Topic: RUG STORY (Read 20378 times)

bk · « **Reply #60 on:** November 10, 2004, 10:28:27 AM »

I'll be leaving in fifteen minutes to go mix. I think it will go very quickly - I really only have to comp three vocal tracks, and the rest should be simple as pie.

Charles Pogue · « **Reply #61 on:** November 10, 2004, 10:33:44 AM »

I've never understood shaving past the so-called bikini line. I prefer nether regions as Good Lord intended them.

Stuart · « **Reply #62 on:** November 10, 2004, 10:39:23 AM »

Quote from: MBarnum on November 10, 2004, 08:28:39 AM

...yes, you heard me right...a Jewish Bollywood movie...more on that later!

Hopefully starring the appropriately monikered John Abraham.

Dan (the Man) · « **Reply #63 on:** November 10, 2004, 11:01:32 AM »

Quote from: Stuart on November 10, 2004, 08:48:35 AM

Thank you for this edifying piece of information. I, too, was unfamiliar with the term.

Now, are there any...um...hairdressers(?) out there who can explain how the thing is attached?? Politely, of course, as this is a family-friendly website which has just embarked on its fourth year of being the ginchiest website in all of internet-dom.

I think you lick it like a stamp.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #64 on:** November 10, 2004, 11:06:22 AM »

Quote from: DERBRUCER on November 10, 2004, 08:38:34 AM

::sigh::
An artificial hairpiece used to cover a young lady's shaved pudenda. Originally came in fashion when lice were all the rage, and body hair shaving was a prophylaxis.

Or, as Mrs. Slocum would say, "My Pussy has a bald spot, and needs a wig."

der master of arcana Brucer

Hey! Is that merkin smirkin' at me?

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Jennifer · « **Reply #65 on:** November 10, 2004, 11:06:27 AM »

Harvey Fierstein in Fiddler!

Fiddler on the Roof has found its next Tevye. As first reported here on November 5, former Hairspray star Harvey Fierstein will indeed be taking up residence in Anatevka, the actor confirmed to Broadway.com. The four-time Tony Award winner will join the company at the Minskoff Theatre on January 4, 2005, two days after current Tevye Alfred Molina plays his final performance.

http://www.broadway.com/Gen/Buzz_Story.aspx?ci=502274

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #66 on:** November 10, 2004, 11:07:05 AM »

Quote from: Dan (the Man) on November 10, 2004, 11:01:32 AM

I think you lick it like a stamp.

On...the...floor...can't....stop...giggling....

Dan (the Man) · « **Reply #67 on:** November 10, 2004, 11:08:52 AM »

I would like to have been at the premier of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #68 on:** November 10, 2004, 11:12:23 AM »

Quote from: Charles Pogue on November 10, 2004, 10:33:44 AM

I've never understood shaving past the so-called bikini line. I prefer nether regions as Good Lord intended them.

Since the Good Lord never provided toiletries, soaps and other methods of keeping nether regions clean/tidy/personable, does that mean you prefer same regions totally "au naturel"

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MBarnum · « **Reply #69 on:** November 10, 2004, 11:15:31 AM »

Quote from: Stuart on November 10, 2004, 10:39:23 AM

Hopefully starring the appropriately monikered John Abraham.

I am afraid that this film was made long before John Abraham was even a gleam in his parents eyes....I think it is a 1964 film.

George · « **Reply #70 on:** November 10, 2004, 11:27:48 AM »

Quote from: DERBRUCER on November 10, 2004, 08:38:34 AM

::sigh::
An artificial hairpiece used to cover a young lady's shaved pudenda. Originally came in fashion when lice were all the rage, and body hair shaving was a prophylaxis.

Or, as Mrs. Slocum would say, "My Pussy has a bald spot, and needs a wig."

der master of arcana Brucer

Thanks...umm, for the info. I guess.

Charles Pogue · « **Reply #71 on:** November 10, 2004, 11:31:28 AM »

Point taken, RLP, though it's a little too Biblically Evangelical for me. Let's just say I don't like my flesh impaled, implanted, painted (tattooed), or unreasonably shaved. Adult women shouldn't look like nine-year old girls. That's just a tad too creepy for me. But then I am a child of the fifties.

Stuart · « **Reply #72 on:** November 10, 2004, 11:37:38 AM »

Quote from: MBarnum on November 10, 2004, 11:15:31 AM

I am afraid that this film was made long before John Abraham was even a gleam in his parents eyes....I think it is a 1964 film.

Apparently 1964 was a good year for Jews.....we took Broadway AND Bollywood by storm!

Stuart · « **Reply #73 on:** November 10, 2004, 11:45:43 AM »

Quote from: Jennifer on November 10, 2004, 11:06:27 AM

Harvey Fierstein in Fiddler!

Fiddler on the Roof has found its next Tevye. As first reported here on November 5, former Hairspray star Harvey Fierstein will indeed be taking up residence in Anatevka, the actor confirmed to Broadway.com. The four-time Tony Award winner will join the company at the Minskoff Theatre on January 4, 2005, two days after current Tevye Alfred Molina plays his final performance.

http://www.broadway.com/Gen/Buzz_Story.aspx?ci=502274

I really didn't think it would happen. But I guess it has.

