Topic: THE ALL-DAY AFFAIR (Read 13368 times)

bk · « **on:** August 01, 2004, 12:05:11 AM »

Well, you've read the notes, you know all about the all-day affair and all about Eve, so now it is time to post until the all-day cows come home and if you don't then you shall simply be an all-day sucker.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #1 on:** August 01, 2004, 12:43:39 AM »

I love rehearsals...and I especially love musical rehearsals. Maybe this year I can be IN a musical and not direct it, and have fun with singing and dancing in a PART....NOT in the ensemble!

Dear Reader George - that song is called 'I've Never Been To Me' and country song that hit number 1 in 1982 by a singer named (simplemente) Charlene.

Here is a link with all the lyrics and an little wav file of the music.

I remember it mostly from PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT, it's the song Terence Stamp lip synchs as the beer bottles fly at the beginning of the movie.

http://users.cis.net/sammy/charln.htm

Jrand73 · « **Reply #2 on:** August 01, 2004, 12:47:17 AM »

What a perfect song to have in your head ALL DAY!!!!

....but I've never been to meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.............

What are some of the other DRs favorite Country (knock you over the head with it) songs?

"You Ain't Woman Enough to Take My Man"

"Kiss an Angel Good Morning"

"Behind Closed Doors"

"D-i-v-o-r-c-e"

Tomovoz · « **Reply #3 on:** August 01, 2004, 12:51:49 AM »

"Stand By Your Man" of course.
Rather like "If I Said you Had A Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me" and "It's Four in The Morning".

Jrand73 · « **Reply #4 on:** August 01, 2004, 12:54:06 AM »

LOL just watched the Blue Moon out back....still beautiful here!

Jrand73 · « **Reply #5 on:** August 01, 2004, 12:55:26 AM »

Nytol....good choices, Tom!

Panni · « **Reply #6 on:** August 01, 2004, 01:13:55 AM »

Good-night, Moon. (a GOOD-NIGHT MOON reference!)
Welcome August! May it be a Good Month for us all.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #7 on:** August 01, 2004, 04:48:07 AM »

I love Jean Seberg as well - especially in Bonjour Tristesse but also as Saint Joan. And in Paint Your Wagon

And especially in Airport!

I always thought Faye Dunaway ripped off Jean's look from Airport in part of Mommie Dearest.

Here is Faye - with a delicious soundbite.

http://www.badmovies.org/othermovies/mommiedear/mommiedear4.wav

Jrand73 · « **Reply #8 on:** August 01, 2004, 04:48:59 AM »

And here is Jean in Airport!

Jrand73 · « **Reply #9 on:** August 01, 2004, 04:50:22 AM »

If it's very early on Sunday for you, I would recommend you not click on the soundbite for a bit.

Jennifer · « **Reply #10 on:** August 01, 2004, 06:08:35 AM »

DR EMILY, re: Amish show, it's not in my Tv Times, or in the sched in my tv. If you find it when it is on, let me know (since I have not seen any promos for it).

Where did you hear/see that it would be on?

S. Woody White · « **Reply #11 on:** August 01, 2004, 06:31:49 AM »

Re country, I'll admit Trace Adkins voice is a turn-on for me. OK, so the song is "Hot Mama," not exactly what I want to hear, but the growly way he sings it is a turn-on.

S. Woody White · « **Reply #12 on:** August 01, 2004, 06:33:26 AM »

Different question: We've heard from DR Noel which big musicals he doesn't like at all. Which big hit musicals bother the bejezus out of the rest of the DRs?

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #13 on:** August 01, 2004, 07:06:19 AM »

Quote from: S. Woody White on August 01, 2004, 06:33:26 AM

Different question: We've heard from DR Noel which big musicals he doesn't like at all. Which big hit musicals bother the bejezus out of the rest of the DRs?

If the truth MUST come out now, I have to name "Les Miserables" and "Ragtime" as two big hit musicals that I've never warmed to.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #14 on:** August 01, 2004, 07:06:54 AM »

Where did the weekend GO?

Noel · « **Reply #15 on:** August 01, 2004, 07:37:57 AM »

Eurotrash, n.
A large musical usually by at least one European writer, from the last 20 years with some or all of the following characteristics:

1. Little or no dialogue
2. Plot concerns something unusally tragic or sad
3. Anachronistic music, that rocks on with little or no feeling for time and place
4. Cliche lyrics, usually with dull rhyme schemes and false rhymes
5. Self-pity
6. Bad taste
7. Little or no humor or wit
8. Absence of subtext. Characters tell you exactly how they feel (often self-pity) leaving the audience nothing to do or discover

Noel · « **Reply #16 on:** August 01, 2004, 07:41:09 AM »

As I said yesterday, plenty of people tell me the following does NOT glorify parental suicide:

