Topic: SAVING MARY POPPINS (Read 4526 times)

ChasSmith · « **Reply #30 on:** July 03, 2016, 05:37:06 AM »

I'm a Mary Poppins stage version virgin, and am likely to remain so since I won't very likely be catching the production BK and the Shermans were able to enjoy.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #31 on:** July 03, 2016, 05:43:37 AM »

Barnes and Noble Criterion sale kicks off Tuesday, July 5th.

Michael · « **Reply #32 on:** July 03, 2016, 05:47:52 AM »

Good Morning to all

Michael · « **Reply #33 on:** July 03, 2016, 05:49:05 AM »

I had my car also washed yesterday. Beautiful sunny day. I popped into a store for ten minutes and when I cam out it was a rain storm. Welcome to Florida!

Jrand74 · « **Reply #34 on:** July 03, 2016, 05:49:58 AM »

I liked the MARY POPPINS movie, but I have never seen, nor do I expect to see the stage musical.

FJL · « **Reply #35 on:** July 03, 2016, 06:17:07 AM »

Maybe you won't see it. But would your theatre ever do the Mary Poppins stage version, Jrand?

FJL · « **Reply #36 on:** July 03, 2016, 06:18:55 AM »

Quote from: ChasSmith on July 03, 2016, 05:22:09 AM

The notes have put me in the mood for some dinner theater. I don't know how many are around, but we have a pretty decent one, Westchester Broadway, between where I live and NYC. They've been known to mount some likeable productions, and as far as I know, they still employ live musicians. (As opposed to dead ones?)

Westchester Broadway did a stunning version of TITANIC, which I saw a few yeas ago, since some friends were in the cast.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #37 on:** July 03, 2016, 06:24:23 AM »

DR Elmore's favorite!

vixmom · « **Reply #38 on:** July 03, 2016, 06:30:25 AM »

Quote from: Michael on July 03, 2016, 05:49:05 AM

I had my car also washed yesterday. Beautiful sunny day. I popped into a store for ten minutes and when I cam out it was a rain storm. Welcome to Florida!

I fiorgot, Michael... West part of Florida are you in?

vixmom · « **Reply #39 on:** July 03, 2016, 06:30:48 AM »

The truck has been retrieved, gassed up and returned.

vixmom · « **Reply #40 on:** July 03, 2016, 06:31:39 AM »

I fully expected to be st universal niw bye vixBF remembered some paperwork that had to be done at the apartment do here we are back at the apartment

elmore3003 · « **Reply #41 on:** July 03, 2016, 07:20:07 AM »

Good morning, all!

Jrand74 · « **Reply #42 on:** July 03, 2016, 07:20:07 AM »

DR FJL a nearby local theatre did a production last season....my theatre will do it only after I am dead and gone.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #43 on:** July 03, 2016, 07:22:21 AM »

I awoke around 7:30 with a huge desire to hie myself to the Little Pie Company to purchase a huge peach pie and a huge cherry pie and spend the day destroying my blood sugar levels. By 7:45, the desire was enormous, so I went back to bed until 9:00 to fight the urge. It worked. I've been cathing up on things and downloading some CDs into my iTunes.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #44 on:** July 03, 2016, 07:28:50 AM »

I a not a fan of the musical Titanic, which I thought was really terrible as a script and a production on Broadway, but i do like much of Maury Yeston's score. I am no fan of Mary Poppins, which DR FJL and Skip were kind enough to invite me to see, since I think the ridiculous script is a mess with points that go nowhere and the dreadful new songs are not only dreadful but unnecessary. The costumes were very much indebted to the Disney film originals and, for all the Mackintosh office;s claims that Travers hated the film and would only allow a more faithful to her books adaptation, the setting was moved back to the film's Edwardian setting.

I've read all the Mary Poppins books as a kid and I have absolutely no memory of Mrs Banks' being a former actress and snubbed by Mr Banks' upper-scale friends, speaking of plot elements that go absolutely nowhere!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #45 on:** July 03, 2016, 07:30:05 AM »

DR ChasSmith, if you are ever asked to play for a production, run: the dreadful orchestrations have some of the most fiendishly difficult piano writing for absolutely no effect at all.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #46 on:** July 03, 2016, 07:31:51 AM »

DR vixmom, I could never play you in the film. I'm too old, not pretty enough, and I certainly lack the experience of having so large a heart and generosity of spirit.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #47 on:** July 03, 2016, 07:38:16 AM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on July 03, 2016, 07:30:05 AM

DR ChasSmith, if you are ever asked to play for a production, run: the dreadful orchestrations have some of the most fiendishly difficult piano writing for absolutely no effect at all.

Wow. No kidding!?

