Topic: AZOOLAPALLOL (Read 21413 times)

elmore3003 · « **Reply #60 on:** October 22, 2004, 12:43:35 PM »

Quote from: JRand54 on October 22, 2004, 12:35:19 PM

Indiana State Department of Redundancy Department, may I help you?

In my case, DRJRand54, only God can make a tree.

I've been having heavy thoughts about my Mother, who died in 1994, this week, so I've been listening a lot to Marianne Faithfull and Dr Hook and the Medecine Show sing "The Ballad of Lucy Jordan." I knew Shel Silverstein a bit before he died, and I wish I'd known that he was the author of the song. So far, the neighbors aren't complaining.

This song and the character of Sally Durant Plummer on FOLLIES are the closest portraits of my Mother and her madness and unhappiness. This may explain a lot about me as well, but I prefer to not go there.

Matt H. · « **Reply #61 on:** October 22, 2004, 12:43:41 PM »

I had my first NUNCRACKERS rehearsal this morning. A good group of ladies (the kids don't come in for two weeks), and we're going to have a great time. Looking forward to working on this.

William F. Orr · « **Reply #62 on:** October 22, 2004, 12:45:09 PM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on October 22, 2004, 12:24:26 PM

DRWFOrr, you are the first person I've met connected with that legendary PETER PAN! It was all the buzz in college theatres in 1969, 1970? I am honored. I can't wait to ask Andre about it. No wonder he was ready for THE FULL MONTY!

DR WEL, great lyric!

Actually, André didn't do the nude scene. He did, however, play Hud in the Chicago company of Hair, so I guess that served as his Full Monty prep.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #63 on:** October 22, 2004, 12:45:43 PM »

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elmore3003 · « **Reply #64 on:** October 22, 2004, 12:47:12 PM »

Quote from: William F. Orr on October 22, 2004, 12:45:09 PM

Actually, André didn't do the nude scene. He did, however, play Hud in the Chicago company of Hair, so I guess that served as his Full Monty prep.

Well, DRWFOrr, besides the mermaids, who else was nude? I'm still flattered to know you.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #65 on:** October 22, 2004, 12:47:28 PM »

DRELMORE perhaps you should watch a movie starring Miss Doris Day....she is always good for a mood alteration.

Matt H. · « **Reply #66 on:** October 22, 2004, 12:47:44 PM »

I also think GREENWILLOW's score is one of the greats: magical from beginning to end. Like so many cast albums from bomb shows, you hear it and wonder how it could ever have been a flop.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #67 on:** October 22, 2004, 12:47:57 PM »

Ques esta "fattered"?

elmore3003 · « **Reply #68 on:** October 22, 2004, 12:48:40 PM »

Quote from: JRand54 on October 22, 2004, 12:47:28 PM

DRELMORE perhaps you should watch a movie starring Miss Doris Day....she is always good for a mood alteration.

Doris was rumored to play Sally in the aborted film of FOLLIES. She would have been fantastic.

Matt H. · « **Reply #69 on:** October 22, 2004, 12:50:25 PM »

Friday media check:

CD - DIVAS OF BROADWAY

DVD - DAMN YANKEES

DVR - last Wednesday's LOST
last night's WILL & GRACE

I got Ethan Mordden's latest book but with my needing to start learning my lines in NUNCRACKERS, I don't know if I will get any of it read like I'd like. I probably will since there is NOTHING on TV tonight apart from ENTERPRISE which I would like to see in high definition.

Matt H. · « **Reply #70 on:** October 22, 2004, 12:51:59 PM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on October 22, 2004, 12:48:40 PM

Doris was rumored to play Sally in the aborted film of FOLLIES. She would have been fantastic.

I agree. Perfect casting, and her skills as a dramatic actress, largely untapped during her years as a top star, would have given an extra dimension to those gorgeous songs Sally has. I can just close my eyes and hear Doris singing "In Buddy's Eyes" and "Losing My Mind."

elmore3003 · « **Reply #71 on:** October 22, 2004, 12:52:21 PM »

Quote from: Matt H. on October 22, 2004, 12:47:44 PM

I also think GREENWILLOW's score is one of the greats: magical from beginning to end. Like so many cast albums from bomb shows, you hear it and wonder how it could ever have been a flop.

DRMattH, look at those ugly costumes and peculiar scenery from the original. Alvin Colt's whimsy isn't my view of GREENWILLOW couture. The original show has a lot of book problems and strayed too far from the novel at times, but that score is fantastic, from the 5/4 and 7/4 opening number to the Finale. One of the original show's major problems: Amos Briggs can't sing "The Music of Home." He never hears it.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #72 on:** October 22, 2004, 12:52:57 PM »

Quote from: JRand54 on October 22, 2004, 12:47:57 PM

Ques esta "fattered"?

I knew someone would see it before I corrected it! I'm fat enough.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #73 on:** October 22, 2004, 12:53:46 PM »

OMG - Doris as Sally....I am sighing and crying as I type. Oh my.

LOL...aren't we all? Remember what the Duchess of Windsor always said....

Jennifer · « **Reply #74 on:** October 22, 2004, 12:55:54 PM »

Can anyone tell me what "siztprobe" means in terms of theatre.

William F. Orr · « **Reply #75 on:** October 22, 2004, 12:56:37 PM »

"Never Will I Marry", yes! But "Summertime Love" ain't chopped liver neither.

When I was in college, there were various lines from cast albums (always booming down the hallways of the dorm) that became, for mysterious reasons, part of everyone's vocabulary.

