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[singdaw]

Four.

[singdaw]

Speaking of Alfred Hitchcock...

On This Day in 1963, his film The Birds premiered.

[elmore3003]

For dinner I fried a couple of salmon burgers. Quite delicious.

[John G.]

Ushering for a dress rehearsal of Gounod’s Romeo and Juliet. I don’t think this is the one with a happy ending. I saw one French opera version that did have a happy ending. I hadn’t read the program notes and was shocked when Juliet woke up before Romeo killed himself. Sort of ruined my evening.

[bk]

I'm up, I'm up - eight hours of sleep.

[bk]

Frantic would definitely qualify. I'm always surprised when people say they haven't seen many Hitchcock films. He's made some of, IMO, the greatest movies ever made. If you haven't seen any of the following you really owe it to yourself to watch: Notorious. Shadow of a Doubt (one of his greatest), Strangers on a Train, Dial 'M' for Murder, Rear Window, To Catch a Thief. the 1956 The Man Who Knew too Much, Vertigo, Psycho, The Birds, and especially North by Northwest. Each of those are great.

[singdaw]

It would be nice if there were a definitive box set, but the home releases seem so piecemeal.

[John G.]

Frantic would definitely qualify. I'm always surprised when people say they haven't seen many Hitchcock films. He's made some of, IMO, the greatest movies ever made. If you haven't seen any of the following you really owe it to yourself to watch: Notorious. Shadow of a Doubt (one of his greatest), Strangers on a Train, Dial 'M' for Murder, Rear Window, To Catch a Thief. the 1956 The Man Who Knew too Much, Vertigo, Psycho, The Birds, and especially North by Northwest. Each of those are great.

Yup on all of those. I am particularly fond of Frenzy. And the last time I saw Family Plot, I enjoyed it much more than the first. Then there are the early greats like 39 Steps and Foreign Correspondent.

[Jrand73]

I have not read the book nor seen the television show mentioned by DR JOHN G and DR ELMORE.  I am obviously a heathen.

However I have seen all of the movies in the list MR BK just posted.  And they are certainly MUST SEE films.

[Jrand73]

I just watched MR HULOT'S HOLIDAY......for the first time in a few years.

I laughed and laughed again.  This time I particularly watched how the children in the scenes reacted to him and their actions with their parents and each other......

The boy slapped in the face in the first minute of the film and the little boy with his head stuck in the steering wheel of the bus....

All of it is so funny.

[Jrand73]

I have ScreenPix through something else that I also subscribed to, I think maybe the TCM sports package......it has some good movies to be sure.  And they add a few each month or rotate some films in and out.

Another similar service is MGM+.....which I get because I subscribe to HBO.  They have all of the MGM/UA films from the 1950's which are fun to see now and then.

[George]

George, congrats on all your finds in your storage unit.

Thanks, Jane!

[George]

DR George, check out "Ah, Paris!" in that Hansen collection. If I remember correctly, it has a different verse and other oddities.

It does!  The first verse is:

I have traveled over this earth.
From Bombay to Venice to Perth.
I've been down to Rio and up to Brest,
To East and West and to all the rest.

I have seen the gardens of Kew
And I've been to Timbuktu, too.
But when I've returned
The things I've learned
Is what I always knew:

New York has neon, Berlin has bars....

[George]

And the rest are familiar lyrics.

[elmore3003]

DR George, check out "Ah, Paris!" in that Hansen collection. If I remember correctly, it has a different verse and other oddities.

.

It does!  The first verse is:

I have traveled over this earth.
From Bombay to Venice to Perth.
I've been down to Rio and up to Brest,
To East and West and to all the rest.

I have seen the gardens of Kew
And I've been to Timbuktu, too.
But when I've returned
The things I've learned
Is what I always knew:

New York has neon, Berlin has bars....

Look at "Broadway Baby." I seem to remember something new there as well

[singdaw]

I am hoping that DR Jane and DH Keith are seeing sights like this:

[George]

Wordle 647 6/6

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I took all six tries, too!

