I23I

Surprised to see taht the song only reached #13 in the U.S.  - it was everywhere for a while, at least in the establishments I went to.
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Re: ON MY WAY TO THE CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS
« Reply #41 on: August 12, 2011, 06:15:06 AM »

Alas, I should have been in the air an hour and fifteen minutes ago, but due to various delays in getting here this morning - including my own - I missed my flight. Thankfully, there was room on the 12:30pm flight. So, I'll still be getting to San Diego today, just six hours later than originally scheduled/planned.

You can pass some time by standing in the middle of the lounge and singing "Good Morning, Baltimore" from HAIRSPRAY.

Out loud.


Um.... No.

::)

Tch!  No one ever takes my ideas seriously... :(
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Re: ON MY WAY TO THE CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS
« Reply #42 on: August 12, 2011, 06:19:55 AM »

Otherwise, I had quite a nice time at an impromptu post-show gathering at the apartment of the dance captain last night. There were about 10 people from the cast and crew, two adorable puppies, and various food and drinks. Oh, and I was introduced to the TV show, "Dance Moms", on Lifetime TV. I may have to add that to my DVR queue.

Kyle, our "Dream Curly"', then graciously allowed me to stay overnight at his place so that I wouldn't have such a long drive this morning to BWI. Alas, even though I had avoided the morning rush hour traffic from Virginia to Baltimore, I did not avoid the morning rush hour traffic from DC to Baltimore. It took about 20 minutes longer than I had planned/GoogleMap'd...

And then because the big arrow pointing to the where the entrance to the Daily Lot at BWI was obscured by a tree AND a construction sign, I ended up having to drive around the airport loop for an extra ten minutes trying to get back to the garage. I did get to the check-in desk 30 minutes before my flight, but with the security screening line(!!!!!!!) there was no way I was going to make it to my gate in time. -The security screening line was truly one of the longest ones  I've ever been in.

But at least now I can have a leisurely breakfast, some beverages, a snack and free WiFi before my flight.
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Re: ON MY WAY TO THE CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS
« Reply #43 on: August 12, 2011, 06:21:55 AM »

Jose - Does Mr. Brantley's enthusiastic mention of Arena's OKLAHOMA! in his rundown on kisses onstage mean anything for the future of the production?

Fred - I have no idea. -I hope so.

*And thanks for the link to that article.
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Re: ON MY WAY TO THE CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS
« Reply #44 on: August 12, 2011, 06:23:29 AM »

Good Morning!

I'm up, I'm up... And I'm currently logging on from the Airspace Lounge at BWI.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Safe Travel Vibes for DR Jose! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Re: ON MY WAY TO THE CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS
« Reply #45 on: August 12, 2011, 06:23:34 AM »

On a related note, Anne Midgette also mentioned OKLAHOMA! in a recent blog article. She was talking about the "opera-ization" of the American Musical. Quite an interesting read. And we also got mentioned in a recent restaurant review too. ;)
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Re: ON MY WAY TO THE CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS
« Reply #46 on: August 12, 2011, 06:31:32 AM »

The Anne Midgette article I mentioned:

The opera-izing of the American musical

*She also talks about the recent production of ANNIE GET YOUR GUN up at Glimmerglass that starred Deborah Voigt and Rod Gilfry.
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Re: ON MY WAY TO THE CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS
« Reply #47 on: August 12, 2011, 06:34:26 AM »

DR Jane, I have not watched Falling Skies as it has not aired here. But if it does I will watch it. Or I may watch it at some point online.
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« Reply #48 on: August 12, 2011, 06:40:24 AM »

And the restaurant review:

Station 4

Alas, I'd have to agree with the reviewer on this one. And I also knew that those duck fat fries were from a freezer bag. But at least it's good to know that Tom Sietsema is familiar with the show. ;)
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Re: ON MY WAY TO THE CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS
« Reply #49 on: August 12, 2011, 06:54:43 AM »

*  *  *  *  *  Travel Vibes to San Diego to DR Jose  *  *  *  *  *
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« Reply #50 on: August 12, 2011, 06:54:59 AM »

Safe trip for BK.
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Re: ON MY WAY TO THE CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS
« Reply #51 on: August 12, 2011, 06:56:03 AM »

TOD:

As of 9am, I have nothing new to watch this weekend.

