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[George]

PAGE FIVE DANCE!!

[MBarnum]

Allison Haye's N. Orange Grove Ave home!

[elmore3003]

A friend sent me this unsolicited email today:
I just had to write to you to tell you how amazing I think Eileen is.   It truly has everything that most studio cast recordings lack.  The orchestra is just glorious -- obviously very well rehearsed.  The singing is also delicious.  (I've always had a soft spot for Irish tenors.)  The orchestra and singers create an amazing variety of drama and emotions.  Even the acting is quite good in the extended scenes that were recorded.  Congratulations! Congratulations! Congratulations!   I can't wait for Dearest Enemy.

This is my first feedback on the recording. I hope it continues good.

[George]

A friend sent me this unsolicited email today:
I just had to write to you to tell you how amazing I think Eileen is.   It truly has everything that most studio cast recordings lack.  The orchestra is just glorious -- obviously very well rehearsed.  The singing is also delicious.  (I've always had a soft spot for Irish tenors.)  The orchestra and singers create an amazing variety of drama and emotions.  Even the acting is quite good in the extended scenes that were recorded.  Congratulations! Congratulations! Congratulations!   I can't wait for Dearest Enemy.

This is my first feedback on the recording. I hope it continues good.

Ask this person to post this on Amazon!

[bk]

Back from a sandwich and no fries and working on the Rodgers and Hammerstein list o' songs.  Got one piece of annoying mail that must have come in on Saturday, since there's no mail today - how annoying remains to be seen, but I'm throwing it in the trash and will just hope it's not too annoying.

[Jane]

OK, here's a new trend that makes me glad I'm old:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1278583/Young-people-drinking-neat-vodka-EYE-quick-buzz.html

Makes me glad I don't drink.

DR George, they aren't actually drinking it.

[bk]

I've been putting off getting the foot massage and tonight was going to be the night.  Well, they're gone - closed up shop and the storefront is for rent.  Guess I'll have to find another place.

[Jane]

Sorry Bruce. 

[Jane]

A friend sent me this unsolicited email today:
I just had to write to you to tell you how amazing I think Eileen is.   It truly has everything that most studio cast recordings lack.  The orchestra is just glorious -- obviously very well rehearsed.  The singing is also delicious.  (I've always had a soft spot for Irish tenors.)  The orchestra and singers create an amazing variety of drama and emotions.  Even the acting is quite good in the extended scenes that were recorded.  Congratulations! Congratulations! Congratulations!   I can't wait for Dearest Enemy.

This is my first feedback on the recording. I hope it continues good.

 

[elmore3003]

A friend sent me this unsolicited email today:
I just had to write to you to tell you how amazing I think Eileen is.   It truly has everything that most studio cast recordings lack.  The orchestra is just glorious -- obviously very well rehearsed.  The singing is also delicious.  (I've always had a soft spot for Irish tenors.)  The orchestra and singers create an amazing variety of drama and emotions.  Even the acting is quite good in the extended scenes that were recorded.  Congratulations! Congratulations! Congratulations!   I can't wait for Dearest Enemy.

This is my first feedback on the recording. I hope it continues good.

Ask this person to post this on Amazon!

I did as soon as I got the email!

[vixmom]

Congratulations on the rave, Elmore

[vixmom]

Cilla -  they want only $315.000 for that house?  It would easily go for twice that amount here

[bk]

Sorry Bruce. 

Did some Googling and found a really well-reviewed place in Sherman Oaks, so I may try that - same price.

[vixmom]

Cilla  good news on Sherry -

[vixmom]

I have lots I must do -- so I had better go do it

[Jane]

Sorry Bruce. 

Did some Googling and found a really well-reviewed place in Sherman Oaks, so I may try that - same price.

I didn't think you would be able to match that great price.  I hope you are just as pleased with the new place.

[ChasSmith]

DR ChasSmith, did you mention that one of the apartments you rented in Hollywood was on Orange? Isn't that just a block from Orchid?

I am remembering that when I stayed at The Hollywood Orchid Hotel on Orchid, I would walk down Orange to get to Hollywood Blvd and my daily dose of morning coffee. Although some days I took Highland...and once I took Yucca...but never again will I make that mistake!

I loved the Hollywood Orchid. I should stay there again someday.

Orange Dr. is the one west of Orchid, and Orchid doesn't go through to Hollywood Blvd.  If you're facing the Chinese Theater, you go up the street to the left, and there's a medium high-rise apartment building, then a little two-story one.  I think it was that one.  It seems like there had been two such apt. buildings back then, in which case I don't know which it was, but I'm just not sure about that.  There was nothing "nice" about it -- it was cheap and they allowed short-term rentals.

What you're saying about Yucca -- I guess that wasn't a good place to walk by then?

[Jane]

With difficulty I finally let my niece know I will be flying to LA for her wedding shower.  I was hoping it would be in November since the wedding isn't until January.  We really have to trek to get to her wedding as it will be in Cozumel. 

[Matthew]

Jekyll and Hyde - 2012 "Concept" CD, with no surprise to all of you here, is pretty much the same fare as all the rest of the recordings.  What's missing is "Facade" and "Murder" - both ensemble pieces that make the show exciting.  This is just a CD of "covers" of Jekyll and Hyde songs with some new "angsty" orchestrations and performances.  It pains me to write that as I'm a big fan of the show.

[ChasSmith]

Boy, do I HATE when that happens -- the place closing up shop just like that.

[ChasSmith]

I think you can even call Bob's Big Boy a coffee shop.  At least out there, where it really fits in as such.

But correct me if I'm wrong on any of these assertions.

I didn't go to a Bob's Big Boy until we lived in Michigan.     I suppose so.

Did you ever go to Dick Webster's? 

