Topic: NO NOTES TODAY - OOPS, APRIL FOOL'S! (Read 31046 times)

bk · « **Reply #60 on:** April 01, 2005, 09:17:40 AM »

I suspect the Abner film was very reasonably budgeted. The entire film was shot on the soundstage without even one exterior shot of Washington.

bk · « **Reply #61 on:** April 01, 2005, 09:19:02 AM »

Holy moley on rye - page three!

TITULAR! (for those who obviously have forgotten we HAVE a word of the day - and a fine one at that).

In fact, I'll say it again - TITULAR

Rodzinski · « **Reply #62 on:** April 01, 2005, 09:22:57 AM »

Because I got the Broadway ABNER soundtrack first, I am way partial to it. That's often the way it works. The thing you get first...

Funny, JMK, a coworker is wearing a Pat Matheny shirt today. Pat was just in town.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #63 on:** April 01, 2005, 09:31:26 AM »

Quote from: Matt H. on April 01, 2005, 08:33:27 AM

But (and we had this discussion some weeks ago), the orchestra on this soundtrack album is not the orchestra that we hear when watching the film.

I'm certain that on the day I die, the entire cache of everything ever written here by everyone who ever posted here will flare up into focus with brilliant clarity as my life passes before my eyes.

Until then, my 56-year-old brain cells -- all on their own, mind you -- determine what I recall and what I don't.

R

bk · « **Reply #64 on:** April 01, 2005, 09:31:38 AM »

The Broadway Abner, darling, is a cast album, not a soundtrack. It's the pedant in me. I heard the film soundtrack first, and could never quite get used to the quite different-sounding cast album, but I've grown to adore it over the years.

WEHT ozderek? They come, they go, like Grand Hotel.

vixmom · « **Reply #65 on:** April 01, 2005, 09:36:01 AM »

Quote from: JMK on April 01, 2005, 08:52:29 AM

I shall be E&T today since I am one of the parent chaperones at Field Trip Day to the Zoo. Oy.

Ginny, we're watching the doc on Easter Parade, too!

I've been on a Pat Metheny kick all week, but played the great Celtic fusion band Lunasa this morning. (My good friend and occasional recording partner, celebrated Downbeat critics' poll winner jazz guitarist John Stowell, once cracked me up when he said, "In the world of jazz guitar there's Pat Metheny and everyone else". Perhaps BK's close personal friend Grant Geissman can relate).

Have a wonderful day at the zoo!! I always loved being a field trip chaperone

vixmom · « **Reply #66 on:** April 01, 2005, 09:50:33 AM »

I know it's not dance time, but darn it , I just feel like having a dance! (the vibes and the zithromax have been working... this is the first day I've felt good all week)

Rodzinski · « **Reply #67 on:** April 01, 2005, 09:53:55 AM »

Cast album, of course, you stickler you.

I prefer the B'Way "I'm Past My Prime", though it could be surpassed someday...

Also, do I have a bad pressing, or does Edie hit a clunker during "Love in a Home"?

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #68 on:** April 01, 2005, 09:54:06 AM »

Quote from: vixmom on April 01, 2005, 09:50:33 AM

I know it's not dance time, but darn it , I just feel like having a dance! (the vibes and the zithromax have been working... this is the first day I've felt good all week)

;D;D;D;D;D

bk · « **Reply #69 on:** April 01, 2005, 10:02:08 AM »

Edie hits a clunker. In those days it was much more difficult to do fixes without redoing the entire track with the orchestra.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #70 on:** April 01, 2005, 10:06:16 AM »

I was just reading Playbill.com's Week in Review Column, and the first paragraph made me giggle.

-The bolding and italicizing are mine:

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Life on the Rialto will never be dull, it seems, as long as Barry Weissler remains in the business. Over the past week, in a series of quick changes destined to rest in theatre history alongside the showiest shenanigans of David Merrick, Weissler pulled the plug of the New York-bound revival of Sweet Charity, leaving it stranded in Boston, and then, a few days later, just as suddenly, flicked the Broadway marquee on again. It took a day for busboys to sweep up the dropped martini glasses at Angus McIndoe.[/i]

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http://www.playbill.com/news/article/92073.html

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #71 on:** April 01, 2005, 10:07:50 AM »

OK - I need to get some food. And I will try my best to have something NOT fried.

Laters...

bk · « **Reply #72 on:** April 01, 2005, 10:14:56 AM »

TITULAR!

I will soon be making tracks to hear tracks at Mr. Grant Geissman, after which I shall be on my way to the Hills of Beverly for the auction. Keep the home fries burning until my returning, you dear, dear people out there in the dark.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #73 on:** April 01, 2005, 10:23:33 AM »

Happy Birthday(s) to VinTek & brucedow!

Chooster has chosen to return! LOL....can't type, though!

Jrand74 · « **Reply #74 on:** April 01, 2005, 10:24:46 AM »

The auction sounds muy interesante, MR BK! Good luck with the Jack Benny items.

DR vixmom - even though EBAY frowns on it. If you happen to win two of the elusive covers - check the emails of others who bid on it, contact them and see if you can make a deal.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #75 on:** April 01, 2005, 10:26:17 AM »

Last night when Lesley Stahl started mentioning previous projects of Mr Sondheim and Mr Lapine including "In the Woods" (she was corrected by Mr Sondheim) - I knew she was reading something that had been written by someone who wasn't MUCH smarter than she was.

