Topic: MEATLESS NOTES (Read 3978 times)

bk · « **on:** July 15, 2020, 12:14:21 AM »

Well, you've read the notes, the notes had meat and were also meatless, and now it is time for you to post until the beyond impossible cows come home.

bk · « **Reply #1 on:** July 15, 2020, 12:16:05 AM »

And the word of the day is: SCANSORIAL!

George · « **Reply #2 on:** July 15, 2020, 01:12:53 AM »

I just pre-ordered the new London cast recording of Rags, with a score by Charles Strouse and Stephen Schwartz. I love this score. I'm glad that there's finally another recording.

George · « **Reply #3 on:** July 15, 2020, 01:16:14 AM »

Since I (pre-)ordered it from Amazon, it includes the Auto-rip FREE MP3 version of this album. I'm listening to it right now, and there's a new song, "Edge of a Knife," in the spot where "Children of the Wind" used to be. That's now at the end of the show just before the finale.

George · « **Reply #4 on:** July 15, 2020, 01:17:45 AM »

There are several other new songs, too. That'll be interesting to hear them all. I'm off to bed now, so I'll listen to the rest of it at work.

Have a good day, all!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #5 on:** July 15, 2020, 03:57:19 AM »

Good morning, all!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #6 on:** July 15, 2020, 04:00:12 AM »

I slept quite well last night. Around 3:00 I woke to find all three cats - which is rare - snuggled next to me. I had a long weird dream about friends from college. We were sitting on the floor of an academic building, having in a dinner break from a terrible production of something that no one wanted to be involved with.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #7 on:** July 15, 2020, 04:01:26 AM »

This morning I will leave here around 8:45 to stop at the bank and then see Dr Re for some hip and knee injections. I'm hoping everything goes well.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #8 on:** July 15, 2020, 04:07:58 AM »

DR George, Rags was one of those shows like Tenderloin or Baker Street that, if it had opened 40 years ago, would have had a moderate run, but the producers didn't have enough money to keep it going and it deserved better. It was flawed, and the fact the wrong director was hired only complicated things further. Still, the show had a great cast. Teresa Stratas was really wonderful, but Larry Kert was miscast as the villain, and it was a serious misstep since Kert wants the audience to love him. Steve Sondheim once said Kert was better in cabaret because he liked to flirt with the audience.

It's my observation from all the revisions that the authors will never "fix" the book because they refuse to accept the major problem with it: they kill off the wrong character.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #9 on:** July 15, 2020, 04:10:32 AM »

And speaking of the great Teresa Stratas, that Met La Boheme with her is really good with an over-the-top Zeffirelli Act Two mob of people. Was that the first Met telecast?

elmore3003 · « **Reply #10 on:** July 15, 2020, 04:11:42 AM »

Last night Ann's partner Jen brought me the most wonderful strawberry shortcake that her brother had made. It was so delicious.

Druxy · « **Reply #11 on:** July 15, 2020, 04:59:18 AM »

I am please to announce that the AUDIO edition of my play, BUD ABBOTT ALONE, featuring Victor Warren as "Bud Abbott," is now available to download on audible.com. Amazon and iTunes. The production is enhanced with music and sound effects.

https://www.amazon.com/Bud-Abbott-Alone-One-Person-Play/dp/B08CVTQ9HW/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1590116758&sr=1-1

ChasSmith · « **Reply #12 on:** July 15, 2020, 04:59:52 AM »

Good morning, all.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #13 on:** July 15, 2020, 05:26:33 AM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on July 15, 2020, 04:10:32 AM

And speaking of the great Teresa Stratas, that Met La Boheme with her is really good with an over-the-top Zeffirelli Act Two mob of people. Was that the first Met telecast?

No. First was in 1977, and it was La Boheme but with Scotto and Pavarotti. I remember watching it at a friend's apartment. Found an amusing look back at it -- https://shrtm.nu/ae8A -- and oh my, all those names that used to be so familiar and now they seem like something from antiquity. Oy! Italo Tajo as Benoit. Tony Randall was the host. Oh my god, I'd forgotten that. He hosted for a while, didn't he?

Production by Fabrizio Melano. The Zeffirelli streaming this week was Jan. 16, 1982, and that production had just been unveiled the month before. It also turns out to be the one I still have on Pioneer Laserdisc and played countless times. I think most of those got transferred to DVD later.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #14 on:** July 15, 2020, 05:32:27 AM »

I do remember playing that eye-popping Act Two over and over.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #15 on:** July 15, 2020, 05:41:57 AM »

I'm about ready to head out. Fingers crossed.

John G. · « **Reply #16 on:** July 15, 2020, 05:43:04 AM »

Good morning, all.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #17 on:** July 15, 2020, 05:44:51 AM »

Injection vibes for DR Elmore!

