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[Jennifer]

I DVR'ed "The Sound of Music" but am waiting a few days to let it settle before going back to it.  It's going to be great to study certain bits, and to see things that happened that people have been talking about but which I didn't catch during the broadcast.  And to fast-forward through the commercials.  (Which I muted and didn't even look at, anyhoo, so at least I didn't suffer along with the rest of the populace.)  I liked a great deal of it and was mostly appalled by the imbalance (and noise) in the audio.  How that could have happened is beyond me.  I haven't yet heard whether it's something that can be corrected for the DVD.

Speaking of which ..... DVD, and no Blu-Ray?  For a high-definition broadcast of one of the highest-profile events in recent times?  Say what?  Say again?  Where am I?  1998?

I recorded the West Coast feed. I wonder if the sound will be better as someone mentioned.

[Jennifer]

Break a leg vibes!

[Cillaliz]

Good morning, all! Because of weather, my friends' flight from Dallas (not California) has been canceled. I don't know if he and his family are coming in later or not yet. My friend Vinny, who played rehearsals for EILEEN, DEAREST ENEMY, and ROBERTA will arrive tomorrow. He's been traveling with the Celtic Tenors.

Last night, after a bad day - except for a surprise and wonderful gift - I went to bed at 7:30. I got about 12 hours of sleep, which was needed. Today I will be tied up with Encores! work. Joshie and I worked out the calendar of deadlines last night around 5:00, while my mind still worked.

DR cillaliz, i loved your comment about the SOM and high school performances. Had I been awake when you posted it, I'd have sent you gold stars. Whatare you going to do with your abundant vacation time?

I am out of milk and I need coffee!

Thanks Elmore.  It really irritated me that I'm hearing from so many people that I know don't go to the theater unless they have a family member in the production saying the watched and enjoyed it and many who think they are "theater people" are doing nothing by nit pick.  If someone new watches and gets the theater bug or maybe their kids see a musical for the first time, it may be a whole new audience who may think "You know, maybe we should go see live theater" .  I hope they do more live musicals on TV

[Cillaliz]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JANE!!!!!! 

[Jennifer]

I too love the idea of having stage shows on tv!

[TCB]

Until I saw the broadcast the other night, I had almost forgotten that they cut, and that I missed, the opening part of the song SOM from the movie version.  It, of coursse, would not have made sense with Julie twirling around in bright sunshine on top of the mountain; but it does change the way the song should be sung.

My day in the hills has come to end I know
A star has come out to tell me it's time to go
But deep in the dark green forest
Are voices that urge me to stay
So I pause and I wait and I listen
For one more sound for one more lovely thing
That the hills might say

[TCB]

I DVR'ed "The Sound of Music" but am waiting a few days to let it settle before going back to it.  It's going to be great to study certain bits, and to see things that happened that people have been talking about but which I didn't catch during the broadcast.  And to fast-forward through the commercials.  (Which I muted and didn't even look at, anyhoo, so at least I didn't suffer along with the rest of the populace.)  I liked a great deal of it and was mostly appalled by the imbalance (and noise) in the audio.  How that could have happened is beyond me.  I haven't yet heard whether it's something that can be corrected for the DVD.

Speaking of which ..... DVD, and no Blu-Ray?  For a high-definition broadcast of one of the highest-profile events in recent times?  Say what?  Say again?  Where am I?  1998?

I recorded the West Coast feed. I wonder if the sound will be better as someone mentioned.

I didn't notice any problems with the sound in the West Coast feed, but I am not very good at paying attention to things like that.  Unless there was a huge problem, I would never notice.

[TCB]

Good morning, all! Because of weather, my friends' flight from Dallas (not California) has been canceled. I don't know if he and his family are coming in later or not yet. My friend Vinny, who played rehearsals for EILEEN, DEAREST ENEMY, and ROBERTA will arrive tomorrow. He's been traveling with the Celtic Tenors.

Last night, after a bad day - except for a surprise and wonderful gift - I went to bed at 7:30. I got about 12 hours of sleep, which was needed. Today I will be tied up with Encores! work. Joshie and I worked out the calendar of deadlines last night around 5:00, while my mind still worked.

