Topic: REDISCOVERING MY BUDDAH (Read 43801 times)

Jennifer · « **Reply #270 on:** January 27, 2005, 08:28:31 PM »

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Dan (the Man) · « **Reply #271 on:** January 27, 2005, 08:34:58 PM »

One more suggestion for Guy's new album: Joni Mitchell's "Twisted".

Matt H. · « **Reply #272 on:** January 27, 2005, 08:37:12 PM »

Another Kander and Ebb suggestion for Guy Haines: "Yes."

Charles Pogue · « **Reply #273 on:** January 27, 2005, 08:46:27 PM »

Ridicule...or On Guard, which you purchased and is dandy. Then a touch of Carson for dessert which will go down easy on top of those soggy onion rings.

Know we said no Porter, but our you familiar with a ditty, The Great Indoors...? A suitable number for Guy.

Some oddities:

Say It (Over and Over Again)
Montevideo (monte-vee-day-oo)
Polka Dots and Moonbeams
The Night A Sinner Kissed An Angel
I'll Tell the Man In the Street

td · « **Reply #274 on:** January 27, 2005, 08:51:41 PM »

When feeling sad and lonely, this is indeed the best site on the net to come to. Friends and family. That's what this site is.

Michael · « **Reply #275 on:** January 27, 2005, 08:52:35 PM »

TD: So very sorry about your beloved Minx. It is never easy. My thoughts are with you.

Michael · « **Reply #276 on:** January 27, 2005, 08:53:32 PM »

How about a fun duet like:

I Shall Scream from Oliver! A good partner might be Judy Kaye.

Charles Pogue · « **Reply #277 on:** January 27, 2005, 08:57:53 PM »

We were talking Mercer earlier...Bob White is quite zippy. Of course, my favourite Mercer...Out of This World

Charles Pogue · « **Reply #278 on:** January 27, 2005, 09:01:08 PM »

How's Guy's pucker? The High & The Mighty? Does it even have words or is it all whistling?

bk · « **Reply #279 on:** January 27, 2005, 09:08:43 PM »

High and the Mighty does have words - I have the sheet music sitting on my piano.

I was high and mighty
Tho' I laughed at love
And the stars above

Something like that... Guy has, of course, whistled on many albums - he is somewhat known for his whistling ways. In fact, he flew to New York to whistle for Donna Murphy on The King and I album.

bk · « **Reply #280 on:** January 27, 2005, 09:09:38 PM »

I must say that at first glance I misread "How's Guy's pucker."

td: Amen, baby. That IS what this site is about.

bk · « **Reply #281 on:** January 27, 2005, 09:10:14 PM »

I've chosen Ridicule for tonight's movie. So far it is absolutely wonderful.

bk · « **Reply #282 on:** January 27, 2005, 09:10:55 PM »

Ten more degrees and I shall be out in the sparklingly sparkling Jacuzzi.

td · « **Reply #283 on:** January 27, 2005, 09:19:32 PM »

Quote from: bk on January 27, 2005, 09:10:14 PM

I've chosen Ridicule for tonight's movie. So far it is absolutely wonderful.

I chose IVANHOE to cheer me a bit.

JMK · « **Reply #284 on:** January 27, 2005, 09:31:12 PM »

Quote from: Dan (the Man) on January 27, 2005, 08:34:58 PM

One more suggestion for Guy's new album: Joni Mitchell's "Twisted".

Technically it's Lambert, Hendricks and Ross' Twisted (Annie wrote the lyric, IIRC). Dave's daughter is a former WB executive and attorney who did some copyright work for me up here a few years ago (she is a raconteur par excellence).

TD, Minx was gorgeous. We've been through what you're going through. When the time feels right, think about getting a rescue dog (as in a dog rescued from being abandoned). We are so happy we saved BeeGee from heaven knows what.

bk · « **Reply #285 on:** January 27, 2005, 09:32:54 PM »

Out for my Jacuzzi. Ahhhhhh.

George · « **Reply #286 on:** January 27, 2005, 09:43:01 PM »

Quote from: td on January 27, 2005, 07:09:15 PM

Minx Anastasia
January 1999 - January 2005

Very sorry to hear about Minx.

bk · « **Reply #287 on:** January 27, 2005, 10:06:34 PM »

Is everyone having a siesta?

bk · « **Reply #288 on:** January 27, 2005, 10:07:56 PM »

I just had the most marvelously marvelous Jacuzzi. It's nippy out, but actually not overtly nippy. I was in there for a good twenty-five minutes and am now completely relaxed.

George · « **Reply #289 on:** January 27, 2005, 10:12:45 PM »

I'm converting a few new CDs to MP3 files so that I can play them on my MP3 watch! I just got the original Broadway cast recordings of Pipe Dream and Allegro done. After that will be the soundtrack to "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" that I got from the library. Then will be the Audra McDonald concert that she did and was broadcast on NPR (it's archived there). The Audra concert won't fit on the watch with the other three CDs, but those will all fit. The watch only has 128 megabytes. That's about two to two and a half hours' worth. And when I listen to those, I still have real CDs and my little CD player at work.

