Topic: THE BOTTOM HALF OF THE DOUBLE BILL (Read 5113 times)

Freddie · « **Reply #120 on:** July 28, 2024, 06:24:30 PM »

Page Five!

singdaw · « **Reply #121 on:** July 28, 2024, 06:39:56 PM »

Good night, friends.

singdaw · « **Reply #122 on:** July 28, 2024, 06:40:06 PM »

And others.

John G. · « **Reply #123 on:** July 28, 2024, 06:57:43 PM »

Home from dancing

Jane · « **Reply #124 on:** July 28, 2024, 06:58:19 PM »

Quote from: vixmom on July 28, 2024, 06:12:33 PM

Hello from Kissimmee

Hello

Jane · « **Reply #125 on:** July 28, 2024, 06:58:42 PM »

Quote from: vixmom on July 28, 2024, 06:13:17 PM

We arrived yesterday afternoon and after unpacking went for a CrackerBarrel meal that was not pleasant.

Darn.

Jane · « **Reply #126 on:** July 28, 2024, 06:59:35 PM »

Quote from: vixmom on July 28, 2024, 06:14:59 PM

Today we met the kids at a surprise location for a Vixdad birthday celebration

HAPPY BIRTHDAY VIXDAD!

Jane · « **Reply #127 on:** July 28, 2024, 07:00:18 PM »

Quote from: vixmom on July 28, 2024, 06:15:55 PM

It turned out to be an escape room, which we solved with just under 10 minutes to spare.

It sounds like fun.

Jane · « **Reply #128 on:** July 28, 2024, 07:00:56 PM »

Quote from: vixmom on July 28, 2024, 06:17:04 PM

Then we went to a Blaze pizza where we enjoyed our meals and then back to the kids home for several hours of extended grandson cuddling.

Awww. Was he with you all evening or did they have a babysitter?

Jane · « **Reply #129 on:** July 28, 2024, 07:01:16 PM »

Quote from: vixmom on July 28, 2024, 06:17:33 PM

That was my favorite part

Of course.

Jane · « **Reply #130 on:** July 28, 2024, 07:02:02 PM »

Quote from: John G. on July 28, 2024, 06:57:43 PM

Home from dancing

I don't know how you dance with all the pain you are in. I'm glad you can.

Jane · « **Reply #131 on:** July 28, 2024, 07:02:10 PM »

'night

John G. · « **Reply #132 on:** July 28, 2024, 07:02:12 PM »

It rained another tenth of an inch this afternoon.

John G. · « **Reply #133 on:** July 28, 2024, 07:23:55 PM »

Starting Night of the Iguana. Turgid, sloppy fun. And Grayson Hall as a scary lesbian.

John G. · « **Reply #134 on:** July 28, 2024, 08:59:25 PM »

I really enjoyed that movie this time through. Deborah Kerr was her usual excellent self. Ava Gardner was with her every step of the way. Richard Burton was fine, so was Sue Lyon.

John G. · « **Reply #135 on:** July 28, 2024, 08:59:46 PM »

Good night, all.

bk · « **Reply #136 on:** July 28, 2024, 09:53:55 PM »

Page FIVE?

bk · « **Reply #137 on:** July 28, 2024, 09:57:17 PM »

I won't go on about it in the notes, but the musical comedy, Snoopy, over at Santa Monica City College, was not good. It wasn't directed by their usual director and this director decided to "help" the material by inserting all kinds of her own additions into the show and cutting a few songs to make room for them. I'd love to report on these additions but I didn't see them. Sometime prior to the start of the show, the director found out that Larry Grossman, the composer of the show, was going to be there for the closing matinee, so she did damage control immediately by removing all the additions - too late to put back songs - so she cut the intermission and made it one act.

bk · « **Reply #138 on:** July 28, 2024, 09:59:35 PM »

It was all very amateurish, with the only performance in which there was any energy and fun was Isabella Sawoski, our musical director's daughter. Lots of off-pitch singing. you couldn't hear Snoopy at all (I'm pretty sure his mic was off for the entire show), and the pace was glacial. It was nice to see Larry - I've met him several times and he remembered me right away.

bk · « **Reply #139 on:** July 28, 2024, 10:42:38 PM »

Snoopy as a show is a weak cousin to You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, but it works fine if you have a cast that understands how to play the material and a director who knows how to stage it. I first saw it in 1976 during its first production in San Francisco. I was there shooting the Tabitha pilot and one evening after we wrapped, several of us went to see it. I knew Randi Kallan who was in it and just couple of years later would cast her in my musical Stages. Also in it were Pam Myers, choreographer was Marc Breaux - top-notch people but tepid reviews. It wouldn't get to off-Broadway until 1982 where it also got tepid reviews and ran about 150 performances.

bk · « **Reply #140 on:** July 28, 2024, 10:42:57 PM »

Nobody here but us chickens.

Rodzinski · « **Reply #141 on:** July 28, 2024, 10:56:51 PM »

Quote from: bk on July 28, 2024, 09:57:17 PM

I won't go on about it in the notes, but the musical comedy, Snoopy, over at Santa Monica City College, was not good. It wasn't directed by their usual director and this director decided to "help" the material by inserting all kinds of her own additions into the show and cutting a few songs to make room for them. I'd love to report on these additions but I didn't see them. Sometime prior to the start of the show, the director found out that Larry Grossman, the composer of the show, was going to be there for the closing matinee, so she did damage control immediately by removing all the additions - too late to put back songs - so she cut the intermission and made it one act.

This is insane!

Rodzinski · « **Reply #142 on:** July 28, 2024, 11:00:03 PM »

I saw a kind of staged Snoopy benefit once uptown with Christian Borle and his then-wife Sutton Foster.

Rodzinski · « **Reply #143 on:** July 28, 2024, 11:04:16 PM »

It occurred to me that “Where Did That Little Dog Go?” was a re-purposed song from a short-lived Bobby Sherman musical TV vehicle called “Gettin Together.” Or at least it appeared on the LP named for that show, under the name “Where Did That Little Girl Go?”

Rodzinski · « **Reply #144 on:** July 28, 2024, 11:05:14 PM »

Great Debbie Reynolds story. BK, do you still own the 45?

Rodzinski · « **Reply #145 on:** July 28, 2024, 11:08:37 PM »

Budd Boetticher’s nephew has become sort of a friend. He was the funeral director in charge of funerals and embalming for Reagan and Bush Sr. He writes for my magazine sometimes. He now heads the National Funeral Museum in Houston.

Rodzinski · « **Reply #146 on:** July 28, 2024, 11:18:41 PM »

And while I’m naming names in tangential fashion, Clark “You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown” Gesner used to hang out around the Heights players in Brooklyn Heights. I was a protean in “Forum” there in the ‘90s, and he had a rep for hanging around looking for anyone to talk to. He seemed very nice, just a bit lonely, maybe.

Rodzinski · « **Reply #147 on:** July 28, 2024, 11:19:47 PM »

Just trying to get us off page 5 at this late hour. Forgive me my rambles.

Rodzinski · « **Reply #148 on:** July 28, 2024, 11:23:07 PM »

“Getting Together” opening credits. Very Partridge-esque.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lF7wO2pHo1o&pp=ygUeYm9iYnkgc2hlcm1hbiBnZXR0aW5nIHRvZ2V0aGVy

Rodzinski · « **Reply #149 on:** July 28, 2024, 11:24:20 PM »

Ran opposite All In the Family, sez YouTube comment.

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