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[JoseSPiano]

DR vixmom - Good Car Vibes!

-And I hope it wasn't too far a walk home from the service station.

Is everyone feeling better?

[vixmom]

One of my co-workers, a 20 something gal named Amy, asked where I was going this evening (as my name on the board mentions that I am leaving early) and I told her I was going to a book reading by a former actor named Bruce Kimmel....she got this wild eyed look on her face and screamed..."I know him! I have one of his movies!!!"

Turns out Amy is a huge fan of NAKED SPACE! LOL! She has the VHS AND the DVD and has made all of her friends and her husband watch it over the years!

And her favorite character in the movie is...Rodzinski!

She also remembers at least one of BK's appearances in LAVERNE AND SHIRLEY which is her favorite TV show.

Unfortunately, she has plans for this evening and cannot go to the signing tonight, but she would have loved to meet you BK!

Did you tell her you are a close and personal friend and you were just having dinner together last evening  

[MBarnum]

LOL! Yep!

I will bring the photos in as proof!  

[vixmom]

DR vixmom - Good Car Vibes!

-And I hope it wasn't too far a walk home from the service station.

Is everyone feeling better?

Thank you for the vibes.   Everyone is feeling much better today except that the Mr. cannot shake his cough.

Fortunatley the car shop is only about 1/2 mile fromhome, but it seems farther when its hot and you havn't slept all night!!    


The bad news is the Geico inspector can't get there until Tuesday so we're a one car family until at least Wednesday, which, with our schedules can be problematic......but we'll manage.. still better than havingto rent a car at $45  a day

[vixmom]

LOL! Yep!

I will bring the photos in as proof!  

bask in the reflected glory, bask, I say!!  

[DearReaderLaura]

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Vibes to the Vix family for auto and health.

I would like to live somewhere where it's not too hot and doesn't snow. And has a lake.

[JoseSPiano]

And to bring it back to my original question...

What I was wondering about in Noises Off is whether the wonderful bit with the axe came out of Michael Frayn's mind, or if that was of the original director's devising.  -Since the whole physical bit is detailed in the stage directions.

[JoseSPiano]

Quote of the day yesterday:  As we were experiencing the Actifed crisis and BK was (gently--kind of ) berating a clerk at a store for not having the Actifed out, his phone rang.  "Who could that be?" queried BK.  "It's probably God calling you to tell you to be nice to me," replied the clerk.

Well, I thought it was hilarious.

Oh... So maybe that explains it!  BK was out of Actifed during the rehearsals for What If? last summer!

[Jrand74]

I found GREEN ACRES.  The first one I found and recorded played back in just 8 seconds!  Talk about chipmonks, but I found another, so life can go on!

My butchers knives and sickles didn't arrive in the mail today, but that's life, so they say.

Most published playscripts we get have blocking and set designs for a proscenium stage, so we have to re-do it for a thrust stage anyway.  I always read them, because they have good suggestions.

I know original costume designs and choreography are not allowed in many productions according to notes we get with the materials, but I know major CHANGES are not allowed either - so sometimes it's hard to find a middle ground.

[Jrand74]

TOO bad she can't send her DVD for an autograph, MBarnum!

[Jrand74]

Ask her for money for a Benjamin Kritzer book - they are for sale, you know!

[JoseSPiano]

RE: Lost in the Stars - Wasn't there a studio cast (?) recording released a few years ago on the MusicMasters label?  Conducted by Julius Rudel.  I actually think I have it, but may not have listened to it.

[Jrand74]

DR VIXMOM - losing a car for a few days is brutal!  I know!

[JoseSPiano]

My butchers knives and sickles didn't arrive in the mail today, but that's life, so they say.

Do I need to alert the authorities?

[vixmom]

I have a question , actually it is the Vixter's question, and she asked if any of you  "theatre experts"  know when Little Women will be released for use by community theatre groups.  


This made me wonder the ways  these produvctions are released... I know trhat there are touring groups and local theatres all over the country doing shows a that are currently on Broadway  (Mamma Mia for instance) but we can't do those same shows here on Long Island  because of our proximity to Broadway.

Are there any hard and fast rules as to when a show becomes available for local groups to perform?

[Jrand74]

Do I need to alert the authorities?

Nothing to see here....keep moving.  Nothing to see here.  

[Jrand74]

Off to rehearsal.  Back MUCH later.

GOOD READING VIBES to BK and the Portland crowd!  Hope Jessica Skerritt shows up!

[JoseSPiano]

OMG!!!!

Guess what number came up again this afternoon during the Daytime Draw for the Virginia Lottery's Pick Three game?

6-0-3

And since my mom's birthday is June 3....

WOW!!!

[vixmom]

OMG!!!!

Guess what number came up again this afternoon during the Daytime Draw for the Virginia Lottery's Pick Three game?

6-0-3

And since my mom's birthday is June 3....

WOW!!!

Well anyone could see  that your mom is a lucky woman... after all she does have  you as a son....


BTW, can she buy my lottery tickets for me from here on in?

 

[JoseSPiano]

I have a question , actually it is the Vixter's question, and she asked if any of you  "theatre experts"  know when Little Women will be released for use by community theatre groups.  