Cerveris was my favorite part of the show. LuPone was scary looking and Audra was her own sweet self.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #76 on:** April 01, 2005, 10:28:05 AM »

New book title and subject? Haven't seen it yet. Or is this one of those April Fish things?

Thanks for the Li'l Abner review. Ah yes, Carmen Alvarez. And I LOVE LOVE LOVE the songs and dances. I have the MONO soundtrack, which I enjoy so much. Don't have the cast album, yet.

Thanks for the vibes DR RODZINSKI. Yes the job I applied for is "closing" today, so hopefully an interview and hiring will follow.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #77 on:** April 01, 2005, 10:30:11 AM »

Media Check

DVD: The Company un film de Robert Altman

VHS: Dark Shadows Volume 22 - Barnabas and Julia Hoffman have just killed David Woodard because he found Julia's notes about her treating Barnabas to cure his "vampirism." Willlie is still in the asylum and Burke Devlin is about to leave for South America.

CD: Music! Music! Music! The Best of Teresa Brewer!

George · « **Reply #78 on:** April 01, 2005, 10:32:35 AM »

Quote from: DERBRUCER on April 01, 2005, 03:56:26 AM

NEW LIVING WILL FOR JOHN DOE

I've got mine signed and notarized!

Ben · « **Reply #79 on:** April 01, 2005, 10:32:57 AM »

No April Fool here, I'm listening to the OBC of Sweet Charity with Miss Gwen Verdon.

George · « **Reply #80 on:** April 01, 2005, 10:37:22 AM »

Quote from: Jennifer on April 01, 2005, 07:47:04 AM

I watched part of last night's PASSION and also have a few comments. I think Patti (Lupone) sang the song beautifully, and acted the part wonderfully. But did anybody else think that she was just too old to play this part? I really like her, but she must be 55+, and to me Fosca should be in her 30s at most. It just seemed weird to me to see Georgia who looked 30s and Patti (who was uglied up to look even older) looked SO much older.

But what I saw was still very good. And I think the acting was wonderful.

I can overlook that, mainly because, well...I love Patti! Also, it was a limited-run concert version. They can do more "non-traditional" casting for those sorts of projects, in my humble opinion (IMHO in Internet lingo).

elmore3003 · « **Reply #81 on:** April 01, 2005, 10:43:09 AM »

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Charles Pogue · « **Reply #82 on:** April 01, 2005, 10:49:26 AM »

Der Brucer, Love your Living Will! I must pass it around!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #83 on:** April 01, 2005, 10:52:06 AM »

well, it turns out I did have the day off from B&N, so now I'm home, all dressed up and no place to go. I'll see what's piled on my desk and get to work.

Since PASSION is the only Sondheim show in which I wish the score was by Andrew Lloyd Webber, I'm neither watching nor caring about the broadcast.
It's nice to know people I admire, like Lupone, and love, like George Dvorsky, are working. I've totally missed the boat on both PASSION and INTO THE WOODS, sorry to say.

I'm not sorry to say, however, that I am jealous, jealous, jealous that my Dear Friend BK has the DVD of LI'L ABNER and I have 18 damned days to wait! This is one DVD I've been waiting a long time for!

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #84 on:** April 01, 2005, 11:02:41 AM »

Quote from: Charles Pogue on April 01, 2005, 10:49:26 AM

Der Brucer, Love your Living Will! I must pass it around!

Be my guest. I confess it isn't "mine"; it was Emailed to me by a Democrat friend without attribution.

der plagiarizing Brucer

vixmom · « **Reply #85 on:** April 01, 2005, 11:03:15 AM »

Quote from: JRand54 on April 01, 2005, 10:24:46 AM

The auction sounds muy interesante, MR BK! Good luck with the Jack Benny items.

DR vixmom - even though EBAY frowns on it. If you happen to win two of the elusive covers - check the emails of others who bid on it, contact them and see if you can make a deal.

Ah, therein lies the rub, apparently I am the only person in the US of A who has actually been trying to buy one!!

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #86 on:** April 01, 2005, 11:04:21 AM »

Quote from: bk on April 01, 2005, 09:19:02 AM

Holy moley on rye - page three!

TITULAR! (for those who obviously have forgotten we HAVE a word of the day - and a fine one at that).

In fact, I'll say it again - TITULAR

As Woody whispered to me:

At mammaries you look, at titsular.

der Brucer

vixmom · « **Reply #87 on:** April 01, 2005, 11:06:45 AM »

[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]~~~GOOD JOB VIBES TO JRAND!!!~~~[/move]

George · « **Reply #88 on:** April 01, 2005, 11:07:52 AM »

Quote from: bk on April 01, 2005, 09:31:38 AM

WEHT ozderek? They come, they go, like Grand Hotel.

WEHT Dan-in-Toronto AND Dan (the-Man)?? That's what I want to know! $:-\$

vixmom · « **Reply #89 on:** April 01, 2005, 11:15:08 AM »

Quote from: JoseSPiano on April 01, 2005, 10:07:50 AM

OK - I need to get some food. And I will try my best to have something NOT fried.

Laters...

cheese and crackers is always nice!

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