Ann · « **Reply #290 on:** January 27, 2005, 10:23:53 PM »

I actually was having a siesta. I was trying to watch CSI, but couldn't stay awake.

Many many vibes to td over the loss of Minx. She was a beautiful dog. My thoughts are with you and your family.

DearReaderLaura · « **Reply #291 on:** January 27, 2005, 10:36:27 PM »

DR td: So sorry to hear about Minx. It is always so difficult to have to make that decision.

DearReaderLaura · « **Reply #292 on:** January 27, 2005, 10:37:54 PM »

Dear BK:

I would like very much if Guy Haines would sing "Laura" on his new CD.

Tomovoz · « **Reply #293 on:** January 27, 2005, 10:57:00 PM »

Would Laura sing "A Guy Is A Guy"?

bk · « **Reply #294 on:** January 27, 2005, 11:09:50 PM »

Have finished Ridicule, about which more later. I must now hie myself to write the new notes. Keep the home fries burning until my returning.

George · « **Reply #295 on:** January 27, 2005, 11:18:48 PM »

BK, I have a CD by a woman named Deborah Boily called "Thank You For the Music" on LML Music. She recorded the song known as "My Way" (made famous by Frank Sinatra), but she went back to the original French lyrics and wrote a new translation because the lyrics written by Paul Anka had nothing to do with the original French lyrics (she tells this story on the CD).

The original French title is "Comme D'Habitude" which translates as "As Usual." Have you or Guy Haines heard this version? I think it's quite good. The lyrics are repetative (she also sings it in the original French, so you can tell that that's the way it was written), but I like this version more than "My Way." But then I was never much of a Sinatra fan.

bk · « **Reply #296 on:** January 27, 2005, 11:22:59 PM »

Haven't heard it, but will try.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #297 on:** January 27, 2005, 11:30:38 PM »

Good Evening!

Sorry to have been errant and truant all day, but like I sort of said in my posts this morning, I had a full day off today... So I took it!

Thanks to all DRs for your comments and concern. There is one family matter that caught my totally off guard this morning, but now that I'm over the shock of it, I'm better.

Yesterday morning, however, just seemed to be Bad News Central. Before I left for the theatre, I got an e-mail from the woman who coordinates the upcoming theatre convention I'll be playing for. At the end of her e-mail, she asked for thoughts and prayers for her mother who was recently diagnosed with colon and liver cancer.

Then once I got to the theatre, there was an announcement posted on the callboard informing everyone that the husband of one of the stage managers had died Tuesday night. He had been diagnosed with lung cancer just last November. Martha was my stage manager for Camelot.
Five minutes later, I was talking with the contractor, and she asked if I knew anything more about the musical director's personal assistant - she was only here through tech week, taking notes, etc. I said No. Well... It turns out that the assistant was diagnosed with cancer sometime last year, and she had found out that it was terminal before the DC portion of the run started. She wanted to do the show to keep her mind off of her health condition. She needed to do the show. She recently went home to Japan to spend her final days with her family.

...And that particular bit of bad news just started the wheels in my head turning in regards to my father's recent bout with prostate cancer, and the repercussions, as it were, for myself and my three younger brothers...

So...

...Big Breath[/b]...

I'm OK. And I wasn't really that bad last night either. I just happened to have a day filled with "perspective" focusing news and events. And with that horrible train wreck in California, and the deaths in Iraq, we all had that sort of day.

And after reading through all the posts yesterday that had been posted since I had posted in the morning...

This is a very wonderful place on the internet. One big happy family. Yes, dysfunctional at times, but what family is truly "functional" anyway? It's nice to have a place where we all can talk about our daily lives, from the big issues down to the trivialities. We can laugh. We can cry. We can smile. We can offer words of comfort, and hearty pats on the back. We can talk about "pudding" and "underpants" in the same sentence. -It may not be pretty, but where else on the net could those two words be put in the same sentence, as BK would say - and I think he did.

Best of all, we can move on.

And we did.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #298 on:** January 27, 2005, 11:36:00 PM »

In other news...

DR Matt H - As DR elmore pointed out, STREET SCENE is just one huge show. Large cast. Large orchestra. And the Weill Foundation/Estate is infamous for their requirement of using a full orchestra - or just a piano. No in between. Wolf Trap mounted a production two or three summers ago with their resident opera company. It was the largest cast they every had to deal with - lots of "extras" (boys, girls, roller skaters... and isn't there a role for a circus performer or something like that?).

On a personal note, when I was in college, I sang the role of Mr. Maurrant in Opera Workshop. It was fun playing a bastard.

George · « **Reply #299 on:** January 27, 2005, 11:39:31 PM »

Quote from: bk on January 27, 2005, 11:22:59 PM

Haven't heard it, but will try.

If you want, I could e-mail you an MP3 of that one song...unless you want the whole CD (the song is part of a medley). Could you add it to your iPod??

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