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[singdaw]

FOUR

[Matthew]

As for my current musical adventures, and I'm sure DR Matthew is way ahead of me on these pieces:

I'm crash-learning "I'm Not Afraid..." from Songs For a New World and the title song from The Light in the Piazza for an upcoming recital, and there have been moments in which I feel like I'm struggling to read music and play a piano for the first time.

(And yes, of course there'll be some Sondheim. Fortunately, only "Green Finch and Linnet Bird" and "I Know Things Now". It could be worse. Much worse.)

Have fun with those songs.  I actually haven't had the need to look at them.  I once had to sight read a run-through of [i[The Light in the Piazza[/i]  couldn't tell you much about that as it was like being under water for 3 hours.  JRB and I don't always get along, too many unnecessary notes for my test. I love playing Sondheim, though - to me, it always makes sense!

[Jane]

DR Rodzinski, I hope the staff that told Mrs R it was ok to be 10 minutes late apologized for the doctor leaving, and for not calling back to say he left.

They were apologetic. The doctor said she had to leave because she had a headache. This was for the results of a cancer treatment my MIL is undergoing, by the way.

I hope she really was suffering and is actually a sympathetic doctor.  Maybe the doctor will be willing to do a video or audio conference with the results.

[Jane]

Good to hear DR Matthew's dress rehearsals are proceeding well. Too bad about the banjo player.

Ditto.

[Jrand74]

Banjo Sounds - that's the title of my new CD that is dropping on Tuesday.

[Jrand74]

You're welcome.

[Jane]

I am just now catching up on the posts from the 1st.

[Jrand74]

I am taking a photograph of my grandmother and her 10 kids that was taken in the summer of 1927 to rehearsal tonight just to show everyone how REAL folks looked back then.

[Jane]

How big was the worm that was mistaken for a snake?

[Jrand74]

My grandfather was in North Carolina at a sanitarium to try to cure his tuberculosis.....and you can guess how that turned out.

[Jane]

DR John I am sorry about your plants.

[Jrand74]

Once his bank account was empty - he was sent home to expire.

[Jrand74]

Better rest of the day vibes for DR ELMORE.

Maybe Stella is seeing full moon ghosts!

[Jrand74]

Looks like a might rain later this evening so I will drive Petey instead of Dennis to rehearsal.

[ChasSmith]

Corn.

[elmore3003]

Here's the Hollywood Bowl program:
Act 1
"Overture and Night Waltz" (A Little Night Music) Skylar Astin, Sierra Boggess, Sutton Foster, Norm Lewis
"What More Do I Need" (Saturday Night) Sierra Boggess
"Everybody Says Don't" (Anyone Can Whistle) Norm Lewis
"There Won't Be Trumpets" (Anyone Can Whistle) Sutton Foster
"Finishing The Hat" (Sunday in the Park with George) Skylar Astin
"Getting Married today" (Company) Brian Stokes Mitchell
"Being Alive" (Company) Patti LuPone
"Too Many Mornings" (Follies) Sierra Boggess, Norm Lewis
"The God-Why-Don't-You-Love-Me-Blues" (Follies) Skylar Astin
"Epiphany" (Sweeney Todd) Brian Stokes Mitchell
"A Little Priest" (Sweeney Todd) Patti LuPone, Brian Stokes Mitchell
"Another Hundred People" (Company) Sutton Foster
"A Weekend in the Country" (A Little Night Music) Company
Intermission

Act 2
"Night Waltz II" (A Little Night Music)
"Send in the Clowns" (A Little Night Music) Patti LuPone
"Pretty Women" (Sweeney Todd) Brian Stokes Mitchell, Norm Lewis
"Losing My Mind/Not a Day Goes By" (Follies/Merrily We Roll Along) Sutton Foster, Sierra Boggess
"With So Little to Be Sure Of" (Anyone Can Whistle) Norm Lewis
"Flag Song" cut (Assassins) Brian Stokes Mitchell
"Moments in the Woods (Into the Woods) Sutton Foster
"The Ladies Who Lunch" (Company) Patti LuPone
"Move On" (Sunday in the Park with George) Sierra Boggess, Skylar Astin
"Sunday" (Sunday in the Park with George) Company

I'd be curious to know who conducted and who did the orchestrations and the dreadful mash-ups

[singdaw]

The corn is as high as an elephant's...

[singdaw]

ASS.

[bk]

Most people don't have a clew how to put together a put-together. I'm pretty good at it because I understand how they need to function in terms of storytelling and connecting the songs together. When Alex Rybeck and Liz first played me their put-together of I'll Know and Somebody Somewhere it made no sense to me because it was just the two songs with a four-bar turnaround between them. I told them it had to make musical sense that they were together and asked Alex to put some of the accompaniment for I'll Know in the underscore for Somebody Somewhere (or maybe it was the other way around) and to tie everything together seamlessly, which he did brilliantly. If you listen to A Broadway Love Story, you'll hear me doing that constantly when there's a put together - and it just makes everything work.

[bk]

Futzed and finessed, wrote half a new page, am having some food, and then I'll do at least four or five new pages.

[DR Iris]

Curated by Robert Longbottom and Kevin Stites
Conducted by Kevin Stites

For DR elmore

[DR Iris]

Turns out, I’ve watched most of the Sondheim Hollywood Bowl performances.

[DR Iris]

The search for the grail continues, on Broadway this fall! Direct from a sold out run at the Kennedy Center, it has been announced today that the Tony Award-winning Best Musical comedy Monty Python’s Spamalot will return to Broadway this fall at the St. James Theatre. Performances begin Tuesday, October 31, 2023, and the official opening knight is Thursday, November 16, 2023.

Spamalot will be the first production from the Kennedy Center’s Broadway Center Stage series to transfer to Broadway since its inception in 2018 under Finn’s leadership. Josh Rhodes will return from the Kennedy Center production to direct and choreograph on Broadway.

[DR Iris]

DR elmore, is Josh Rhodes your friend Josh?

[DR Iris]

Rodzinski, what a romantic tribute to the anniversary of the day you two met.
💕💕

[DR Iris]

Congrats on your award, BK!

[DR Iris]

From John G.

https://youtu.be/nvYaOtilcUY

Saturday Night.

Thank you, John G.! I love this!

[elmore3003]

DR elmore, is Josh Rhodes your friend Josh?

No, but we are Facebook friends.

[DR Iris]

I just realized it’s probably Josh Clayton.

[DR Iris]

Since you both work on Encores!