I don't think I know what that is.

In Michigan and Ohio it's Frisch's Big Boy.  And in a few places such as Cleveland, there was another called Manners, which was the same thing but I believe it didn't use the name Big Boy at all.

[ChasSmith]

Other L.A. coffee shops:  Ben Frank's on Sunset, which somehow became a Mel's Diner.  Norm's and Jan's in the Beverly Center area.  The Kettle, in Manhattan Beach.  Lulu's (?) on Roscoe near Van Nuys Airport.  Many, many wonderful coffee shops.  LOTS of independent ones all over the place.  Or so I hope.  I mourn the ones that are gone, but I hope the tradition is still alive.

[elmore3003]

I think you can even call Bob's Big Boy a coffee shop.  At least out there, where it really fits in as such.

But correct me if I'm wrong on any of these assertions.

I didn't go to a Bob's Big Boy until we lived in Michigan.     I suppose so.

Did you ever go to Dick Webster's? 

I don't think I know what that is.

In Michigan and Ohio it's Frisch's Big Boy.  And in a few places such as Cleveland, there was another called Manners, which was the same thing but I believe it didn't use the name Big Boy at all.

When I was in high school fifty years ago, Frisch's was the cool place to hang out.

[George]

OK, here's a new trend that makes me glad I'm old:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1278583/Young-people-drinking-neat-vodka-EYE-quick-buzz.html

Makes me glad I don't drink.

DR George, they aren't actually drinking it.

True, but they are "using" and that gets them drunk, which I choose not to do, too.

[ChasSmith]

I think you can even call Bob's Big Boy a coffee shop.  At least out there, where it really fits in as such.

But correct me if I'm wrong on any of these assertions.

I didn't go to a Bob's Big Boy until we lived in Michigan.     I suppose so.

Did you ever go to Dick Webster's? 

I don't think I know what that is.

In Michigan and Ohio it's Frisch's Big Boy.  And in a few places such as Cleveland, there was another called Manners, which was the same thing but I believe it didn't use the name Big Boy at all.

When I was in high school fifty years ago, Frisch's was the cool place to hang out.

There were a couple in Cincinnati I really liked -- one on Central Parkway, and Frisch's "Mainliner" out east on Wooster Pike.  Both are still there, but in contemporary form; however, the latter, which sits on quite a large lot and used to have a great car-hop section, retained its original sign and mascot.  (That, I should think, is the very least such places can do when forced to modernize.)

[MBarnum]

DR ChasSmith, did you mention that one of the apartments you rented in Hollywood was on Orange? Isn't that just a block from Orchid?

I am remembering that when I stayed at The Hollywood Orchid Hotel on Orchid, I would walk down Orange to get to Hollywood Blvd and my daily dose of morning coffee. Although some days I took Highland...and once I took Yucca...but never again will I make that mistake!

I loved the Hollywood Orchid. I should stay there again someday.

Orange Dr. is the one west of Orchid, and Orchid doesn't go through to Hollywood Blvd.  If you're facing the Chinese Theater, you go up the street to the left, and there's a medium high-rise apartment building, then a little two-story one.  I think it was that one.  It seems like there had been two such apt. buildings back then, in which case I don't know which it was, but I'm just not sure about that.  There was nothing "nice" about it -- it was cheap and they allowed short-term rentals.

What you're saying about Yucca -- I guess that wasn't a good place to walk by then?

Yucca was very run down and dirty, at least for the few blocks I was on. I only took that route as I had read that film maker Ed Wood lived in an apartment on Yucca in Hollywood back in the day. Evidently, it has not improved since Wood lived there.

[Jane]

I think you can even call Bob's Big Boy a coffee shop.  At least out there, where it really fits in as such.

But correct me if I'm wrong on any of these assertions.

I didn't go to a Bob's Big Boy until we lived in Michigan.     I suppose so.

Did you ever go to Dick Webster's? 

I don't think I know what that is.

In Michigan and Ohio it's Frisch's Big Boy.  And in a few places such as Cleveland, there was another called Manners, which was the same thing but I believe it didn't use the name Big Boy at all.

If it was called something besides Bob's it was still Bob's to us.  It had the big Big Boy

I'm sorry to didn't experience Dick Webster's lemon meringue pie.  They were also known for their chicken gumbo soup.

[Jane]

OK, here's a new trend that makes me glad I'm old:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1278583/Young-people-drinking-neat-vodka-EYE-quick-buzz.html

Makes me glad I don't drink.

DR George, they aren't actually drinking it.

True, but they are "using" and that gets them drunk, which I choose not to do, too.

I know, but technically they aren't drinking it

I would think it would really burn your eyes.

[Jane]

I googled "Dick Webster's lemon meringue pie" and the first two items are the base were....

Stephen Sondheim Stage
www.sondheim.com/comedy/columna/past/46.htmlThe highlight of our skit was a pie fight, and because I didn't know that pie fights ... lemon meringue pies from Dick Webster's, Home of the Lemon Meringue Pie, ...

Benjamin Kritzer - Page 151 - Google Books Result
books.google.com/books?isbn=140330193X
Bruce Kimmel - 2002 - Fiction
As the bus traveled north on La Cienega, Benjamin pointed out some of his favorite places, like Dick Webster's (home of the Lemon Meringue pie), and a bit ...

[George]

OK, here's a new trend that makes me glad I'm old:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1278583/Young-people-drinking-neat-vodka-EYE-quick-buzz.html

Makes me glad I don't drink.

DR George, they aren't actually drinking it.

True, but they are "using" and that gets them drunk, which I choose not to do, too.

I know, but technically they aren't drinking it

I would think it would really burn your eyes.

That alone would prevent me from ever trying it.