From Greenwillow" "Baptizing a calf? Bless your dear little Christian hearts."

From What Makes Sammy Run? "Doctor, there are some things man was not meant to tamper with."

And since we were all taking physics from Richard P. Feynman, "Mr. Feinman here handles all the headaches."

George · « **Reply #76 on:** October 22, 2004, 12:56:57 PM »

I love the Rink parady lyrics, WFO! And I love, Love, LOVE Liz Callaway's version of "Never Will I Marry" from her first solo CD...produced by our very own BK!

William F. Orr · « **Reply #77 on:** October 22, 2004, 12:58:38 PM »

Quote from: Jennifer on October 22, 2004, 12:55:54 PM

Can anyone tell me what "siztprobe" means in terms of theatre.

No idea. But it sounds decidedly naughty.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #78 on:** October 22, 2004, 01:00:05 PM »

Quote from: JRand54 on October 22, 2004, 12:53:46 PM

Remember what the Duchess of Windsor always said....

I can't believe I ate the whole thing?

elmore3003 · « **Reply #79 on:** October 22, 2004, 01:02:20 PM »

Quote from: Jennifer on October 22, 2004, 12:55:54 PM

Can anyone tell me what "siztprobe" means in terms of theatre.

DRJennifer, it's from German opera rehearsals, I believe. It's basically the cast rehearsal, non blocked, with the orchestra. Traditionally, the cast sitz, and the orchestra plays the score, to which they sing.

bk · « **Reply #80 on:** October 22, 2004, 01:02:28 PM »

Jennifer: Sitzprobe is the first orchestra rehearsal for a musical, where the band goes through the entire score for the first time.

In writing my book, I asked specifically if I should use that term and was told "no" by well-known conductor Don Pippin, who said that term was never used back in 1969, when such things were simply called the orchestra read-through. So, when did sitzprobe come into fashion in terms of musical theater.

DearReaderLaura · « **Reply #81 on:** October 22, 2004, 01:13:01 PM »

Hello, all. I am busy making a huge salad for a funeral dinner tonight. The family just contacted me a couple of hours ago to prepare a slide presentation for the service.

TOD: Car cd player: nothing
House cd player: nothing
dvd/vcr: nothing

Jrand73 · « **Reply #82 on:** October 22, 2004, 01:24:28 PM »

Something else I learned thanks to HHW!

Well she may have said THAT as well DRELMORE - but she also said that one could never be "too rich or too thin."

DRLAURA - if you know someone who can do sign language....it is always lovely to have a signed rendition of a hymn such as AMAZING GRACE - it is a unique and special remembrance.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #83 on:** October 22, 2004, 01:25:18 PM »

Oh you said a funeral DINNER....nevermind.

Sitzprobe had me all agog!

Matt H. · « **Reply #84 on:** October 22, 2004, 01:26:01 PM »

Quote from: bk on October 22, 2004, 01:02:28 PM

Jennifer: Sitzprobe is the first orchestra rehearsal for a musical, where the band goes through the entire score for the first time.

In writing my book, I asked specifically if I should use that term and was told "no" by well-known conductor Don Pippin, who said that term was never used back in 1969, when such things were simply called the orchestra read-through. So, when did sitzprobe come into fashion in terms of musical theater.

The first time I ever heard it was doing SHENANDOAH where the cast sat and sang with the orchestra for the first time (up until then, we had had only a rehearsal pianist). This was 1982.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #85 on:** October 22, 2004, 01:33:46 PM »

My first memory of the word sitzprobe was 1972, when I was in a production of Menotti's HELP! HELP! THE GLOBOLINKS! I think it's been a term in opera lingo for many years.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #86 on:** October 22, 2004, 01:34:31 PM »

Quote from: JRand54 on October 22, 2004, 01:25:18 PM

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Sitzprobe had me all agog!

Not agape? Not aghast?

Stuart · « **Reply #87 on:** October 22, 2004, 01:36:44 PM »

Quote from: JRand54 on October 22, 2004, 01:24:28 PM

Well she may have said THAT as well DRELMORE - but she also said that one could never be "too rich or too thin."

Are you sure that wasn't said by, no pun intended, Slim Keith? For some reason, I associate her with that phrase

(As for Mrs. Simpson, I believe she was also known for saying...nay, shrieking..."I said 'Do you wanna date?,' not 'Abdicate!'")

elmore3003 · « **Reply #88 on:** October 22, 2004, 01:40:41 PM »

Quote from: Stuart on October 22, 2004, 01:36:44 PM

Are you sure that wasn't said by, no pun intended, Slim Keith? For some reason, I associate her with that phrase

(As for Mrs. Simpson, I believe she was also known for saying...nay, shrieking..."I said 'Do you wanna date?,' not 'Abdicate!'")

DRStuart, LOL!

Stuart · « **Reply #89 on:** October 22, 2004, 01:44:19 PM »

Quote from: Stuart on October 22, 2004, 01:36:44 PM

Are you sure that wasn't said by, no pun intended, Slim Keith? For some reason, I associate her with that phrase

(As for Mrs. Simpson, I believe she was also known for saying...nay, shrieking..."I said 'Do you wanna date?,' not 'Abdicate!'")

In the immortal words of Miss Emily Litella, "Never mind!;" I just googled the phrase, and I stand (or rather sit) corrected. It was indeed Mrs. Simpson.

Just think how different the current House of Windsor would be (and would have been) had she not married Edward. We probably would never have heard of Diana, Princess of Wales, nor Mrs. Parker-Bowles. And there may have never been an "Annus Horribilus."

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