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[bk]

Well, you've read the notes, you've lived the notes, you've partaken of the notes, and now it is time for you to post until the fershluganah cows come home.

[Panni]

I just ate some popcorn AND cereal. I am full. I am sleepy. I am going to bed. (Oh - thanks for 'splainin' the church-house, Joey. Sounds like a great setup.)

[George]

Last night (actually, less than an hour ago), Jay posted this:

Dear Reader Joey:  You may or may not be pleased to know that one of your posts this evening happened to be the 66,666th one on this here discussion board.

I was in the middle of posting this long (and boring...even to me) story about how I don't believe in unlucky numbers and when I went to post, I lost the whole thing.  Well (a Ragtime reference).  I was then going to go on to say that I had faked a screen capture of the 66,666 moment because it's pretty easy to do, and here it is.  This is exactly what it would look like if I had gotten it for real:

[George]

Just had to share.

[Ben]

As I mentioned yesterday, the State Fair pictures are done. We now have a lovely shot of Anthony, one of my sisters and me celebrating the 100th Year of the Ice Cream Cone at Dairy Queen. Yummm!

[Ben]

I'm listening to AccuRadio right now. When I left the house at 5:55 am I forgot the CDs I had set aside (I did remember my banana for the oatmeal). I have a few CDs here at the office, Julie and Carol at Lincoln Center which we recently transferred, Wicked, the first CD of Kiss Me Kate from 1990, not the Rhino re-release with the extras, the score to Disney's Aladdin, another recent LP to CD transfer, 'S Wonderful, 'S Marvelous, 'S Gershwin (a 1971 NBC Bell Family Theatre television special w/Jack Lemmon, Fred Astaire, Leslie Uggams, Peter Nero, Larry Kert and others), the score to Reds (an underrated movie IMHO), Side Show, Plain and Fancy, the 1991 Assassins, a Blossom Dearie CD from 1951, a Dave Frishberg compilation,  all 3 Kritzer CDs, and Gwen Verdon's Sweet Charity (the original, not the re-release with the extras) so I guess I do have something to listen to.

My, my, my (that's 3 mys) this has turned into a long post. I will now update my Virus program according to the instructions provided by our IT department.

Later, gaters.

[Dan-in-Toronto]

I won't yet mention the CD I've been listening to, because it's the answer to this timely trivia question:

Name the song (and the musical it's from) that includes "Yom Kippur" in its lyrics. (Bonus: What rhymes with "Yom Kippur"?)

[Dan-in-Toronto]

And, for DR Panni:

The weather in Toronto has been summery - minus the humidity.

[Joey]

I just finished reading "The Perks of Being A Wallflower" and I could not put it down. It is a wonderful book, but as of yet I can't really put into words what I feel about it yet. My mind is still racing and trying to wrap itself around what this book truly means.  It may be considered a book for high school kids, but it has lessons that we all can learn. Definately a recommended read.

[Noel]

It's just ripe for some kissing.  I'd hate to think you're kissing a few chicks who are right for some kissing but not ripe.

[Dan (the Man)]

The Media Check of Me:

CD Player (at home):  A Little Night Music, original cast recording.  Just because...

CD Player (at work):  Green Day--American Idiot.  Finally!  Some decent rock music!

DVD Player:  Nothing, but I plan to crack open the Lost In Space Season Two set this weekend.

VHS:  I taped Lost and B'way's Lost Treasures II, which I've yet to see in it's entirety.

[Stuart]

DR Dan-In-Toronto;  I told you you were funny yesterday (or was it the day before?), but the two jokes you posted yesterday really made me laugh.

DR Panni:  OK, we thought our Morgan was totally delicious as a puppy, but your Abie was truly scrumptious (ooh, a CCBB reference).  I LOVE that picture!  Perhaps you can get him a job as the Jester in the all-dog company of ONCE UPON A MATTRESS!  (Or has he graduated to Wizard or Septimus, due to age?)

DR Noel:  I will be interested to hear what you think of GOD OR MERMAN.  I saw it when they were here in Rochester last year.  Are they part of the NAMT Festival, or the "Other" New Musical Festival?  (I used to be active in NAMT when I was at CAMI...in fact, I co-chaired their Commissions Committee for a time.)

