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[elmore3003]

The comments about the LI'L ABNER comic strip remind me of when DR Elmore directed YOU'RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN and I was in the cast as Lucy.  He came to an early rehearsal with an armload of paperback books of PEANUTS cartoons and encouraged us to read them as we prepped for our roles.  Are there compendia of LI'L ABNER strips?

There sure are!
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_nr_n_7?rh=n%3A283155%2Ck%3Ali%27l+abner&keywords=li%27l+abner&ie=UTF8&qid=1399668542&rnid=2941120011

[elmore3003]

!!!! 4 !!!!

[Ginny]

The comments about the LI'L ABNER comic strip remind me of when DR Elmore directed YOU'RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN and I was in the cast as Lucy.  He came to an early rehearsal with an armload of paperback books of PEANUTS cartoons and encouraged us to read them as we prepped for our roles.  Are there compendia of LI'L ABNER strips?

There sure are!
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_nr_n_7?rh=n%3A283155%2Ck%3Ali%27l+abner&keywords=li%27l+abner&ie=UTF8&qid=1399668542&rnid=2941120011

Thanks, DR Elmore!  Do you remember the Christmas PEANUTS script that I compiled from your books that we performed for the Miami University-Middletown faculty/staff holiday luncheon?  I wonder if I still have that audio cassette?

[elmore3003]

The comments about the LI'L ABNER comic strip remind me of when DR Elmore directed YOU'RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN and I was in the cast as Lucy.  He came to an early rehearsal with an armload of paperback books of PEANUTS cartoons and encouraged us to read them as we prepped for our roles.  Are there compendia of LI'L ABNER strips?

There sure are!
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_nr_n_7?rh=n%3A283155%2Ck%3Ali%27l+abner&keywords=li%27l+abner&ie=UTF8&qid=1399668542&rnid=2941120011

Thanks, DR Elmore!  Do you remember the Christmas PEANUTS script that I compiled from your books that we performed for the Miami University-Middletown faculty/staff holiday luncheon?  I wonder if I still have that audio cassette?

Nope. I don't remember that at all.

[Ginny]

Well, I did find the recording and I think I have a typewritten copy of the script, too...

[ChasSmith]

Here we go, kids.  A landmark event in American musical theater.

[ChasSmith]

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[FJL]

I'm sincerely confused (and perhaps this is colored by my own differences with them, the way City Center personnel act like they're any cold, bottom-line oriented business and not like a charity benefiting from tax breaks).  Encores charges $115 for all orchestra tickets and all the way back to the 12th row upstairs.  I'm not sure what standards anyone's asking should be applied to its shows other than what's applied to all NY theater.  If critics did that, who could believe the rapturous reviews like the ones Encores has already gotten earlier this season?  They as a series are not doing anything altruistic for the good of society other than what any non-profits like Roundabout or MTC or LCT or the Public do - and they are presenting entertainment just as any non-profit theater company that charges Broadway prices does. 

[Cillaliz]

If I didn't say it last night, Congrats John G. !!! 

[RobStevensReviewer]

New review posted in the Now Playing section of the website. Ajax in Iraq by Not Man Apart in Santa Monica.

[MBarnum]

Love the Abner clippings, DR ChasSmith! But, no pics of you???

[George]

Well, I'm off to the theater.  After tonight's "Chamber Music," we're going to have a cast party at our space, The Midnight Sun.  I was asked to get some vodka and mixers, but being a non-drinker, I don't exactly know what/how much to get.  Hopefully, someone will call me back with some info!

Anyway, be back later!

[TCB]

T.O.D.




This is Friday?

[TCB]

Bruce,I thought you wrote you were going to do more dental work on the smaller scenes.

[John G.]

Topic of the Day:  just arrived here at work: 

Sheldon Harnick: HIDDEN TREASURES, 1949-2013

AND:

Hugh Martin: Hidden Treasures: SONGS FOR STAGE AND SCREEN 1941-2010.

My Harnick set came yesterday. Love the comedy songs. Haven't heard the whole set yet.

[John G.]

If I didn't say it last night, Congrats John G. !!! 

Thank you, Cillaliz. And to everyone. Great group of people to celebrate with.

[John G.]

Speaking of which, I went and celebrated with some sublime sashimi tonight. I was one happy boy.

And I ran into friends I hadn't seen in a few months, which proved to be great, because they were celebrating the birth of their first grandchild and honoring the memory of Sandy's mother, who passed away this week. I knew about the birth, not the death.

[TCB]

Great LI'L ABNER notes today!

It's so funny about what we first get familiar with, and how it determines our preferences later.  I saw the movie first, too, but would have been just a little younger.  And then it was probably a year or two before I saw it a second time (I remember that time being on TV) which of course only served to renew my interest and love for the piece.  BUT... I didn't have an album until some time after that, and when we got one, it was the Broadway cast, which I then proceeded to play to death.  So, since I hadn't driven the sound of the film into my head, those arrangements were kind of forgotten until years later.  I did get the soundtrack LP back then (still have my first copy), but for some reason only played it a little bit.  Finally, when I did the show while in 9th or 10th grade, that more or less married me to the original score. 

Over the years, I grew and learned to open myself up to new arrangements, but I was surprisingly rigid back in my teens and twenties.

Weren't we all!

[TCB]

Good morning, all.

Thank you all. I slept a little better last night. I think my body knows it's over.

And when I get that piece of paper, I'll never have to think again, right?

Why start now?

[John G.]

Good morning, all.

Thank you all. I slept a little better last night. I think my body knows it's over.

And when I get that piece of paper, I'll never have to think again, right?

Why start now?

Yes, sir.

[Jane]

If I didn't say it last night, Congrats John G. !!! 

Thank you, Cillaliz. And to everyone. Great group of people to celebrate with.

[Jane]

Keith is about to pop corn and I believe we will be watching "The Good Wife" and "Elementary".

[Ginny]

Our sister-in-law Jayne broke her arm yesterday.  She lives alone (widow of Richard's older brother) and is deep into preparations for her daughter's wedding in 2 months.

[bk]

The critics re Irma are disgusting blaming the show.  It never occurs to these idiots than when a director like John Doyle is involved and maybe the casting is not spot on and maybe the choreography isn't up to snuff that THEY should be blamed.  It's like I've said forever - when people do Li'l Abner and the production is a big fail, everyone, rather than blame their ineptitude blames the show.  That's why I've wanted to do it so bad for so long.  There is NOTHING wrong with Abner just as there is nothing wrong with Irma in the right hands.

[bk]

Back from a productive rehearsal and a meal at Palermo that wasn't very good.

[bk]

I'm still fighting something - allergies or whatever - three weeks now - I keep winning but it's become completely irritating but not as irritating and being on page FOUR!

[TCB]

DR Ginny, I really sometimes wonder if you and I don't have the same mother.

What a mean thing to say to DR Ginny!

[John G.]

Vibes for Ginny's SIL.

[John G.]

Back to "The Sorrow and the Pity."

[John G.]

One more.