Topic: THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE (Read 17827 times)

bk · « **on:** August 10, 2004, 11:59:43 PM »

Well, you've read the notes, you know what the notes say, the notes know what you say, and now it is time to post until the foreseeable cows come home.

bk · « **Reply #1 on:** August 11, 2004, 02:12:50 AM »

WUSSBURGERS.

Happy haineshisway.com birthday to Pianogirl and Diane, whoever they may be.

Danise · « **Reply #2 on:** August 11, 2004, 03:41:37 AM »

Running late but I have first post!

Good healing vibes to DR Elmore! Be well!

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Have a great day all!

Ben · « **Reply #3 on:** August 11, 2004, 03:56:24 AM »

Well, what a quiet day here at HHW. It's 6:54am (on the East Coast) and two posts, one of them from BK!

GEORGE Thank you so much for the information on The Yellow Cat. That was exactly what I was looking for. Hail Librarians!

No questions yet. I have to go wash my oatmeal bowl and then to work as I listen to the BBC. AccuRadio is behaving strangely so I'll be at the BBC today and then at 2pm (EST) I'll go back to Radio Wales where at some point during the program Showtime my Broadway preview will air.

ELMORE - you may not see this for a few days if you're in bed recuperating but good thoughts and healing vibes to you.

Bad news - Blecchh!

Jrand74 · « **Reply #4 on:** August 11, 2004, 04:04:08 AM »

Thanks for the TWO CITIES link, DRJOEY. Hmmmmmmmmm.....it is one of my favorite stories. I may have to buy that CD...haven't listened to the excepts yet, but we must have a full report if you get a ticket.

Is DRELMORE's back still acting up from lifting that air conditioner? Whew!

Sounds like WHAT IF? is going great guns....opening OVERSOLD....folding chairs! But did DRJOSE get his laughs?

I am supposed to finally get my own computer today. We shall see, in that case I will be at HHW later...otherwise not until after rehearsal!

My question for ASKBK day....what is the first movie set you were on? What were your impressions and how did it come about?

Michael · « **Reply #5 on:** August 11, 2004, 04:23:02 AM »

My first movie set was a movie called Final Assignment. Filmed in Montreal and supposed to be in Russia. Spent most of the time in doors, but they recreated Lennin's tomb and a building across the way. I think it was a department store. The tomb looked good, but the building looked fake. But on film it looked real. I got there because I auditioned. My original role was better, but they fired the director after the first week (and the day before I was scheduled to film) The new director came in and they started to rewrite the script and bye bye went my role to almost nothing.

Although if you don't blink you will see me.

Dan-in-Toronto · « **Reply #6 on:** August 11, 2004, 05:27:27 AM »

Yesterday found me stuck in the elevator of my apt building. The worst part was when the lights went out. The elevator was being readied for somebody's move, so all the walls were padded. And it was rather hot and humid. I think the episode lasted for all of ten or fifteen minutes. It seemed longer.

Dan (the Man) · « **Reply #7 on:** August 11, 2004, 05:58:43 AM »

Quote from: Dan-in-Toronto on August 11, 2004, 05:27:27 AM

Yesterday found me stuck in the elevator of my apt building. The worst part was when the lights went out. The elevator was being readied for somebody's move, so all the walls were padded. And it was rather hot and humid. I think the episode lasted for all of ten or fifteen minutes. It seemed longer.

What? You mean there was no young woman who was about to give birth? No cranky neighbor lady with whom you've been having a long running feud but who inadvertantly revealed that she is really a poor, lonely old woman? No father-in-law who never liked you, but who brought out a flask of whiskey from which you both drank and got drunk, which allowed for a sentimental, though momentary, relationship to form? Who's writing these episodes for you?

Noel · « **Reply #8 on:** August 11, 2004, 06:12:19 AM »

Yesterday, Tom of Oz wrote:

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I have not dared mention before but the next Australian written etc musical to get a large scale production here is "Eureka - the Musical". I heard a song today, used as a promotion. I do hope it is recorded so I can share how awful it is. why why why.

This may even be worse than the truly bad "Paris". (at least that one called itself a Rock Opera. Some years ago "Australia - the Musical" was staged. It died very early. I think the last mega buck production failure was a high tech version of "Peter Pan".. The world does not need more Peter Pans nor more "A Christmas Carol/Scrooge" musicals, films etc.

Aussietrash?

