Topic: SLEEPING IN (Read 6464 times)

bk · « **on:** March 17, 2019, 12:42:51 AM »

Well, you've read the notes, the notes slept in, and now it is time for you to post until the sleeping in cows come home.

bk · « **Reply #1 on:** March 17, 2019, 12:43:04 AM »

And the word of the day is: USUFRUCT!

bk · « **Reply #2 on:** March 17, 2019, 12:44:26 AM »

The very next show after Stop the World is another Brit show, Beyond the Fringe. I always thought I saw that before Stop the World.

bk · « **Reply #3 on:** March 17, 2019, 12:45:16 AM »

And I cannot tell you all the musicals I missed seeing, basically because I didn't ever go downtown - Milk and Honey is about to play the Biltmore with all its Broadway cast, How to Succeed is coming shortly...

bk · « **Reply #4 on:** March 17, 2019, 12:45:48 AM »

And Yum Yum Tree, which I continue to see every now and then, is in its 97th week.

bk · « **Reply #5 on:** March 17, 2019, 01:08:08 AM »

August 21, The Caretakers opens - one of the theaters it plays is the Village in Westwood. I'd already seen it at a sneak preview a month before at the Bruin across the street. In the opening scene, Polly Bergen is walking down Westwood Blvd. and stops at the Bruin, goes in and goes berserk in the theater. Interesting sitting there watching a scene that was shot right there. But it plays across the street at the Village - go know.

vixmom · « **Reply #6 on:** March 17, 2019, 01:28:22 AM »

First after bk

vixmom · « **Reply #7 on:** March 17, 2019, 01:28:43 AM »

Of course I should be sleeping

vixmom · « **Reply #8 on:** March 17, 2019, 01:29:04 AM »

I have to wake up in 2 1/2 hours

George · « **Reply #9 on:** March 17, 2019, 01:30:01 AM »

Quote from: vixmom on March 17, 2019, 01:29:04 AM

I have to wake up in 2 1/2 hours

Yikes! That's not sleep, that's a nap!

bk · « **Reply #10 on:** March 17, 2019, 01:42:13 AM »

November 4 - The Time of the Barracudas opens at the Huntington Hartford, starring Laurence Harvey and Elaine Stritch - I love it, really love it. After its run, it is scheduled for Broadway - it closes here and that is the last anyone hears of it, as the playwright, so unhappy, refuses to ever let it be performed again.

bk · « **Reply #11 on:** March 17, 2019, 01:44:07 AM »

After over two years, Yum Yum Tree is in its final weeks - the film version with Jack Lemmon has just opened - and it is TERRIBLE. Completely unfunny, unlike the play I've seen many times. And I begin to think maybe Jack Lemmon is not as funny as I've thought - but everything prior to this has been brilliant - but from here on in I'm thinking he's just not as good as he was.

bk · « **Reply #12 on:** March 17, 2019, 01:45:38 AM »

And Charley's Aunt is at the Coronet Theater starring Steve Franken. I go - something I've never forgotten - curtain is held for twenty minutes because Mr. Franken is late - shooting a TV show, but will be there any minute. The show finally goes on and I adore it and think it's quite hilarious. But a few nights later I learn what real hilarity is: Tom Jones opens at the Beverly. So crowded that for the first and last time I'm forced to sit in the balcony. But I return many times and howl with laughter and drag all my high school friends to see it.

George · « **Reply #13 on:** March 17, 2019, 01:46:41 AM »

After last night's show, a few of us went to a local restaurant called Octapas Cafe. I had the Cubano sandwich, which was pretty good except that I don't care for shredded meats.

