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[JMK]

Hurricane name department:  I still remember when I was a very young boy our "funny" weatherman in SLC was talking about how hurricanes were named after women, and he asked the anchors if they knew why.  They did not, at which point the weatherman said, "Well, have you ever heard of a himmicane?"

[Jrand74]

Hmmm...

Happy Birthday Day DRCILLALIZ!

Leigh-Coleman songs:

Hey Look Me Over
The Best is Yet to Come
I've Got Your Number

and there's another song from WILDCAT sung by Lucy and an old guy....hmm....must get out the album, I guess.

Favorite Maltby & Shire songs:

[Jrand74]

We do not have an Irony Department - everything we have is Permanent Press.

[Tomovoz]

I think the Hugh Jackman stuff was supposed to be a joke. He should have been cast as Joe, of course, if this movie comes off. He's a better singer than Ewan McGregor.

The Hugh as Norma was my line DR Matt. Jackman was a wonderful Joe on stage here in OZ.

[Ron Pulliam]

I often wonder why no one has musicalized "A Matter of Life and Death" (aka "Stairway to Heaven").

What wondrous music "might" be derived from such inspiration!!!!!!

[bk]

First off, that's what I get for writing the notes in a hurry - apologies to dear reader Cillaliz for errant and truant birthday wishes in the notes.  HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO DEAR READER CILLALIZ!

RLP: Different Canterville Ghost, just as there are four different Dorian Grays floating around.  The Canterville I saw is called Canterville Chase.  If the song on that website is an indication of the score then I'll pass.

Lansbury has already had knee replacement surgery, and I'm sure this is the same knee.

[Ron Pulliam]

Favorite Maltby & Shire songs:

Oh, yes!  I'ms a HUGE fan of their "The Invisible Man" score!

[bk]

There are about six versions of Canterville Ghost, most of them made-for-TV.

[TPunk]

Happy Birthday Cillaliz!

[Tomovoz]

Paris is not a good place for food Matthew As DR François has said - overpriced and ordinary.

Most French dishes with which we are familiar are regional in France.

Note:  I enjoy "Big" as a musical too. (On CD).

[TPunk]

Favorite Maltby and Shire tunes: I Want It All and It's Never That Easy

[Stuart]

Favorite Maltby and Shire tunes: I Want It All and It's Never That Easy

"It's Never That Easy," I believe, is one of the contrapuntally sung songs I referred to above.

And, ironically, AOL Radio, which usually plays this particular cut from the recording incessantly, hasn't played it thus far today.....

[Jrand74]

I have seen BABY once, and it might have been the production, but I didn't like it much.  Didn't care to see anything else - and I might have heard some of their other songs, but can't list any as a favorite....as opposed to last week's composer:  Mr Stephen Sondheim.

So I thought it best to say Nothing (A Chorus Line reference).

[bk]

Mr. Maltby and Shire: Autumn, Starting Here, Starting Now, Miss Bird, Stop Time, I Don't Remember Christmas, She Loves Me Not.

Coleman and Leigh: Witchcraft, Pass Me By, The entire score of Wildcat, Real Live Girl, The Other Side of the Tracks, and many others.

[Charles Pogue]

I don't know from Maltby & Shire.  YOU FASCINATE ME SO is my favourite Cy Coleman.

I am more or less back from my jaunt to Lexington, Kentucky, where The Lovely Wife and I were teaching for two weeks at the Shakespeare Institute which is held in conjunction with their summer Shakespeare Festival.  We had a lovely bunch of bright students from 13 to 18 and had a generally great time.  Besides, the teaching gig, we visited and hobnobbed with loads of old friends and cronies from our college days and the local theatre community.  The Lovely Wife was, I must say, the darling of the students there at the institute.

[bk]

Good to have you back, Pogue.  So much going on around these here parts.

[Ron Pulliam]

A very happy 29th birthday to Cillaliz!

 

[Rodzinski]

One of my earliest TV-watching memories, was, in fact, David Niven in THE CANTERVILLE GHOST. I think it was shot on video.

[MBarnum]

I have not seen any version of the CANTERVILLE GHOST either...however, I have seen THE TOONERVILLE TROLLEY....for some reason those titles reminded me of each other.

I think I will fix another cup of joe because I cannot seem to stay awake today.

[George]

A Very Happy Birthday to our very own Cillaliz!!

[Matthew]

In a recent post, I was trying to post a picture, and found that I don't know how to reduce the size of a picture on my mac.  I'm working on it at the moment.  However, the post - which I deleted - basically would have read WITHOUT a picture -

I was in Paris, and I turned the corner and there was Joe Allen - the official restaurant of HHW.  I was excited, I thought it would be cool to eat there.  DP Eric didn't feel my excitement as we walked right passed to look for Beef Bourgenion (which we didn't find).  I do have a picture which I'll post someday.  

[bk]

My tape hunting expedition got pushed until tomorrow, so I now have time to do some other stuff that needs doing.

[Rodzinski]

Michel Legrand's A MATTER OF INNOCENCE soundtrack featuring Matt Monro is currently available for download here, I just discovered.

http://www.spacedebris.blogspot.com/

[TPunk]

I just read that Kevin Hagen, Doc Baker from Little House on the Prairie passed away.  I remember him from my favorite episode where Albert gets addicted to opium (or some other narcotic).

[Dan (the Man)]

I have not seen any version of the CANTERVILLE GHOST either...however, I have seen THE TOONERVILLE TROLLEY....for some reason those titles reminded me of each other.

And, of course, there's THE SPITTOONERVILLE TROLLEY.

[JoseSPiano]

Good Afternoon!

...Just popping in while they're reading some people.  -There's wireless here in the theatre building!



So far, so good.  More or less.  However...

It's amazing how some actors sing the same songs... and make the same mistakes - notes and otherwise - year after year after year...

[JoseSPiano]

OK - Time to start catching up on my reading...

Laters...

[elmore3003]

The orchestration thread got started with regard to that ridiculous press release saying the new Sweet Charity had replaced the "dated" Ralph Burns orchestrations.

That's the very same rationale used by Bruce Coughlin to justify what he does to Russell Bennett and Hershy Kay.  

[elmore3003]

"...as a result of having tripped and fell..."

Which, of course, should be "...as a result of having tripped and fallen..."

 

I hear bad grammar all over television news and programming, I read bad grammar in current books and newspapers.  Whatever happened to intelligent editors?  Obviously, the intelligent writers are becoming obsolete.

[elmore3003]

Here is a LINK to the registration site for Castlrec.  DR Elmore, it's pretty much a process of signing up with your e-mail address.  A small warning--somedays your mailbox will contain up to 50 messages from the listserv.  And the discussions can be a little on the dry side, but the majority of the people who "post" are pretty knowledgeable and stay on topic.

DR DTM, thank you so much!  I just signed up.