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[MBarnum]

TOD:

Hearing certain songs

Coming across a beautiful dog

Coming across a wonderful cat

[Ginny]

Great photos yesterday from DR GINNY and DR JANE.  And a nice new avatar for DR MIKE.

Thanks, DR JRand!

And ditto on DR Mike's new avatar!

[MBarnum]

DR Singalong, those Abner photos are great fun! Your production looks much more professional than the high school production that I was in.

[ChasSmith]

Good morning, all.

Enjoyed a very slow start to the day.  Got up to feed the critters, turned the heat on because it was quite cold, and dove back under the covers for another hour or two of sleep.  That was the right thing to do.  Now...

Coffee!

[Ginny]

TOD - being around family and friends, hearing "The Victors," arriving in New York City.

[ChasSmith]

I wonder what I did with this program after I scanned the cover!  It's in one of these stacks that I'm supposed to be cleaning up ... today, as it happens.  What I don't remember is whether there were pictures in it.  There must have been something.  In fact, I think I have a newspaper clipping.  But I don't think any of them will show anything as good as DR singdaw's program did.

[ChasSmith]

Sheesh.  I'm glad I identified that, though, so no one could steal it from me!

[ChasSmith]

Oh!  I do have something else to share.  I'll have to bring it upstairs and scan it later.  Actually, what I REALLY have to do is think of how to describe it.

[elmore3003]

DR ELMORE things will improve when Neptune quincunxes Uranus.

I do hope so, DR JRand63! And when will that be?

[Druxy]

TOD:

I love watching animals of different species interacting and being friends with one another.  That always puts a smile on my face.

[ChasSmith]

DR ChasSmith, I'm glad you enjoyed IRMA LA DOUCE. I think the director completely screwed up the ending, turning "Christmas Child" into a family get-together rather than the funny, sacrilegious number it was meant to be.

Funny, I always felt the waving of the middle finger in that scene was more subtle, less of a raspberry. After all, you have the unmarried couple with their newborn child. She's been called a poule. And the lowest level of society comes to worship the child. I saw it as a parallel. But I've never seen the show.

I don't have a book here, just a (ahem) (cough) score, so I don't know what, if anything was suggested for that scene.

DR John, the entire cast is grouped in a very straightforward tableau around Irma and Nestor who are seated at the table in the bar, and while the song is expertly performed, the scene is static and does not suggest the humorous sacrilegious aspect.

DR Elmore, how has this been portrayed in the past -- or what would you do with it?

[ChasSmith]

But what can I say that any of us have never said before?

The orchestra -- the most perfect ten-piece band I hope to hear in, oh, say, my entire life? -- is the star of the show for the likes o' moi.  But Encores! went all the way with the most gorgeous, clever set ... and I really am rendered rather speechless at the whole incredible wonderful thing.

[ChasSmith]

DR Elmore gets thanked in the program again.     

[Ginny]

DR Elmore gets thanked in the program again.     

 

[ChasSmith]

Thanks to BK for the description of the Li'l Abner design, and the first two pictures.

Looking forward to many many more.  MANY more.  And especially to hearing more about the musical arrangement.  And ..... oh, everything!

[ChasSmith]

I'm still amazed to hear of the forces it would take to mount a full scale production of the show.  And of the length and complexity of the book. 

[ChasSmith]

And of course big dance/action sequences are often quite nicely reduced to small stages, but I admit to special curiosity about what BK is doing with the Sadie Hawkins Day Ballet.

[ChasSmith]

Last year when this local theater did Adrift in Macao, their idea was to make the set and even the costumes as "black and white" as possible, befitting the film noir aspect.  For my money, it didn't work.  It just looked horribly drab (at least from the upstairs "pit"), and of course you have all of those annoying FLESH TONES getting in the way. 

So this B&W comic strip with full color costuming idea seems like the answer and the antidote, and Mr. Cornpone already looks great.

[ChasSmith]

DR Elmore gets thanked in the program again.     

 

It's the first thing I looked for, DR Ginny!     

[ChasSmith]

Last year when this local theater did Adrift in Macao, their idea was to make the set and even the costumes as "black and white" as possible, befitting the film noir aspect.  For my money, it didn't work.  It just looked horribly drab (at least from the upstairs "pit"), and of course you have all of those annoying FLESH TONES getting in the way. 

