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[singdaw]

TWO!!

[KevinH]

Good morning!

[elmore3003]

Last night we watched Christopher Wheeldon's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" ballet.  We watched this one from 2011, and there has been a second DVD release I would like to see as well. I enjoyed some of it, but I found by the end Joby Talbot's score exhausting and bombastic, although I loved the imaginative orchestration. I kept thinking, how do the dancers count this? How do they hear it? Then in the extras, I saw them rehearsing to a very simplified piano accompaniment.

The dancers and sets are amazing, and the funniest thing in the ballet is a quartet for the Queen of Hearts and four men, a very deliberate parody of the Rose Adagio from Act One of Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty, with four cowed men and one aggressive prima ballerina. It was my favorite moment.

[ChasSmith]

That certainly sounds like fun.

[elmore3003]

Speaking of the Rose Adagio, here's Lauren Cuthbertson performing it from a Russian performance last year of The Sleeping Beauty, in which she played the Princess Aurora.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtOu_CDqQ9Q

[Jrand73]

Congrats to MR BK on his continued GO GO success.

[Jrand73]

DR MATTHEW that was a nice song.

[Jrand73]

Now I will tell you something you will never be able to forget, and it will come to your mind every time a discussion of a certain composer comes up.....

Mr. Offenbach's first name and last name sound like a German phrase for an American euphemism for masturbation.

[Jrand73]

HA!  Now try to say his name without laughing. 

[Jrand73]

Because of a casting blunder, I will be playing the lead in THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME in June.

[Jrand73]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA........April Fool!

[ChasSmith]

Now I will tell you something you will never be able to forget, and it will come to your mind every time a discussion of a certain composer comes up.....

Mr. Offenbach's first name and last name sound like a German phrase for an American euphemism for masturbation.

And don't that take the rag off'n the bush.

[John G.]

I saw the word “bare” spelled backwards. I don’t think anyone wants that.

[John G.]

Friends on FB have been offering suggestions for an April 1 playlist.

So far we've got:

Dionne Warwick, The April Fools
Simon & Garfunkel, April, Come She Will

Fools Rush In, any recording
April gets mentioned a lot in Company, but she’s no fool.

[John G.]

TOD:

Remakes that work on their own. They may not be better than the original, but they stand on their own.

The Magnificent Seven
True Grit
Dawn of the Dead
The Thing
Heaven Can Wait
The Maltese Falcon
The Fly
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Invasion of the Body Snatchers

[Jrand73]

I like DR JOHN's list for the TOD.

I really like:

Invasion of the Body Snatchers remake

[John G.]

Thank you, sir. You don’t wanna play Quasimodo?

[singdaw]

For some reason, can't get the song "There's Gotta Be Something Better Than This" from Sweet Charity out of my head today.

[John G.]

For some reason, can't get the song "There's Gotta Be Something Better Than This" from Sweet Charity out of my head today.

Oh, so, you plant it in mine, too!

[Laura]

Good afternoon.

[Laura]

I have had nothing to say for the several weeks, because I have not done anything.

[bk]

I loved the Alice's for the most part, but saw the 2017 version, which is the one I wrote about - I'm thinking about getting this original performance, although at least two of the cast members are the same - the leading lady and the tap dancer.

[bk]

I'm up, I'm up - nine hours of sleep.

[Laura]

As far as film remakes: They should only be allowed to remake films that were lousy. I'd like to see Man of La Mancha and Guys and Dolls remade.

They should NOT be allowed to remake perfect films, like Princess Bride.

[bk]

It must be April Fool's Day - how else would we be on page two.

[John G.]

I loved the Alice's for the most part, but saw the 2017 version, which is the one I wrote about - I'm thinking about getting this original performance, although at least two of the cast members are the same - the leading lady and the tap dancer.

This was the production that San Antonio Ballet staged a couple of years ago. Before the pandemic. I enjoyed it live.

[John G.]

As far as film remakes: They should only be allowed to remake films that were lousy. I'd like to see Man of La Mancha and Guys and Dolls remade.

They should NOT be allowed to remake perfect films, like Princess Bride.

Amen.

[John G.]

Great crawdad story, Laura.

[John G.]

We can push for page three.

[John G.]

Just for BK.