I wonder if he'll be able to cajole Miss Midler into reprising her Tzeitel.

Stuart · « **Reply #74 on:** November 10, 2004, 11:46:34 AM »

Hmmmmm....two FIDDLER related posts in a row by yours truly. Ironic, ain't it?

td · « **Reply #75 on:** November 10, 2004, 12:00:08 PM »

Thanks for the tech report DR Ben.
I did download Firefox last night, just before I turned in, so imagine my delight and surprise whilst using it today.

ASK BK:
What novel would you really like to see transferred to the screen? To the stage? In musical form? (Ah! a three part question!) Let's make it a four part question: AND WHY?

Jrand73 · « **Reply #76 on:** November 10, 2004, 12:56:28 PM »

So what about the ARMS question?

And for my whole life - I have been wrong....I thought the word was Perogative.....but I guess it's prerogative....oh my!

I don't know what keeps a merkin in place, but I don't think it's gravity.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #77 on:** November 10, 2004, 12:58:52 PM »

In a colloquial sense, a "merkin" is also a man who marries a gay or bisexual woman so that she can be perceived as "straight."

Isn't the computer a wonderful thing?

Stuart · « **Reply #78 on:** November 10, 2004, 01:02:18 PM »

Quote from: JRand54 on November 10, 2004, 12:58:52 PM

In a colloquial sense, a "merkin" is also a man who marries a gay or bisexual woman so that she can be perceived as "straight."

Isn't the computer a wonderful thing?

So, it literally IS a beard!

Jrand73 · « **Reply #79 on:** November 10, 2004, 01:24:07 PM »

Matt H. · « **Reply #80 on:** November 10, 2004, 01:29:23 PM »

Finished watching the first disc of GWTW this afternoon after I returned home from rehearsal. Either my eyes were crossed yesterday or it looked a little more spectacular today. The second half of the first act is much more brownish in color due to the bad conditions during the last days of the Civil War, but whatever it was, it did look gorgeous today.

I also discovered that the original mono track is available on the set. It's just that they had it hidden under special features instead of in the language set-up section. There is a running commentary with Rudy Belhmer, but I haven't listened to that at all.

Matt H. · « **Reply #81 on:** November 10, 2004, 01:31:43 PM »

DR Ben, I'll get to posting that LUTE SONG info shortly.

Noel · « **Reply #82 on:** November 10, 2004, 02:08:18 PM »

In the tradition of Saturday Night Live's "America: Show Us Your Guns"

Ladies of HHW, show us your Merkins!

Now, that's sure to make us the most popular site on the internet

Noel · « **Reply #83 on:** November 10, 2004, 02:10:21 PM »

I should point out that my song, Marry Me, was performed last year at the Merkin Concert Hall and brought down the house. (Also in the Bound For Broadway show, songs from Avenue Q and The Musical of Musicals.) It seemed like a nice auditorium - somewhat v-shaped, with a fake carpet.

Noel · « **Reply #84 on:** November 10, 2004, 02:14:29 PM »

Ask BK:
When you titled today's notes "Rug Story"
did you ever think it would come down to this?

Jane · « **Reply #85 on:** November 10, 2004, 02:33:09 PM »

Quote from: TCB on November 10, 2004, 08:48:25 AM

Too much information, derBrucer!
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Yes, but ROTFLOL-why would anyone want a merkin?

Please don't answer that.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #86 on:** November 10, 2004, 02:39:34 PM »

DRNOEL - how was DWJOY's opening night?

Matt H. · « **Reply #87 on:** November 10, 2004, 02:40:37 PM »

Quote from: Noel on November 10, 2004, 02:08:18 PM

In the tradition of Saturday Night Live's "America: Show Us Your Guns"

Ladies of HHW, show us your Merkins!

Now, that's sure to make us the most popular site on the internet

Of course, there are some of us here who wouldn't be at all interested in seeing this.

Jane · « **Reply #88 on:** November 10, 2004, 02:46:27 PM »

Thank you Matt H, TCB, DRLaura, Dan (the Man) and Panni whom I wish a good flight home.

Stuart it seems a bit late to me for all this color, but I am not complaining at all.

MBarnum when are you going to visit Ashland and walk in the park with me. Oh, I think we are expecting a FedEx delivery today. 

td yes you may.

Matt H. · « **Reply #89 on:** November 10, 2004, 02:47:34 PM »

Here's the excerpt from Max Preeo's liner notes for LUTE SONG:

"LUTE SONG's plot tells of a young bride who is separated from her bookish husband when he's summoned by imperial edict to take examinations in the Capital City. When he successfully completes the examinations, he is given a position in the Imperial service, reluctantly leaving home when his wife promises to care for his parents. But once in the service of the arrogant Prince, the young husband is forced to marry a princess and forbidden any communication with his first wife. Famine falls on his village, his parents die of hunger, and the young wife - forced to sell her hair in order to pay for burial fees - is reduced to begging in order to survive. Eventually, she makes her way to the capital and is discovered by the Princess, who munderstands the deep love between the husband and the first wife, relinquishing him to the noble bride so they can live happily ever after."

The notes also reveal that the show cost $185,000 to mount in NYC in 1946. As we know, it ran for 142 performances.

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