Topic: THE THIRD ANNUAL ONE STARRY NIGHT BENEFIT (Read 9667 times)

bk · « **on:** August 16, 2016, 03:06:41 AM »

Well, you've read the notes, the notes spoke of the benefit, and now it is time for you to post until the third annual cows come home.

bk · « **Reply #1 on:** August 16, 2016, 03:07:27 AM »

And the word of the day is: WHIGMALEERIE!

FJL · « **Reply #2 on:** August 16, 2016, 03:14:07 AM »

The evening sounds incredible, even with the sundried little tiny blips you mentioned. Congrats, BK!!!

FJL · « **Reply #3 on:** August 16, 2016, 03:16:01 AM »

Possible topic: have you ever been in a theater when an illness or accident took place, either onstage or in the audience?

(or have we done that one before?)

vixmom · « **Reply #4 on:** August 16, 2016, 04:52:58 AM »

Glad to hear it all went so well!!

ChasSmith · « **Reply #5 on:** August 16, 2016, 05:01:04 AM »

Good morning, all.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #6 on:** August 16, 2016, 05:03:45 AM »

Had a pretty solid sleep, but with a dream about a couple of songs from a particular show that, during it, I could SWEAR I'd had before, or been over this material before, possibly earlier in the night. It's all a lie, I know. But dreams are powerful things, and we are so gullible. I'm just always amazed at this.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #7 on:** August 16, 2016, 05:06:01 AM »

Very glad to hear the starry night went well, even with hiccups. I know BK will enjoy his lunch(eon) at Disney Studios today!

ChasSmith · « **Reply #8 on:** August 16, 2016, 05:06:42 AM »

I'm very lunchEON-conscious, having recently watched GREY GARDENS.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #9 on:** August 16, 2016, 05:07:22 AM »

We NYC-centric DRs need to get together for lunchEON soon.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #10 on:** August 16, 2016, 06:00:51 AM »

Good morning, all!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #11 on:** August 16, 2016, 06:02:13 AM »

Loved the notes, BK! Sounds as though it ran like all of these events: long, unexpected glitches, and a success.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #12 on:** August 16, 2016, 06:04:27 AM »

I slept poorly. Several unsettling nightmares I no longer remember, one doozy so bizarre that when I woke I thought, i can't forget this one. well, I did.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #13 on:** August 16, 2016, 06:05:22 AM »

This is a GUYS & DOLLS day. At 3:00, I must attend a Moonshine & Mistletoe work session about cuts and changes.

Kerry · « **Reply #14 on:** August 16, 2016, 06:18:57 AM »

I'm glad the show went so well (all in all). Congratulations!

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #15 on:** August 16, 2016, 07:03:18 AM »

Quote from: bk on August 16, 2016, 03:07:27 AM

And the word of the day is: WHIGMALEERIE!

What a delightful whigmaleerie this is!

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #16 on:** August 16, 2016, 07:05:05 AM »

Quote from: FJL on August 16, 2016, 03:16:01 AM

Possible topic: have you ever been in a theater when an illness or accident took place, either onstage or in the audience?

(or have we done that one before?)

I saw a play once. It was a comedy. One of the actors was a bit "off" during one scene...and it ended with him sending a blast of vomit across the stage floor.

Curtains, everyone! He recovered and continued into the next act. A light smattering of applause accompanied his entrance. Fewer patrons, however, were there to experience his recovery.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #17 on:** August 16, 2016, 07:15:28 AM »

Quote from: FJL on August 16, 2016, 03:16:01 AM

Possible topic: have you ever been in a theater when an illness or accident took place, either onstage or in the audience?

(or have we done that one before?)

In Cleveland, around 1968 or 1969 when the Metropolitan Opera was still doing its tours, I was in the typically inappropriate, cavernous, Cleveland City Auditorium or whatever it was called, watching (I think) Trovatore. Suddenly, during a quiet scene, someone screamed a few times and I saw some scurrying around about a mile from my seat. And that was it. I never learned what happened.

