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[MBarnum]

TOD:

1958

Any year that saw the release of ATTACK OF THE PUPPET PEOPLE, EARTH VS THE SPIDER, I MARRIED A MONSTER FROM OUTER  SPACE, and QUEEN OF OUTER SPACE...well, how could it get any better?

[MBarnum]

Page 2 1958 dance!

[Ginny]

OK - lodgings reserved, flights booked, opera tickets purchased for Nov. 13-20 in NYC!

Now, all I need is ticket info for BK's shows...

[Jrand74]

And Attack of the 50 Foot Woman....

[MBarnum]

Oh you are right, Jack, how could I have forgotten that one?

[MBarnum]

Speaking of movies, I can't get anyone to go and see that new scary possessed doll movie, ANNABELLE, which plays in theaters next week. All of my friends and coworkers are scardy cats.

[Jane]

I actually did have one thing to report, and that is I suspect my health problems might be no more than my being lactose intolerant.

Interesting but very possible.

[Jane]

DR MBarnum just looking at that doll will give me nightmares.  I will not watch the movie

[Jane]

Two nights ago we slept with air conditioning and last night I needed to put an extra blanket on my side of the bed.

The blessed rain poured down until after 1:00 and our world looks happier, even if I'm cold.

[John G.]

That is scary about yahoo, JRand.

[John G.]

TOD Movies:

I love a lot of the movies from 1939 and 1975. A few from the latter:

Nashville
All the President's Men
The Day of the Locust
Jaws
Rocky Horror Picture Show
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Dog Day Afternoon
Three Days of the Condor
Shampoo
The Man Who Would Be King
Tommy
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Farewell My Lovely
Night Moves
The Drowning Pool
Cousin, Cousine

And a few personal favorites:
At Long Last Love
Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS
Smile
Supervixens
Funny Lady
Lucky Lady

[John G.]

TOD Theater:

1959

Gypsy
The Nervous Set
Destry Rides Again
Take Me Along
Once on This Mattress
First Impressions
Saratoga
Juno
Fiorello!
Sound of Music
Redhead

[John G.]

Is anyone recording Sweeney Todd?

[John G.]

Nice to hear that the Philharmonic's Show Boat will be filmed.

[George]

Is anyone recording Sweeney Todd?

Of course!!

[George]

Does anyone know if it's going to be released on DVD/Blu-ray??

[George]

I think that I will agree that 1939 is considered to be the best year for movies

here are some of them

Dark Victory
Gone With the Wind
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Love Affair
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Ninotchka
Of Mice and Men
Stagecoach
The Wizard of Oz
Wuthering Heights
Jesse James
Babes In Arms
The Rains Came
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Gunga Din
The Women

and quite a few others

I was also thinking of 1939, and only because of "Gone With the Wind" and "The Wizard of Oz."

[George]

~ ~ ~ DO NOT GET SICK VIBES ~ ~ ~ for DR ChasSmith!!!