Media Check:
CD/Car:  Broken (it's one of those Discmen that I hook up through the tape deck), so I am listening to an old tape I made that includes COCO and GOLDILOCKS.
CD/Office: And the World Goes 'Round (Yes, I am still in mourning)  (oooh, almost a THREE SISTERS reference)
VCR:  Last night's Survivor and Apprentice for the Dear Partner.  (I vowed not to get involved in either of those ever again....)
DVD: Empty

BTW (by the way, in internet lingo), the reason I was taping things for the Dear Partner is that he had rehearsal last night, as he is essaying the role of M. Lindsay Woolsey in Pittsford Musicals production of MAME.  Not he greatest role (he played Older Patrick the last time they did it, 20 years ago or so), but he is now in that in between stage where he is too old for Older Patrick, and too young for Babcock.  And let's face it, who cares about the men in MAME, right?

[Stuart]

I won't yet mention the CD I've been listening to, because it's the answer to this timely trivia question:

Name the song (and the musical its from) that includes "Yom Kippur" in its lyrics. (Bonus: What rhymes with "Yom Kippur"?)

The Zulu and the Zayde?

The Bar Mitzvah Boy?

Falsettos? (I am pretty sure it's not this one....)

Milk and Honey?

Funny Girl?  (I KNOW it's not this one....)

Hello, Solly?

The Borscht Capades?

(Yes, those two were both actual shows.....)

Yidl mitn fidl?

Tintypes?

The Golden Land?

Amongst a college friend and I, the answer to your rhyme query would be "Big Dipper" (but it had a totally different connotation.....).   And whatever it is, it has to be better than the SUNSET BLVD kosher/brochure rhyme.

[Matt H.]

DR Ben: Reading about your recent LP to CD transfers of JULIE AND CAROL AT LINCOLN CENTER and S'WONDERFUL, S'MARVELOUS, S'GERSHWIN reminded me that those two specials faced off against each other at the 1971 Emmys with the Gershwin special (and its star Jack Lemmon) taking home the award.

As much as I enjoyed that special, I have to say I was heartbroken that night that JULIE AND CAROL AT LINCOLN CENTER didn't win. At that point, Julie Andrews had not won an Emmy after being nominated several times for previous specials and guest appearances, and I SO wanted her and Carol to carry home the Emmy that night. (Carol had already won several times.)

Most ironic, Julie twice went to the podium to accept Emmys that night but not for herself. Glenda Jackson won two Emmys that year for ELIZABETH R , and Julie was her designated acceptor. What bitter irony!

Of course, Julie won the Emmy the next season for her magnificent variety series. Still, I have fond memories of that second Julie and Carol special, and I love that soundtrack.

[Stuart]

I won't yet mention the CD I've been listening to, because it's the answer to this timely trivia question:

Name the song (and the musical its from) that includes "Yom Kippur" in its lyrics. (Bonus: What rhymes with "Yom Kippur"?)

And which pronunciation do you mean?  The old-fashioned (Ashkenazic) "Yum kipper?"  Or the more modern, Sephardic "Yohm Key-Poor?"

[Matt H.]

Friday Media Check:

CD - UNSUNG SONDHEIM (car)
        NUNCRACKERS (OCR) (bedroom)

DVD - LOST IN LA MANCHA

I've been so usy with rehearsals for the show and helping my friend pack up for his move that media stuff has been on the back burner almost all week.

[William E. Lurie]

DVD - Although I have many movies to watch, I can't stop watching classic video: "The Gary Moore Show" (4 segments from the daytime show and a complete episode of the evening show).  This is a performer who seems to be forgotten today.  The daytime show was nothing special (but one segment did feature the comedy team of James Kirkwood, subsequent author of A CHORUS LINE and PS YOUR CAT IS DEAD and Lee Goodman, later the voice of Ralston-Purina for years).  The evening show, though was a classic, with Carol Burnett at her best and guest stars Robert Goulet (then on Broadway in CAMELOT), Bob Newhart and Julie London.

I also saw 4 episodes of MEDIC, a show I had never watched (nor had many people) because it was on NBC at the same time CBS had I LOVE LUCY.  Richard Boone was supposedly the star, but all he did in the episodes I saw was to narrate.  The show was really more of an educational drama about cancer, manic-depression, etc. with a disease of the week, and featured such actors as Charles Bronson, Lee J. Cobb, King Donovan and Vera Miles.  An interesting period piece, but if they have a volume 2 I'll skip it.

CD - 2 Frank Loesser compilations that were recently released, one by Cleo Laine and the other by Andrea Marcovici.  There are very few song duplications, and along with the BK-produced Liz Callaway Loesser, they give a good overview of the man's career.  Also, the recently released live recording of BROADWAY BY THE YEAR 1960 featuring the only person to be considered an HHW God without ever posting to the site: BRENT BARRETT.

VHS - Nothing

Book - I started reading the Inge biography.  I find it very interesting that for a man who was troubled by his homosexuality his entire life the first chapter features three pictures of a 10-year-old Inge in full drag.