John G. · « **Reply #18 on:** July 15, 2020, 05:45:55 AM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on July 15, 2020, 04:07:58 AM

DR George, Rags was one of those shows like Tenderloin or Baker Street that, if it had opened 40 years ago, would have had a moderate run, but the producers didn't have enough money to keep it going and it deserved better. It was flawed, and the fact the wrong director was hired only complicated things further. Still, the show had a great cast. Teresa Stratas was really wonderful, but Larry Kert was miscast as the villain, and it was a serious misstep since Kert wants the audience to love him. Steve Sondheim once said Kert was better in cabaret because he liked to flirt with the audience.

It's my observation from all the revisions that the authors will never "fix" the book because they refuse to accept the major problem with it: they kill off the wrong character.

Sadly, you might mean 50. Rags opened in ‘86. That’s already 34 years ago. Where does the time go.

John G. · « **Reply #19 on:** July 15, 2020, 05:46:51 AM »

Quote from: ChasSmith on July 15, 2020, 05:44:51 AM

Injection vibes for DR Elmore!

Ditto!

Jrand74 · « **Reply #20 on:** July 15, 2020, 07:17:00 AM »

Watch your phraseology! Otherwise this will be the most SCANSORIAL site on all of the internet!

Jrand74 · « **Reply #21 on:** July 15, 2020, 07:17:47 AM »

DR VIXMOM's liberry is selling booms - which is really all you can do with them.

HOWEVER, she has given me an idea and I think I will also have cheeseburgers and corn on the cob today......

Jrand74 · « **Reply #22 on:** July 15, 2020, 07:18:19 AM »

Thank you MR BK......it would be a shame even MORE now if she doesn't order it.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #23 on:** July 15, 2020, 07:19:39 AM »

Yesterday for the first time I used the WalMart self-checkout for my entire order.

It took a bit to get used to it....but now I think I have it. I am not happy about doing someone else's work - the prices certainly haven't gone down.....but you are really in charge of how long the checkout takes.....

Jrand74 · « **Reply #24 on:** July 15, 2020, 07:20:02 AM »

Temps in the 90's for the next four days.....time to stay indoors.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #25 on:** July 15, 2020, 07:21:37 AM »

I only know Teresa Stratas from the West Side Story recording tv documentary, but she was great and she was so funny....

I may have seen her in a production of CANDIDE on PBS.....

Renata Scotti or whatever her name is sets my teeth on edge when she "sings".....but I may be talking about someone different than is being mentioned here.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #26 on:** July 15, 2020, 07:23:31 AM »

I hope DR ELMORE doesn't get hurt when he gets stuck.

My uncle is having a new pacemaker put in this morning....he is 79, but in reasonably good health.....hoping he doesn't have a bad time.

He said he would be home tonight about 6 o'clock, so I asked him if he wanted to come over to play volleyball and he said: "I'll be there."

So I guess I have to go out and put up the net - after I go buy one.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #27 on:** July 15, 2020, 07:57:50 AM »

Quote from: John G. on July 15, 2020, 05:45:55 AM

Quote from: elmore3003 on July 15, 2020, 04:07:58 AM
DR George, Rags was one of those shows like Tenderloin or Baker Street that, if it had opened 40 years ago, would have had a moderate run, but the producers didn't have enough money to keep it going and it deserved better. It was flawed, and the fact the wrong director was hired only complicated things further. Still, the show had a great cast. Teresa Stratas was really wonderful, but Larry Kert was miscast as the villain, and it was a serious misstep since Kert wants the audience to love him. Steve Sondheim once said Kert was better in cabaret because he liked to flirt with the audience.

It's my observation from all the revisions that the authors will never "fix" the book because they refuse to accept the major problem with it: they kill off the wrong character.

Sadly, you might mean 50. Rags opened in ‘86. That’s already 34 years ago. Where does the time go.

Actually, I probably meant 60. In 1960 Rags with its stars might have lasted 3-6 months, not 2-3 days on Broadway.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #28 on:** July 15, 2020, 08:00:21 AM »

Quote from: Jrand69 on July 15, 2020, 07:21:37 AM

I only know Teresa Stratas from the West Side Story recording tv documentary, but she was great and she was so funny....

I may have seen her in a production of CANDIDE on PBS.....

Renata Scotti or whatever her name is sets my teeth on edge when she "sings".....but I may be talking about someone different than is being mentioned here.

You're mistaking her for someone else. She wasn't on the West Side Story recording. Could it have been John McGlinn's Show Boat?

elmore3003 · « **Reply #29 on:** July 15, 2020, 08:01:16 AM »

And I am home. Injections in right hip and both knees were quite painless. I really like Dr. Re.

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