But I ate it. It was pressed like a pannini sandwich, so it wasn't very loose, but it wasn't too bad. Afterward, I came home and a friend texted me, and we got into a conversation that took longer than I expected.

bk · « **Reply #14 on:** March 17, 2019, 01:54:52 AM »

A few days after Time of the Barracudas opens, Virginia Woolf comes to the Biltmore - I'm already obsessed with it because of the LP, so I go and see the matinee cast, who are brilliant, as is the play and the production.

bk · « **Reply #15 on:** March 17, 2019, 01:55:52 AM »

And just in the nick of time, the Cinerama Dome is ready for the premiere of It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. I go during its third week, after a cataclysmic event is about to shake the country.

bk · « **Reply #16 on:** March 17, 2019, 02:02:26 AM »

Sundays and Cybele, which has moved around the city, comes to the Lido with The L-Shaped Room - of course I see it.

George · « **Reply #17 on:** March 17, 2019, 02:03:29 AM »

Quote from: bk on March 17, 2019, 01:54:52 AM

A few days after Time of the Barracudas opens, Virginia Woolf comes to the Biltmore - I'm already obsessed with it because of the LP, so I go and see the matinee cast, who are brilliant, as is the play and the production.

A scene about Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf is featured prominently in Bunbury.

bk · « **Reply #18 on:** March 17, 2019, 02:09:07 AM »

The morning edition of the Times, November 22, front page story - "Crowds hail Kennedy in Texas visit." The evening edition headline tells a quite different story, as you know. A quite different story. Many plays cancel performances that night.

No one can move or believe it. I write about this in Kritzer Time. I knew nothing of politics or politicians - I knew he was the president but that was about it. So, while no one can move or anything else, I go see It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.

bk · « **Reply #19 on:** March 17, 2019, 02:09:32 AM »

And Yum Yum Tree, in it's "last weeks" is suddenly sticking around because the movie was a flop.

George · « **Reply #20 on:** March 17, 2019, 02:23:25 AM »

It's really interesting reading about all your movie memories, BK. I just don't have that kind of memory, at all.

George · « **Reply #21 on:** March 17, 2019, 02:24:19 AM »

And now, I hate to do it, but I must get some sleep. I have to be at the theater in about 10 1/2 hours. After today's matinee,
I'm going to my parents' for our weekly family dinner. Then, I'll come back home for the evening.

Good night, BK, and have a good day, all!

bk · « **Reply #22 on:** March 17, 2019, 02:32:14 AM »

I turn sixteen and soon thereafter see a sneak preview of Frank Perry's Ladybug, Ladybug - I love it and go back several times when it opens a week later for what I thought was a very short run, but in reality three weeks.

bk · « **Reply #23 on:** March 17, 2019, 02:35:09 AM »

To close out the year we get The Cardinal at the Egyptian and the marvelous Charade at the Chinese and, on Christmas Day, my favorite of them all - Love With the Proper Stranger.

bk · « **Reply #24 on:** March 17, 2019, 02:43:35 AM »

And the number of ads for nudie cutie movies has become huge.

bk · « **Reply #25 on:** March 17, 2019, 02:48:45 AM »

A Thousand Clowns with Dane Clark comes to the Hartford, with original B'way star Barry Gordon, too. For some stupid reason I don't go. Understudy to Barry Gordon? Barry Pearl.

bk · « **Reply #26 on:** March 17, 2019, 02:57:00 AM »

Dr. Strangelove opens on February 19th. I'm there that evening to see it and I think it's automatically one of the greatest pictures I've ever seen, with some of the biggest laughs I've ever heard. I return about twenty times during its run.

bk · « **Reply #27 on:** March 17, 2019, 02:57:46 AM »

And something called High and Low has opened at the Beverly Canon, where I saw Sundays and Cybele. But I've never seen a Japanese film and I don't go.

bk · « **Reply #28 on:** March 17, 2019, 03:29:17 AM »

End of May, From Russia With Love opens. I don't see it, but will during the summer - many, many times.

bk · « **Reply #29 on:** March 17, 2019, 03:32:58 AM »

Remember I said Oscar Brown at the Music Box in the earlier 60s was too early for me to have seen him. Well, June 1964 he's back - and I go three times and meet him and he is so kind and wonderfully supportive - it's in Kritzer Time but it's something I've never forgotten.

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