Topic: THE AMRAM STORY (Read 6842 times)

ChasSmith · « **Reply #30 on:** September 11, 2022, 07:13:25 AM »

I must get ready soon to go to a matinee of LA CAGE AUX FOLLES that a few friends are involved in, a couple of them in the cast and a couple in the band. I have no idea how large the band is, but I know the two keyboardists and very likely others as well.

KevinH · « **Reply #31 on:** September 11, 2022, 07:17:28 AM »

Good morning!

KevinH · « **Reply #32 on:** September 11, 2022, 07:17:38 AM »

Wordle: 5/6

KevinH · « **Reply #33 on:** September 11, 2022, 07:18:45 AM »

I also was not familiar with Dilly bars. There's a Dairy Queen in the shopping center I go to at least once a week, but I was only there once.

Donald · « **Reply #34 on:** September 11, 2022, 07:21:43 AM »

Happy Sunday to everyone. There's a new Broadway Radio Show up on the site for your listening pleasure. We take a break from interviews to hear Musical Missives...how correspondence, whether it be letters, telegrams, etc have been used as show tunes in musicals. Lots of great songs and performances....check it out!

http://www.haineshisway.com/the-broadway-radio-show-2/

singdaw · « **Reply #35 on:** September 11, 2022, 07:22:22 AM »

Thank you, DR Donald, for the weekly reminder.

singdaw · « **Reply #36 on:** September 11, 2022, 07:23:00 AM »

I think DR elmore should write a book with his summaries of the great ballet plots.

I would buy and read that!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #37 on:** September 11, 2022, 07:56:58 AM »

Thank you, DR slingshot! Maybe I'll do that with opera plots as well! I could call it Opera and Ballet Plotzed!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #38 on:** September 11, 2022, 07:58:56 AM »

Well, my eBay package was indeed waiting for me. I've lost so many packages, thanks to the dyslexic or moronic USPS personnel who are unable to deliver to the correct addresses, that I was afraid it would not bve in the lobby.

Well, it was!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #39 on:** September 11, 2022, 08:12:48 AM »

I am a huge fan of Marc Blitzstein's Threepenny Opera adaptation, buty I never knew what text played forseven yewars or so at the Theatre de Lys in the Village because the rental libretto of Blitzstein's version had to be revised to accommodate the score. Here's why.

In the 1954 production with Lotte Lenya, Jo Sullivan, Bea Arthur, etc., "Pirate Jenny," which Brecht and Weill gave to Polly in Act One Scene Two, was given to Lotte Lenya in the brothel scene. So, when Polly told the wedding guests she would sing a little song, she sang somethiung called "The Bide-a-wee in Soho," which was Blitzstein's adaptation of "The Bilbao song" from the Weill-Brecht Happy End. It could not be included in the rental because it's an interpolation from another show.

I found on eBay a copy of the libretto of the actual production script with the Bide-a-wee song included. I am very happy. Another musical theatre question solved!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #40 on:** September 11, 2022, 08:14:19 AM »

I have a recording of Jo Sullivan Loesser singing "The Bide-a-wee in Soho" from several years ago, but now I know how Blitzstein adapted the text to accommodate the number.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #41 on:** September 11, 2022, 08:24:04 AM »

What a wonderful artifact, and great find! Congratulations, sir!

ChasSmith · « **Reply #42 on:** September 11, 2022, 08:24:57 AM »

Music Box Theatre at Hollywood and La Brea, very interesting, too.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #43 on:** September 11, 2022, 08:29:32 AM »

Re BK's notes on The Devil's Hand and the location shots --

I remember saying I'd found that shot of the Picfair, but I remember absolutely nothing of the movie itself! But I guess there really isn't much to remember anyway.

I watched it on a crappy double feature DVD with The Strangler, and I'll have to take it out again and have another look at these.

Jane · « **Reply #44 on:** September 11, 2022, 09:20:31 AM »

DR Vixmom I had to look up Dilly Bar. Now that I know what it is I will pass.

Jane · « **Reply #45 on:** September 11, 2022, 09:22:38 AM »

Even before I had Carvel soft ice cream cone I didn't care for DQ. I grew up with Fosters Freeze which was superior to DQ.

Jane · « **Reply #46 on:** September 11, 2022, 09:24:42 AM »

On days we went to the beach it was a treat to stop on the way home for a Fosters.

Jane · « **Reply #47 on:** September 11, 2022, 09:25:42 AM »

Technically neither DQ or Fosters is ice cream, they are what we used to call ice milk. No wonder once I had Carvel's I was hooked.

Jane · « **Reply #48 on:** September 11, 2022, 09:27:56 AM »

DR Singdaw I noticed that the cookie table at the wedding also has boxes to fill with cookies. I am guessing there weren't that many people at the wedding if everyone was invited to take home a box of cookies.

singdaw · « **Reply #49 on:** September 11, 2022, 09:40:39 AM »

That is very cool, DR elmore3003.

singdaw · « **Reply #50 on:** September 11, 2022, 09:40:55 AM »

Good eyes, DR Jane. Makes a little more sense.

singdaw · « **Reply #51 on:** September 11, 2022, 09:41:54 AM »

David Amram's incidental score to On the Waterfront does not appear to be on iTunes, but is available for streaming on Amazon Music.

Jane · « **Reply #52 on:** September 11, 2022, 09:43:14 AM »

Quote from: singdaw on September 11, 2022, 09:40:55 AM

Good eyes, DR Jane. Makes a little more sense.

Morning eyes work better

It does make more sense.

singdaw · « **Reply #53 on:** September 11, 2022, 10:02:05 AM »

Gorgeous day here. There will be an outdoor walk this afternoon.

George · « **Reply #54 on:** September 11, 2022, 10:39:47 AM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on September 11, 2022, 04:26:04 AM

DR George, did I miss the title of what you were ushering for last night?

I might not have specified, but it was This Flat Earth that I also ushered for last weekend, about a middle-school girl who doesn't want you go back to school after a shooting where a classmate was killed. $:-\$

George · « **Reply #55 on:** September 11, 2022, 10:43:10 AM »

Quote from: Jrand72 on September 11, 2022, 06:50:26 AM

Now I am also excited about DR ELMORE's package.

Jrand, this is a family site!!

George · « **Reply #56 on:** September 11, 2022, 10:43:43 AM »

George · « **Reply #57 on:** September 11, 2022, 10:44:25 AM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on September 11, 2022, 07:56:58 AM

Thank you, DR slingshot! Maybe I'll do that with opera plots as well! I could call it Opera and Ballet Plotzed!

George · « **Reply #58 on:** September 11, 2022, 10:45:59 AM »

Quote from: ChasSmith on September 11, 2022, 08:24:04 AM

What a wonderful artifact, and great find! Congratulations, sir!

Ditto and Ditto!

John G. · « **Reply #59 on:** September 11, 2022, 11:00:08 AM »

Quote from: ChasSmith on September 11, 2022, 07:13:25 AM

I must get ready soon to go to a matinee of LA CAGE AUX FOLLES that a few friends are involved in, a couple of them in the cast and a couple in the band. I have no idea how large the band is, but I know the two keyboardists and very likely others as well.

Was just thinking of The Best of Times.

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