Wordle 647 6/6

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[elmore3003]

Frantic would definitely qualify. I'm always surprised when people say they haven't seen many Hitchcock films. He's made some of, IMO, the greatest movies ever made. If you haven't seen any of the following you really owe it to yourself to watch: Notorious. Shadow of a Doubt (one of his greatest), Strangers on a Train, Dial 'M' for Murder, Rear Window, To Catch a Thief. the 1956 The Man Who Knew too Much, Vertigo, Psycho, The Birds, and especially North by Northwest. Each of those are great.

I've seen:
Stage Fright
Strangers on a Train
Dial 'M' for Murder
the 1956 The Man Who Knew too Much
Vertigo
Psycho
The Birds
North by Northwest
Frenzy
Family Plot

[George]

DR George, check out "Ah, Paris!" in that Hansen collection. If I remember correctly, it has a different verse and other oddities.

.

It does!  The first verse is:

I have traveled over this earth.
From Bombay to Venice to Perth.
I've been down to Rio and up to Brest,
To East and West and to all the rest.

I have seen the gardens of Kew
And I've been to Timbuktu, too.
But when I've returned
The things I've learned
Is what I always knew:

New York has neon, Berlin has bars....

Look at "Broadway Baby." I seem to remember something new there as well

I did mention that in one of my firsts posts today.

[George]

I am astonished that the cast members of DR GEORGE's show are expected to print out their own scores & scripts.

Now of course, some people may use them on their phones or tablets.....but how do you make blocking notes?

I don't like it.

We're not expected to make our own copies.  We were given the script/vocal books, but I prefer to make my own copies so that I don't have to be careful with them, and I get to keep it.

[George]

I am astonished that the cast members of DR GEORGE's show are expected to print out their own scores & scripts.

Now of course, some people may use them on their phones or tablets.....but how do you make blocking notes?

I don't like it.

Yes, same here, unless something was lost in translation. Since when are cast members not handed their scripts or sides or libretto books or whatever they're called on day one? Sunday and the other Sondheims are MTI, right? Has something changed on certain shows?

We didn't get the books on the first music rehearsal because they hadn't arrived yet, so they sent us PDFs in the meantime.  Our first read-through isn't until a week from today, so everyone has gotten the actual scripts/vocal books.

[George]

This may be one of DR JANE's photos from her Facebook page.

Nice!

[George]

Has anyone read Shades of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson? It’s set in London after WWI and before the Great Depression. It’s fun so far. I’m about a quarter in.

There have been two Dickens jokes that made me laugh out loud. One involved an uneducated lass who thought Oliver Twist was the name of a biscuit.

Maybe they'd like to enjoy a piece of Mahler's with that twist of Oliver's.

[John G.]

Has anyone read Shades of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson? It’s set in London after WWI and before the Great Depression. It’s fun so far. I’m about a quarter in.

There have been two Dickens jokes that made me laugh out loud. One involved an uneducated lass who thought Oliver Twist was the name of a biscuit.

Maybe they'd like to enjoy a piece of Mahler's with that twist of Oliver's.

Since I don’t like cheesecake…

[John G.]

A video version of London’s Heathers the Musical is coming. June 5 is the supposed release date.

[John G.]

Flopdoodle post 115!

[John G.]

I’ve got balcony tonight.

[Jane]

PT was not fun today. But the hand is getting stronger.

Very good news.

[Jane]

DR Jrand, thank you for sharing my photo.

[Jane]

Frantic would definitely qualify. I'm always surprised when people say they haven't seen many Hitchcock films. He's made some of, IMO, the greatest movies ever made. If you haven't seen any of the following you really owe it to yourself to watch: Notorious. Shadow of a Doubt (one of his greatest), Strangers on a Train, Dial 'M' for Murder, Rear Window, To Catch a Thief. the 1956 The Man Who Knew too Much, Vertigo, Psycho, The Birds, and especially North by Northwest. Each of those are great.

To add to thisgreat list.

Marnie
Rebecca