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THE ROSALIE STORY
« on: June 22, 2020, 12:05:08 AM »

Well, you've read the notes, the notes told the Rosalie story, and now it is time for you to post until the storied cows come home.
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« Reply #1 on: June 22, 2020, 12:07:24 AM »

And the word of the day is: VIRTUOSO!
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« Reply #2 on: June 22, 2020, 12:52:39 AM »

Topic of the Day:  I don't know what was the actual first musical that I saw, but one of the earliest was the the national tour of the operetta The Pirates of Penzance at Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre in 1981 or 1982.  The whole family went.  It starred Peter Noone of the Herman's Hermits (my sister and I knew about THH because our parents had an album of British rock groups and they were on it) as Frederic; and Jim Belushi (who, at that time, was only known as John Belushi's younger brother) as The Pirate King.
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« Reply #3 on: June 22, 2020, 12:53:19 AM »

And now, I'm off to bed.  Today, I go back to work and will need to start invoicing because the bills have to be paid.

Have a good day, all!
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« Reply #4 on: June 22, 2020, 04:08:35 AM »

Good morning, all!
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« Reply #5 on: June 22, 2020, 04:15:39 AM »

The omens are not good for today.  So far, everything I'ver touched has turned to crap.  The last was my cup of coffee.  I sat down, started to take a drink and found a dead roach floating in it  Before that, one of the plugs connecting the TV, DVD player, VCR, and cable box came loose and I had to repair that while three cats clamored for food.  Then I checked my unemployment status from last night to see it did not go through due to a computer screw up at the NY Dept. of Labor last night.

I must leave a message for my super about the latest toilet leak - I think I need a new one - since my doctor appointment now will take up a great part of the morning.  On top of that every joint in my knees, hips and shoulder are killing me, I can barely walk, and all I want to do is clear things for a safe exit to the doctor at 9:00.
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« Reply #6 on: June 22, 2020, 04:17:51 AM »

I will also be glad when these visiting nurse and physical therapist sessions end.  They call and cancel, or they're late, or they call and I cancel.  Both are good ladies, but . . .
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« Reply #7 on: June 22, 2020, 04:19:06 AM »

DR TCB, I understand your wish to keep working, but you are rehearsing under very strange circumstances.
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« Reply #8 on: June 22, 2020, 04:23:13 AM »

The visiting nurse just called at 7:20! Can I come today between noon and 2:00? That means if I'm lucky, she'll be here by 3:00.  I said no.
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« Reply #9 on: June 22, 2020, 04:28:20 AM »

My first musical was a junior high school production of Kurt Weill's Knickerbocker Holiday, a show I still love and find pertinent. My next musical after that were high school South Pacific, and my first professional musical was either the national tour of The Sound of Music or Camelot with Louis Hayward, Katherine Grayson, who called out sick at my performance - she missed a lot of them, I hear - and Arthur Treacher.
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« Reply #10 on: June 22, 2020, 04:33:11 AM »

Good morning.
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« Reply #11 on: June 22, 2020, 05:04:33 AM »

T.O.D.

The first musical I ever saw was OKLAHOMA!. 
It was the 2nd-3rd road company; played Seattle in the early 1950s.
I was, probably, around 10-12.  Don't recall any of the cast.

That was the 2nd professional play I saw.

The first was HARVEY with Joe E. Brown, and I still have memories of that.  I was 5 years old.
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« Reply #12 on: June 22, 2020, 05:12:04 AM »

When I was in my mid-teens, I'd go by myself to Saturday matinee performances of various plays and musicals:

DAMN YAKNEES with Bobby Clark
BYE, BYE BIRDIE with Bill Hayes
THE MUSIC MAN with Forest Tucker and Joan Welson
THE CAINE MUTINY COURT-MARTIAL with Paul Douglas, Wendell Corey, Steve Brodie and Robert Lowery
THE DESPERATE HOURS with William Gargan, Richael Jaeckel and Nancy Colman
THE ANDERSONVILLE TRIAL with Brian Donlevy

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« Reply #13 on: June 22, 2020, 05:25:46 AM »

Good morning, all.
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« Reply #14 on: June 22, 2020, 05:28:31 AM »

I'm printing out DR Elmore's morning omens post and putting it on the fridge as a cautionary tale.   :)
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« Reply #15 on: June 22, 2020, 05:29:05 AM »

May the day improve soon!
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« Reply #16 on: June 22, 2020, 05:29:42 AM »

Fast AC replacement vibes for DR Laura!
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« Reply #17 on: June 22, 2020, 05:37:10 AM »

And I just spent the last ten minutes looking for my glasses!  They had fallen off the table and got tangled in the mouse cable.  The omens continue ill.

I hope I neither die, fall down in the street, nor have an ordeal looking for taxis this morning.  I really do not want to make the trip to my surgeon, but there's a problem, and so out I must go.
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« Reply #18 on: June 22, 2020, 05:44:10 AM »

Best vibes for a quick and easy visit there, DR Elmore.
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« Reply #19 on: June 22, 2020, 05:50:13 AM »

As Sweet Sue said: Each and every girl in my band is a VIRTUOSO, and I mean to keep it that way......
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« Reply #20 on: June 22, 2020, 05:50:23 AM »

Finding a flight vibes for DR JANE.
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« Reply #21 on: June 22, 2020, 05:50:36 AM »

Getting a cab vibes for DR ELMORE.
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« Reply #22 on: June 22, 2020, 05:50:56 AM »

AC vibes for DR LAURA.
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« Reply #23 on: June 22, 2020, 05:51:12 AM »

No more Popeye's vibes for MR BK aka Murf.
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« Reply #24 on: June 22, 2020, 05:52:14 AM »

Later today we will tape the final FIVE interviews of the season....  I am supposed to get three edited interviews today, but the links have yet to arrive.....although they have allegedly been sent....
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« Reply #25 on: June 22, 2020, 05:54:45 AM »

Finding a flight vibes for DR JANE.

Thank you.
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« Reply #26 on: June 22, 2020, 06:00:55 AM »

First exposure to a musical at all:  My uncle playing his original cast album of The Music Man. I was very taken with the music, even though I didn't have the slightest idea what was going on, AND with his record player which seemed so much nicer than the one we had at that time. I wouldn't know anything more about the show itself until we saw the movie on its opening night, three or four years later.

First time seeing a musical:  The movie South Pacific, seen at a drive-in in Columbus. Blew me away. NOW I understood what a "musical" was, how songs worked in them, etc. That film holds a special magic for me to this day.

First time seeing one on stage:  South Pacific again, a year later when we had just moved to Fort Lauderdale, some local group doing it in the cavernous War Memorial Auditorium. (I still have the program.) The performance could have been execrable for all I know, but I was in heaven.

First cast album of a musical:  Yep, South Pacific. But not a real cast album, just some second- or third-rate thing with no names on it. But I wore that thing down to nothing. It would be another year or so before we joined the Columbia Record Club and I insisted we get the actual Broadway cast album. Now I knew what was "real" and what wasn't, and I was hooked for life.
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« Reply #27 on: June 22, 2020, 06:05:57 AM »

I think I'll pass on having any chicken sandwiches today.
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« Reply #28 on: June 22, 2020, 07:12:45 AM »

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« Reply #29 on: June 22, 2020, 07:12:58 AM »

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