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[Jane]

Wow DR Rodzinsky, Bellingham for Costco.  I believe you can also find good restaurants there.  Do you combine Costco with other activities.

[Jane]

Yes, Vancouver has lots of good restaurants though it is still a drive. 

[Jane]

I read about Point Roberts during covid, then completely forgot what it was called

[singdaw]

Nice photos, DR ChasSmith. Thank you.

[singdaw]

PAGE THREE DANCE.

[singdaw]

Some dream, indeed, DR Laura.       

[bk]

I'm up, I'm up - I do believe we've got a lovely case of food poisoning.

[bk]

Six  and a half hours of sleep.

[bk]

Last night, to try and settle my nausea, I made some white rice. It seemed to at least help a little.

[bk]

At nine-thirty I awoke with food poisoning - no vomit but all the other lovely stuff that goes with it.

[singdaw]

Sorry, BK.

[bk]

I just hope it all exits and I'm done with it - too much to do, but thankfully today I don't have to leave the house.

[bk]

I'd ordered food in advance last night, so I just cancelled that.

[singdaw]

If I make a sandwich with lettuce, guacamole, bacon, and tomato, is that a LGBT?

[bk]

I suspect there will be no food for me today.

[singdaw]

Asking for a friend.

[bk]

And frankly, that's probably not bad.

[singdaw]

And if you add mayo, is that LGBT+?

[singdaw]

Big, fat flakes coming down right now, but not a lot of accumulation.

[singdaw]

 

[singdaw]

Can the cloverleaf be improved?

They are considering putting in a "diverging diamond" interchange in Norwalk, very close to DR ChasSmith.

This type of highway interchange became popular in France during the 1970s and has started to become popular in the American midwest. Each direction of traffice briefy crosses over to the opposite side of the road between the on- and off- ramps, eliminating the need for drivers to cross oncoming traffic, theoretically resulting in less bottlenecking.

[vixmom]

Continued vibes for Elmore

[vixmom]

John I am a persnickety  tuna salad eater...I only  like chunk.light ( not white) tuna in water. Then just a squeeze of lemon and just enough mayo so it holds together on my toasted onion bagel.

I will also accept toasted seeded rye as a substitute for the bagel.

[vixmom]

No lettuce tomato onion

[vixmom]

Nothin'

[John G.]

DR ChasSmith - my friend thought it was better than he expected it to be. He liked it a lot, but thought that the show still needs some pruning. Too many reprises, too much repetition in the first act scenes, and the second act flies by almost too briskly. Some characters not fully developed. Nevertheless, overall a positive impression and very much enjoyed.

It's amazingly long, even after the pruning they did do, plus eliminating most of the dance music. And ALL the ballets. And most of the entr'acte. That's a lot of music.

DR Elmore's observation about the cheating wife development is certainly right on. I could even tell while reading the script that if a person's attention happened to flag at just the right moment, they could actually miss that information.

I'm the one who asked the first question about the duo-piano arrangement. The two students came up with it themselves with the help of the full score. It was great, with all the richness you want in such an arrangement. Ted Chapin didn't think one had existed, or that Trude Rittman in particular had written one.

What? Money isn’t everything.

[John G.]

John I am a persnickety  tuna salad eater...I only  like chunk.light ( not white) tuna in water. Then just a squeeze of lemon and just enough mayo so it holds together on my toasted onion bagel.

I will also accept toasted seeded rye as a substitute for the bagel.

So no apple, peas or parsley for you.

[John G.]

Vibes for BK and tummy.

[George]

DR George asked:

That's so cool, ChasSmith.  I wonder if a production is going to tour.  Do you know if the script been updated in any way, or was it just the production itself that was really good?

Nope, this was a college production and yesterday was the closing performance.

No updating. Except for trims, they followed the script. According to the talkback remarks, the original concept sounded dead-on-arrival in comparison with this. The original Greek chorus ensemble was in static speaking and singing groups, some of them in choir robes. Here, the leads (except for Joe) were always part of the ensemble, still in costume, when not doing their own scene. It was never a distraction to see, for example, dead Grandma integrated into other scenes. The entire blocking choreography was complex and, for me, mind blowing, since I don't have a creative bone in my body when it comes to that kind of thing.

The director added one idea:  a framing device, starting the show in the last scene where Joe has his epiphany. At that point the music started and the entire show unfolded, backwards, at high speed, to the playing of the overture, so that at the end of the overture, everyone had "reverted" to their position in the first scene. I think my jaw was on the floor that whole time. The complexity of it, even of the "forward" blocking itself, can't even be described by the likes of me.

Thanks for the info, ChasSmith!

[George]

Photographic Evidence:

Ted Chapin and Oscar Andrew Hammerstein III at intermission.

Clicking and embiggening recommended.

And nice pictures!