Topic: THE OSCAR BASH AND FRIED SQUIRREL (Read 5856 times)

bk · « **on:** February 23, 2015, 12:18:16 AM »

Well, you've read the notes, the notes were Oscar-worthy and fried, and now it is time for you to post until the fried cows come home.

bk · « **Reply #1 on:** February 23, 2015, 12:19:20 AM »

And the word of the day is: BROLLY!

George · « **Reply #2 on:** February 23, 2015, 12:43:33 AM »

A Very Happy Birthday to DR Druxy!!

George · « **Reply #3 on:** February 23, 2015, 12:51:40 AM »

From the "I have a really crappy memory" department...last night, I wrote that I had only been involved in one show that had to cancel (after BK wrote about the cancelling of "Inside Out" due to the suicidal squirrel). That's not true. The most recent one was just last year when we only had two people in the audience of our added 10 pm show for "Chamber Music" and we asked them to come back to a later performance (they did). But when Theater Artists Olympia did their first "Cannibal! The Musical" and a couple of years later when we did "Reefer Madness," each of those shows had cancelled performances. "Cannibal!" was cancelled because of a power outage, and "Reefer Madness" had two, count 'em, TWO performances cancelled because of snow. We didn't actually want to cancel "Reefer Madness" (all the actors got to the theater without any trouble), but we were performing on the campus of South Puget Sound Community College and they closed their campus and wouldn't allow us to perform.

Post updated: I searched my posts from when it all happened to find out what I actually posted.

Michael · « **Reply #4 on:** February 23, 2015, 01:44:58 AM »

Good morning to all I am up early after go to bed early

George · « **Reply #5 on:** February 23, 2015, 01:45:53 AM »

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Michael · « **Reply #6 on:** February 23, 2015, 01:46:41 AM »

WOW 21 pages of posts from yesterday. That will take a while to go through them

George · « **Reply #7 on:** February 23, 2015, 01:48:37 AM »

Have a good time ketchuping on all of them, Mike!

George · « **Reply #8 on:** February 23, 2015, 01:49:13 AM »

And now, I'm off to bed.

Good night, Mike...and anyone else lurking around.

Ben · « **Reply #9 on:** February 23, 2015, 02:08:03 AM »

Morning all.

That is all.

Ben · « **Reply #10 on:** February 23, 2015, 02:08:14 AM »

Happy Birthday to Druxy.

FJL · « **Reply #11 on:** February 23, 2015, 04:28:20 AM »

Happy birthday to DR Druxy!!!!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #12 on:** February 23, 2015, 04:58:19 AM »

Quote from: George on February 23, 2015, 12:43:33 AM

A Very Happy Birthday to DR Druxy!!

Ditto!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #13 on:** February 23, 2015, 05:13:14 AM »

And good morning, all!

I did not watch the Oscars; I no longer get to films, and I've stopped caring. I'm sure the party was fun, but I enjoyed watching 2/3 of THE GOOD COMPANIONS, which I hope to finish up tomorrow. I am very happy for J.K. Simmons, who's such a wonderful actor

Yoday, I have a long day with Joshie at City Center, and dinner with my Dubln leadig lady, Annalene, her husband, and Rob Berman. I am looking forward to that.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #14 on:** February 23, 2015, 05:22:29 AM »

Well.......I guess I was more tired than I thought. I took a feel better pill about 5 p.m. and woke up about 11 p.m........

I missed the OSCAR Party for the first time in many years......well I missed the Oscars.....I will go back and read the posts from last night to see how things went. I have looked at the winners online.....I had a couple of favorites that didn't win.....but, that's okay.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #15 on:** February 23, 2015, 05:23:06 AM »

It is six degrees here this morning. If the car starts.....I have some things to do. If it doesn't, I have to get a new battery today.

Druxy · « **Reply #16 on:** February 23, 2015, 05:23:58 AM »

Quote from: George on February 23, 2015, 12:43:33 AM

A Very Happy Birthday to DR Druxy!!

Thank you, George.

Druxy · « **Reply #17 on:** February 23, 2015, 05:24:49 AM »

Quote from: Ben on February 23, 2015, 02:08:14 AM

Happy Birthday to Druxy.

Thank you, Ben.

