Topic: OPEN ARMS AND CLOSED FEET (Read 30217 times)

TCB · « **Reply #120 on:** June 07, 2004, 01:45:57 PM »

I would like to apologize for being E & T from last night’s Tony Party at this here site. I got home from my matinee yesterday evening at about 6:30, to find the parking lot overrun with police cars. I ended up having to park on the street and walk back to the apartment. There were several handcuffed individuals and a large number of cops standing around the neighbor’s apartment door. After about an hour, the police vans moved in and set up shop in the parking lot. That is when I stopped an officer and asked exactly what was going on next door. He confirmed what I had imagined, that there was a Meth Lab being operated out of the apartment. Fortunately, this was one of, what the officer called, the new Meth Lab, where only one step in the process was completed at each lab before sending on the ingredients to the next. Our lab happened to be where they ground up the ephedrine tablets, so there should not be any direct risk to the other tenants or myself. Still it was well after midnight, before the police finally packed up the vans and let us get some sleep.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #121 on:** June 07, 2004, 01:46:01 PM »

THANKS RLP!!! Nice.

Jane · « **Reply #122 on:** June 07, 2004, 01:46:12 PM »

WEL, sad but true. The damage I believe he has done to the environment is why I will vote against Bush.

William E. Lurie · « **Reply #123 on:** June 07, 2004, 01:46:47 PM »

RLP---
Thanks for posting the logo. I understand the reason Marc Kudish is leaving ASSASSINS for NIGHT MUSIC is that they are paying him over five times as much as he is currently making. I also read the rest of the ASSASSINS cast is quite upset that he is leaving them. I have seen him in both shows and he is excellent in both roles. It's not like he is leaving ASSASSINS before the originally announced closing date, so he honored his committment.

Jason · « **Reply #124 on:** June 07, 2004, 01:47:36 PM »

We saw Ms. Gale Garnett's "Small Potatos," Ms. Debbie Reynolds "If I Had A Hammer" (truly bizzare), and January Jones' "Lazy River," "That Old Gang of Mine," and "I Love Being Here With You." He has so many more, but we skipped most of them.

Jane · « **Reply #125 on:** June 07, 2004, 01:48:14 PM »

TCB-what a night you had.

Off to do my errands now.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #126 on:** June 07, 2004, 01:48:54 PM »

I wanted to post this larger, but it's too large and I don't want to be fussed at. It's half of the back of the flyer I received. An attractive cast, I think:

Jay · « **Reply #127 on:** June 07, 2004, 01:49:06 PM »

Quote from: RLP on June 07, 2004, 01:42:43 PM

I got a card in the mail today:

So? Will you be coming down to see it, Dear Reader RLP?

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #128 on:** June 07, 2004, 01:50:44 PM »

Photo ID, left to right:

Jessica Boevers, Petra
Laura Benanti, Anne
Zoe Caldwell, Madame Armfeldt
Victor Garber, Fredrik
Danny Gurwin, Henrik
Judith Ivey, Desiree
Marc Kudisch, Carl-Magnus
Michele Pawk, Charlotte
Hank Stratton, Frid

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #129 on:** June 07, 2004, 01:51:55 PM »

I wish I could come down, DR Jay, but I have a geriatric cat who must be dosed with medicine twice a day and receive a subcutaneous saline injection daily.

Kennels charge more for doing those things than they do for a day's kennel stay.

I'm going to have to pass.

MBarnum · « **Reply #130 on:** June 07, 2004, 01:51:58 PM »

A gigantic, humongous spider just crawled across my desk here at work and scared 3 lives out of me!

If felt as if I were in a Bert I. Gordon movie!

Jason · « **Reply #131 on:** June 07, 2004, 01:55:00 PM »

No. 1: I hate spiders. DESPISE THEM! I feel your pain, Shakalaka...rahlly, ah doo...

No. 2: My friend tells me that Joi Lansing's number is the first track on his DVD, so I'm sure I'll be seeing it soon. I can't wait.

No. 3: It's time for me to go home!!

