Topic: A FUN PART ONE OF OUR FIRST REHEARSAL (Read 5380 times)

ChasSmith · « **Reply #32 on:** August 06, 2024, 06:42:55 AM »

Good morning, all.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #33 on:** August 06, 2024, 06:43:21 AM »

Kind of a blah night of sleep, with a couple of irritating dreams. So what else is new?

ChasSmith · « **Reply #34 on:** August 06, 2024, 06:50:31 AM »

Last night I let the Olympics play in the background while puttering around, and I didn't go to bed till after 11pm. Then I turned on TCM which was showing Carousel, which I stared at for a short time before finally falling to sleep.

I don't know how many years it's been since I sat down and watched the movie, but they were on their way to the clambake and everything just looked silly and I could readily understand from what little I saw how people today could have no interest in it. I remember being thrilled by it, but if truth be told, that impression probably goes back to my high school years when I first got to know it on a re-release.

I think one of my silly dreams was based on that clambake scene.

John G. · « **Reply #35 on:** August 06, 2024, 07:12:08 AM »

Dreambake. Sounds like a child’s kitchen toy.

Nightmare Clams? A horror film starring the likes of Kaley Cuoco.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #36 on:** August 06, 2024, 07:12:32 AM »

Quote from: ChasSmith on August 06, 2024, 06:50:31 AM

Last night I let the Olympics play in the background while puttering around, and I didn't go to bed till after 11pm. Then I turned on TCM which was showing Carousel, which I stared at for a short time before finally falling to sleep.

I don't know how many years it's been since I sat down and watched the movie, but they were on their way to the clambake and everything just looked silly and I could readily understand from what little I saw how people today could have no interest in it. I remember being thrilled by it, but if truth be told, that impression probably goes back to my high school years when I first got to know it on a re-release.

I think one of my silly dreams was based on that clambake scene.

When I saw Carousel in its first release around 1956, I loved it. When Billy died, I wept so loudly that my brother Macbeth kept hitting me and telling me to shit up; I was embarrassing him. We were around 10 and 8 at the time. Since then, I saw a poor college performance, the wonderful 1966 Lincoln Center revival with John Raitt, Jerry Orbach, and Susan Watson, and I now find the film very poor, too cutesy-poo and coy, with performances running from very good to very poor. I find Barbara Ruick's performance especially offensive.

John G. · « **Reply #37 on:** August 06, 2024, 07:12:57 AM »

Bad Clams was an actual SNL skit from the first season.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #38 on:** August 06, 2024, 07:13:58 AM »

Housekeeping chores accomplished.

Freddie · « **Reply #39 on:** August 06, 2024, 07:39:27 AM »

There's the Elvis Presley movie CLAMBAKE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS3jgxOlZ7Q

which for some reason was on a double feature with WITH SIX YOU GET EGGROLL when I first saw it

John G. · « **Reply #40 on:** August 06, 2024, 07:51:51 AM »

Hey, Vixmom, hope you’re having fun. Did you know Tim Walz is a Lutheran?

ChasSmith · « **Reply #41 on:** August 06, 2024, 07:59:08 AM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on August 06, 2024, 07:12:32 AM

Quote from: ChasSmith on August 06, 2024, 06:50:31 AM
Last night I let the Olympics play in the background while puttering around, and I didn't go to bed till after 11pm. Then I turned on TCM which was showing Carousel, which I stared at for a short time before finally falling to sleep.

I don't know how many years it's been since I sat down and watched the movie, but they were on their way to the clambake and everything just looked silly and I could readily understand from what little I saw how people today could have no interest in it. I remember being thrilled by it, but if truth be told, that impression probably goes back to my high school years when I first got to know it on a re-release.

I think one of my silly dreams was based on that clambake scene.

When I saw Carousel in its first release around 1956, I loved it. When Billy died, I wept so loudly that my brother Macbeth kept hitting me and telling me to shit up; I was embarrassing him. We were around 10 and 8 at the time. Since then, I saw a poor college performance, the wonderful 1966 Lincoln Center revival with John Raitt, Jerry Orbach, and Susan Watson, and I now find the film very poor, too cutesy-poo and coy, with performances running from very good to very poor. I find Barbara Ruick's performance especially offensive.