Ginny · « **Reply #48 on:** July 03, 2016, 08:15:04 AM »

Sunday morning greetings! Yesterday I sort of vegged to recover from driving 1000+ miles in 3 days, but today I must get back to reality by visiting Mom and going to the grocery. We skipped church today because Richard still has a cough and is still seeing double.

Kerry · « **Reply #49 on:** July 03, 2016, 08:27:28 AM »

I have read that Disney is making a sequel to Mary Poppins. It figures.

FJL · « **Reply #50 on:** July 03, 2016, 08:29:03 AM »

Quote from: Ginny on July 03, 2016, 08:15:04 AM

Sunday morning greetings! Yesterday I sort of vegged to recover from driving 1000+ miles in 3 days, but today I must get back to reality by visiting Mom and going to the grocery. We skipped church today because Richard still has a cough and is still seeing double.

Feel-better-ASAP vibes to Richard!

Jrand74 · « **Reply #51 on:** July 03, 2016, 08:48:04 AM »

A sequel sounds like an even worse idea than a Broadway musical.....

FJL · « **Reply #52 on:** July 03, 2016, 08:54:24 AM »

CNN said the sequel is happening in 2018:

http://money.cnn.com/2016/05/31/media/mary-poppins-emily-blunt-lin-manuel-miranda/

Ginny · « **Reply #53 on:** July 03, 2016, 09:13:19 AM »

Quote from: FJL on July 03, 2016, 08:29:03 AM

Quote from: Ginny on July 03, 2016, 08:15:04 AM
Sunday morning greetings! Yesterday I sort of vegged to recover from driving 1000+ miles in 3 days, but today I must get back to reality by visiting Mom and going to the grocery. We skipped church today because Richard still has a cough and is still seeing double.

Feel-better-ASAP vibes to Richard!

Thanks, DR FJL!

ChasSmith · « **Reply #54 on:** July 03, 2016, 09:50:49 AM »

That can't possibly be any fun. More vibes for DH Richard.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #55 on:** July 03, 2016, 10:16:49 AM »

It's time for: Choice Gems.

Here's another I found from last fall when MY FAIR LADY, newly restored to 4k, was about to be released to a few theaters and on Blu-ray. I went to a little preview at the store owned by a gentleman who posts occasionally on the Home Theater Forum. Film restorer Robert Harris was there, as were two gentlemen from CBS responsible for putting the muscle and dollars behind getting the project done right. The final disc wasn't available yet so they had a preview loop playing on all of the screens in the store, and they brought in a $30k Sony 4k projector to demo it on a large screen in the back room.

The restoration of course is glorious, but the greatest pleasure was finally meeting Mr. RAH in person and, because the event was sparsely attended, being able to chat with him and the CBS guys, and for the brief moment he was able to stop by, the CEO of The Criterion Collection. As BK has stated many times, Robert Harris is truly one of the most wonderful people around, and the entire evening was a delight.

So, I didn't plan on being in this snapshot, but they pulled me in. Next to Yrs Truly is Jonathan Turrell of Criterion, Robert Zohn's wife (I'm terrible at names sometimes), Robert Harris, and Robert Zohn of Value Electronics. It was a great evening.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #56 on:** July 03, 2016, 10:25:23 AM »

And did I walk away empty handed? Not on your tintype. Zohn had enjoyed a post of mine about some MY FAIR LADY ephemera, and he held back one of the two restoration posters he'd been sent, and surprised me with it when I arrived. Here's Robert Harris signing it for me (I love how the movie is playing as though suspended in mid-air above him)...

ChasSmith · « **Reply #57 on:** July 03, 2016, 10:27:46 AM »

...and the final framed result.

Druxy · « **Reply #58 on:** July 03, 2016, 10:33:50 AM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on July 03, 2016, 07:28:50 AM

I a not a fan of the musical Titanic, which I thought was really terrible as a script and a production on Broadway, but i do like much of Maury Yeston's score. I am no fan of Mary Poppins, which DR FJL and Skip were kind enough to invite me to see, since I think the ridiculous script is a mess with points that go nowhere and the dreadful new songs are not only dreadful but unnecessary. The costumes were very much indebted to the Disney film originals and, for all the Mackintosh office;s claims that Travers hated the film and would only allow a more faithful to her books adaptation, the setting was moved back to the film's Edwardian setting.

I've read all the Mary Poppins books as a kid and I have absolutely no memory of Mrs Banks' being a former actress and snubbed by Mr Banks' upper-scale friends, speaking of plot elements that go absolutely nowhere!

I didn't see the musical TITANIC, but I do like the score. Very moving.

Ginny · « **Reply #59 on:** July 03, 2016, 10:39:50 AM »

Quote from: ChasSmith on July 03, 2016, 09:50:49 AM

That can't possibly be any fun. More vibes for DH Richard.

Not fun, indeed. Thanks for the vibes, DR ChasSmith!

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