Topic: THE PERFECTION KNOWN AS REAR WINDOW (Read 5751 times)

vixmom · « **Reply #60 on:** July 21, 2019, 09:54:27 AM »

Which is considerable

vixmom · « **Reply #61 on:** July 21, 2019, 09:55:21 AM »

The museum had special events yesterday and we attended the day activities which were very family friendly

vixmom · « **Reply #62 on:** July 21, 2019, 09:55:58 AM »

There were several of the astronauts there fo meet and greet

vixmom · « **Reply #63 on:** July 21, 2019, 09:57:49 AM »

They also had a fancy gala dinner at night and I bought tickets to it as Vixdad's birthday gift

vixmom · « **Reply #64 on:** July 21, 2019, 09:58:00 AM »

His birthday is tomorrow

vixmom · « **Reply #65 on:** July 21, 2019, 10:00:10 AM »

It was a tremendous amount of fun , 69's music and the food was a recreation of the dinner served at the White House for the astronauts when they returned from the moon

vixmom · « **Reply #66 on:** July 21, 2019, 10:00:43 AM »

Salmon, filet mignon, mashed potatoes and roasted root vegetables

vixmom · « **Reply #67 on:** July 21, 2019, 10:02:16 AM »

The dessert, though, was the chefs own creation...

vixmom · « **Reply #68 on:** July 21, 2019, 10:04:04 AM »

Yes, that's a moon pie, with mint chocolate chip ice cream, fresh fruit (strawberries and blackberries)' a chocolate rocket and chocolate curl

vixmom · « **Reply #69 on:** July 21, 2019, 10:04:14 AM »

It was delicious

vixmom · « **Reply #70 on:** July 21, 2019, 10:05:05 AM »

The young couple sitting to our right were visiting from Sweden and I had to explain the moon pie joke to them

vixmom · « **Reply #71 on:** July 21, 2019, 10:07:36 AM »

Another picture from last night

FJL · « **Reply #72 on:** July 21, 2019, 10:08:42 AM »

I still like Skip's uptempo number for the gargoyles, which were sung by Charles Kimbrough, Jason Alexander who both had also done the movie theater film, and Jane Withers had taken over the late Mary Wickes' part. Since they decided Jane Withers couldn't sing this particular number to effectively match the two guys they asked our neighbor Mary Jay - who had done the "demo" of the song here in our building basically as a low-pay favor for Skip - if they could use her take right off the demo, and she thought about it for less than one-millionth of a second

and said of course.

Tom Hulce as Quasi falls in love with Jennifer Love Hewett
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG8Hdw6b4dU&t=5s

FJL · « **Reply #73 on:** July 21, 2019, 10:09:44 AM »

Mary Jay still gets checks even 17 years later, though some years it's $4 or $5 unless they do a push - like one year they made the only way to buy Hunchback 1 to buy both 1 and 2 as a package. There are always little kids reaching age 3 or 4, and strangely while the real movie #1 is skewed much older, the video sequels still aimed then (2002 I think) for pre-school where parents can park the kids in front of the screen without worry. They started with a great script for the sequel that aimed for the age as the first film - but then got a better understanding of the video-sequel market before this sequel got released.

FJL · « **Reply #74 on:** July 21, 2019, 10:10:39 AM »

The very over-simplified sequel for age 3 or 4 still won a couple of awards like the DVD Premiere Award, but too bad that original script for the sequel pretty much disappears.

A funny thing is the animation is of course much much dirt-cheaper on direct-to-video, but I never understood why the crowd scenes even seemed less populated. it wasn't like they were actually paying real people to be in those cartoon crowds.

FJL · « **Reply #75 on:** July 21, 2019, 10:14:13 AM »

Love reading that, vixmom.

Vixdad reminds me there of someone who could be Jrand's relative, which I mean as a compliment to both of them.

FJL · « **Reply #76 on:** July 21, 2019, 10:16:00 AM »

Quote from: vixmom on July 21, 2019, 10:00:10 AM

It was a tremendous amount of fun , 69's music and the food was a recreation of the dinner served at the White House for the astronauts when they returned from the moon

I love the idea of 69's music. Given how often Barry Manilow was said to have played at bathhouses - I mean, when he was accompanying Bette Midler...

FJL · « **Reply #77 on:** July 21, 2019, 10:16:43 AM »

Maybe I shouldn't finish that sentence. (an "A Little Night Music" near-reference)

FJL · « **Reply #78 on:** July 21, 2019, 10:22:59 AM »

As our music director in school would say, that's suggestive or innuendo like " If Baby I'm the bottom, you're the top" is innuendo. He would say something like "Suggestive. That's more like a statement."