So this B&W comic strip with full color costuming idea seems like the answer and the antidote, and Mr. Cornpone already looks great.

Let's just all hope and pray there won't be a teal push.

[elmore3003]

DR ChasSmith, I'm glad you enjoyed IRMA LA DOUCE. I think the director completely screwed up the ending, turning "Christmas Child" into a family get-together rather than the funny, sacrilegious number it was meant to be.

Funny, I always felt the waving of the middle finger in that scene was more subtle, less of a raspberry. After all, you have the unmarried couple with their newborn child. She's been called a poule. And the lowest level of society comes to worship the child. I saw it as a parallel. But I've never seen the show.

I don't have a book here, just a (ahem) (cough) score, so I don't know what, if anything was suggested for that scene.

DR John, the entire cast is grouped in a very straightforward tableau around Irma and Nestor who are seated at the table in the bar, and while the song is expertly performed, the scene is static and does not suggest the humorous sacrilegious aspect.

DR Elmore, how has this been portrayed in the past -- or what would you do with it?

Did you notice all the Biblical jargon: NESTOR: "He shall be Nestor" ALL (Response): "He shall be Nestor."

The scene has Irma in bed with the babies, Nestor standing beside her, with the gang all laying their machine guns, brass knuckles, pistols, etc. at her feet as a parody of the Adoration of the Magi. The original French lyric "Il est ne" is a parody of the carol "Il est ne, le divin enfant,"

[ChasSmith]

DR ChasSmith, I'm glad you enjoyed IRMA LA DOUCE. I think the director completely screwed up the ending, turning "Christmas Child" into a family get-together rather than the funny, sacrilegious number it was meant to be.

Funny, I always felt the waving of the middle finger in that scene was more subtle, less of a raspberry. After all, you have the unmarried couple with their newborn child. She's been called a poule. And the lowest level of society comes to worship the child. I saw it as a parallel. But I've never seen the show.

I don't have a book here, just a (ahem) (cough) score, so I don't know what, if anything was suggested for that scene.

DR John, the entire cast is grouped in a very straightforward tableau around Irma and Nestor who are seated at the table in the bar, and while the song is expertly performed, the scene is static and does not suggest the humorous sacrilegious aspect.

DR Elmore, how has this been portrayed in the past -- or what would you do with it?

Did you notice all the Biblical jargon: NESTOR: "He shall be Nestor" ALL (Response): "He shall be Nestor."

The scene has Irma in bed with the babies, Nestor standing beside her, with the gang all laying their machine guns, brass knuckles, pistols, etc. at her feet as a parody of the Adoration of the Magi. The original French lyric "Il est ne" is a parody of the carol "Il est ne, le divin enfant,"

Oy!

[ChasSmith]

Yes, I heard the Biblical phrasing there, and it didn't register at the time.

So ... why did he opt for this treatment of it, I wonder?

[elmore3003]

Yes, I heard the Biblical phrasing there, and it didn't register at the time.

So ... why did he opt for this treatment of it, I wonder?

I think it's because the director simply isn't very good. This was the first show I've actually not minded so much, but he turned WHERE'S CHARLEY? from a rollicking farce into a genteel tea party, and the less said about his let's-play-instruments-as-well-as-act SWEENEY TODD and COMPANY the better.

[ChasSmith]

Yes, I heard the Biblical phrasing there, and it didn't register at the time.

So ... why did he opt for this treatment of it, I wonder?

I think it's because the director simply isn't very good. This was the first show I've actually not minded so much, but he turned WHERE'S CHARLEY? from a rollicking farce into a genteel tea party, and the less said about his let's-play-instruments-as-well-as-act SWEENEY TODD and COMPANY the better.

INDEED!!!   Geez, I'd forgotten all about him being that director.

[ChasSmith]

DR Elmore, what kind of piano is that? 

It's not just a "plain old piano", is it?  Isn't he switching between at least two sounds, to get the tack piano where called for?

[ArnoldMBrockman]

And the word of the day is: CAPRINE!

And The Song Of The Day Is:   LONELY GOATHERD

[Jrand74]

It happens on May 10 DR ELMORE.

[Jrand74]

That cover looks almost like the art work for the movies that played the ART THEATRE in Indy back in the 60's!

[ChasSmith]

A LI'L IRMA:

http://goo.gl/TVg4Hl