Ditto!

~~~DITTO, TOO!!~~~

[George]

Nice to hear that the Philharmonic's Show Boat will be filmed.

I didn't hear about this.  I'll certainly record it, too.

[George]

Last Saturday, before the show, the Executive Committee had a preliminary meeting about starting to accept credit cards at the theatre....using one of those Square Readers.

There was a lot of discussion.  The President had included his wife since she is our bookkeeper.

I asked her if it was something she wanted us to do, since it would mean some extra work for her, and she said yes.  I personally think it's TOO expensive for us....because we would then have to add a service charge which I think people would HATE.

And there was much discussion about how to keep track of purchases if more than one thing was purchased....i.e. a season ticket and a donation OR a ticket and a box of popcorn....all of those things are separate line items.

ANYWAY - day before yesterday the president sent an email to members of the Executive Board saying just forget the whole thing because we were not cooperative and resistant to change and would do nothing to help Brenda separate the purchased items and he was going to tell the board the EC argued too much, so forget it.

I emailed back and said, I thought that was just a first discussion and we were going to talk about it more.

No response.....which is fine.  I would just as soon NOT take cards....right now we take telephone reservations and people pay when they get their tickets.  Now and then somebody doesn't show up....maybe 4 tickets for the run of the show.  If they have to pay for the tickets on the phone by card - which takes a lot of time - I would say that our reservations will drop considerably...although our walk in business might pick up.

Jack, do you sell tickets on-line at all?  Theater Artists Olympia has been using www.brownpapertickets.com for several years and it's VERY easy...AND free for us.  The people who want to buy on-line have to pay a service charge, but this wouldn't replace your current ticketing practice, just augment it.  We just get a list of the people's names for will-call and that's it (there are other ticket printing/mailing options).  We get a check after every week that we have an event.  Here's the listing for TAO's "Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged) [revised]":  http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/852022

It's another option for those who want to guarantee that they get a seat.  And since it's free for you to set up an account and use the service, you could try it out and see how well it works...or if anyone uses it at all.  If not, you don't lose any money.

Just a thought.

[bk]

I'm up, I'm up - was up at six, back to sleep at seven-thirty, so I did get eight hours.

[Ron Pulliam]

TOD:

1939 is the magic year for classic films in the minds of most.  I think 1962 can give it a run for its money, in some regards:

Lawrence of Arabia
To Kill A Mockingbird
The Longest Day
Mutiny on the Bounty
The Miracle Worker
Experiment in Terror
The Music Man
Gypsy
Cape Fear
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane
Rome Adventure
Freud
Lonely Are the Brave
The Days of Wine and Roses
Birdman of Alcatraz
Ride the High Country
That Touch of Mink
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The Manchurian Candidate
Sweet Bird of Youth
Dr. No
Lolita
Taras Bulba
Billy Budd
Day of the Triffids
In Search of the Castaways
My Geisha

[bk]

No secret that my favorite movie year is 1962 - a few of that year's films:

To Kill a Mockingbird
Lawrence of Arabia
Lolita
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The Manchurian Candidate
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
The Miracle Worker
The Music Man
Birdman of Alcatraz
Lonely are the Brave
Days of Wine and Roses
The Trial
Ride the High Country
Knife in the Water
L'Eclisse
Long Day's Journey Into Night
Cleo from 5 to 7
Requiem for a Heavyweight
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
The Counterfeit Traitor
David and Lisa
Light in the Piazza
Sundays and Cybele

and the amazing list also contains films that I'm also very fond of, including: The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm, How the West Was Won, All Fall Down, Gypsy, The Brain that Wouldn't Die, Sanjuro, Billy Rose's Jumbo, Dr. No, The Longest Day, Cape Fear, Mutiny on the Bounty, Hatari, Carnival of Souls, The Exterminating Angel, Bachelor Flat, That Touch of Mink, Advise and Consent, State Fair, Freud, A Kind of Loving, Damn the Defiant, Two for the Seesaw, Pressure Point, Two Weeks in Another Town, Experiment in Terror, Who's Got the Action?, A Girl Named Tamiko… and I could go on.

And it's amazing how many soundtracks from 1962 have been issued by Kritzerland.

[bk]

For Broadway musicals, I'll choose 1964 - some huge hit shows, some shows I love despite not being huge hits, and can you imagine a season today producing this many musicals, several of such high quality?  Here they are - I'll start with the biggies:

Fiddler on the Roof
Hello, Dolly!
Funny Girl

and continue with

High Spirits
Anyone Can Whistle
Roar of the Greasepaint, Smell of the Crowd
Golden Boy

and continue with

I Had a Ball
Bajour!
Ben Franklin in Paris
Fade Out - Fade In

and there were four or five others I simply don't know anything about.

[Ron Pulliam]

For Broadway musicals, I'll choose 1964 - some huge hit shows, some shows I love despite not being huge hits, and can you imagine a season today producing this many musicals, several of such high quality?  Here they are - I'll start with the biggies:

From 1963, but competing for 1964 Tony awards (and winning one):  "She Loves Me", my favorite musical of the lot.

[ChasSmith]

I am continually discovering movies to love, in every year, every decade, all the way to early silents.

But I've always gone with 1962 on this type of question, because those are the movies that speak to me, now and forever.  They're in my bloodstream.  That crop is representative of everything I've ever loved in films.

[bk]

Ron and I were apparently madly typing away the same list at the same time

[George]

Ron and I were apparently madly typing away the same list at the same time

Great minds think alike?

[Jrand74]

DR GEORGE - Brown Paper Tickets is a good choice....DePauw University uses it.

But we have reserved (numbered) seats and between 700 and 800 Season Ticket subscribers, so I don't think its format would work for us.

[Jeanne]

Hello, everyone.

A very tired DR Jeanne reporting in. I find that when I have things I MUST do--appointments and such--my body understands and musters the energy. But when I have a day like today, flexible, with only should-do or would-like-to-do stuff, my body will say, "No way!" It lets me know that it's in charge. In other words, I think several months of stress have caught up with me and I'm just really worn out.