Topic: COMING HOME (Read 16444 times)

bk · « **on:** March 22, 2013, 09:09:23 PM »

Well, you've read the notes, the notes brought it home, and now it is time for you to post until the coming home cows come home.

TCB · « **Reply #1 on:** March 22, 2013, 09:17:13 PM »

First post after BK!

TCB · « **Reply #2 on:** March 22, 2013, 09:18:16 PM »

Perhaps that should be first post during BK.

bk · « **Reply #3 on:** March 22, 2013, 09:18:54 PM »

And the word of the day is: EUDEMONIA!

MBarnum · « **Reply #4 on:** March 22, 2013, 09:32:12 PM »

Have been trying to watch THE CARELESS YEARS, a 1957 teen angst film, but it is a tough slog. I normally love these 1950s teen films, but this one is just kind of strange, and the lead actress, Natalie Trundy, is kind of odd.

It is only a 70 minutes long film, but it feels like I have been watching it for about 4 hours and it is still not over.

The only good thing about it is Barbara Billingsley as the mother. She has some excellent scenes.

Even the poster is not on par with similar films of the era.

MBarnum · « **Reply #5 on:** March 22, 2013, 09:33:17 PM »

It is certainly no THE RESTLESS YEARS! That is for sure!

TCB · « **Reply #6 on:** March 22, 2013, 10:32:39 PM »

BK, are you sure you didn't stumble into Ford's Theatre's revival of STARLIGHT EXPRESS?

John G. · « **Reply #7 on:** March 23, 2013, 02:33:20 AM »

Good morning, all.

Vibes for any and all.

Up way too early to work a 5K run this morning. Hopefully, I can get some sleep later today.

John G. · « **Reply #8 on:** March 23, 2013, 02:41:00 AM »

TOD: I saw Carol Channing do "Dolly!" on two separate tours. I think I preferred her in the second, which was the one recreated by Leroy Reams, the production that BK recorded. I know from BK's book that the recording session was not ideal, but the charms of the production were abundant and I am glad to have the recording as a souvenir.

Channing trusts her talents, knows her limitations and that may be why she's best. The many local productions I've seen all feature women who can sing, but who think they should sound like Barbra Streisand and it doesn't work on stage. They push their voices to far and it rarely sounds great.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #9 on:** March 23, 2013, 04:35:36 AM »

DR MBARNUM Natalie Trundy was also in MR HOBBS TAKES A VACATION and a couple of the later PLANET OF THE APES movies, because she was married to their producer Arthur P. Jacobs, after being his girlfriend for a few years.

She is also rather infamous because at Jacobs' funeral, Warren Beatty asked her out - and she accepted.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #10 on:** March 23, 2013, 04:36:42 AM »

I have never seen a professional production of HELLO, DOLLY!

I have been in a couple of local productions.... I enjoy the show very much and can't quite imagine a "stripped down" version. If you're going to strip it down, why not do a great production of THE MATCHMAKER?

Jrand74 · « **Reply #11 on:** March 23, 2013, 04:37:13 AM »

Today is a work day. Oh well.

Travel vibes for MR BK. And vibes that the computer is working when he gets back to Studio City.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #12 on:** March 23, 2013, 04:37:58 AM »

Vibes for DR CILLA LIZ and her casino presentation!

ChasSmith · « **Reply #13 on:** March 23, 2013, 04:41:50 AM »

Good morning, all.

Coffee! Oh baby, coffee!

(To be sung to the tune of something from a drab stripped-down Hello, Dolly!)

Jrand74 · « **Reply #14 on:** March 23, 2013, 04:43:06 AM »

Not sure who this gal is - but she sure is pretty!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENLmOqG7rv8

ChasSmith · « **Reply #15 on:** March 23, 2013, 04:44:19 AM »

Travel VIBES and Computer VIBES to BK.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #16 on:** March 23, 2013, 04:46:52 AM »

Quote from: MBarnum on March 22, 2013, 09:33:17 PM

It is certainly no THE RESTLESS YEARS! That is for sure!

I love a town with a dirty mind.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #17 on:** March 23, 2013, 05:04:57 AM »

I John Wilder is in The Restless Years as one of the football players....which is quite a departure from the student completely smitten with his music teacher Esther Williams in The Unguarded Moment a couple of years before.

FJL · « **Reply #18 on:** March 23, 2013, 05:09:50 AM »

Remember THE IMPOSSIBLE YEARS? (a movie from the 1960's and I think a play also. Your theater must have at least looked t that one Jrand.)

