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[John G.]

DR Vixmom, I think you've had a stress-induced illness from last week.  Glad you're feeling better!

I think it was cold induced.  I tend to get sick when I'm cold.

Well not only was I cold for a week but two of my coworkers had terrible colds and one of them has a terrible habit of licking her finger and then touching stuff -- yes  gross --- I sanitize the heck out of everything but  still....

Yuck!

After I had pneumonia in 2001, I stopped using the community pens at work and wiping the reference desk phones with alcohol swabs - reduced my illness rate significantly!  Our library had a quarterly incentive for unused sick leave and a lot of people would come to work when they should have done what DR Vixmom has done the past couple of days.

I haven't taken a sick day since I had my gall bladder out in April 2009- no payment for unused sick days /vacation days /personal days -- no payment for overtime ...

Tell me about it.

[John G.]

Seven!

[Laura]

Glad to hear the good health reports from folks! Not so glad to hear about your snow.

[vixmom]

well its warmed up a little it seems -  the snow is still on the ground but has melted on the streets  and pavements

[George]

Well, the director's candidate open forum is over and all three seem perfectly capable applicants (based on what little information that we could get in less than an hour).  Of course, staff and the public are not the ones to make the decisions and the board will certainly ask much more detailed questions on Saturday, but so far, all three were better than three of the four candidates that we had the last time.

Hopefully, a decision can be made (and accepted) quickly.

[George]

And now, I'm going home.

[Matthew]

DR Matthew, I hardly know the show so I shouldn't speak out of turn (so here I am doing it anyway), but doesn't a reduced orchestration exist?  Or is that also too big for what you can pull together?

The only OrchExtra I'm aware of having heard was a Beauty and the Beast production, in which the MD employed only drums and bass.  He controlled the mini-keyboard with his left hand and conducted with his right.  It certainly sounded synth-y in some passages, but in many others I was impressed.  Not that I necessarily wanted to be.

DR ChasSmith - even in the reduced form, it's too big for our pit and with all the percussion, there's no way in hell it will work in our space.  I just downloaded the program and listened to a little and it is indeed synthy, but might work with an added reed, bass and maybe violin.  We'll see.

[TCB]

Thanks, DRs TCB, Doug R, and Jennifer. I've had my sandwich and a short nap and feeling human again.

My favorite song from BEAUTY AND THE BEAST!

Of course I was talking about that great song, "I've had my sandwich."

[John G.]

Well, the director's candidate open forum is over and all three seem perfectly capable applicants (based on what little information that we could get in less than an hour).  Of course, staff and the public are not the ones to make the decisions and the board will certainly ask much more detailed questions on Saturday, but so far, all three were better than three of the four candidates that we had the last time.

Hopefully, a decision can be made (and accepted) quickly.

That's good to hear.

[John G.]

Thanks, DRs TCB, Doug R, and Jennifer. I've had my sandwich and a short nap and feeling human again.

My favorite song from BEAUTY AND THE BEAST!

Of course I was talking about that great song, "I've had my sandwich."

I held it in the hand which ...
Cut the baloney
It wasn't a phony ...

Where FJL?

[John G.]

Night, all.

[TCB]

DR Vixmom, I think you've had a stress-induced illness from last week.  Glad you're feeling better!

I think it was cold induced.  I tend to get sick when I'm cold.

Well not only was I cold for a week but two of my coworkers had terrible colds and one of them has a terrible habit of licking her finger and then touching stuff -- yes  gross --- I sanitize the heck out of everything but  still....

Gross!  That can spread MRSA.

[vixmom]

I just heard on the news that NY is imposing an even odd  gas rationing system starting at 5 AM 

[TCB]

but its a job....

So is picking cotton, and I think the hours are the same.

[TCB]

Home from some dinner and such.  Been spending a long time thinking about my orchestration for [/i]Miss Saigon[/i].  The music in this show can't suffer from a reduction which I usually have to do considering the space I'm in and we can't afford to pay a full orchestra anyway.  So, I've been looking at alternatives.  One is the Sinfonia or OrchExtra offered by MTI which is basically a sequencer and the sounds are rather "synthy".  Yes, you are suppose to use this in tandem with some live musicians, but you can also use it alone.  There are 2 options there.  One, by itself and two, with other players.  There is also the recorded music possibility, which at this point, unless I find a purveyor of such item, might not be an option.  The company I've used before doesn't offer this show.  So, that's where my head is

Don't listen to me because I am pretty dumb when it comes to things musical, but as a director of musicals, I think that recorded music is an accident waiting to happen.

