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« Reply #150 on: March 18, 2023, 06:10:34 PM »

Six.
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« Reply #151 on: March 18, 2023, 06:11:14 PM »

I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby.
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« Reply #152 on: March 18, 2023, 06:14:25 PM »

~~~VIBES OF ALL SORTS~~~ for DR Jeanne!!!!!!

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« Reply #153 on: March 18, 2023, 06:17:14 PM »

Not even one of those cookies.
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« Reply #154 on: March 18, 2023, 06:17:26 PM »

Which I would kill for.
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« Reply #155 on: March 18, 2023, 06:17:28 PM »

I am back from the Garden. I'll say a bit in the notes - our Ava was excellent especially considering that NO ONE worked with her or Sadie. That's right - one put in and on you go. We'll start with the anemic ten-piece band playing a score that demands more of a band. First, I have never seen The Secret Garden and I'm not sure I've ever heard the entire score. I do know they've mucked around with, cutting two numbers, moving one to the first act, etc. Well, let me cut to the chase - it's one of the worst directed shows I've ever seen. Whatever talents the director has as a choreographer have clearly not followed him into directing. The blocking is high schoolish, and his choreography is just people flitting about the stage occasionally, not that there's really room for choreography. One of his most inane decisions was to have cholera, yes, the disease, embodied by a female dancer flitting about the stage offing people. And I don't believe I've seen an uglier and more misbegotten set than this one. You can find pictures online, although the one they use most of rain falling in the middle of that hideous "S" thing that takes up most of the stage looks great in the photo because - the photo is staged. I doesn't really look like that in the show. I know Ken Billington is a fine lighting designer, but the lighting is just not good and perhaps that's what the non-director wanted. The costumes are the same - drab and dreary straight down the line. The cast is okay - very multi-racial, of course - it's fine. The Archibald - they keep calling him a hunchback but there's no hump or anything at all that would lead you to believe that's true. He sings well, but his acting is very declamatory in style and, for me anyway, playing AT things. The Neville is okay but I gather the cut stuff affects both roles. Julia Lester is good as the maid - just a few years ago she was a schoolmate of Sami. Theater needs magic and there is zero magic to do here. The most fun was watching Ava take the stage and own it. We hugged after the show and she'll be returning to Kritzerland very soon.
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« Reply #156 on: March 18, 2023, 06:18:11 PM »

Traffic going there was horrible. Coming home was better.
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« Reply #157 on: March 18, 2023, 06:18:15 PM »

The Big Biscuit just opened in town.
https://bigbiscuit.com/the-big-biscuit-menu/
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« Reply #158 on: March 18, 2023, 06:18:40 PM »

I ran into Shannon Cudd there - she was Donna in The Brain from Planet X at the Chance Theater.
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« Reply #159 on: March 18, 2023, 06:19:17 PM »

I wonder if I ever even bought the cast album of The Secret Garden. A cursory look in the garage did not reveal it.
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« Reply #160 on: March 18, 2023, 06:19:31 PM »

I did get another 100 pages into my Zola novel, The Debacle. I’ve read my share of anti-war war novels, but this may be the graphic and horrifying. So much so, I had to take a break.

I think I will pass.
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« Reply #161 on: March 18, 2023, 06:20:56 PM »

That's too bad, BK. It sounds like a big missed opportunity. I can't remember now how cholera was portrayed in the original production.
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« Reply #162 on: March 18, 2023, 06:23:04 PM »

Both the OBC and the London cast recordings are available on iTunes. I really love the score.
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« Reply #163 on: March 18, 2023, 06:29:23 PM »

I wonder if I ever even bought the cast album of The Secret Garden. A cursory look in the garage did not reveal it.

When we lived in Ashland you gave me a copy of The Secret Garden.  I kept it in my car and frequently listened to it.
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« Reply #164 on: March 18, 2023, 06:29:35 PM »

From Bruce:
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One of his most inane decisions was to have cholera, yes, the disease, embodied by a female dancer flitting about the stage offing people.

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« Reply #165 on: March 18, 2023, 06:30:20 PM »

That's too bad, BK. It sounds like a big missed opportunity. I can't remember now how cholera was portrayed in the original production.

I don't remember that, at least it not looking ridiculous.
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« Reply #166 on: March 18, 2023, 06:39:18 PM »

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« Reply #167 on: March 18, 2023, 06:42:09 PM »

But did you like the show, BK? I couldn’t tell.
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« Reply #168 on: March 18, 2023, 06:44:47 PM »

Dancing death. Hard pass.
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« Reply #169 on: March 18, 2023, 06:45:24 PM »

Now, if covid did a soft shoe …
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« Reply #170 on: March 18, 2023, 06:47:35 PM »

Empire of Light is very well acted and not worth your time. Together with Bones and All, it has made for a lackluster day of movies.
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« Reply #171 on: March 18, 2023, 06:47:39 PM »

Laryngitis could do a tango.
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« Reply #172 on: March 18, 2023, 06:48:15 PM »

And scurvy a tarantello.
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« Reply #173 on: March 18, 2023, 06:49:39 PM »

And gout the limbo.
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« Reply #174 on: March 18, 2023, 06:50:18 PM »

Venereal disease would have to do the Lambada - the Forbidden Dance.
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« Reply #175 on: March 18, 2023, 06:51:15 PM »

And inner ear infection the polka.
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« Reply #176 on: March 18, 2023, 06:52:33 PM »

And tinnitus a gigue.
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« Reply #177 on: March 18, 2023, 06:54:07 PM »

I guess this train of thought is a bit morbid.
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« Reply #178 on: March 18, 2023, 06:54:18 PM »

But cholera started it.
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« Reply #179 on: March 18, 2023, 06:54:25 PM »

One more.
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