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« Reply #120 on: July 22, 2022, 02:36:06 PM »

Lots to do do now to catch up.
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« Reply #121 on: July 22, 2022, 02:42:38 PM »

I may have posted this before, but John Cranko's Gilbert & Sullivan ballet, Pineapple Poll, is a pure delight. The score is taken from all the Sullivan operas, including Cox and Box and his Overture di Ballo. If you know the lyrics, sometimes they match the action, and it's fun watching a waltz for the Captain, his finacee, and her mother jump from Pirates of Penzance to Ruddigore and back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0OLC1qOXzQ&t=457s

This is great. And I did sometimes expect somebody to suddenly burst into song.
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« Reply #122 on: July 22, 2022, 02:51:23 PM »

DR Elmore, or anyone who's seen it:

How is that 1953 film The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan?

I know I saw it a couple of times, years ago, and I don't remember a damned thing about it.

I've never seen it and I keep hoping  Criterion will tackle it.
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« Reply #123 on: July 22, 2022, 02:55:48 PM »

BK, I received a wonderful surprise this afternoon. Thank you!
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« Reply #124 on: July 22, 2022, 03:01:56 PM »

I may have posted this before, but John Cranko's Gilbert & Sullivan ballet, Pineapple Poll, is a pure delight. The score is taken from all the Sullivan operas, including Cox and Box and his Overture di Ballo. If you know the lyrics, sometimes they match the action, and it's fun watching a waltz for the Captain, his finacee, and her mother jump from Pirates of Penzance to Ruddigore and back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0OLC1qOXzQ&t=457s

This is great. And I did sometimes expect somebody to suddenly burst into song.

It makes me weep with joy. I wish the Australian Ballet would release it on commercial DVD. Their Coppelia, Sleeping Beauty, and La filled mal gardee are quite good.
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« Reply #125 on: July 22, 2022, 03:07:39 PM »

I may have posted this before, but John Cranko's Gilbert & Sullivan ballet, Pineapple Poll, is a pure delight. The score is taken from all the Sullivan operas, including Cox and Box and his Overture di Ballo. If you know the lyrics, sometimes they match the action, and it's fun watching a waltz for the Captain, his finacee, and her mother jump from Pirates of Penzance to Ruddigore and back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0OLC1qOXzQ&t=457s

This is great. And I did sometimes expect somebody to suddenly burst into song.

It makes me weep with joy. I wish the Australian Ballet would release it on commercial DVD. Their Coppelia, Sleeping Beauty, and La filled mal gardee are quite good.

Is this the only copy circulating? Someone's off the air VHS tape with iffy tracking? The audio even predates the Beta or VHS Hi-Fi era, I'm pretty sure. But it's totally chatming.
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« Reply #126 on: July 22, 2022, 03:15:49 PM »

Just got an email fom "scribd" saying they're raising the monthly subscription fee from $10 to $12.

I would let it go, but there are times when I find a score or something that, at that moment, is invaluable and totally justifies the fee. At that moment. Ah, well.
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« Reply #127 on: July 22, 2022, 03:30:34 PM »

Travel vibes for the newly certified DR singdaw.
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« Reply #128 on: July 22, 2022, 03:30:52 PM »

That was a nice link for a hot afternoon DR ELMORE.
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« Reply #129 on: July 22, 2022, 03:54:27 PM »

Here's the Pineapple Poll page from the G&S Archive:
https://www.gsarchive.net/pine_poll/index.html
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« Reply #130 on: July 22, 2022, 03:58:06 PM »

Some Internet wag has scored the video of Senator Josh Hawley running away from the mob to the theme music from "Benny Hill."   Genius!

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« Reply #131 on: July 22, 2022, 03:59:54 PM »

Thanks for the travel vibes!
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« Reply #132 on: July 22, 2022, 04:00:38 PM »

We'll be attending a mini family reunion at the south New Jersey shore.
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« Reply #133 on: July 22, 2022, 04:14:41 PM »

Lord, I really dislike people sometime - today's people is a customer who filed a PayPal dispute. I wrote him and told him what the issue had been with the two titles and asked him nicely to close the account and gave him the Kritzerland gmail address. He then sends me a really nasty note saying he doesn't appreciate my "snippy" response, and that he'd e-mailed me before and I'd been "snippy" then, too. I'd already searched his name everywhere to see if we'd corresponded and could find nothing. The reason? Because there's one name on his invoice and PayPal dispute and another on his email. I just wrote him back telling him it's hard to know if we corresponded when the names don't match, and that I'd found our one email exchange, in which there was not a single snippy letter let alone word. It was explanatory and I answered a question he had about my mystery novels. I just refunded him his money and closed the case and will not accept any more orders from him.
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Re: HIGH SPIRITS
« Reply #134 on: July 22, 2022, 04:14:44 PM »

Have a wonderful time.
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« Reply #135 on: July 22, 2022, 04:14:54 PM »

Must eat something now.
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« Reply #136 on: July 22, 2022, 04:15:04 PM »

Then I'll go back to writing.
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« Reply #137 on: July 22, 2022, 04:19:17 PM »

Some Internet wag has scored the video of Senator Josh Hawley running away from the mob to the theme music from "Benny Hill."   Genius!

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« Reply #138 on: July 22, 2022, 04:36:48 PM »

  a customer who filed a PayPal dispute.

People are jerks, plain and simple. And now so, more than ever. Sad.
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« Reply #139 on: July 22, 2022, 04:38:43 PM »

Here's the Pineapple Poll page from the G&S Archive:
https://www.gsarchive.net/pine_poll/index.html

Thank you. I just watched the Australian video a second time. And I'll say it again, it is completely charming, and of course these things should be properly released.
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« Reply #140 on: July 22, 2022, 04:40:21 PM »

 :)
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« Reply #141 on: July 22, 2022, 04:41:22 PM »

  a customer who filed a PayPal dispute.

People are jerks, plain and simple. And now so, more than ever. Sad.

Yes, that is damned incredible, how someone can want to behave like to anyone. But especially the person who has the very thing(s) you want. Uh...hello? Anybody home?
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« Reply #142 on: July 22, 2022, 04:42:39 PM »

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« Reply #143 on: July 22, 2022, 04:47:11 PM »

Frustrated with too many unwanted calls on my cell phone, I set my phone to silence all calls not in my contact list.
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« Reply #144 on: July 22, 2022, 04:47:27 PM »

I hope it works and that I don't miss any important calls.
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« Reply #145 on: July 22, 2022, 04:48:16 PM »

Those calls are doubly annoying for me because they ring in my ears which is rather loud.
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« Reply #146 on: July 22, 2022, 05:09:14 PM »

Hello, everyone.
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« Reply #147 on: July 22, 2022, 05:10:21 PM »

Travel vibes for the newly certified DR singdaw.

Ditto!
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« Reply #148 on: July 22, 2022, 05:14:39 PM »

My 2 cents:

Both Fred and Don Bluth were the most ENORMOUSLY talented people. I'm still awed by what they did at Bluth Bros and elsewhere. Bluth Bros Theater was a little hole in the wall, but filled with so many really talented people.
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« Reply #149 on: July 22, 2022, 05:16:08 PM »

I came home from acupuncture today feeling verrry relaxed. Relaxed is good, but I may just doze off momentarily.
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