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[Dan M]

DA BK, great to hear about the Kritzerland extravaganza!  Very nice group photo!  Like your ensemble, of talent and of clothes, too!

[Dan M]

THREE:

[FJL]

Thanks for the vibes and congrats on the parody-Bette show! 

[FJL]

Great news on your show's success, DR FJL!       


How do you feel about expanding it?

We did cut three numbers from the version originally submitted (added others) during rehearsal, so material is there.

Timing is of course a consideration.  The director says he has ideas on how the parody concept can be expanded, which the group will meet about.  It occurs to me that by summer 2014, with another Tony year gone by, the concept of Bette getting unaccountably overlooked in May 2013 may be a forgotten subject - though it was still very much on people's minds when the piece was accepted in the festival, since her run in L.A., Barbra coming to see her in L.A., was being talked about, the memory of her being overlooked for the play by the Tony committee had dissipated a bit even in the last ten weeks. 

[FJL]

Need to be comfortably within parody rules, which what we did clearly was - but if it somehow teeter-totters into an emotionally-based-story evening beyond overall parody, could be an issue of getting "Grand rights" to music, from what i understand

[FJL]

Other than that, haven't thought much about it, LOL! 

[Elan]

Hey, everyone! Sorry about not posting earlier.

TOD: I was working near Wall St. On 9/11, so I really didn't need to see/hear/read any additional info. On the good news front, back in the early 2000s, there was a below-the-fold front page article in the NY Times on a team of doctors who had performed fetal heart surgery, using the tip of an angioplasty balloon to inflate and fix a stuck valve. I spent the entire day thrusting the paper at every co-worker, and hollering "did you see THIS?"

BK: Glad to hear the performance went well. As for Terri White: yeah, she can sing and dance okay, but if you want to see REAL talent from the woman, ask her to do her bar-percussion bit to "Maxwell's Silver Hammer."

[ChasSmith]

Nice review, Mr. BK, sir.

(Oddly, the individual face shots of the cast in the middle of the page are scrunched and blurred on both of my browsers.)

[ChasSmith]

I live a 90-minute drive from Ground Zero, but never went in to see the site after 9/11.  I drove around the tip of Manhattan once some months afterward on my way to or from somewhere, when there was literally nothing to see from the West Side Highway (I still call it that) but a wall.  But I never went down to gawk.  That's not to say I don't wish I had seen it once for myself, but I never did it, and I still haven't been there to see the new structures, etc.

As for the TOD in general:  certainly 9/11, the JFK assassination, the Oklahoma City bombing, and in earlier days when I was active in flying, major plane crashes such as the DC-10 at O'Hare and the PSA/Cessna crash over downtown San Diego (these were in 1978/79).  And the two space shuttle disasters.  I'm no doubt forgetting some stuff at the moment, but those are the biggies.

[Jrand74]

A book sounds like a good idea DR DAN M.

[singdaw]

Yes - I would read it!

[singdaw]

Are any of our NY DRs going to see Emma Thompson and Bryn Terfel in the NY Phil Sweeney Todd?

[Dan M]

A book sounds like a good idea DR DAN M.

Yes - I would read it!

Thank you both for the encouragement!

[Jane]

Michael Ansara was also in VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA and Russell Johnson was in another Sci-Fi classic THE SPACE CHILDREN, which I watched just last night.

I wonder just who makes the decision to leave certain people out.  It isn't right.

I have to give them the benefit of the doubt on most of the names folks have mentioned the past two days.  Most made their mark in TV...not movies.  And even those who were in the movies made a more significant contribution (the qualifying element) in television.

Just sayin'.

I get this but why Cid Caesar and not Johnathan Winters?  They were both in the movie Cid was mentioned for.

[George]

A book sounds like a good idea DR DAN M.

Yes - I would read it!

Thank you both for the encouragement!

Count me in!

[Dan M]

A book sounds like a good idea DR DAN M.

Yes - I would read it!

Thank you both for the encouragement!

Count me in!

Thank you DR George!

[Jane]

I didn't like the fact that we were permitted to return to work way too soon, while the air was still pungent with the chemicals, the burning and (sorry to say) the smell of death and decomposition. 

I don't think I thought of that as people were returning to work.

[Jane]

 I spent the entire day thrusting the paper at every co-worker, and hollering "did you see THIS?"

This is funny in a very cute way

[George]

Are any of our NY DRs going to see Emma Thompson and Bryn Terfel in the NY Phil Sweeney Todd?

I wish I could.

[FJL]

A book sounds like a good idea DR DAN M.

Yes - I would read it!

Thank you both for the encouragement!

Count me in!

Definitely.  I'd read it too.

[Ginny]

Tuesday afternoon greetings!  Today I went to Dayton for my first lunchtime grantwriters' meeting of 2014 and it was nice to be out and about and to see a lot of friends. 

[Ginny]

Are any of our NY DRs going to see Emma Thompson and Bryn Terfel in the NY Phil Sweeney Todd?

I wish I could.

Me, too, DR George!  Seeing Bryn Terfel perform live is on my "bucket list."

[Ginny]

TOD - in addition to the big national events listed here, I could not take my eyes off Channel 5's TV coverage of the 11-day riot at the Southern Ohio Correctional Institution in Lucasville that broke out on Easter Sunday, 1993.  For one thing, I had known the warden 20 years earlier when we lived in the same apartment complex and he worked at the local Ohio prison in Lebanon.  The other thing that made this story compelling for me was the Channel 5 reporter Norma Rashid who covered the story nonstop and was VERY pregnant.  Rob was still in pre-school and I was wrestling with how to keep my career afloat as a mostly stay-at-home mom and watching Norma just tore my heart out.

[singdaw]

The pen is a tattoo:

[George]

The pen is a tattoo:

Different...interesting.

[George]

As expected, Saturday's late show was well-attended, even more than the opening performance.  But Sunday's 7 pm (on Oscar night) was a small audience mainly of friends and family of all involved, and some of the people from the other shows in the festival came as guests.  But a festival very-high-up who was in that small Sunday-night audience liked it a lot, enough to suggest to us that he'd like to try to arrange to reprise it this summer and adding to it, to make for a longer event.

Great news, Fred!  Good luck!

[Jennifer]

But a festival very-high-up who was in that small Sunday-night audience liked it a lot, enough to suggest to us that he'd like to try to arrange to reprise it this summer and adding to it, to make for a longer event.

Good vibes this happens!!!   

That sounds great. Hope it happens.

[FJL]

Thanks again for the further vibes about the festival!   

[Matthew]

This might be the busiest week to date.  That's all I'll say about that.

[Dan M]

A book sounds like a good idea DR DAN M.

Yes - I would read it!

Thank you both for the encouragement!

Count me in!

Definitely.  I'd read it too.

Thank you DR FJL!