Topic: WHEN THE MOOD STRIKES ME (Read 36501 times)

bk · « **on:** September 03, 2005, 12:12:57 AM »

Well, you've read the notes, the mood has struck you and you have struck the mood and it's a split decision, and now it is time for you to post until the cows come home, which will be whenever the mood strikes them.

bk · « **Reply #1 on:** September 03, 2005, 12:13:57 AM »

And the word of the day is: IGNOBLE!

Rodzinski · « **Reply #2 on:** September 03, 2005, 12:23:46 AM »

"Once in Love With Amy"

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #3 on:** September 03, 2005, 12:25:45 AM »

Good Morning!

Hmmm.... New linens on the bed in "my" room. Hmm... Hopefully, they won't be itchy... In any case...

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #4 on:** September 03, 2005, 12:26:26 AM »

Happy Birthday, DR MattH!

*Go ahead and have another scoop of ice cream! And make it the REAL stuff!!

Rodzinski · « **Reply #5 on:** September 03, 2005, 12:29:01 AM »

Incredible All-Star Birthdays every day here!
Happy Birthday MattH!!!!!

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #6 on:** September 03, 2005, 12:30:23 AM »

As for showstoppers...

The Act One Finale of Dreamgirls which includes "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Goin'". WOW!

"The Impossible Dream" from Man of La Mancha. It's amazing just how powerful this song can be, especially in the context of the show.

"Somewhere That's Green" from Little Shop of Horrors.

...And that's all that comes to my very tired mind right now. I'm sure other DRs will "refresh" my memory throughout the day.

Rodzinski · « **Reply #7 on:** September 03, 2005, 12:31:21 AM »

Most recently, "Great Big Stuff" from DR Scoundrels.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #8 on:** September 03, 2005, 12:31:30 AM »

OH!

"Franklin Shepherd, Inc." from Merrily We Roll Along.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #9 on:** September 03, 2005, 12:34:23 AM »

OH!

BK - The conductor/music director for Lestat is Brad Haak. We worked together last year at Ford's Theatre on Children of Eden, and I recently helped him out up at Vassar on Dangerous Beauty. He's an amazing pianist, and he's already carved out quite a nice career for himself considering he's not even 30 yet. Great guy.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #10 on:** September 03, 2005, 12:34:49 AM »

OH!

I think it's time for me to go to bed.

Goodnight.

Hisaka · « **Reply #11 on:** September 03, 2005, 02:16:17 AM »

Happy Birthday, DR MATTH!!!
Have a special beautiful birthday!

Hisaka · « **Reply #12 on:** September 03, 2005, 02:21:41 AM »

Congratulations on your job, DR JOSE!
And I, too, prefer your new avatar. It's cool!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #13 on:** September 03, 2005, 05:20:53 AM »

Good morning, all! I'm currently playing the OBC of TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA, and remembering my Wednesday evening in Central Park with Charlotte, who went to her first rock concert last night. I don't know how she keeps pace with herself, even if she is 16

BK, I have a question about the TOD: Are these numbers we have actually seen onstage or mere wishful thinking? If actually seen, then the following:
HELLO, DOLLY! title song: Mary Martin, Ginger Rogers, Carol Channing
"Turkey Lurkey Time": Original Broadway cast
"Who's That Woman?": Original Broadway cast
"You Can Dance with Any Girl": National tour starring June Alyson, Dennis Day, Judy Canova
"Franklin Shepard, Inc.": Lonnie Price
"Lily's Eyes": Original Broadway cast
"Once In Love With Amy": Noah Racey, Goodspeed
"A Little Priest": Lansbury & Cariou
"Nobody": Lynne Thigpen
"Sons of": Elly Stone
"Night Letter": Jonelle Allen
I honestly cannot remember a showstopping moment in some shows I've loved enormously - 1776 (OBC), A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC (OBC), SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE - but I may think of more later.

DearReaderLaura · « **Reply #14 on:** September 03, 2005, 06:00:30 AM »

TOD: Beau Heckman singing "Those Canaan Days" at Phoenix Theater's "Joseph and the Amazing ... Dreamcoat" several years ago. The show just flat-out stopped for several minutes.

DearReaderLaura · « **Reply #15 on:** September 03, 2005, 06:18:52 AM »

Happy, Happy Birthday to DR MattH! I look forward to the cake report!

I hope our other Birthday Folks of the Day will check in today.

DearReaderLaura · « **Reply #16 on:** September 03, 2005, 06:22:44 AM »

For those of you who wish to donate to help the hurricane victims and don't want to give to the Red Cross or the Salvation Army, you might check with a local church and see what they are doing. I know that my denomination is big on disaster relief. I have been sent out a few times myself.

