Topic: DINNER AND POSTMORTEM (Read 8626 times)

John G. · « **Reply #121 on:** January 19, 2014, 09:36:20 PM »

Back from the cocktail party. Some good people there to talk with, but I felt old. Really old.

John G. · « **Reply #122 on:** January 19, 2014, 09:36:49 PM »

And now to sleep, perchance to dream.

TCB · « **Reply #123 on:** January 19, 2014, 09:48:28 PM »

Quote from: Cillaliz on January 19, 2014, 08:24:41 PM

TCB - the man who was nominated for best supporting actor for Captain Phillips (don't remember his name) used to be a taxi driver from Minneapolis. There is a large Somali community there and apparently he was discovered there somehow.....or something like that.

Okay. Thank you. I hadn't heard that before.

vixmom · « **Reply #124 on:** January 19, 2014, 10:00:29 PM »

Sorry to have been E & T

vixmom · « **Reply #125 on:** January 19, 2014, 10:02:42 PM »

This was a very busy weekend

vixmom · « **Reply #126 on:** January 19, 2014, 10:04:06 PM »

Saturday night the Vixter and I ventured into NYC to see Twelfth Night

TCB · « **Reply #127 on:** January 19, 2014, 10:04:28 PM »

It is still nice to see you, if only for a quick visit.

TCB · « **Reply #128 on:** January 19, 2014, 10:05:01 PM »

Quote from: vixmom on January 19, 2014, 10:04:06 PM

Saturday night the Vixter and I ventured into NYC to see Twelfth Night

I thought you already saw that.

vixmom · « **Reply #129 on:** January 19, 2014, 10:06:28 PM »

We sat in the very last seats in the top balcony - and we still could see everything very well as they seats have a sufficient rake so you can see well over the head of the person a head of you

vixmom · « **Reply #130 on:** January 19, 2014, 10:08:45 PM »

we didn't have time to visit unfortunately the Vixter got home from work at 4:45 and by 5 PM we were on the road we were in such a rush I did something I NEVER do I took the Midtown tunnel instead of the 59th Street Bridge

TCB · « **Reply #131 on:** January 19, 2014, 10:09:55 PM »

Quote from: Ginny on January 19, 2014, 04:09:18 PM

For DR TCB:

Go, Seahawks!

Thank you, Ginny. And they did it!! On to the Super Bowl.

TCB · « **Reply #132 on:** January 19, 2014, 10:11:27 PM »

Quote from: vixmom on January 19, 2014, 10:08:45 PM

we didn't have time to visit unfortunately the Vixter got home from work at 4:45 and by 5 PM we were on the road we were in such a rush I did something I NEVER do I took the Midtown tunnel instead of the 59th Street Bridge

I don't think I was ever in the Midtown tunnel.

vixmom · « **Reply #133 on:** January 19, 2014, 10:12:40 PM »

we had hoped to eat at John's Pizza but the stated wait time was 45 minutes (and we heard peopel sayingt hey had already waited more than an hour) so we ended up at a restaurant/bar a few doors down , had a couple of unmemorable $15 hamburgers and fries and lousy service (after three tries to get ketchup I finally got up walked across the restaurant and borrowed a bottle from someone at another table)

So we won't be going there again

George · « **Reply #134 on:** January 19, 2014, 10:14:18 PM »

Quote from: FJL on January 19, 2014, 03:24:06 AM

In the "Leave it to Diva" department - Milla had to unfortunately bow out of the Midwinter Madness festival in last week of February (I gather shw has a movie in March, not sure how that factored in). Then, since the director Michael Ormond was really doing the show especially to work with Milla (I knew that factoid, they'd had a great success together on The Crucible at St. Bart's two months ago and were aching to work together again) - he decided to step aside.

There's a wonderful performer who will likely step in for Milla, but finding a director for the 30-minute piece at such closeness in time has been tough. (It seems directors book much farther in advance than this. If anyone here or reading here has any ideas... or even anyone reading here who would want to talk about maybe doing it, please message me or contact me on the blog.

Here's the info on the show
http://music-and-comedy.blogspot.com/2014/01/info-about-our-one-act-parody-musical.html
(likely rehearsing between Feb. 10 and 24)

That's too bad, Fred. Good luck for the show...whoever ends up doing it!

vixmom · « **Reply #135 on:** January 19, 2014, 10:15:55 PM »

Quote from: TCB on January 19, 2014, 10:05:01 PM

Quote from: vixmom on January 19, 2014, 10:04:06 PM
Saturday night the Vixter and I ventured into NYC to see Twelfth Night

I thought you already saw that.

