Topic: NOT LETTING ANYTHING GET IN THE WAY OF JOY (Read 10563 times)

bk · « **Reply #90 on:** April 25, 2023, 11:40:36 AM »

I'm thinking Sunday might be good for the Q&A.

bk · « **Reply #91 on:** April 25, 2023, 11:41:33 AM »

No galley, no reviews on Amazon. We'll wait till morning, which is three days for Amazon and then they'll get a strong letter saying they are actively hurting our show. Reviews bring views, it's that simple.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #92 on:** April 25, 2023, 11:44:22 AM »

Clifford's partner Stuart White was one of my dearest friends until his death around 1983. I met him through my friend Rebecca, who was one of his students at the Circle Rep Theatre Lab, which Stuart directed. He was a brilliant director who helped develop Beth Henley's wonderful Crimes of the Heart. Rebecca had invited me to a party and Stuart was there. We had a lot of laughs and the next day he called me and asked me to musical direct a Theatre Lab Review he was doing, Nothin' Depressin', based on songs of the Great Depression. He and I used to walk around NYC bellowing "I'll Tell the Man in the Street" in questionable harmony. He was a big fan of the cabaret act "Just Good Friends" that I arranged and played for. He was one of hte founders of the WPA Theatre with his friend Kyle Renick, whom I reminded Stuart of. He had also been involved romantically with Howard Ashman, and I really don't know howling he and Clifford had been together. Stuart was directing something at Harvard or Yale when he was diagnosed with AIDS. His death hit me hard.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #93 on:** April 25, 2023, 11:44:50 AM »

Quote from: bk on April 25, 2023, 11:40:16 AM

Glad elmore got it worked out.

ME, TOO!

John G. · « **Reply #94 on:** April 25, 2023, 11:46:34 AM »

Quote from: George on April 25, 2023, 11:03:18 AM

Quote from: John G. on April 25, 2023, 08:12:56 AM
On Elmore’s recommendation, I am reading The Great Sunflower. Beautiful noval. I got it through an intralibrary loan. I wanted to buy a used copy, but they want $50 for it on alibris.

Is that by Clifford Stone? You can get a paperback for as little as $37.37 on Amazon.

Thanks.

singdaw · « **Reply #95 on:** April 25, 2023, 12:08:05 PM »

Now Gorsuch has also been implicated in a shady, unreported real estate deal with a wealthy Republican donor who had many cases before the court.

Honestly...

singdaw · « **Reply #96 on:** April 25, 2023, 12:15:44 PM »

DR elmore3003, you have GOT to write your memoir!!!!!!

singdaw · « **Reply #97 on:** April 25, 2023, 12:18:11 PM »

[You] Told me love was too plebeian

singdaw · « **Reply #98 on:** April 25, 2023, 12:26:19 PM »

Told me you were through with me, an'

singdaw · « **Reply #99 on:** April 25, 2023, 12:26:53 PM »

[a little "Cry Me a River" reference]

singdaw · « **Reply #100 on:** April 25, 2023, 12:27:35 PM »

I blame that on Tiler Peck.

singdaw · « **Reply #101 on:** April 25, 2023, 12:27:52 PM »

She told me to use some paprika, and look where it got me.

bk · « **Reply #102 on:** April 25, 2023, 12:40:48 PM »

Wrote the book people - again.

bk · « **Reply #103 on:** April 25, 2023, 12:41:05 PM »

Guess I'll shave and shower now.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #104 on:** April 25, 2023, 12:51:18 PM »

My friend Craig Sturgis went to college with Stuart White, and Kyle Renick. He sent me this photo of them and Howard Ashman at a WPA rehearsal for Reynolds Price's play Early Dark, which Stuart directed. Craig, who's a wonderful lyricist, ran lights for the production. It's the only photo I have of Stuart (on the right).

elmore3003 · « **Reply #105 on:** April 25, 2023, 01:04:24 PM »

The WPA began in 1971 on the Bowery. In April or May, 1971, I went with friends I was visiting to see their midnight show, a parody of TV game shows. In 1977, Howard and Stuart took it over as co-Artistic Directors, with Kyle as Managing Director, and it moved to a building on Fifth Avenue in the 20s, as I recall. I saw a couple of shows there that Stuart directed. In the 1990s, the theatre moved to West 23rd (?) Street, very close to the Hudson River. I saw Dinah Was, a play about Dinah Washington there.

singdaw · « **Reply #106 on:** April 25, 2023, 01:36:01 PM »

Thanks for sharing the photo, DR elmore3003.

singdaw · « **Reply #107 on:** April 25, 2023, 01:36:24 PM »

I have to go to a cocktail reception tonight to meet the president of Yale University.

singdaw · « **Reply #108 on:** April 25, 2023, 01:36:35 PM »

I hate cocktail receptions.

singdaw · « **Reply #109 on:** April 25, 2023, 01:36:54 PM »

I hate attempting to make small talk with people I don't know and will never see again.

singdaw · « **Reply #110 on:** April 25, 2023, 01:37:02 PM »

I hate dressing up.

singdaw · « **Reply #111 on:** April 25, 2023, 01:37:17 PM »

So I can tell I'm going to have a great time.

John G. · « **Reply #112 on:** April 25, 2023, 01:55:36 PM »

You enjoy yourself, ya hear?

John G. · « **Reply #113 on:** April 25, 2023, 01:56:32 PM »

Tweezers plucking unwanted hairs sound more appealing.

singdaw · « **Reply #114 on:** April 25, 2023, 02:05:09 PM »

Indeed!

singdaw · « **Reply #115 on:** April 25, 2023, 02:05:37 PM »

It's being held at an art museum. Perhaps I can just accidentally wander off.

singdaw · « **Reply #116 on:** April 25, 2023, 02:07:04 PM »

I can find a dark corner and just watch episodes of Sami on my phone.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #117 on:** April 25, 2023, 02:07:45 PM »

Be mysterious DR singdaw - draw people to you.

Are you going to take your harp to the party?

Jrand74 · « **Reply #118 on:** April 25, 2023, 02:08:06 PM »

Wonderful......sad stories.....DR ELMORE.....but lovely to read.

John G. · « **Reply #119 on:** April 25, 2023, 02:10:56 PM »

It’s Miss Congeniality Day!

Shatner to beauty contestant: Describe your perfect date.

Contestant: That’s a tough one. I’d have to say April 25th. Because it’s not too hot and not too cold. All you need is a light jacket.

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