Druxy · « **Reply #18 on:** February 23, 2015, 05:25:34 AM »

Quote from: FJL on February 23, 2015, 04:28:20 AM

Happy birthday to DR Druxy!!!!

Thank you, FJL.

Druxy · « **Reply #19 on:** February 23, 2015, 05:26:02 AM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on February 23, 2015, 04:58:19 AM

Quote from: George on February 23, 2015, 12:43:33 AM
A Very Happy Birthday to DR Druxy!!

Ditto!

Thank you, Elmore.

Druxy · « **Reply #20 on:** February 23, 2015, 05:30:35 AM »

TOD:

I love critters: dogs, cats, goats, domestic rats, mice, hamsters.

I guess a should live on a farm or ranch or preserve where I could have dozens of them...including lions and tigers, elephants and bears.

Not a big fan of reptiles.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #21 on:** February 23, 2015, 06:31:38 AM »

It's about time to head to City Center.

DR JohnG, you asked about THE GOOD COMPANIONS. I've got three hours to go, and I'm expecting some unhappy moments: there's been to much about one character's heart, the discreet coughing into a handkerchief by the costume designer, but since i do not know the novel, i have no idea what's going to happen. At the end of the first DVD, there's a wonderful interview with J.B. Priestley abut the novel, accompanied by scenes from the two film versions.

I think the series is fascinating, and the cast is really wonderful. Judy Cornwell, whom I only knew as Hyacinth Bucket’s sister Daisy, is about 60 pounds lighter and looks much like Prunella Scales as Miss Trant, Jan Francis is wonderful as Suzy Dean, and John Stratton as Oakroyd is really good. There are several guest star appearances in small roles: Nigel Hawthorne as Miss Trant’s vicar, Denis Lawson as Albert Oakroyd’s friend, etc. If Hollywood had cast this, everyone would have been much more photogenic and less eccentric, and the company of pierrots is made up of some really eccentric and often rather grotesque individuals. The first three hours of the piece concverns te history of Oakroyd, Miss Trant. Jolliphant, and how their lives merge.

There are a zillion musical numbers sung not only in the onstage pierrot show moments but in the characters' daily lives: “On The Road” seems to be the theme song of Miss Trant, Oakroyd, and Jolliphant, and it's sung many tmes with different lyrics onstage and off; there’s a huge song and dance on a pier led by Miss Trant, with some dancing sailors, and everyone in the cast, and a very strange one on the steps and platforms of a train station where the company has to change trains,

The only musical number that's bothered me so far occurred when Jolliphant tells Suzy he loves her and she goes into this Bollywood-like number, singing and dancing about two levels of a tram before she rejects him. It may have been meant to show how lightly she takes serious emotion, but it took me completely out of the scene and that bothered me.

The look of 1930s industrial small-city England, and scenery and costumes are really great. This series should be available on a Region 1 DVD.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #22 on:** February 23, 2015, 06:54:13 AM »

Good morning, all.

And a late one it is. I needed to sleep in a little this morning, and by God that's what I did.

Coffee!

ChasSmith · « **Reply #23 on:** February 23, 2015, 06:54:41 AM »

Happy Birthday to you, DR Druxy!

ChasSmith · « **Reply #24 on:** February 23, 2015, 06:55:24 AM »

DR Elmore, your avatar is missing!!

EDIT: Never mind. It's back now. My, that was weird.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #25 on:** February 23, 2015, 06:57:39 AM »

Congrats to BK on surpassing the big 80,000 last night!

It would be great, however, if you could pull out all the stops and double that by, oh, next week or so.

Ginny · « **Reply #26 on:** February 23, 2015, 07:00:42 AM »

Monday morning greetings! Sunny but cold here in SW Ohio...

Jennifer · « **Reply #27 on:** February 23, 2015, 07:00:56 AM »

Happy Birthday to DR Druxy!

Ginny · « **Reply #28 on:** February 23, 2015, 07:01:02 AM »

Happiest of birthdays to DR Druxy!

ChasSmith · « **Reply #29 on:** February 23, 2015, 07:03:40 AM »

Of course I missed the entire evening. I got home just as the show was ending. And you know what? Not that I can claim to tell anything from seeing one minute of something, but it really did look boring. I was too pooped to do anything at all, including logging on, so I will enjoy ketchuping on those 21 pages today.

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