And since he was a younger college student and we were older grad students, no one found him saying that anything but funny and adorable.

FJL · « **Reply #79 on:** July 21, 2019, 10:23:39 AM »

Not enough energy to get to page 4!!!

Jane · « **Reply #80 on:** July 21, 2019, 11:10:23 AM »

Quote from: FJL on July 21, 2019, 09:44:20 AM

I've posted before that Skip had written the love ballad for Quasimodo in the Disney sequel, and Skip has decided not to listen to the foreign language versions of this ballad, although he has listened to some of the foreign versions of the funny number he wrote for the gargoyles Victor, Hugo and Laverne. (He wrote 3 of the 5 songs.)

The singing is always more technically sung than Tom Hulce's in English, but in some languages it's been singerly, if that's a word. Often, it seems there's different speaking Quasi and singing Quasi. This Italian one seems like a good balance between singer and the character.
The "HUNCHBACK PART 2" love ballad in Italian.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkgyrwPXpUM

That's beautiful.

Jane · « **Reply #81 on:** July 21, 2019, 11:11:15 AM »

Quote from: vixmom on July 21, 2019, 10:04:04 AM

Yes, that's a moon pie, with mint chocolate chip ice cream, fresh fruit (strawberries and blackberries)' a chocolate rocket and chocolate curl

Very clever & it looks delicious.

Jane · « **Reply #82 on:** July 21, 2019, 11:11:28 AM »

Quote from: vixmom on July 21, 2019, 10:05:05 AM

The young couple sitting to our right were visiting from Sweden and I had to explain the moon pie joke to them

Jane · « **Reply #83 on:** July 21, 2019, 11:12:43 AM »

DR Vixmom thanks for the great photo of you both from the fun event.

Jane · « **Reply #84 on:** July 21, 2019, 11:12:58 AM »

HAPPY EARLY BIRTHDAY TO VIXDAD!

bk · « **Reply #85 on:** July 21, 2019, 12:36:01 PM »

I'm up, I'm up - a bit over seven hours of sleep. I fell asleep around three-fifteen, woke up at six, went back to bed at eight.

bk · « **Reply #86 on:** July 21, 2019, 12:37:28 PM »

Any director who would make a curtain speech like that is an idiot of the highest calibre and should never be allowed near any theater. I've seen some doozy pre-curtain speeches by idiot directors, trying to pump up the audience - I find it disgusting.

George · « **Reply #87 on:** July 21, 2019, 12:46:21 PM »

Quote from: Jrand68 on July 21, 2019, 07:03:42 AM

Well SEND ME NO FLOWERS is done.

We had a sold out audience....including some repeat viewers. The cast was very UP and ready for a wonderful closing night.

And then.....and then....and then.....

For some reason, our genius director decided in his curtain speech to instruct the audience that they were to behave as if they were watching an old fashioned melodrama....to applaud all of our entrances....to boo and hiss if they didn't like something....and otherwise interact with us.....

Which completely confused the audience and killed all of our laughs....we played to a comparatively QUIET house. Things that had gotten HUGE laughs the previous six performances got NO response....it was sad, frustrating, and confusing....

Add to that - the woman who QUIT the show who fancies herself the person to "get the audience going" continued to laugh her LOUD ANNOYING LONG laugh - which of course shut the audience down even more....

As I said....it was a sad ending to what should have been a triumph.

Yikes!! I just can't imagine someone doing something like that! I can imagine it being part of a director's overall concept and doing it at the begining of the run, and then finding out that it's a stupid idea, but not at the end out of nowhere! Jrand, I'm so sorry for you and your cast.

George · « **Reply #88 on:** July 21, 2019, 12:56:56 PM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on July 21, 2019, 08:30:39 AM

I did not know this even existed until recently. I played it for the first time this morning and really liked it. I may have to read Victor Hugo's novel now.

I have that particular recording and really like it. However, I have and LOVE the original 1999 German cast recording. The newer recording is the official English language version, but this German recording is, I think, a better version of the score. Just my my 2¢.

George · « **Reply #89 on:** July 21, 2019, 12:58:17 PM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on July 21, 2019, 08:55:03 AM

Quote from: Jrand68 on July 21, 2019, 08:40:20 AM
I have avoided that particular Disney-fied movie since they made the Hunchback a lovable little imp....but maybe it has its moments.

The musical version differs from the animated cartoon, which I avoided, and follows the novel: Esmerelda dies and there is no happy ending. This recording is essentially the Papermill cast recording.

Yes! And so there can't be a stage version of Hunchhback: The Musical II.

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