Margit Ahlin and I wrote a musical especially for theatres who want to do some Dickens and holiday time but are, like Tom, sick of '"A Christmas Carol/Scrooge" musicals.' It's called The Christmas Bride and is very loosely based on Dickens' The Battle of Life, which I doubt anyone here has read.
There, I said it and I'm glad.

I'm particularly glad because a couple of posters have objected to my mentioning my work on the newsgroup devoted to musicals (!). They're one-time-only usenet hotmailers who've taken the names "Mary Guettel" and "Jo Sullivan." Some of us believe these are pseudonyms for one Stephen Newport. I was glad to see some Mary Guettel Rodgers songs on the What If song list. "Don't Laugh" (for some reason, BK thinks it's called "Show Me") has long been a favorite and I'd suggested to Jenny that she do it in last night's show. I'm not the only one who'd made this suggestion.

But Jenny's I'm Breaking Down turned out to be a terrific choice. No song in either of the evenings got more laughs, and she basically brought down the house. This masterful performance, I must add, was entirely crafted by DR Jenny herself. All the direction she got (at least while I was present) was an argument against using a paring knife on stage to cut a banana. The audience went crazy for it, and I think they would have all run up on stage en masse to embrace Jenny and carry her on their shoulders if they didn't know she was holding a real knife.

William E. Lurie · « **Reply #9 on:** August 11, 2004, 06:13:00 AM »

For Ask BK Day... who was the artist who did the covers for the "Lost in Boston" and "Unsung Musicals" series? I was (finally) cataloging my CDs yesterday and noticed how much I had always liked the cover art. What else has this artist done?

Matt H. · « **Reply #10 on:** August 11, 2004, 06:36:32 AM »

Well, I get to see BROADWAY'S LOST TREASURES II tonight. It's only in a 90 minute slot, so I'm wondering if the station is not using it for station pledges. Or maybe there will be fewer pledge breaks. I won't know until tonight. Most of these excerpts in this edition I have on my own recordings, but there are a couple that I don't have and haven't seen for years that I know I'll enjoy revisiting.

BTW, since Alex Cohen stopped producing the shows in 1986, I'm thinking that whoever does these shows is now getting permission to use more recent clips, too. I remember that "We'll Take a Glass Together" from GRAND HOTEL is in this edition, and that was done after Cohen stopped producing the shows. Or am I wrong about that?

Jennifer · « **Reply #11 on:** August 11, 2004, 06:41:12 AM »

DR MattH, the show was 90 minutes here too.

And there were like 4 breaks.

Jennifer · « **Reply #12 on:** August 11, 2004, 06:42:27 AM »

Tonight's special guest on Canadian Idol, Lionel Ritchie.

I believe the singers have to sing only his songs.

Should be good. We actually have some amazing singers this year.

Panni · « **Reply #13 on:** August 11, 2004, 06:52:18 AM »

Good morning. Last night I was a Wussburger (although it seems I wasn't alone - as I see this morning that I had the last post at a fairly early hour). I think I was done in by a combination of a very long and intense writing day and a large Italian dinner to which I took visiting DD. We went to Vitello's - forever infamous as the restaurant to which Robert Blake took his wife for her final meal (there is even a menu item named for him; another named for Garry Marshall, whose wife is still with us, I believe).
Must take the wonderdog for a walk now, shower and write. This particular draft of the script will be delivered on lucky Friday the 13th, so I'm working like mad (or Maude).

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #14 on:** August 11, 2004, 07:27:07 AM »

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Matt H. · « **Reply #15 on:** August 11, 2004, 07:34:20 AM »

Quote from: Jennifer on August 11, 2004, 06:41:12 AM

DR MattH, the show was 90 minutes here too.

And there were like 4 breaks.

Argh! The Tony clips must be very short, then. Still, I'l look forward to seeing it.

Jay · « **Reply #16 on:** August 11, 2004, 08:00:58 AM »

A question for Ask BK Day: What is a papering house? How do they work? (I know what papering is, I just didn't know that there were companies that specialize in it.)

A related second question: how come I never get comp tickets for anything I want to see?

elmore3003 · « **Reply #17 on:** August 11, 2004, 08:42:04 AM »

Hello, all! I want to thank you for all the vibes coming my way. I hope you'll keep up the good work because my health nightmare isn't over yet.

Dear Friend BK, I'm so thrilled about your revue and I'm so miffed I won't have a chance of catyching it this go-round. You have amazing generative powers, and I think this review has a lot of good vibes going for it, so I speak of "this go-round" as possibly its first steps. I look forward to all DRs reporting on this show. and I hope a lot of them turn. I know DRJay, who seems to miss nothing, is coming.