[Dan-in-Toronto]

And which pronunciation do you mean?  The old-fashioned (Ashkenazic) "Yum kipper?"  Or the more modern, Sephardic "Yohm Key-Poor?"

Stuart,

I just forced myself to listen again. I imagine the lyricist got it right, but it sounds like the singer is saying:

Yun Kipper.

So "dipper" would work as the rhyme - but it ain't the answer.

[Stuart]

Stuart,

I just forced myself to listen again. I imagine the lyricist got it right, but it sounds like the singer is saying:

Yun Kipper.

So "dipper" would work as the rhyme - but it ain't the answer.

Stripper?  Is there a line in "You Gotta Get a Gimmick" that I am forgetting?

[Stuart]

DiT:  We are our own frenzy!

[William E. Lurie]

Are you DRs aware of the "Amazon/CD Now Alliance".  I placed an order on CD Now and got my confirmation from Amazon.  I guess they are one big company now.  I'm not sure of the ramifications yet.

[Dan-in-Toronto]

Stripper?  Is there a line in "You Gotta Get a Gimmick" that I am forgetting?

Not "stripper." But that's a better answer than the real one. And not Yidl mitn Fidl (or any of your other good tries).


Molly Picon in Yidl mitn Fidl:

[Dan-in-Toronto]

From an interview with Joseph Green, who directed Yidl mitn Fidl:

"I wanted to make a folktale about Jewish life in Poland. When you talk about folklore, you talk about song. So I decided to make a musical folk film. As the star, Molly Picon was the first name that came to mind.... Konrad Tom, the head of a political-satirical theater in Warsaw, came to me with a story about four musicians who played in marketplaces and at weddings. At one wedding, the bride cries because her family is poor and she has to marry an old farmer. So the musicians steal her. Molly Picon was not suited to play the bride, so I changed one of the musicians into a girl who is wandering with her father. Because it's hard to travel with a girl, she dresses as a boy. This became "Yidl Mitn Fidl," my first Yiddish film."

[Dan-in-Toronto]

The link to the full interview with Joseph Green, who has been called the "Steven Spielberg of Yiddish filmmakers."

http://www.forward.com/issues/2003/03.01.10/arts4.html

[Stuart]

But that's a better answer than the real one.

I know now  (oooh, a ROBERT AND ELIZABETH reference!):

WATERLOGGED:  The Brian Kelly Story

AGENT (jubliant over the excision of Kelly from his roster):

'No,' he says...'don't wanna film with that dolphin.
I need to get some golf in'
And I say, 'Listen, bub!
I got you that FLIPPER show for lotsa dough
'stead of listening to that Yom Kippur shofar blow and blow!
I'm a fool!  
Shoulda been in shul!

[Ben]

Matt H, I have fond memories of Julie and Carol at Lincoln Center also. I love the end sequence, Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie. Just listening to it makes me smile again. Putting the Gershwin Special up against Julie and Carol just highlights the difficulty of choosing a "winner" or the "better" of the two. I enjoyed both of them so much but I think for me to choose one over the other is difficult.

I posted a short reveiw last weekend about a show I saw at Playwrights Horizons. Well, it's nice to know I'm not all alone in the world. Although critical response doesn't usually determine whether I will see a show, I read the review of the Playwrights show (People Be Heard) in the NY Times today and was happy to see that most of what I said was also said by the reviewer (Charles Isherwood - recently moved over from Variety to the Times). As I mentioned, the audience I was with loved the show and I kept thinking, "What am I missing?" At least one other person felt the same way.

[Ben]

Stuart: Funny Brian Kelly bit!

[MBarnum]

Media check:

CD: A couple of CDs by the "Ricky Martin" of Egypt, Amr Diab along with two of the Putumayo CDs Asian Groove and World Groove.

DVD: More of the YOU BET YOUR LIFE: THE BEST EPISODES.

VHS: Emma (1932) starring Marie Dressler, and also the silent version of NOAH'S ARK.

[MBarnum]

And my Bollywood movie for this weekend will be ANKHEN (1967). Starring the handsome Dharmendra and the lovely Mala Sinha in what looks to be a fun James Bond 007 type action film.

[MBarnum]

Had a wonderful telephone conversation last night with Mr. William Reynolds (who most DRs will remember from ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS where he played Jane Wyman's rather spoiled college age son). We are finishing up some changes on his interview before I send it in to the publisher and we got to talking about his days at Universal and Warner Bros.

He has such fond memories of his career and the people he worked with...he had a funny story about Barbara Stanwyck's disappoval of his being late one day to the set of THERE'S ALWAYS TOMORROW...after that he was never late again!! LOL! She was rather intimidating...but nice!