Vixdad bought me two single tickets for Christmas one for Richard III and one for Twelfth Night both for on stage seating- on Christmas Eve my bro and SIL gave me two tickets to Twelfth Night (fortunately a week later)

(I did not tell them when Vixdad presented me with the other tickets!)

It was wonderful to see it again though and nice to share it with the Vixter

vixmom · « **Reply #136 on:** January 19, 2014, 10:17:33 PM »

Quote from: TCB on January 19, 2014, 10:11:27 PM

Quote from: vixmom on January 19, 2014, 10:08:45 PM
we didn't have time to visit unfortunately the Vixter got home from work at 4:45 and by 5 PM we were on the road we were in such a rush I did something I NEVER do I took the Midtown tunnel instead of the 59th Street Bridge

I don't think I was ever in the Midtown tunnel.

Unless you were traveling between Long Island and Manhattan by car it is unlikely that you would have been

vixmom · « **Reply #137 on:** January 19, 2014, 10:19:33 PM »

I made a big pot of pea soup today -- half will go to my folks tomorrow and the other half will be dinner tomorrow

vixmom · « **Reply #138 on:** January 19, 2014, 10:19:48 PM »

Well I have to work tomorrow so good night all

TCB · « **Reply #139 on:** January 19, 2014, 10:20:12 PM »

Quote from: vixmom on January 19, 2014, 10:17:33 PM

Quote from: TCB on January 19, 2014, 10:11:27 PM
Quote from: vixmom on January 19, 2014, 10:08:45 PM
we didn't have time to visit unfortunately the Vixter got home from work at 4:45 and by 5 PM we were on the road we were in such a rush I did something I NEVER do I took the Midtown tunnel instead of the 59th Street Bridge

I don't think I was ever in the Midtown tunnel.

Unless you were traveling between Long Island and Manhattan by car it is unlikely that you would have been

I never made it to Long Island.

TCB · « **Reply #140 on:** January 19, 2014, 10:21:47 PM »

Quote from: vixmom on January 19, 2014, 10:19:33 PM

I made a big pot of pea soup today -- half will go to my folks tomorrow and the other half will be dinner tomorrow

I haven't made pea soup in several years. That sounds good.

bk · « **Reply #141 on:** January 19, 2014, 10:32:44 PM »

Spent way too much of my evening making a show order for the Kritzerland show, and getting the MD all the music. Done now. Maybe I'll shower again and write a couple of pages, although I've done six already.

George · « **Reply #142 on:** January 19, 2014, 10:40:17 PM »

Quote from: Ben on January 19, 2014, 12:48:39 PM

Anything is possible, but it looks like

Peter Pan

is the next choice for NBC's live musical presention. Sometime in December of 2014 is the date.

Another not-so-new idea. I'll definitely watch it, but it's been done before...several times.

George · « **Reply #143 on:** January 19, 2014, 10:43:08 PM »

Here's a wonky, but readable picture of the Nellie McKay autographed album that I got last night:

I had to scan it twice and patch it together.

George · « **Reply #144 on:** January 19, 2014, 11:14:51 PM »

Today, I ushered for a modern interpretation of Mozart's "The Magic Flute" from the Salzburg Festival. The score is not updated, but the visuals were set in what looked like a boarding school...or something like that. The singers were all incredible and the Papageno was gorgeous!

George · « **Reply #145 on:** January 19, 2014, 11:15:49 PM »

What was also very interesting (at least, for American audiences) was the character of Monostatos, who is a Moor (a black man). There were a couple of racial stereotypes shown (one was when the students made fun of him by acting like a monkey with a banana) and the actor was not a black man...he was definitely a white guy with make-up on his face and hands. You'd think that they would've been able to get a black singer for this major production. $:-\$

George · « **Reply #146 on:** January 19, 2014, 11:35:28 PM »

Here's a half hour of the actual production that I saw and this clip features Markus Verba as Papageno:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DidVB4Cwjig

This has French subtitles, though.

George · « **Reply #147 on:** January 19, 2014, 11:36:42 PM »

And here's the whole production! (but also with French subtitles):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cWayQJQIDA

George · « **Reply #148 on:** January 20, 2014, 12:05:29 AM »

Well...

George · « **Reply #149 on:** January 20, 2014, 12:05:37 AM »

...since we're so close...

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