No. 4: Danny Gurwin, besides being incredibly handsome, is incredibly talented. He's Sondheim's favorite Henrik...I've seen him do the role twice. I also saw him as Malcolm in THE FULL MONTY in Chicago. He's a sweet, sweet guy and I highly recommend you go see him.

Jay · « **Reply #132 on:** June 07, 2004, 01:59:31 PM »

Quote from: William E. Lurie on June 07, 2004, 01:43:06 PM

I can't recall the last presidential election where we did not have to choose between the lesser of two evils. I would like to be able to vote for a specific candidate instead of against one, but that hasn't happened in recent memory and it certainly isn't happening in 2004.

Not that I was voting then, or even alive for the 1952 race, but my guess would be the Stevenson-Eisenhower match-ups and possibly the Kennedy-Nixon race. I'm thinking that voters in those races probably felt positive about their candidate and voted for him, as opposed to against the other candidate.

It certainly has not happened since then.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #133 on:** June 07, 2004, 02:00:45 PM »

Here is a copy of the photo like the one SS sent to me....mine is in a frame and hard to scan...too lazy.

But it is a nice face.

Charles Pogue · « **Reply #134 on:** June 07, 2004, 02:01:44 PM »

For those among us who rather talk about nothing about the Arts and are bored by political discussions, I used to be the same way. Unfortunately, politics affects the Arts. I have seen my own business become a victim of the big business conglomerate mentality that Republican politics fosters and nurtures, where quarterly stockholders reports and profits are all that matter and where a few nabobs at the top of the corporation make hundreds of millions a year as salary and everyone lower down the food chain is squeezed.

The middle class writer, actor, technician is eroding in our business just like the middle class is in every business in America with less health and pension security and less job security. I'd hate to be a writer starting out in this business today. The chances of most of them having a twenty-odd year career like I've had are very slim. To the actors and others out there, how much is your deductible on your medical insurance, before they start to cover you? And what will they cover?

And as for what the corporate mentality has done to the quality of Art? Hate the bloated, big-budget lumbering, mindless pieces of crap floating across your movie screen these days? No one out here running the show cares...and worse, most of them don't know...money's the bottom line, not making a good movie.

bk · « **Reply #135 on:** June 07, 2004, 02:04:16 PM »

Shall I just say that occasionally I can come on very strong? I've been in contact with eBay since this morning, getting those silly form responses. I finally wrote them and told them that if this creep's eBay account wasn't suspended by the end of today, that I would personally contact the close to four hundred sellers that he's bilked and file a class action lawsuit against eBay for allowing a known buyer with bogus contact info to keep bilking people. Fifteen minutes after sending that missive his account was suspended.

MBarnum · « **Reply #136 on:** June 07, 2004, 02:09:09 PM »

It looked exactly like this...maybe larger...and it is still roaming my cubicle!

Robin · « **Reply #137 on:** June 07, 2004, 02:19:27 PM »

First off, spiders don't alarm me. Not even slightly. I even had a pet tarantula once.

MBarnum · « **Reply #138 on:** June 07, 2004, 02:22:46 PM »

Well, Robin, you will be happy to know that I did not kill the beastie...it was too darn fast and scurried away...carrying half the town with it! It was one big mother-Sam!

Jrand74 · « **Reply #139 on:** June 07, 2004, 02:23:12 PM »

Yikes! MBARNUM don't get your skirt caught in your Buick!!!

Robin · « **Reply #140 on:** June 07, 2004, 02:26:24 PM »

Second off...I was planning to be merely another attendee at a friend's Tony party, but you know...shit happens, and the Significant Other and myself spent most of the day running about like chickens with our heads cut off, helping poor Terry get everything back up to snuff.

The party went off swimmingly. Especially since there was a pool, and some of us actually did swim at some point in the evening.

Oh, and there was seafood. Lots of yummy shimp, and scallops, and mussels, and clams. It was a lot like Howard Johnson's, but without the indigestion afterward.