In L.A., early 1980s, I was watching a film at the Royal on Santa Monica Blvd. (a few blocks west of the Nuart), and something of a similar nature happened but without the noise. They turned the lights on and held the film while the ambulance got there and took the person out. The movie was one of those takes on Carmen.

Apparently, the operatic world carries a certain amount of risk.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #18 on:** August 16, 2016, 07:17:39 AM »

Quote from: Ron Pulliam on August 16, 2016, 07:05:05 AM

I saw a play once. It was a comedy. One of the actors was a bit "off" during one scene...and it ended with him sending a blast of vomit across the stage floor.

Curtains, everyone! He recovered and continued into the next act. A light smattering of applause accompanied his entrance. Fewer patrons, however, were there to experience his recovery.

Okay, that's it. The contest is closed. We have a winner.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #19 on:** August 16, 2016, 07:38:05 AM »

Quote from: ChasSmith on August 16, 2016, 07:17:39 AM

Quote from: Ron Pulliam on August 16, 2016, 07:05:05 AM
I saw a play once. It was a comedy. One of the actors was a bit "off" during one scene...and it ended with him sending a blast of vomit across the stage floor.

Curtains, everyone! He recovered and continued into the next act. A light smattering of applause accompanied his entrance. Fewer patrons, however, were there to experience his recovery.

Okay, that's it. The contest is closed. We have a winner.

There must be something more dramatic than this!

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #20 on:** August 16, 2016, 07:38:28 AM »

By the way,

Happy Tuesday, All!

And one, as well.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #21 on:** August 16, 2016, 07:49:41 AM »

Wonderful notes! Congrats to MR BK & Co!

Sounds like a wonderful night....and the hiccups can be expected with such a SHORT rehearsal schedule. It's more amazing that anything goes RIGHT than a few things go wrong.

It is INEXCUSABLE that MR BK's name was omitted from the program.....

John G. · « **Reply #22 on:** August 16, 2016, 08:02:40 AM »

Good morning, all.

John G. · « **Reply #23 on:** August 16, 2016, 08:03:03 AM »

Great news on the show being such a success.

John G. · « **Reply #24 on:** August 16, 2016, 08:07:08 AM »

I haven't been to any of these celebrity-laden fundraisers, but I have been to culinary ones. The sit down dinners are endless. Twelve or 14 courses of food you don't really want to eat separated by an endless stream of chefs blathering on about the sous vide or confit methods they used. One chef, whom I actually like, told about the heirloom tomatoes that he let cook for nine hours and all this torture he put them through. What we had on our plate looked and tasted liked a canned tomato. Yawn.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #25 on:** August 16, 2016, 08:13:11 AM »

Quote from: FJL on August 16, 2016, 03:16:01 AM

Possible topic: have you ever been in a theater when an illness or accident took place, either onstage or in the audience?

(or have we done that one before?)

I can think of two:
1. The Three Musketeers on Broadway; dreadful show. The horse on its way through the theatre to the stage dropped a big load in the aisle.
2. In Love, Valour, Compassion, Randy Becker left the stage during a dinner scene and never returned. After a long wait, the stage management asked if there were a doctor available. Becker had had a seizure. We sat for a bit and then there was an announcement that Becker's understudy weas getting ready to go on. That night we saw six naked men instead of five.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #26 on:** August 16, 2016, 08:23:52 AM »

My stories don't hold a candle to these!

Jane · « **Reply #27 on:** August 16, 2016, 08:36:31 AM »

Quote from: FJL on August 16, 2016, 03:14:07 AM

The evening sounds incredible, even with the sundried little tiny blips you mentioned. Congrats, BK!!!

I agree 😊

Jrand74 · « **Reply #28 on:** August 16, 2016, 08:43:24 AM »

I am beginning to think I am associating with the wrong audiences.....

John G. · « **Reply #29 on:** August 16, 2016, 09:12:54 AM »

In my second grade Christmas pageant, one of my classmates vomited, forcing us to spread out in our little fold-up wooden chairs. It was a new church with nigh perfect acoustics. Don't know which was worse, the echo of his puking or the clatter of our chairs.

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