Similar history here. I didn't see the movie till an early-mid-1960s re-release, then a high school performance which I'm sure was awful but I remember nothing of it, then the Lincoln Center revival on tour at the Coconut Grove Playhouse in Miami (I believe I have Raitt's and maybe another autograph or two from it). I probably had a horrible VHS release, then a laserdisc, then the DVD release that included Liliom - which I should still have. I never bought the Blu-ray. The last time I really watched it was probably on the laserdisc in the 1990s. Oy!

bk · « **Reply #42 on:** August 06, 2024, 08:30:58 AM »

I'm up, I'm up - five hours of sleep. Bad tummy - don't know why, really.

Ginny · « **Reply #43 on:** August 06, 2024, 08:44:29 AM »

Tuesday morning greetings! Another day to stay in to avoid the heat and humidity.

Ginny · « **Reply #44 on:** August 06, 2024, 08:50:28 AM »

I also saw the Lincoln Center revival of Carousel, on tour in Detroit at the Fisher Theatre. Harve Presnell (be still, my heart!) was Billy Bigelow, but Jerry Orbach was still in the cast. It was the only time I saw him on stage.

Ginny · « **Reply #45 on:** August 06, 2024, 08:53:28 AM »

As for the movie, I tagged along when my mother took my sister and some of her friends to see it when it was released. The carful of weeping teenage girls made quite an impression on 6-year-old me.

Ginny · « **Reply #46 on:** August 06, 2024, 08:58:38 AM »

TOD - John Molloy’s dress for success for women, which I totally leaned into in the early 1980s - skirted suits and bow-tied blouses. I was a young administrator trying desperately to be taken seriously by the older men who were in charge of the campus.

John G. · « **Reply #47 on:** August 06, 2024, 09:29:58 AM »

I saw the movie Carousel for the first time a few years back when I got the R&H box set. I was not impressed.

John G. · « **Reply #48 on:** August 06, 2024, 09:31:11 AM »

TOD:

Leisure suits looked better on others. Not me.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #49 on:** August 06, 2024, 10:58:49 AM »

I dreamed last night - in one of several strange dreams - that Annabelle could talk. I swore I would not forget the others, but all I remember now is that Thatch was in one of them.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #50 on:** August 06, 2024, 11:03:18 AM »

Gov. Walz has Annabelle's vote!

KevinH · « **Reply #51 on:** August 06, 2024, 11:06:46 AM »

Good afternoon!

KevinH · « **Reply #52 on:** August 06, 2024, 11:06:54 AM »

Wordle: 4/6

John G. · « **Reply #53 on:** August 06, 2024, 11:47:40 AM »

https://www.kare11.com/article/life/food/recipes/rep-tim-walzs-winning-hotdish-recipe/89-107523676

Casserole fans, here’s Tim Walz’s winning hotdish recipe.

John G. · « **Reply #54 on:** August 06, 2024, 11:48:14 AM »

I may have to try that, though it seems party size to me.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #55 on:** August 06, 2024, 11:59:01 AM »

Quote from: John G. on August 06, 2024, 11:48:14 AM

I may have to try that, though it seems party size to me.

Well, throw a party!

Jrand74 · « **Reply #56 on:** August 06, 2024, 12:06:42 PM »

Did someone say party?

Jrand74 · « **Reply #57 on:** August 06, 2024, 12:07:12 PM »

Thanks DR FREDDIE.

And I think I saw that same double bill with Clambake & Eggroll.....

Jrand74 · « **Reply #58 on:** August 06, 2024, 12:08:13 PM »

I have never much cared for Carousel......I was in a production as the Heavenly Messenger......and between scenes I would go out and sit in empty chairs in the theeder and scare people to death....nearly...

All in good fun of course.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #59 on:** August 06, 2024, 12:10:38 PM »

Still so hot....91 degrees today.

At 5:30 we video record the interview that was postponed from Sunday.

Yesterday when I got to the theeder.....my leading man who plays Charlie (and records the interviews) said he was really sorry that he couldn't do it as scheduled, but that he and his girlfriend had broken up that morning.....

Of course his girlfriend is my leading lady (not THAT one) - but he assured me that it will no affect their performances.....

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