YOU WHO I CRADLED IN MY ARMS-YOU
ASKING AS LITTLE AS YOU CAN
LITTLE SNIP OF A LITTLE MAN
I KNOW I'D GIVE MY LIFE FOR YOYU

YOU DIDN'T ASK ME TO BE BORN-YOU
WHY SHOULD YOU LEARN OF WAR OR PAIN
TO MAKE SURE YOU'RE NOT HURT AGAIN
I SWEAR I'D GIVE MY LIFE FOR YOU

I'VE TASTED LOVE
BEYOND ALL FEAR
AND YOU SHOULD KNOW IT'S LOVE THAT BROUGHT YOU HERE
AND IN ONE PERFECT NIGHT
WHEN THE STARS BURNED LIKE NEW
I KNEW WHAT I MUST DO

I'LL GIVE YOU
A MILLION THINGS I'LL NEVER OWN
I'LL GIVE YOU
A WORLD TO CONQUER WHEN YOU ARE GROWN

YOU WILLBE WHO YOU WANT TO BE-YOU
CAN CHOOSE WHATEVER HEAVEN GRANTS
AS LONG AS YOU CAN HAVE YOUR CHANCE
I SWEAR I'LL GIVE MY LIFE FOR YOU

SOMETIMES I WAKE UP
REACHING FOR HIM
I FEEL HIS SHADOW BRUSH MY HEAD
BUT THERE'S JUST MOONLIGHT ON MY BED
WAS HE A GHOST? WAS HE A LIE
THAT MADE MY BODY LAUGH AND CRY?
THEN BE MY SIDE, THE PROOF I SEE
HIS LITTLE ONE
GODS OF THE SUN
BRING HIM TO ME

YOU WILL BE WHO YOU WANT TO BE-YOU
CAN CHOOSE WHATEVER HEAVEN GRANTS
AS LONG AS YOU CAN HAVE YOUR CHANCE
I SWEAR I'LL GIVE MY LIFE FOR YOU

NO ONE CAN STOP WHAT I MUST DO
I SWEAR I'LL GIVE NY LIFE FOR YOU

Noel · « **Reply #17 on:** August 01, 2004, 07:45:23 AM »

I didn't think Frozen was much of a play. Its star, Swoosie Kurtz, was supposed to come to the same theatre last fall in a play about Jacqueline Susann.

I've only referred to one hit musical I didn't like. Nobody's guessed the musical with a big clock on stage that used a score of old hit songs. It wasn't Crazy For You, which had a couple of clever dances.

Matt H. · « **Reply #18 on:** August 01, 2004, 07:49:25 AM »

My least favorite BIG musicals will always remain THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA and MISS SAIGON, both of which I think were absurdly overrated and whose popularity always astounded me. But they ran for years, have toured for years and made their creators fabulously wealthy, so what do I know?

Matt H. · « **Reply #19 on:** August 01, 2004, 07:51:29 AM »

DR JRand, I know you must be kidding about the Jean Seberg/Faye Dunaway look-alike coincidence. You know Faye's makeup and hairstyles were based on publicity stills throughout the parts of Joan's career covered by the movie. Jean Seberg had nothing to do with it.

And I'm glad many of you like her. I was never fond of her at all.

Matt H. · « **Reply #20 on:** August 01, 2004, 07:54:39 AM »

And I can't be at chat tonight. Giving in to my own curiosity, I'm going to see the national tour of MAMMA MIA tonight. I know it's not right to pre-judge a show, but I can't see myself liking it. Still, I am curious about why it's been so popular and such a worldwide phenomenon, so I'm going out to dinner tonight with friends and then to the show.

Panni · « **Reply #21 on:** August 01, 2004, 08:53:33 AM »

'Morning/Afternoon, all. Just came back from walking and it is again overcast and coolish in the City of Studio. By the afternoon it will probably be hot -- that's what happened yesterday.
I think I'm channeling Al Roker. Must stop at once!

Emily · « **Reply #22 on:** August 01, 2004, 09:01:11 AM »

Jennifer, I read about Amish in the City in the Gazette's daily "what's on tv tonight column" back when it premiered on UPN (UPS? USA? Some "U" station in the States). The columnist said something along the lines of "and don't worry - it'll be broadcast to Canadians on Global starting this Sunday."

I looked online at canada.com's tv-guide list, and it didn't show anything about Amish in the City during Prime Time, though. The National Post's monthly entertainment blurbetter though said it was premiering tonight.

Gah. Oh and just for the record, I don't actually READ the National Post. It was just that searching for "Amish in the City" and "Canada" pointed me to that right-wing toilet paper of a newspaper.

bk · « **Reply #23 on:** August 01, 2004, 09:23:25 AM »

Off to rehearsal. Keep the home fries burning, you dear, dear people.