DR cillaliz, i loved your comment about the SOM and high school performances. Had I been awake when you posted it, I'd have sent you gold stars. Whatare you going to do with your abundant vacation time?

I am out of milk and I need coffee!

Thanks Elmore.  It really irritated me that I'm hearing from so many people that I know don't go to the theater unless they have a family member in the production saying the watched and enjoyed it and many who think they are "theater people" are doing nothing by nit pick.  If someone new watches and gets the theater bug or maybe their kids see a musical for the first time, it may be a whole new audience who may think "You know, maybe we should go see live theater" .  I hope they do more live musicals on TV

Amen!  I feel presonally responsible for converting several of my co-workers with the State into theatergoers.  I would alwasy announce when we were having a free preview for a show that I was doing.  For some, it was like pulling teeth to get them to come, even though it was free. Many of those that I talked into going are now regular theater patrons.

[Cillaliz]

DR Cillaliz, I, too, loved your comments about THE SOUND OF MUSIC.  And I wanted to tell you that my lasting legacy at Miami University is the closing of the regional campus libraries between Christmas and New Year's.  About 30 years ago, when I was managing the Middletown Campus library, everyone wanted vacation then and we realized that the only people who used our facility during that time were community residents who have a perfectly good public library at their disposal.  Classes were not in session and there were no students, no faculty on campus.  Depending on what day of the week was Christmas, we could get as much as a week and a half off by only taking 4 vacation days.  The Hamilton Campus library shortly followed suit and they're still closing from Christmas Eve until the first working day of the new year.

Thanks Ginny.  We are going to work Monday and half of Tuesday before New Years.  Just in case there are fires we need to put out after being gone a week.   When I do federal criminal work, it's almost impossible to not work during that time, but I'm not doing it right now so we're going to take advantage of it

[ChasSmith]

Until I saw the broadcast the other night, I had almost forgotten that they cut and that I missed from the movie version.  It, of coursse, would not have made sense with Julie twirling around in bright sunshine on top of the mountain; but it does change the way the song should be sung.

My day in the hills has come to end I know
A star has come out to tell me it's time to go
But deep in the dark green forest
Are voices that urge me to stay
So I pause and I wait and I listen
For one more sound for one more lovely thing
That the hills might say

Right!  For years I stopped giving any thought to that, myself.  And years went by before I even made this connection:  They did employ that musical theme in the introductory sections of "I Have Confidence in Me".

[Cillaliz]

As far as my time off.  I will be going to my parents' house.  Probably just for one night, although mom wants me to stay longer.  I'm sure I can get Paul or someone to feed the cats, and Callie was fine missing two doses so I'm ok leaving her. But I don't think I want to be gone more than one night.   

What I really want to do is just be home and do some projects I want to do.   I'm not going to get Dad's records done before Christmas, so that would be fun to work on.  I also want to finish painting the spare room.  I've said that a million times, but now I'm spending more time in there because it truly is the warmest room in the whole house.  I have a great futon to lay on, and old recliner to sit in and tv to watch. So every time I go in I think "Yuck" I need to finish this.  And I have all sorts of projects that I just never have time to do.  So, I'll likely just stay home...maybe go to movies, maybe read books.  Pretty much whatever I feel like doing.

And all the shades I ordered will be shipped on the 23rd.  Even if they don't arrive by then, I want the windows ready for them to be hung.   

[Cillaliz]

Well, I better bundle up and venture out. We're supposed to have 3-6 inches of snow tonight and I'm sure I don't have any gas for the snow blower. I also need to go to the grocery store.  I'm in the mood to bake cookies and I'm out of butter.   

[Cillaliz]

It's a balmy 8 degrees, a veritable heat waver

[elmore3003]

Good morning, all! Because of weather, my friends' flight from Dallas (not California) has been canceled. I don't know if he and his family are coming in later or not yet. My friend Vinny, who played rehearsals for EILEEN, DEAREST ENEMY, and ROBERTA will arrive tomorrow. He's been traveling with the Celtic Tenors.