[TCB]

I missed Sam again.  And I guess I missed vixmom, too.

[TCB]

Thanks, DRs TCB, Doug R, and Jennifer. I've had my sandwich and a short nap and feeling human again.

My favorite song from BEAUTY AND THE BEAST!

Of course I was talking about that great song, "I've had my sandwich."

I held it in the hand which ...
Cut the baloney
It wasn't a phony ...

Where FJL?

You know the song, John!

[bk]

Back from a very long day.  Tonight's session was, for me, pointless, because we read through a script and listened to songs exactly as we had two years ago - there has since been a rewrite and shortened version and that's what we really should have been hearing.

[TCB]

One of our candidates for a "state-level" position was being interviewed by one of the TV reporters, when his very pregnant wife came up to him and said, We have to go.  Now.  I am having contractions."

Mr. Concerned Husband stepped away and told his wife to "Hold on a minute."  He then went back to the reporter and said, "Go ahead."  Thankfully the reporter said to the guy that it looked like his wife was in labor and he had better go.  That was the only reason that the interview ended when it did.

[TCB]

Back from a very long day.  Tonight's session was, for me, pointless, because we read through a script and listened to songs exactly as we had two years ago - there has since been a rewrite and shortened version and that's what we really should have been hearing.

Why didn't you read the new version?

[TCB]

Well, my work here is done.




G'night!

[bk]

Back from a very long day.  Tonight's session was, for me, pointless, because we read through a script and listened to songs exactly as we had two years ago - there has since been a rewrite and shortened version and that's what we really should have been hearing.

Why didn't you read the new version?

It wasn't up to me, but I was, how shall I say it, very strong afterwards.

[vixmom]

One of our candidates for a "state-level" position was being interviewed by one of the TV reporters, when his very pregnant wife came up to him and said, We have to go.  Now.  I am having contractions."

Mr. Concerned Husband stepped away and told his wife to "Hold on a minute."  He then went back to the reporter and said, "Go ahead."  Thankfully the reporter said to the guy that it looked like his wife was in labor and he had better go.  That was the only reason that the interview ended when it did.

oy

[bk]

I've just written a VERY strong draft an e-mail to the parent of the child whose act I created and directed that resulted in a Broadway World nomination.  Those who know me probably can imagine just how strong it is, but I've had it.  And if I don't write it it will eat at me and cause negativity, which I will not allow.  I need to get this out of my system once and for all so that I can be done with it.  They will not like the e-mail, in which I have told them they cannot ever do the act again, or at least do it with any of my contributions - and since most of the arrangements are mine, and I contributed to most of the patter, and she sings two songs of mine - well, there wouldn't be much left to do.  As Babs and Donna said: Enough is enough.  I will simply not allow this kind of rudeness after all I've done for this girl 

[George]

I've just written a VERY strong draft an e-mail to the parent of the child whose act I created and directed that resulted in a Broadway World nomination.  Those who know me probably can imagine just how strong it is, but I've had it.  And if I don't write it it will eat at me and cause negativity, which I will not allow.  I need to get this out of my system once and for all so that I can be done with it.  They will not like the e-mail, in which I have told them they cannot ever do the act again, or at least do it with any of my contributions - and since most of the arrangements are mine, and I contributed to most of the patter, and she sings two songs of mine - well, there wouldn't be much left to do.  As Babs and Donna said: Enough is enough.  I will simply not allow this kind of rudeness after all I've done for this girl 

Good for you, BK.  You have to do what you have to do. 

[George]

Hey...today isn't locked.

[George]

It's a new day...and yet, it isn't.

[George]

I have no idea what will be in my CD player at work, when I get there in the morning.

[George]

...or what will be in my DVD player this weekend.

[George]

And since we're so close...