Panni · « **Reply #24 on:** August 01, 2004, 09:38:11 AM »

Great sound bite, Jrand.

Dan (the Man) · « **Reply #25 on:** August 01, 2004, 09:53:03 AM »

Quote from: Noel on August 01, 2004, 07:45:23 AM

I've only referred to one hit musical I didn't like. Nobody's guessed the musical with a big clock on stage that used a score of old hit songs. It wasn't Crazy For You, which had a couple of clever dances.

Didn't Dream, the Johnny Mercer show, have a big clock on stage?

td · « **Reply #26 on:** August 01, 2004, 10:16:25 AM »

I cannot tolerate ALW's PHANTOM OF THE OPERA. I saw it. I loathed it. Pretty stage pictures, though.
Never warmed to MISS SAIGON through either of the recordings, but I do love MADAMA BUTTERFLY - which is where the original "parental suicide" song stems from.

Che tua madre dovrà
prenderti in braccio ed alla
pioggia e al vento andar
per la città a guadagnarsi
il pane e il vestimento.

Ed alle impietosite genti
la man tremante
stenderà gridando:
Udite, udite
la triste mia canzon.
A un infelice
madre la carità,
muovetevi a pietà....
E Butterfly, orribile destino,
danzerà per te,
E come fece già.
La Chesha canterà!
E la canzon giuliva e lieta
in un sighizzo finirà!
Ah! no, no! questo mai!
questo mestier che
al disonore porta!
Morta! morta!
Mai più danzar!
Piuttosto la mia vita
vo' troncar! Ah! Morta!

My question would be why is right for Butterfly to express these feelings and not Kim? Anyone?
I know that mostly all of the DRs do not like BLOOD BROTHERS which I treasure.
Adore Trace Adkins, he's got a great voice and a wonderful sense of humor. He also appears on a cd of country gospel music singing "Victory in Jesus" and is quite good.

As for favorite c & w performers, tops on my list is Joe Nichols, who is repaving the path for traditional country.

I like Gretchen Wilson, Brooks & Dunn, Miss Loretta Lynn, Charlie Pride, Josh Gracin, SheDaisy, Buddy Jewell, Josh Turner and Loretta Hagers (or Mary Kay Place).

As for:

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3. Anachronistic music, that rocks on with little or no feeling for time and place

Almost hate to say it but, say it I will.
To me, the scores to OKLAHOMA!, CAROUSEL, and ALLEGRO have always sounded like 1940s music. Odd, since only one of them has a setting in the 1940s.
FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM sounds very 1960s, to me, nothing at all like music from ancient Rome.

I heartily believe that each show's sensibilities, musical and otherwise, are formed and reflect the time and space in which they were written MORESO than reflecting the time and place in which their books or libretti take place.

td · « **Reply #27 on:** August 01, 2004, 10:19:46 AM »

Quote from: Dan (the Man) on August 01, 2004, 09:53:03 AM

Didn't Dream, the Johnny Mercer show, have a big clock on stage?

I thought that it did, too!

Danise · « **Reply #28 on:** August 01, 2004, 10:53:07 AM »

Hi all.

It’s amazing how much you miss when you don’t post/look at posts for just a few days. So much to catch up on and so many things I would like to comment on but there just isn’t time or room.

I guess because it was a blue moon because I had two very different dreams last night. The first one was so scary that I actually woke up and had to turn the light on. I hate those kind of dreams. Funny that now I can’t even remember what it was about exactly. I just know it was one of those “I’m gonna get ya.”

But the second dream was a real good one. A Michael Ball concert. Needless to say, it was wonderful. And I remember most if not all of it.

I agree with Matt. I did NOT like MISS SAIGON in the least. In fact, if you listen to the main “love song” music, it sounds like an old folk song called, “Hang Down Your Head, Tom Dooley”. I remember being so shocked when I heard that.

I found the listing for Amish TV show you all have been talking about. It comes on Wednesday at 8:00 around here. I will have to watch it.

Looks like I’m going to get my wish. I see that they are releasing 7 episodes of Star Trek: The Jean Luck Picard Collection on Tuesday. The Inner Light, the one show that I have wanted forever is included in that collection. Wooo Whoo! I guess I’ll have to go get that next weekend.

Jay · « **Reply #29 on:** August 01, 2004, 11:10:04 AM »

I've not seen Miss Saigon, but I can tell you that when Butterfly kills herself, she does so as a matter of honor: Better to die with honor than live in shame.

Her mortal act fits in with the societal mores of her culture, and echoes the means by which her own father died.

Also, Madama Butterfly is an Italian opera based on a David Belasco play. What were you expecting at the denouement? A chorus of happy villagers?

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