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[George]

PAGE FOUR RAGS DANCE!!

[George]

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  Healthy Vibes to the young friend of DR vixmom!  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

~~~DITTO!!~~~

[George]

Loved Matt Damon as the astronaut

So did I, but then I never read the book.

I read it.  It was very good with lots of detail that drew me in completely.

[George]

I won $50 on a scratch off lottery ticket that I bought using a $10 winning ticket from last week.

Double congrats to you!!

[Ginny]

Thursday morning greetings!  Up early to head north of Chicken Bristle Road for my collage class.

Will you be getting collage credit?

I gave it the old collage try, DR TCB!  I got home a little after noon, had lunch, and then slept for a couple of hours.  Making up for last night's fitful sleep and early wake-up call.

[Ginny]

Most schools in my area ended yesterday so the streets are full of screaming children....and the stores will be full of them as well.

This seems very early to me.  I think of mid-June as the end of school.  Craig's district has a number of snow days to add on  making the year longer.

Jrand lives in an agricultural state.  Maybe the schools let out early so's the younguns could start plowin' and plantin'?

It's all about the proficiency testing that education's all about these days.  The testing takes place in March, so in order to get in as many school days beforehand they have to start the year early in August.  Once the tests are over, nothing productive happens and as soon as the required 180 days are complete - school's out.

Not sayin' it's right, but it's been that way since Rob was in 6th grade or so.

[Jrand74]

I remember T. Stratas in the documentary on the recording of a WEST SIDE STORY LP.....I think Kiri was also involved in it.....and that guy who can't speak English well...

Stratas came to each recording session dressed up and looking like a million dollars and did her thing - no muss no fuss.....Bernstein loved her.....

And didn't she played the Old Lady in a production of CANDIDE that was on TV?

[Jrand74]

Well anyway....another run thru night....so I must be off....

[ChasSmith]

Today is the 78th birthday of the great opera star Teresa Stratas!

She played Offenbach's La Perichole several times for the Metropolitan Opera.  Here's the 1971 broadcast of Perichole's Act One "Letter song":
https://soundcloud.com/user5614139/la-perichole-letter-song-1971

And an incredible Jenny in Mahagonny!

She was fantastic in RAGS on Broadway, and her Julie on John McGlinn's SHOW BOAT recording makes me cry.

Another reason it's one of the all time great recordings.

[ChasSmith]

DR Jrand65, are you thinking of Tatiana Troyanos on the WEST SIDE STORY?

It's been ages since I've listened to that, or watched the documentary - which I've recently wanted to see again, now that you mention it.

And I think I still only have it on laserdisc.  (Those were the days...)

[elmore3003]

I remember T. Stratas in the documentary on the recording of a WEST SIDE STORY LP.....I think Kiri was also involved in it.....and that guy who can't speak English well...

Stratas came to each recording session dressed up and looking like a million dollars and did her thing - no muss no fuss.....Bernstein loved her.....

And didn't she played the Old Lady in a production of CANDIDE that was on TV?

She couldn't be. She isn't on it.  You're thinking of Tatiana Troyanos.

[ChasSmith]

Whoa!  Great minds, etc....

[elmore3003]

Whoa!  Great minds, etc....

LOL!

[Druxy]

TOD:

Well, I'm not sure.   If I had free reign, I think I might look for a way to have a narrator do commentary to the audience in between the "unpleasant" scenes.  Since Dubin, like Larry Hart, was very talented, that talent can be displayed to wonderful effect while the "true-to-life" stuff needs to be lightened with a commentary that suggests various ailments/psychoses that plagued the central character throughout his life.

For pity's sake, though, don't pull the stuffings out of the character.  Look at the botch that MGM perpetrated upon Larry Hart's memory in "Words and Music" by making his angst a love sickness for Betty Garrett's character (and she wasn't buying into Hart in any way).  So faux tragic.

Very much like the whitewash of Cole Porter by the Warner Brothers.  But, I digress...

When they made WORDS AND MUSIC, there was no way they could show the "real" Larry Hart.  Same thing with Cole Porter in NIGHT AND DAY.  Of course, years later, Kevin Kline did a more realistic Porter in DE-LOVELY.

Except De-Lovely was as fictional as Night and Day. Linda Lee, for example, was much older than Cole and there was never an issue of her having a child.

Let's just say that it was closer to the truth than NIGHT AND DAY.

[Ron Pulliam]

I'm a'wonderin':

Why the blue blazes don't we have a Blu ray of "Diva" yet?

[Ron Pulliam]

'oo put out the lights?






(il.e., Where did everybody go?)

[ChasSmith]

I don't know, but I could use some Jewbuki right about now.

[elmore3003]

I need more watercress!

[bk]

I need sleep.

[bk]

Had a cup of soup, a sandwich and a few fries.  Picked up some packages.  Got a letter from Bank of America saying one of the charges I disputed, one that had been going on for over three years monthly, had been found to be real and they were going to undo the credit for that - I called immediately and the result of that call was absolutely amazing and will be the subject of the notes.  It's quite a tale and one that will both outrage you and surprise you and BofA continued and continues to handle all of this professionally and beautifully.

[Jennifer]

Our neighbor just returned from Toronto where she was told the second t is silent.  Is this true?

Everyone I know says the second "t". But i think there are people who say it Tor on no.

[KevinH]

Good evening!

[George]

Well, I'm leaving work and will see if there's time to get an oil change for my car.  I also need to get gas, but the local Jiffy Lube closes at 7:00 pm.  I don't know if they have a cut-off of when one can get there before they don't let anyone in.  We'll see.

Until later.

[John G.]

Today is the 78th birthday of the great opera star Teresa Stratas!

She played Offenbach's La Perichole several times for the Metropolitan Opera.  Here's the 1971 broadcast of Perichole's Act One "Letter song":
https://soundcloud.com/user5614139/la-perichole-letter-song-1971

And an incredible Jenny in Mahagonny!

She was fantastic in RAGS on Broadway, and her Julie on John McGlinn's SHOW BOAT recording makes me cry.

I love the RAGS recording with Julia Migenes, but I wish Teresa could've been on the recording.

Saw a bootleg of Stratas in Rags. She was heartbreaking. But her Mahagonny was a pivotal moment of my childhood. Would love to see that production again. I have the Patti LuPone-Audra MacDonald version, but I haven't been able to bring myself to watch it. Somehow I don't think it'll be the same.

[John G.]

Found a VAI disc of John Raitt on the Bell Telephone Hour. It's really fun. I get to hear him sing some songs like "Lucky to Be Me" from "On the Town" that are perfect for his voice.

He also joins Rise Stevens for a sweet version of Toyland.

[John G.]

Our neighbor just returned from Toronto where she was told the second t is silent.  Is this true?

Everyone I know says the second "t". But i think there are people who say it Tor on no.

Like "Bal'more," which is more like "Bal'mer."

[John G.]

I bought a bottle of Nyquil. It's going to be a party at the Griffin household tonight.

[John G.]

Hi, Vixmom!

[bk]

You know what - let me just say this real loud: We have been on this page since eleven o'clock this MORNING.  Someone explain to me what's going on because I am beginning to be VERY unhappy about this.  No Singdaw, Cilla's never around, George has literally been working on shows every night for the last three years, well, you know -

[John G.]

Let's move on, shall we?