Topic: CLAPPING IN RHYTHM (Read 6160 times)

elmore3003 · « **Reply #30 on:** April 25, 2015, 11:00:46 AM »

My opinion of MARY POPPINS is that it has one of the most putrid and unmusical orchestrations I have ever heard come from a Broadway pit. I can think of few shows where the pianists have worked so hard to so little effect.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #31 on:** April 25, 2015, 11:01:15 AM »

!! 2 !!

Jane · « **Reply #32 on:** April 25, 2015, 11:12:09 AM »

it is nice when the NY DR'S get together.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #33 on:** April 25, 2015, 11:13:48 AM »

I have learned two things today (so far):

1. The additional MARY POPPINS songs are a dud.

2. The orchestrations are a dud.

Haineshisway.com has thereby just saved me a ton of money!

Jane · « **Reply #34 on:** April 25, 2015, 11:15:03 AM »

we are having a clear day to enjoy the scenic drive back to Ashland. I am trying to remember not to call it home.

Jane · « **Reply #35 on:** April 25, 2015, 11:17:37 AM »

We visited our new home this morning before leaving. There were a couple of little rabbits on the lawn outside our window. The entire area seems to be filled with rabbits

Jane · « **Reply #36 on:** April 25, 2015, 11:19:31 AM »

Already we have found more restaurants we enjoy than in Ashland. We also found yummy ice cream

Jane · « **Reply #37 on:** April 25, 2015, 11:20:32 AM »

One restaurant has delicious Margaritas and the other terrific ones.

Jane · « **Reply #38 on:** April 25, 2015, 11:27:45 AM »

We just drove into rain. I checked email and when I looked back up it was no longer clear & blue.

George · « **Reply #39 on:** April 25, 2015, 11:28:12 AM »

Quote from: Michael on April 25, 2015, 03:12:28 AM

TOD

Hootering and hollering and cat calls to show appreciation. I think this has come from all the music reality shows that encourage it. I prefer applause.

I also dislike standing ovations for shows or performers that do not deserve it. It seems that every show and performer get them no matter what.

Things I Miss:
The front curtain that will rise after the overture. Very few shows do it now and I know it's a cost thing, but work it into the budget! Some of magic is gone when you walk into the theater and you already see the set. Imagine if Wicked (A show I am not a fan of) had curtain that rose to reveal that great set!

Ditto and Ditto and Ditto...although here in Olympia, there is only one theater that even has a grand drape, so an actual rising curtain isn't an option for most groups.

George · « **Reply #40 on:** April 25, 2015, 11:28:39 AM »

If I remember correctly, when I saw the tour of Wicked in Seattle, they did have their curtain down before the show started.

George · « **Reply #41 on:** April 25, 2015, 11:32:49 AM »

The other REALLY irritating thing in musical theater, at least in Olympia, is that when a couple of theaters have musicals, they have their speaker volume turned up so damped high! It's like the sound guys can't hear so they have to have the volume up too loud for everyone else.

George · « **Reply #42 on:** April 25, 2015, 11:43:00 AM »

Wel, I need to go now. I'm going to go to work and make up a few hours, and then pick up my friend from the airport. I'll drive her car (it's got a CD player!) so I'll pick that up after work.

Have a good day, all!

Ginny · « **Reply #43 on:** April 25, 2015, 12:27:42 PM »

Saturday afternoon greetings! I slept until after 8:30 this morning then had to rush around to get to my hair appointment by 10. From there I went to do errands and to visit Mom, all in torrential rain showers. So, my hair-do needs some repair before Richard and I go downtown for the Middletown Historical Society annual dinner tonight.

But Mom was pretty chipper, which is something...

bk · « **Reply #44 on:** April 25, 2015, 12:27:51 PM »

I almost said something about the orchestration of Mary Poppins - they really are dreadful, and the opening short "overture" was so ill played I didn't know what I was listening to.

Ginny · « **Reply #45 on:** April 25, 2015, 12:29:35 PM »

TOD - unnecessary amplification. The FORBIDDEN BROADWAY I saw last weekend was done in a very small room in which good singers should be able to project sufficiently. The sound system just distorted the lyrics and made my ear buzz.

bk · « **Reply #46 on:** April 25, 2015, 12:30:11 PM »

I'm finally up. Didn't get to sleep until almost three and really not understanding what show dear readers Amy and Mark saw that was only two-and-a-half hours long. I woke up at eight, fell back asleep until nine, saw that my request to move the Sami session to one was okay, went back to bed, call at ten-thirty asking if we could move the Sami session even later to three, I said yes, fell back asleep and woke up at noon. I'm sure I somehow got eight hours of sleep during all that time.

Ben · « **Reply #47 on:** April 25, 2015, 01:32:33 PM »

Yes, we had a lovely visit with Larry this morning/afternoon. We talked and talked (and we didn't talk about any of you, oddly enough).

He gave us lovely parting gifts (due to the closing of the office).

It's a beautiful Manhattan spring day and we have taken advantage of it.

That's all for now.

Jane · « **Reply #48 on:** April 25, 2015, 01:42:16 PM »

bk · « **Reply #49 on:** April 25, 2015, 01:58:33 PM »

Went to Jerry's at one-thirty. Now, most of you know I go to Jerry's almost daily. I know the deal. No one can say I don't know the deal. And the deal on Saturday is that you can basically go any damn time you like and you'll get right in, ESPECIALLY on Saturday at one damn thirty. But noooo - this must be National Lunch at One-Thirty Day because there was a damn line out the damn door. NEVER in my years of Jerry's has that happened on Saturday at one-thirty. So, I picked up no damn packages and drove to Hugo's - line out the damn door. So, I drove directly to the Studio Cafe, because one-forty five on a Saturday is ghost town time over there - nooooo, two people ahead of me and jammed. I said quite simply, "No, I don't need to wait so that I can then give you money." I gave up after that, which is going to be really unpleasant because I cannot now eat until five at the earliest.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #50 on:** April 25, 2015, 02:03:53 PM »

Still on Page 2?

I had some lunch and a brief nap.

bk · « **Reply #51 on:** April 25, 2015, 02:08:16 PM »

Lunch, what a concept. Not in LA - not at one-thirty.

bk · « **Reply #52 on:** April 25, 2015, 02:08:23 PM »

And page two? Really?

Jrand74 · « **Reply #53 on:** April 25, 2015, 02:16:50 PM »

Late lunch/early dinner vibes for MR BK.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #54 on:** April 25, 2015, 02:17:51 PM »

Didn't P.L. Travers have it written in her contract that ANY additional songs written for a stage musical version of MARY POPPINS have to be written by British songwriters and that the Sherman Bros. were expressly forbidden to add to the score for the stage?

vixmom · « **Reply #55 on:** April 25, 2015, 03:01:15 PM »

I was up at 7 and by 9:30 I had:
1. Had my car's mandatory yearly state inspection completed
2. Been to the dentist and had 2 fillings replaced
3. Met with one of the office closers and retrieved a file
4. Been to the church and set communion for chapel and main sanctuary

vixmom · « **Reply #56 on:** April 25, 2015, 03:02:04 PM »

felt really good about the great start on the day and all the time ahead of me to Get Things Accomplished

vixmom · « **Reply #57 on:** April 25, 2015, 03:02:29 PM »

then I took an unexpected nap and discovered it was already 1 PM

vixmom · « **Reply #58 on:** April 25, 2015, 03:03:55 PM »

so I went grocery shopping

vixmom · « **Reply #59 on:** April 25, 2015, 03:04:08 PM »

got home around 3:30

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Ben