Perhaps something will arrive in today's mail.
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« Reply #52 on: August 12, 2011, 07:10:20 AM »

We have dipped into Hulu for the first  time.

We love Doc Martin but have not seen it in order and we wanted to watch it from the beginning. I've also missed some episodes because of the dentist appointment (I have evening appointments from 6pm to 8pm and the show begins at 8pm and we don't have a DVR or recordable DVD player and our VCR only plays back tapes). We watched the first 3 episodes. It takes some getting use to because we're watching it on a laptop in the living room. If we shift in our chairs it can cause viewing issues. We also have commercials. We are watching it on Hulu but not directly through the Hulu site because when I went to Hulu and clicked Play I was told the series is for "mature" audiences and I needed to register and log in before I could watch. I don't need to register to watch no friggin' TV shows so I went to tv.blinkx.com. They also say it's for mature audiences but all you have to do is choose the year you were born (or any year that makes you 18 or older) and you are then taken to Hulu to watch.

We may try to watch more episodes when we return from Poughkeepsie.
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Re: ON MY WAY TO THE CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS
« Reply #53 on: August 12, 2011, 07:16:34 AM »

Hopefully this won't happen to BK on his JetBlue flight.

(This story made me SO angry--what was the Port Authority thinking?  Hopefully there's a good civil attorney who can find something to sue the idiot for).
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« Reply #54 on: August 12, 2011, 07:21:39 AM »

Hopefully this won't happen to BK on his JetBlue flight.

(This story made me SO angry--what was the Port Authority thinking?  Hopefully there's a good civil attorney who can find something to sue the idiot for).

Well, as long as bk does not drink during his flight... ;)
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« Reply #55 on: August 12, 2011, 07:48:25 AM »

BK - Do you know where your seat is for FOLLIES on Sat. evening? 
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« Reply #56 on: August 12, 2011, 07:53:49 AM »

Friday morning greetings!

Alas, I should have been in the air an hour and fifteen minutes ago, but due to various delays in getting here this morning - including my own - I missed my flight. Thankfully, there was room on the 12:30pm flight. So, I'll still be getting to San Diego today, just six hours later than originally scheduled/planned.

You can pass some time by standing in the middle of the lounge and singing "Good Morning, Baltimore" from HAIRSPRAY.

Out loud.

I'd pay $17.50 just to see that...travel vibes to DR Jose!
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« Reply #57 on: August 12, 2011, 07:56:45 AM »

I also slept poorly last night and had the inevitable dream where everything went wrong at the rehearsal dinner.  I wonder if Mary Linda or her mother have had dreams like that about the wedding?

Anyway, today I must finish up the errands that didn't get done yesterday and ready the guest room for ML's arrival tonight.  She will be joined there tomorrow night by her mother and grandmother who are driving from Michigan in the morning for the 1:30pm bridal shower.
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« Reply #58 on: August 12, 2011, 07:57:21 AM »

Alas, I should have been in the air an hour and fifteen minutes ago, but due to various delays in getting here this morning - including my own - I missed my flight. Thankfully, there was room on the 12:30pm flight. So, I'll still be getting to San Diego today, just six hours later than originally scheduled/planned.

You can pass some time by standing in the middle of the lounge and singing "Good Morning, Baltimore" from HAIRSPRAY.

Out loud.


Um.... No.

::)




Or, you could just play the song on your kazoo!


    :D



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« Reply #59 on: August 12, 2011, 07:57:35 AM »

While out and about, I'll keep my eyes on the skies for BK's plane - NYC vibes!
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