DearReaderLaura · « **Reply #17 on:** September 03, 2005, 06:23:17 AM »

This must be my first ever posting frenzy!

William E. Lurie · « **Reply #18 on:** September 03, 2005, 06:40:39 AM »

"One" from A CHORUS LINE

td · « **Reply #19 on:** September 03, 2005, 07:03:22 AM »

Quote

Since our original Vincenzo was not available, Curtis and Tom brought in one of their friends, Jeff Edgerton.

Yet another of my Carnegie Mellon "children of theater."

td · « **Reply #20 on:** September 03, 2005, 07:08:42 AM »

Happy 29th Birthday, DR MattH!

Maria Friedman performing A Pharoah Story in JOSEPH. . .
Helen Gallagher's Where Has My Hubby Gone Blues. . .
Babs doing Don't Rain on My Parade
Hugh Jackman doing just about anything in BOY FROM OZ
Idina Menzel doing Defying Gravity (although I do like FORBIDDEN BROADWAY'S Defying Subtlety, too)
Tell Me It's Not True even though it's written to literally stop the show by being the final moments.
You're Just In Love
Old Fashioned Wedding
76 Trombones
Lily's Eyes (from personal experience, Gary Klein and I stopped the show nightly with this)

FJL · « **Reply #21 on:** September 03, 2005, 07:16:57 AM »

DR Matt - Happy birthday. I know it's early, but I've already had that extra scoop of real Haagen Dazs ice cream on your behalf.

FJL · « **Reply #22 on:** September 03, 2005, 07:22:46 AM »

DR Jose - In one of your posts yesterday, you mentioned that the conductor asked people who were trying to hold on to an empty seat next to them whether they had bought two seats. Did you get the impression from what the conductor was saying that if a customer had actually opted to pay for two seats in order to be comfortable in the overcrowded train, that customer would have been allowed to keep the empty seat next to him or her? Or would that have sparked a revolution from the other passengers? I know some airlines allow people to buy three seats for two people to keep the "middle" seat empty, but those are reserved seats. Wondering if it applies to trains, where it's open seating.

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #23 on:** September 03, 2005, 07:52:08 AM »

TOD:

Molasses to Rum - 1776
Meditation - Shenandoah
No Time at All - Pippin
Make Them Hear You - Ragtime
Pity the Child - Chess
Do you Hear the People Sing - Les Miz
Memory - Cats
Eva's Final Broadcast - Evita
If I Can't Love Her - Beauty and the Beast
Gethsemane - Superstar

And one I haven't seen:

Measure the Valleys - Raisin

der Brucer

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #24 on:** September 03, 2005, 07:56:32 AM »

Quote from: FJL on September 03, 2005, 07:22:46 AM

DR Jose - In one of your posts yesterday, you mentioned that the conductor asked people who were trying to hold on to an empty seat next to them whether they had bought two seats. Did you get the impression from what the conductor was saying that if a customer had actually opted to pay for two seats in order to be comfortable in the overcrowded train, that customer would have been allowed to keep the empty seat next to him or her? Or would that have sparked a revolution from the other passengers? I know some airlines allow people to buy three seats for two people to keep the "middle" seat empty, but those are reserved seats. Wondering if it applies to trains, where it's open seating.

Well, the tone in the conductor's voice when he was asking, "Do you have two tickets?" was sort of in jest, but a serious jest. If someone was just trying to save a seat, then he would kindly ask them to move their bag/bags/food/computer/feet/etc. However... I have seen people on Amtrak buy two seats. On the Reserved trains that is allowable, and you can buy a pair of seats for yourself. Of course, that probably means you're one of the first people on the train so that you can actually find a pair of seats together.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #25 on:** September 03, 2005, 07:57:37 AM »

Good Morning!

I hear my niece and nephew downstairs...

Laters...

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #26 on:** September 03, 2005, 07:59:47 AM »

It says in this here book that Matt is having a Birthday.

Let's make it a good one!

der Brucer (How do we post in HDTV with 5 channel aound?)

TPunk · « **Reply #27 on:** September 03, 2005, 08:00:37 AM »

Quote from: JoseSPiano on September 03, 2005, 12:31:30 AM

OH!

"Franklin Shepherd, Inc." from Merrily We Roll Along.

Ditto- amazingly done by Raul Esparza at the Kennedy Center.

TPunk · « **Reply #28 on:** September 03, 2005, 08:03:28 AM »

Happy Birthday MattH!

MBarnum · « **Reply #29 on:** September 03, 2005, 08:11:13 AM »

Happy birthday MattH!

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