I was pretty much the only person predicting that Avenue Q would win Best Musical. And, of course, I was right, and gloated about it insufferably. I like Wicked just fine, but The Boy from Oz should be re-titled The Boy from Hunger...listening to the CD is painful. (Is there a CD of Caroline, or Change out, or planned?)

Jed · « **Reply #141 on:** June 07, 2004, 02:31:32 PM »

As for Tony predictions, I got all but 3 correct: Best Musical (predicted Wicked), Best Director of a Play (predicted Moises Kaufman), and Best Actress in a Musical (thought it was a toss-up, and guessed Tonya Pinkins). Got all the rest right, causing my mother to repeatedly ask, "How did you know that?"

Matt H. · « **Reply #142 on:** June 07, 2004, 02:36:17 PM »

I re-watched the Tony Awards this afternoon paying particular attention to Idina Menzel's wonderfully heartfelt, astonished acceptance speech. I was on the phone during this last night as I was ecstatic that she had won, especially given that her chances weren't great, and had missed it. The best speech of the night because she was so thrilled, so aghast at winning, and so honored to have been selected. I had tears in my eyes listening to her.

Matt H. · « **Reply #143 on:** June 07, 2004, 02:39:24 PM »

Quote from: RLP on June 07, 2004, 01:50:44 PM

Photo ID, left to right:

Jessica Boevers, Petra
Laura Benanti, Anne
Zoe Caldwell, Madame Armfeldt
Victor Garber, Fredrik
Danny Gurwin, Henrik
Judith Ivey, Desiree
Marc Kudisch, Carl-Magnus
Michele Pawk, Charlotte
Hank Stratton, Frid

I saw the original Broadway company, and I honestly think this might match it in star quality and talent. Wish I could see it.

Robin · « **Reply #144 on:** June 07, 2004, 02:43:50 PM »

Third off...my opinion of Ronald Reagan is not even vaguely positive one. I agree wholeheartedly with Jay's letter.

Between Reagan and the two Bush thugs, the Republican party has lost any chance they'll get a vote from moi anytime soon, unless they start kicking Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, and the cretins of the religious right the heck out. (Besides, anyone who believes that evolution is "just a theory" and that creationism should be taught is schools, like Our Selected Leader, is just plain nuts. And I refuse, out of principle, to vote for someone I believe just may be insane.)

And Bill Clinton, for all of his faults, has more integrity in his little finger than George W. Bush has in his entire family.

When Dubya came into office, he mouthed platitudes about "elevating the dialogue" and such. And every campaign ad I've seen from the Shrub has been used to trash John Kerry. Some "elevation", eh? I guess it's easier to try to tarnish the reputation of someone who actually didn't try to dodge service in Viet-Nam that to actually try to make himself look good in comparison.

Jennifer · « **Reply #145 on:** June 07, 2004, 02:43:53 PM »

Wow BK that ebay story is crazy! Glad you got a response from them.

I'm curious, can you just relist the item today?

And for Dr Jason, what is scopitone?

TCB · « **Reply #146 on:** June 07, 2004, 02:47:43 PM »

Quote from: MBarnum on June 07, 2004, 02:09:09 PM

It looked exactly like this...maybe larger...and it is still roaming my cubicle!

Well, the good news, Michael, is that he will eat you alive. Of course, I suppose that is also the bad news!

Robin · « **Reply #147 on:** June 07, 2004, 02:53:23 PM »

Fourth off...about the time machine.

I'd like to have lunch with Stephen Sondhiem and Arthur Laurents, at some point during the rehearsals (or the run of) Anyone Can Whistle, a show I find endlessly fascinating, for all of it's flaws. Providing, of course, they'd be willing to share what the heck they were thinking.

And about that first edition....I'm going to go with a mint copy of Edgar Rice Burrough's Tarzan of the Apes.

Robin · « **Reply #148 on:** June 07, 2004, 02:55:21 PM »

Fifth off...if the spider is still bugging you (bugging you...get it???), just get it to crawl onto a newspaper, and release it back into the wild.

It'll do your heart good.

Robin · « **Reply #149 on:** June 07, 2004, 02:56:06 PM »

Sixth off...am I in a posting frenzy or what???

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