Topic: OPERETTA (Read 4836 times)

Jrand73 · « **Reply #30 on:** June 23, 2020, 06:57:24 AM »

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Jrand73 · « **Reply #31 on:** June 23, 2020, 06:58:06 AM »

There is a perfectly modern operetta I love - it's about a lady astronomer......

ChasSmith · « **Reply #32 on:** June 23, 2020, 06:59:39 AM »

I haven't been out for a few days but I've just been given a heads up that gas prices have continued to shoot up in the past week. The website GasBuddy is reporting an average of $2.05 this morning at the more affordable gas stations around Danbury. They don't report on Costco and BJ's (at least not that I've seen), but they're probably around that -- which is a 40-cent increase from where it held all during the lockdown.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #33 on:** June 23, 2020, 07:01:02 AM »

Quote from: Jrand69 on June 23, 2020, 06:57:15 AM

Hurray for DR LAURA's AC!

Yes indeed!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #34 on:** June 23, 2020, 07:01:05 AM »

Quote from: ChasSmith on June 23, 2020, 06:39:20 AM

I logged back in, then lost internet for a few minutes. Back now.

I was actually going to ask where you "draw the line" between operetta and musicals, and that is most enlightening. For instance, I'd never given any thought in that respect to something as late as The Sound of Music.

Rodgers, like Alan Jay Lerner, had a penchant for operetta: Dearest Enemy, Chee-Chee, Oklahoma!, Carousel, Allegro, South Pacific, The King & I, The Sound of Music. It's a piece like The Most Happy Fella that confuses me, since it bursts with music that makes me want to call it an operetta but I feel it's really an over-abundant musical. Oscar Hammerstein might consider it a "musical play," and that's his code word for operetta.
I always suspected that Bernstein considered Candide a comic operetta because of the demands of the score - musical theatre sopranos never need the ability to sing "Glitter and Be Gay" - and Sondheim realized that A Little Night Music needed a bit of vocal heft, although he shies away from calling Sweeney Todd an opera, which I believe it is.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #35 on:** June 23, 2020, 07:01:26 AM »

You really lucked out with that repair, DR Laura.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #36 on:** June 23, 2020, 07:01:37 AM »

I love operettas!!!

Some of my favorites - in no particular order:

HMS PINAFORE

IM WEISSEN ROSSL - The White Horse Inn

BITTER SWEET & MAYTIME - especially as performed by Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy

CANDIDE

KISS ME KATE

THE STUDENT PRINCE

elmore3003 · « **Reply #37 on:** June 23, 2020, 07:01:42 AM »

Quote from: Jrand69 on June 23, 2020, 06:57:03 AM

Usually in October I take the time to FRATERNIZE the car.

A frightening thought!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #38 on:** June 23, 2020, 07:02:09 AM »

Quote from: Jrand69 on June 23, 2020, 06:58:06 AM

There is a perfectly modern operetta I love - it's about a lady astronomer......

"The Man in the Moon is a lady . . . "

Jrand73 · « **Reply #39 on:** June 23, 2020, 07:02:15 AM »

I will await some other lists that I am sure will give me titles I am not thinking of right now.

I have never gotten all the way through THE RAIN PEOPLE......

elmore3003 · « **Reply #40 on:** June 23, 2020, 07:02:55 AM »

Nap time!

Jrand73 · « **Reply #41 on:** June 23, 2020, 07:03:27 AM »

LOL DR ELMORE -- twice.....

Jrand73 · « **Reply #42 on:** June 23, 2020, 07:03:56 AM »

I enjoy most of Mr Coppola's movies.....I'm not sure I have a favorite....

Jrand73 · « **Reply #43 on:** June 23, 2020, 07:06:00 AM »

Well we now have all 16 episodes in the can - if you'll pardon the expression.

Dustin is working on Post Production.....the second episode went up today. There are three from the first day that don't look or sound as good as the later episodes.....so we'll hope folks stick with us as we improve.....

Nightly at 7 p.m. on the local cable channel - I'm sure I will be recognized if I go into the local emporiums in town.....

Jrand73 · « **Reply #44 on:** June 23, 2020, 07:06:43 AM »

We taped all 16 in just four production days.....actually 18, since we redid two of the ones from the first day.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #45 on:** June 23, 2020, 07:38:56 AM »

Quote from: Jrand69 on June 23, 2020, 07:06:43 AM

We taped all 16 in just four production days.....actually 18, since we redid two of the ones from the first day.

Wow. Roger Corman would be proud!

ChasSmith · « **Reply #46 on:** June 23, 2020, 08:06:02 AM »

Quote from: ChasSmith on June 23, 2020, 06:59:39 AM

I haven't been out for a few days but I've just been given a heads up that gas prices have continued to shoot up in the past week. The website GasBuddy is reporting an average of $2.05 this morning at the more affordable gas stations around Danbury. They don't report on Costco and BJ's (at least not that I've seen), but they're probably around that -- which is a 40-cent increase from where it held all during the lockdown.

Because I know you were biting your nails in suspense! -- The Costco/BJs price today is $1.94.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #47 on:** June 23, 2020, 08:32:30 AM »

Well I don't know how I forgot the FIRST operetta I ever saw when I was about 5 years old.....it is still one of my favorites. "The Pleasant Peasant" by Lucy Friml and Ethel Romberg.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #48 on:** June 23, 2020, 08:54:31 AM »

thanks for gas report from the East Coast DR CHAS SMITH....it is holding at $2.09 here in the middle west.

Jane · « **Reply #49 on:** June 23, 2020, 09:05:32 AM »

Quote from: Druxy on June 23, 2020, 05:27:11 AM

Also from Yesterday:

Jane:

I don't listen to books or plays on audio either.

I used to have several plays on LP: WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF, DEATH OF A SALESMAN...

I'd listen to them once, then they'd sit on the shelf.

However, back when I had a 45-60 minute drive to-and-from work every day, I did listen to audio books in the car. Got them from the library.

I think that that's a major audience for audio books.

I know people who listen to books while they walk or clean house.

Laura · « **Reply #50 on:** June 23, 2020, 10:17:18 AM »

Good morning.

Laura · « **Reply #51 on:** June 23, 2020, 10:17:34 AM »

I know we lucked out with the AC repair!

Laura · « **Reply #52 on:** June 23, 2020, 10:19:44 AM »

While I was out picking up my daughter from work, my DH finished up the AC transaction. He bought some prepaid contract. It was applied to our total, and it gets us first on the list in case of a breakdown. Also, it gives us a nice discount on replacing the unit, which we are going to do this fall/winter -- when they aren't so busy.

Laura · « **Reply #53 on:** June 23, 2020, 10:21:07 AM »

Last night when we video-chatted with the son and family, GS was watching Peppa Pig. It was an exciting episode, apparently. The pumpkin that was growing in the greenhouse was too big to get out of the greenhouse.

Laura · « **Reply #54 on:** June 23, 2020, 10:21:22 AM »

Thus, his first sentence:

Laura · « **Reply #55 on:** June 23, 2020, 10:22:33 AM »

"Bumkee is duck."

Laura · « **Reply #56 on:** June 23, 2020, 10:22:54 AM »

(Pumpkin is stuck.)

Laura · « **Reply #57 on:** June 23, 2020, 10:24:29 AM »

Boy, such exciting grandchild stories.

Laura · « **Reply #58 on:** June 23, 2020, 10:24:45 AM »

Soon Jane and Ginny will be telling some as well.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #59 on:** June 23, 2020, 10:32:32 AM »

Great story DR LAURA.

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