This made me wonder the ways  these produvctions are released... I know trhat there are touring groups and local theatres all over the country doing shows a that are currently on Broadway  (Mamma Mia for instance) but we can't do those same shows here on Long Island  because of our proximity to Broadway.

Are there any hard and fast rules as to when a show becomes available for local groups to perform?

The basic rule/order is:

Original/Broadway Production
Tour of Original/Broadway Production
Large Regional Theatres and Companies
Smaller Regional Theatre and Companies
Dinner Theatres
Community Theatres and Schools

There are always exceptions to the rule.  And the whole timetable is never the same from one property to the next.  Some shows take years(!) to get down to the smaller companies, sometimes it only take months.

It's all a matter of planning, and making sure the "public" doesn't get over-saturated with productions of the same show so that the audience is still interested seeing it - again.  In other words, it's all about economics, money.

Showbiz is just Show Biz.

[JoseSPiano]

Oh... And sometimes the "restrictions" can be very arbitrary, truly arbitrary.

In fact, arbitrary restrictions ended up being the genesis for What If?

[vixmom]

The basic rule/order is:

Original/Broadway Production
Tour of Original/Broadway Production
Large Regional Theatres and Companies
Smaller Regional Theatre and Companies
Dinner Theatres
Community Theatres and Schools


Thank you!  I shall pass that info on to the Vixter
There are always exceptions to the rule.  And the whole timetable is never the same from one property to the next.  Some shows take years(!) to get down to the smaller companies, sometimes it only take months.

It's all a matter of planning, and making sure the "public" doesn't get over-saturated with productions of the same show so that the audience is still interested seeing it - again.  In other words, it's all about economics, money.

Showbiz is just Show Biz.

Thank you, I will pas s that info along as well.

[vixmom]

Oh... And sometimes the "restrictions" can be very arbitrary, truly arbitrary.

In fact, arbitrary restrictions ended up being the genesis for What If?

Can you explain?

[elmore3003]

And to bring it back to my original question...

What I was wondering about in Noises Off is whether the wonderful bit with the axe came out of Michael Frayn's mind, or if that was of the original director's devising.  -Since the whole physical bit is detailed in the stage directions.

DRJose, are the stage directions in an "acting edition" like Samuel French or in the Methuen/Grove/whatever published copy of the play?  That would answer your question.

[elmore3003]

RE: Lost in the Stars - Wasn't there a studio cast (?) recording released a few years ago on the MusicMasters label?  Conducted by Julius Rudel.  I actually think I have it, but may not have listened to it.

Yes, there was.  The complete score, and I think there's also a cut song as well.

[Ginny]

Showbiz is just Show Biz.

Or, as my favorite line from The Producers says:

"The thing you gotta know is:
  Everything is show biz!"

[Matt H.]

Got about an hour of PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET watched - through Thelma Ritter's demise. She CERTAINLY deserved the Oscar that year (won by Gloria Grahame in THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL). I think she's so affecting in this part. Yes, it WAS the year Jean Hagen was nominated for SINGIN' IN THE RAIN, and that's a wonderful (over-the-top) performance, too, but give me Thelma any day.

[Dan (the Man)]

DR Dan (the Man) - Now that I think of it, every production of Evita I've seen has more or less uses/borrowed/aped/stolen Hal Prince's staging and Larry Fuller's choreography.

And the whole "Originally directed by Hal Prince" line is required per the licensing agreement with R&H (formerly Tams-Witmark).

But I don't think I've seen the same byline for Larry Fuller.  However, Larry Fuller seems to "supervise" each major production and tour that goes out - including the one currently on the road.

Actually, that's the productions that is soon to open in Philly (I don't know why I thought it was the Walnut Street Theatre.)  And it's press does say that the recreation of the original staging is by Prince and Fuller.

[JoseSPiano]

Can you explain?

Hmmm...

I think BK could do it better- well he did it already...  Actually, if you back to the Archives from about a year ago - just the Notes (but the Notes had some tidbits too) - you should be able to get the play by play by play by play...



In short...  BK and Tammy had wanted to produce one show, but then found out that the rights were not available.  At least in LA.  Then they found a second one.  This time the author did not want his play being produced in LA.  Then a third one... For which they got the rights for, but then they were pulled.  So...

But since the theatre was booked, and the deposit laid down...

*I'll have to watch the opening moments of What If? to recall the proper order of things.  And the names of the plays and authors.

Then as "luck" would have it, companies were changing seasons, dropping shows... in other words, I was losing jobs left and right...

Then I saw some posts here in HHW telling me to call BK...

I got the call on the 10th, flew out on the 11th of July - or was that the 11th and 12th?  -In any case... I got the call one day, flew out the next, and we had our first audition that night in BK's living room (in his old house).

...And we closed the last week of September.

[JoseSPiano]

DRJose, are the stage directions in an "acting edition" like Samuel French or in the Methuen/Grove/whatever published copy of the play?  That would answer your question.

Actually, I believe it's in both.  I know the paperback/acting edition has the 'columns', and the hardcover edition does too.