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Re:PORTLAND, HERE I COME!
« Reply #90 on: June 19, 2005, 02:50:26 PM »

Dialog vs. Dialogue

Monolog vs. Monologue

Theater vs. Theatre

Any thoughts?

...Or not.

I have no preference.
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« Reply #91 on: June 19, 2005, 02:52:31 PM »

I am going to make a sandwich and then hie myself up to chateau JMK for the first of two (2) NW HHW get togethers!

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« Reply #92 on: June 19, 2005, 02:55:33 PM »

Are you talking Alice B Toklas brownies and I'm talking corned beef?

Do she have a cookbook out?
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« Reply #93 on: June 19, 2005, 02:56:37 PM »

I have no preference.

Umm.. I don't believe.... Oh.. That's right...

Nevermind...

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« Reply #94 on: June 19, 2005, 02:58:00 PM »

Do she have a cookbook out?

She do!  She do!
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« Reply #95 on: June 19, 2005, 03:01:13 PM »

DR elmore - And I thought you just got your corned beef around the corner at Artie's?
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« Reply #96 on: June 19, 2005, 03:15:03 PM »

Ring out the bells!  The news just announced that Katie Holmes and her beloved(?) Tom Cruise are in New York.  Does anybody care?  Oy!
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« Reply #97 on: June 19, 2005, 03:17:21 PM »

DR elmore - And I thought you just got your corned beef around the corner at Artie's?

DRJose, it ain't your hash I'm after!
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« Reply #98 on: June 19, 2005, 03:20:56 PM »

DR elmore - So all this somewhat witty, innuendo-laced repartee begs the question:

Which one of us is the straight man of the team?

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« Reply #99 on: June 19, 2005, 03:21:56 PM »

And on that note - a very low A-flat - I'm outta here...

I'm gonna head over to my brother's house to give him his Father's Day card, and spend some time with my niece and nephew too.

Laters...
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« Reply #100 on: June 19, 2005, 03:22:03 PM »

DR elmore - So all this somewhat witty, innuendo-laced repartee begs the question:

Which one of us is the straight man of the team?

;D

DRJose, speculations are endless.
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« Reply #101 on: June 19, 2005, 03:22:42 PM »

And on that note - a very low A-flat - I'm outta here...

I'm gonna head over to my brother's house to give him his Father's Day card, and spend some time with my niece and nephew too.

Laters...

Goodbye, good luck, get out.
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« Reply #102 on: June 19, 2005, 03:24:17 PM »

That was a ONCE UPON A MATTRESS reference.
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« Reply #103 on: June 19, 2005, 03:41:59 PM »

Theatre[/u][/i]. It always was, it always is and it always will be, at least for me. And the distinction that one is a physical space (er) and the other is the amorphous thing (re) means little to me. I worked in many different theatres and I worked in the business of theatre (also the business of show). As it was, so shall it be.

I now stand off from my soapbox.
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« Reply #104 on: June 19, 2005, 03:45:00 PM »

Theatre[/u][/i]. It always was, it always is and it always will be, at least for me. And the distinction that one is a physical space (er) and the other is the amorphous thing (re) means little to me. I worked in many different theatres and I worked in the business of theatre (also the business of show). As it was, so shall it be.

I now stand off from my soapbox.

That's what you get living near Union Square!

DRs, can someone burn me a CD of the Original Broadway Cast of BAKER STREET?
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« Reply #105 on: June 19, 2005, 04:07:42 PM »

Ben, I'm with you!

Jose, stage directions in a script are never credited to the director.  The published play is the work of the author.  There was a big flap over this I remember a few years back where stage directors were trying to copyright or at least get credit for their blocking...and I think this spilled over into the area of what exactly was published in the script.  The Dramatist Guild would have nothing to do with anything that infringed on the their published work and I think also saw it as an attempt by directors to usurp and confuse authorship.  Thankfully, the Dramatist Guild is very strong and they would have none of the auteur shit that directors come up with in film.  I can remember what happened by I don't think they were allowed to copyright blocking ideas either.  I could be wrong.
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« Reply #106 on: June 19, 2005, 04:12:56 PM »

Ben, I'm with you!