FJL · « **Reply #19 on:** March 23, 2013, 05:10:56 AM »

Ooh, looking at HELLO DOLLY on Youtube -

DOOR TO DOOR DOLLY - Carol Channing brings DOLLY right to your doorstep (the hilarious Michael West, just priceless0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W6hyk6V_rw

ChasSmith · « **Reply #20 on:** March 23, 2013, 05:25:37 AM »

TOD:

The only professional productions I've seen were Ginger Rogers on Broadway (I must have mentioned this before because I remember y'all saying it was noteworthy that she actually showed up that day?), followed by Channing on national tour in the Dade County Auditorium.

Kerry · « **Reply #21 on:** March 23, 2013, 05:29:59 AM »

Quote from: bk on March 22, 2013, 09:18:54 PM

And the word of the day is: EUDEMONIA!

I used to play the EUDEMONIA in the marching band, but I kept clogging up the spit valve.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #22 on:** March 23, 2013, 05:32:47 AM »

Watch your phraseology!

Jrand74 · « **Reply #23 on:** March 23, 2013, 05:32:56 AM »

Off to work. Oh well.

FJL · « **Reply #24 on:** March 23, 2013, 05:34:29 AM »

Jrand - i love Helena, I'm scattering her all over the internet.

FJL · « **Reply #25 on:** March 23, 2013, 05:49:46 AM »

Wow, at 6:00, a hebrew version by Hannah Maron - who had been a major stage musical comedy star in israel in the 1960's until she had a leg amputated after a grenade attack in 1970, according to wikipedia.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAPmFKUsKFo

She was able to resume her acting career a while later, and did this appearance in 1986, and did this appearance in a role that had been a triumph for her in the 1960's before the violent attack - this was obviously an emotional experience of "Hello Dolly" in hebrew.

Before it is a rendition of EVITA's Don't Cry for Me, Argentina in Hebrew. very nice translation, too.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #26 on:** March 23, 2013, 06:30:52 AM »

Good morning, all! I got home around 12:30 last night, caught up on all of yesterday's posts and collapsed. I slept quite well, but I am very tired.

I met Bruce Pomahac at his place around 4:15, and we visited and listened to a bit of DEAREST ENEMY. Then we taxied to 22nd and Seventh for a fantastic dinner at Restivo, which may now be my favorite Italian restaurant. After that, we headed to the Irish Rep for DONNYBROOK. This show was, in my opinion, a second rate musical in its original incarnation, and the Irish Rep version doesn;t alter my opinion or succeed in making it any less a twee faux-Irish piece, no matter how good the production is or how well it's performed.

The good things: a smart little band arranged by Joshie and conducted by my friend John Bell, a mostly wonderful cast and some nice staging. The cast has some fine character actors and two wonderfully funny performances by Samuel Cohen and Kathy Fitzgerald in the principal comic roles. While I've liked the leading man in other shows, I sadly found him lackluster and out of touch with the boisterousness of the production. Here, it's a John Wayne role without a John Wayne

I don't know the original DONNYBROOK libretto, so I don't know how this production revises it. I find this script, based on The Quiet Man, rather offensive and the secondary characters rather twee. The leading lady may have a bully for a brother, but she's not too pleasant herself; she finds no sympathy in why her husband, a fighter who killed a man in the ring, won't beat up her brother over something she feels is her honor, and I'm surprised this production, which interpolates other Jimmy Burke songs along with Irish folk music and sentimental Irish ballads, didn't give her and all her Irish neighbors "Next To Fightin' I Like Lovin'" as well.

So, after the show, Bruce and I waited to see our friend Donna Kane, who played the leading lady, and I spoke to Patrick Cummings, who I think should have played the lead, and other friends in the cast and band. After that Joshie, John, and harpist Karen Lindquist went to Restivo with most of the cast for a drink. That was a great deal of fun, and then I stumbled home.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #27 on:** March 23, 2013, 06:35:46 AM »

BK, I see this production of HELLO DOLLY! is directed by a person I wouldn't ask to sweep a stage, much less move a cast about one. I think he's one of the most inept and maladroit members of his profession. The emperor may have new clothes in DC, but I don't see them.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #28 on:** March 23, 2013, 06:37:10 AM »

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Most Excellent Travel Vibes & Xylophones for BK! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

elmore3003 · « **Reply #29 on:** March 23, 2013, 06:39:44 AM »

I will have some breakfast, and putter about the apartment for a couple of hours. Around noon, I will head down to Toyland for a bit. After that I'll head to City Center so I can say hello to Rob Berman's parents, whom I deasrly love, At six, I'll meet my DC friend Roland for dinner at the Brooklyn Diner, come home, and crash.

Tomorrow I have laundry, house cleaning and other chores requiring my attention.

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