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[elmore3003]

I also have to be looking at this damned WILLY WONKA score so I can play my keyboard part with the orchestra at a rehearsal next week.

I say "damned" only because I don't know it yet, and I just haven't been in the mood to jump in. But the show, or this version of it, is based on the Gene Wilder movie with the Bricusse-Newley score, so it should be fun once I do get into it. It was just never one of those things I glommed on to in years past, so it's basically new to me.

I have never seen Willie Wonka, no urge.

[elmore3003]

My neighbor Judy just stopped by.  She's finally home from four weeks in Dallas, sleeping in the hospital room with her husband Mark, who is now in St. Luke's hospital on West 58th Street for treatment of ADEM.  She looked completely whipped buit happy to finally be home.

[ChasSmith]

I also have to be looking at this damned WILLY WONKA score so I can play my keyboard part with the orchestra at a rehearsal next week.

I say "damned" only because I don't know it yet, and I just haven't been in the mood to jump in. But the show, or this version of it, is based on the Gene Wilder movie with the Bricusse-Newley score, so it should be fun once I do get into it. It was just never one of those things I glommed on to in years past, so it's basically new to me.

I have never seen Willie Wonka, no urge.

Then I'm happy to not be alone in my lackadaisical response to the subject. I love a lot of Roald Dahl, but for me, this has always seemed like one of those things "everybody" likes and that you're "supposed" to like, and my own response is 'meh'.

[Ginny]

Saturday morning greetings!  Today I'm expecting a visit from a DAR friend and then Richard and I are going out for a belated Valentine's Day dinner.  Looking forward to getting out of the house a bit.

[bk]

I'm up, I'm up - six hours of sleep and now on my way for a light breakfast.

[George]

Yesterday at the sitzprobe I had a nice visit with Paul Katz, whose show Tales of Tinseltown I scored for its initial 1985(?) workshop and a later production in San Diego's Gaslamp Quarter Theatre.  Our last project was around 1989, an aborted production by Michael Butler (producer of Hair) a Chicago musical, Pope Joan.

My friend Don Oliver is a wonderful composer who edited a collection of the best revue sketches around 1980.  When I met Don around 1980, he was working as a copyist for Mathilde Pincus' Chelsea Music Service and now he is Chelsea Music Service. 

I man on the far left is producer Jeffrey Lesser, whom I had never met before.  He works with Paul.   So here we are on break, Jeffrey, Paul, Don, and decrepit me.

Nice picture, Larry.

[George]

Topic of the Day...how I spent my Valentine's Day:  I went to my parents' house and with Larry's (my sister's boyfriend) help, moved a computer hutch, a plastic chair pad, and an area rug out of my dad's library/TV room.  Then, we had to take off a couple of doors to move a desk from my parents' bedroom into my dad's library/TV room.  Then, we had to put the doors back on.  The removed hutch was taken outside and my mom put a FREE sign on it, just in case someone wanted a free hutch.  After the room was mostly cleaned out, Larry and I had to go pick up the new recliner that my mom bought my dad.  We were able to get it into his Honda CRV and into the house and set up.  My dad really liked it.

That's what I did yesterday.

That was a very nice Valentine's gift from both of you.

Thanks, Jane.

[George]

Today, my only plans are to ketchup on some TV watching, copy for a co-worker a Blu-ray that I've already made, go to my parents' and switch a couple of clocks from one room to another, go to the show tonight, then go to the director's house for a cast pary.  It'll be a kind of lazy (for the most part) but long day.

[Laura]

Good afternoon.

[Laura]

TOD: I have had the same Valentine for the past 40 years. We did the same thing we do every Valentine's Day.

[Jane]

I would love to change my avatar and do what DR Laura has done.  I have unfortunately been forbidden to put any photos on line.  Instead, here is a photo of the Norse Goddess driving her cat pulled chariot.

[elmore3003]

Taxes are going faster than I expected, so there must be a glitch coming down the pike.

[Jane]

My neighbor Judy just stopped by.  She's finally home from four weeks in Dallas, sleeping in the hospital room with her husband Mark, who is now in St. Luke's hospital on West 58th Street for treatment of ADEM.  She looked completely whipped buit happy to finally be home.

I am glad she is finally home where it will be easier for her.

[Jane]

TOD: I have had the same Valentine for the past 40 years. We did the same thing we do every Valentine's Day.

I like that.

[Jane]

Once Keith stopped traveling and we were together we sort of stopped celebrating the holiday.  Now it will be a different celebration every year.

[Jane]

When we decided not to go out to dinner last night we must have somehow known we wanted to be home for the video chat with our granddaughter

[elmore3003]

I just realized that today is the 13th anniversary of my dad's death.  I still miss him.

[elmore3003]

I missed reporting the 11th anniversary of John McGlinn's death yesterday.

[Ginny]

I would love to change my avatar and do what DR Laura has done.  I have unfortunately been forbidden to put any photos on line.  Instead, here is a photo of the Norse Goddess driving her cat pulled chariot.

DR Jane, I suspect I’m going to be under the same restrictions regarding photos.

[Ginny]

I just realized that today is the 13th anniversary of my dad's death.  I still miss him.

{{{{{Hugs}}}}}

I remember that time like it was yesterday.  Richard was in Wisconsin and the weather here was quite snowy.

[John G.]

I just realized that today is the 13th anniversary of my dad's death.  I still miss him.

Hugs, Elmore.

[John G.]

Ushering for the ballet’s Romeo & Juliet. Waiting for act 3. They only have to die and we can go home.

[John G.]

I made a no-bake coconut cream pie this morning. Can hardly wait to have a slice.

[FJL]

Larry, that's a great photo.

We have a photo somewhere of Skip with Paul Katz that seems to be from the 1980s. 

[FJL]

I missed reporting the 11th anniversary of John McGlinn's death yesterday.

That really was a lovely tribute you write to him on castrecl.

[George]

Once Keith stopped traveling and we were together we sort of stopped celebrating the holiday.  Now it will be a different celebration every year.

Margo's daughter Alexis' birthday was yesterday.  She has the same different celebration, and has for the last 33 years.

[George]

I just realized that today is the 13th anniversary of my dad's death.  I still miss him.

{{{More Hugs!!}}}

[George]

I missed reporting the 11th anniversary of John McGlinn's death yesterday.

If I had been at work, I could've listened to any number of his recordings.  I have the McGlinn Broadway Musicals box set.

[George]

Well, I need to get out of bed and do some stuff.

[George]

I first need to shower and get dressed, then I need to go to my sisters and meet their new cat and get some hollow wall mounts from my sister, then hie myself to my parents' house with said hollow wall mounts to rehang a couple of clocks for my mom.