QUESTION OF THE DAY, DRs: Who else is coming?

Now for my health rant: if my HMO care physician had recognized my "bacterial infection" as a perianal abscess, it would have been treated three weeks ago and my life would be in better shape. I'm going to assume the pulled back was the catalyst for the abscess, and speaking about a pulled back muscle is pleasanter than speaking on a lump on one's rump. Since this abscess started fears of tumor, cancer and other life-threatening forms, I've not been the happiest person for the past two weeks, and now that the abscess has exploded - it should have been lanced and drained by a surgeon - my life is a mess literally. On top of that, on Monday morning preparing to see the colo-rectal surgeon who did assure me it was an abscess, I pinched my sciatic nerve in my left leg and walking has been an impossibility: intense sharp shooting pains, muscles cramping, numbness, no sense of balance. Well, after two days of this agony, I called 911 at 4:30 this morning and was taken by two wonderul paramedics to St Lukes-Roosevelt Hospital: I was strapped into a chair and carted down to the ambulance where I was strapped onto a gurney and taken to the Emergency Center. Several doctors looked at my leg, asking over my shrieks of pain where it hurt and what was the approximate pain level - 1000 over 10!

At any rate, all agreed the sciatic nerve was the culprit, I've now been perscribed a muscle relaxant so high that Icould dance on point, and I'm on valium, feeling like a lot of miserable housewives from the 70s. I told DR MBarnum there was one comfort: if I were a horse, I'd now be a can of dogfood.

I will be E&T a lot for the next couple of days. BK, break hearts and legs with your show. Love to you all!

Michael · « **Reply #18 on:** August 11, 2004, 08:42:15 AM »

Quote from: William E. Lurie on August 11, 2004, 06:13:00 AM

For Ask BK Day... who was the artist who did the covers for the "Lost in Boston" and "Unsung Musicals" series? I was (finally) cataloging my CDs yesterday and noticed how much I had always liked the cover art. What else has this artist done?

Tony Walton I think did the covers for Unsung Berlin and Sondheim, but that doesn;'t answer your question.

DearReaderLaura · « **Reply #19 on:** August 11, 2004, 08:44:54 AM »

This morning I went for a walk, and I saw lots of things. This is one of them:

DearReaderLaura · « **Reply #20 on:** August 11, 2004, 08:46:17 AM »

Here's another:

DearReaderLaura · « **Reply #21 on:** August 11, 2004, 08:47:19 AM »

And another:

DearReaderLaura · « **Reply #22 on:** August 11, 2004, 08:49:44 AM »

And another:

PennyO · « **Reply #23 on:** August 11, 2004, 08:51:15 AM »

Elmore - best healing vibes to you, boychik!

BK, Jose, and cast: So happy for you - wish I could be there to see/hear your great triumph! I love funny, and it sounds like funny's what you've got! And 12 in the house who love it that much, tell all their friends. Then, maybe the show gets held over long enough for me to finally get to LA to see it.

DRLaura - thanks for the lovely picture.

Okay, so back to murdering dandelions. The birds are now eating out of my hand, the feral cat is curling up in my lap, inexplicably. And I saw an actual coyote lope through my yard two days ago. Raccoons still visiting every night, leaving peanut shells all over the deck!!! Life is good, here in this magical woodland.

DearReaderLaura · « **Reply #24 on:** August 11, 2004, 08:53:19 AM »

And one more:

DearReaderLaura · « **Reply #25 on:** August 11, 2004, 08:54:02 AM »

That's it. I promise.

George · « **Reply #26 on:** August 11, 2004, 08:55:38 AM »

Great pictures, DRLaura!!

Panni · « **Reply #27 on:** August 11, 2004, 08:56:54 AM »

DR Elmore - What a nightmare!

HEALING VIBES your way!!!

To answer your question of who else is going to the WHAT IF? opening night other than that theatrical gadabout, DR Jay. I shall be attending, as will the visiting DD Rachel and her DB (Dear Boyfriend) Adam who is coming in from the Diego of San for the occasion. I believe, although he's been E&T lately, that FS Pogue and the Lovely Wife will be there. Those are the only in-town DRs I know about.

Again - Many many HEALING VIBES your way!

George · « **Reply #28 on:** August 11, 2004, 08:57:34 AM »

My question of the day: Is it just me, or is today going to be the day that it takes the longest to get to Page Two?

George · « **Reply #29 on:** August 11, 2004, 08:58:07 AM »

Well, might as well do it:

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Ben