Jose, stage directions in a script are never credited to the director.  The published play is the work of the author.  There was a big flap over this I remember a few years back where stage directors were trying to copyright or at least get credit for their blocking...and I think this spilled over into the area of what exactly was published in the script.  The Dramatist Guild would have nothing to do with anything that infringed on the their published work and I think also saw it as an attempt by directors to usurp and confuse authorship.  Thankfully, the Dramatist Guild is very strong and they would have none of the auteur shit that directors come up with in film.  I can remember what happened by I don't think they were allowed to copyright blocking ideas either.  I could be wrong.

I'll jump in here for a second, too.  I think this is a recent development, DRCharlesPogue; it's my memory that most of the Dramatists Play Service and Samuel French scripts up until 1980 were based on the stage manager's copy with properties, business, etc. all based on the original production.  This may explain the discrepancies between the "acting editions" and the author's text published by someone representing the playwright.   The Samuel French edition of Orton's WHAT THE BUTLER SAW is the rewrite for the McAlpin Rooftop Theatre in New York, after Orton's death; the original text is published by Methuen in England and Grove Press in the US.
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Re:PORTLAND, HERE I COME!
« Reply #107 on: June 19, 2005, 04:13:24 PM »

Dialog vs. Dialogue

Monolog vs. Monologue

Theater vs. Theatre

Any thoughts?

...Or not.
Not alternatives here in OZ.
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« Reply #108 on: June 19, 2005, 04:15:54 PM »

The American adaptor of the Orton script has never, to my knowledge, been identified.  The differences between THE GLASS MENAGERIE text by Dramatists Play Service and the official Tennessee Williams edition by New Directions are interesting.  Also, when I was in Pinter's THE BIRTHDAY PARTY, the American text from Samuel French (?) was missing several lines that our director put back from the Grove Press edition.
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« Reply #109 on: June 19, 2005, 04:19:31 PM »

The one playwright I can think of whose original stage directions are foolproof, because his plays are constructed like a Rube Goldberg machine, is Georges Feydeau.
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« Reply #110 on: June 19, 2005, 04:19:47 PM »

That's what you get living near Union Square!

DRs, can someone burn me a CD of the Original Broadway Cast of BAKER STREET?
If there are no more local responses DR Elmore, and you can wait the 10 days for the mail. Can do. (I Have it transferred from record by a friend in NYC)
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« Reply #111 on: June 19, 2005, 04:20:49 PM »

If there are no more local responses DR Elmore, and you can wait the 10 days for the mail. Can do. (I Have it transferred from record by a friend in NYC)

DRTomovoz, I will wait forever if you are not too long (an Oscar Wilde reference)!
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« Reply #112 on: June 19, 2005, 04:25:14 PM »

I shall post it today DR Elmore. A pleasure.
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« Reply #113 on: June 19, 2005, 04:34:49 PM »

I shall post it today DR Elmore. A pleasure.

I thank you, kind sir and dear friend.
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« Reply #114 on: June 19, 2005, 04:46:12 PM »

Posting in 5 minutes.. You may have it by Friday.
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« Reply #115 on: June 19, 2005, 05:09:59 PM »

I have the BAKER STREET lp - but no way to transfer to CD... :(
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« Reply #116 on: June 19, 2005, 05:10:14 PM »

Lovely day today here.  Cool and breezy.
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« Reply #117 on: June 19, 2005, 05:10:51 PM »

I like the song "Baker Street" by Gerry Rafferty.
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« Reply #118 on: June 19, 2005, 05:11:30 PM »

I have the BAKER STREET lp - but no way to transfer to CD... :(

I have the lp as well; I kept it for the photos.  Thanks to DRTomovoz, I'm all set!
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« Reply #119 on: June 19, 2005, 05:12:09 PM »

Dialogue and monologue, no question.  I must admit, however, that I do go with the convention of "theater" for the space and "theatre" for the art form.
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