Last night, after a bad day - except for a surprise and wonderful gift - I went to bed at 7:30. I got about 12 hours of sleep, which was needed. Today I will be tied up with Encores! work. Joshie and I worked out the calendar of deadlines last night around 5:00, while my mind still worked.

DR cillaliz, i loved your comment about the SOM and high school performances. Had I been awake when you posted it, I'd have sent you gold stars. Whatare you going to do with your abundant vacation time?

I am out of milk and I need coffee!

Thanks Elmore.  It really irritated me that I'm hearing from so many people that I know don't go to the theater unless they have a family member in the production saying the watched and enjoyed it and many who think they are "theater people" are doing nothing by nit pick.  If someone new watches and gets the theater bug or maybe their kids see a musical for the first time, it may be a whole new audience who may think "You know, maybe we should go see live theater" .  I hope they do more live musicals on TV

Paula Leggett Chase, who was one of the nuns, is married to the show's musical director, and she posted a wonderful thing on FB about how she hoped the  ratings would guarantee other productions that would give a lot of the negative posters a chance to show them how to do it right.

[Ginny]

Good for Paula!

[Jrand74]

DR TCB - it has been said that those lyrics were the last written by Oscar Hammerstein II....which is fitting....  I think I read it in a photo book about R/H musicals many years ago.

[elmore3003]

DR TCB - it has been said that those lyrics were the last written by Oscar Hammerstein II....which is fitting....  I think I read it in a photo book about R/H musicals many years ago.

I thought "Edelweiss" was the last lyric he wrote. I'll check the COMPLETE LYRICS OF OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN.

I got 10 pages of orchestra parts done today. I'll do more tomorrow until Vinny shows up.

[elmore3003]

According to the Hammerstein lyrics, "Edelweiss" was his last completed lyric.  There are lyrics as well for several dropped songs and a discarded lyric for "How Can Love survive?"

[Cillaliz]

The weatherman just said "Tomorrow it will be warmer, you can wear 14 layers instead of 15" 

[Cillaliz]

Break a leg vibes for Pure Imagination!!

[bk]

If the West Coast had "fixed" sound mix, a) it is reprehensible as this was supposed to be a LIVE show, warts and all, and b) the mix I'm hearing is one of the worst ever with vocals buried under the orchestra - if it was worse, I can't even imagine it.

[Cillaliz]

I put plastic up on some of my living room windows today.  It should be outside but I didn't get it done so I tried to do it inside.  With my shades, it's really hard to do it an the tape didn't stick very well so, I'll probably have to do it all over.  The good news is I had to pull out some furniture and it is now clean behind the desk and everything else along that wall

[bk]

I've just watched about ten minutes so far, but want to see the rest before commenting.  Otherwise, picked up no packages and have just been relaxing.

[MBarnum]

A very happy birthday to DR Jane!!

Hope you are enjoying your day!

[MBarnum]

TOD:

Don't know if the TOD is what is your holy grail that is already on Blu ray, or that you would like to see on Blu Ray...either way, I don't have a blu ray player yet, so....one of these days.

[Ginny]

Big Ten championship game - Go, Spartans!

[TCB]

According to the Hammerstein lyrics, "Edelweiss" was his last completed lyric.  There are lyrics as well for several dropped songs and a discarded lyric for "How Can Love survive?"

Mary Martin told a story on the old Jack Parr program that they were out of town (Boston?)and Oscar had not been well, but he came to the theater and before the performance he gave Mary a note.  According to her, on it was written, “A bell's not a bell 'til you ring it - A song's not a song 'til you sing it - Love in your heart wasn't put there to stay - Love isn't love 'til you give it away!”

Mary said that Oscar died that night. 


That is my story, and I am sticking to it.

[Jane]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JANE!!!!!! 

Thanks.  It has been a strange one not being able to go anywhere.  We did walk to the mailbox only to find the mail was very late today or not coming at all.

[TCB]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JANE!!!!!! 

Thanks.  It has been a strange one not being able to go anywhere.  We did walk to the mailbox only to find the mail was very late today or not coming at all.

A walk?  All the way to the mailbox?  You Oregonians really know how to live!!