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[FJL]

Page 2 getaway dance

[Elan]

Morning, all!

So sad to hear about Mary Rodgers. I never did put my copy of "Hey, Love" on ye olde iPod, but I'll be sure to do so now. I sat near her once, at a very mediocre production of "Boys From Syracuse" (she was acknowledged at the end of the show). "Mattress" has so many great lyrics (the whole "Alas/a lass/I lack/alack" bit is pure joy).

Ben: Enjoy seeing Ruby! I remember him very fondly from my Eighty-Eights days, and I'm so thrilled to hear that he's still around. His version of "Let Them Hear You" from Ragtime is still my definitive one.

TOD:
On ye olde iPod: lectures, lectures, more lectures
blip.tv playlist: "Brows Held High" - sardonic reviews of various arthouse films that I'll never see

[singdaw]

Here is a great collection of Mary Rodgers YouTube clips. You can also follow the links to the full 1964 television Once Upon a Mattress (in three parts):
http://goo.gl/qzj84y

[Druxy]

TOD:

Assuming it arrives from Netflix, we'll be watching REASONABLE DOUBT this weekend.

Also, I still have the original cast CDs of THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY and A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER that I haven't heard yet.

[Druxy]

We watched HOTEL BERLIN on TCM last night.  I'd never seen it before, and it's quite good; written by Vicki Baum, who wrote GRAND HOTEL.  The story is set at the end of WW2.

I assume the film is not that well known because it has a "B," albeit talented, cast.  There are no major names, just good actors like Raymond Massey, Peter Lorre, Andrea King, etc.  Lorre was superb in a very un-Lorre type of role.

[John G.]

Good morning, all.

Heaps of vibes for Vixmom, Elmore, Mike and anyone else in need out there.

[John G.]

TOD:

Mary Rodgers stuff, maybe Here's Love or The Mad Show.

And in the car, disc 11 of Great Expectations.

[John G.]

2 of Dawn Powell's early books are available for download as free e-books at the Internet Archive. Scroll to the bottom and you'll see the files. You can download them as e-pub or Kindle files.

Dawn Powell

Thank you, thank you, thank you for that link, Ben. Whither, a book Powell loathed (it was her first), is the only one that hasn't been reprinted. Now I can read it and judge for myself.

[ChasSmith]

TOD:

CD -- (Never heard of The Mad Show!)
Once Upon a Mattress and (once I find that I actually have this, but I think I do) Hey, Love

BLU -- Runaway Train -- wow!  Had never seen it.  Got through half of it last night before falling asleep, which I hated doing but couldn't help it.

[singdaw]

In looking at things about Mary Rodgers on the Internet, I somehow found myself reading yet another debate about the merits of son Adam's score for A Light in the Piazza.


I adore the score and found the original production incredibly moving, but what strikes me is the disparate array of reactions to the score: from pure adulation to pure loathing.

[Ben]

I didn't know Powell at all until Ginny talked about her. Because she's an early century writer I looked to see if any of her stuff was at Gutenberg or Many Books. No luck there but the Internet Archive, a great resource has those 2 books. Open Library, another Internet lending library, has 17 of her books in some form

Dawn Powell Open Library

[singdaw]

TOD:


CDs: David Campbell sings John Bucchino, Sheldon Harnick Hidden Treasures, Herbert Howells: The Complete Works for Violin & Piano
Netflix: one of the films that DR Jeanne recommended last night


Tonight we will be hearing Carmina Burana at Orchestra Hall.

[ChasSmith]

Here is a great collection of Mary Rodgers YouTube clips. You can also follow the links to the full 1964 television Once Upon a Mattress (in three parts):
http://goo.gl/qzj84y

Enjoying these!

[Ben]

You say Carmina (short i)
I say Carmina (long i)
You say Burana (eena)
I say Burana (ahna)
Let's call the whole thing Orff

[Ron Pulliam]

DR TCB:  Saying "a young Sondheim" and "a young Cariou" would necessitate saying "an alive Gingold".  That wouldn't do, so the writer made it Sondheim-centric and only alluded to the fact that you can see a smooth Sondheim face in those photos.

[Ron Pulliam]

Shia LaBoeuf:  I have enjoyed performances by him in several films, but nothing that would have me believe he is entitled to any consideration for anti-social behavior.

He is to be pitied, yes, but he needs to wake up before it's too late.

[Ron Pulliam]

DR Ben:  I say Purina (short i).

[Jrand74]

Getaway vibes for DR FJL.

Continued recording vibes for DR ELMORE....the one with the new bathroom.

Saturday vibes for DR VIXMOM.

Sounds like an interesting show DR BEN!

[Jrand74]

I am still contemplating the photo DR SINGDAW posted yesterday of a dog walking down the street carrying the leg of a mannequin.

[singdaw]

DR Ben - it is a good thing there is no groaning on HHW!         

[John G.]

I didn't know Powell at all until Ginny talked about her. Because she's an early century writer I looked to see if any of her stuff was at Gutenberg or Many Books. No luck there but the Internet Archive, a great resource has those 2 books. Open Library, another Internet lending library, has 17 of her books in some form

Dawn Powell Open Library

I've got all her novels that were reissued, the volume of collected plays, the Tim Page bio and the volume of collected letters. I kinda went Powell crazy in the 1990s. Still love her stuff.

[John G.]

You say Carmina (short i)
I say Carmina (long i)
You say Burana (eena)
I say Burana (ahna)
Let's call the whole thing Orff

Orff, orff, orff!

[Jane]

After last nights discussion on Dawn Powell I requested my library purchase "A Time to Be Born", the only Powell option the eBook library offered.

[Jane]

From DR Singdaw:

Don't leave now, DR John G.  DR vixmom is just getting started.


I just grabbed a bowl of popcorn, myself. 

 

[Jane]

From DR Vixmom:

and we got it back to her pressed, cleaned and in time for her wedding

Oh, that must have felt good.

[Jane]

2 of Dawn Powell's early books are available for download as free e-books at the Internet Archive. Scroll to the bottom and you'll see the files. You can download them as e-pub or Kindle files.

Dawn Powell

Thanks.  I shall look into this.

[Jane]

today I fast and tonight I prep  and tomorrow  .... well I don't want to think about tomorroww  I am not looking forward to this

The prep is the hard part.  You get to sleep through tomorrow.

VIBES!!!!!

[John G.]

After last nights discussion on Dawn Powell I requested my library purchase "A Time to Be Born", the only Powell option the eBook library offered.

I hope you enjoy it. Vicious satire.

[Jane]

Recording vibes to Larry

DITTO!!!!!

[Jane]

I didn't know Powell at all until Ginny talked about her. Because she's an early century writer I looked to see if any of her stuff was at Gutenberg or Many Books. No luck there but the Internet Archive, a great resource has those 2 books. Open Library, another Internet lending library, has 17 of her books in some form

Dawn Powell Open Library

This link is better.  Thanks.