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« Reply #60 on: August 24, 2024, 07:00:04 AM »

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« Reply #61 on: August 24, 2024, 07:00:19 AM »

Me likey.

Very nice Sondheim tribute!
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« Reply #62 on: August 24, 2024, 07:12:38 AM »

Congratulations to DR singdaw on his millstone.
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« Reply #63 on: August 24, 2024, 07:14:03 AM »

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« Reply #64 on: August 24, 2024, 07:14:10 AM »

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« Reply #65 on: August 24, 2024, 07:29:49 AM »

You used to do these parodies quite often, DR Freddie, and I always loved them.


If you mean parodies in general, I'm still writing them regularly.  But every political story is changing so quickly that the stories are old before someone with my resources could record and upload and promote them.  For example, the series of parody lyrics I did on RFK Jr.'s candidacy now - in retrospect just a few weeks later - look more scary than funny.


Likewise my "This Is What Joe Meant" (to Jekyll and Hyde's "This Is the Moment") now seems fraught enough to have made me go back and try to keep it out of regular YouTube and online search circulation.   It feels almost tragic now about Joe Biden, from my own Democratic Party viewpoint.





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« Reply #66 on: August 24, 2024, 07:42:21 AM »

I'm game.

Chocolate lava cake, then?
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« Reply #67 on: August 24, 2024, 07:42:45 AM »

TOD:

Listening to the OBC of Bye Bye Birdie.....so different from the movie.....but I liked the music and all the voices.....Broadway!!!  And the pictures on the gatefold LP were fun to look at.




Speaking of Bye Bye Birdie - I was fascinated by YouTube helping along notice of some prominent musical changes to the show's score for the movie, that seem to have been spurred on by how right Bobby Rydell was for an expansion of the part of Hugo, and then by Ann-Margret having been given the wraparounds of the new title song.

P.S.  Strange to notice that the New York Times' critic Brooks Atkinson was very lukewarm (to say the least) about the stage version. 
https://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/theater/ByeByeBirdie.pdf
Would a show have survived such a Times review in some parts of theater history?

It's always interesting to read original reviews for older shows that have become either hits, or, by virtue of just surviving, "classics," and finding out that the reviews weren't all love letters. ;)
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« Reply #68 on: August 24, 2024, 07:43:16 AM »

I feel itchy and frizzy and frumpy
Calm on the surface, but really quite lumpy
But alive!

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« Reply #69 on: August 24, 2024, 07:44:08 AM »

Winter is coming.


Wow!  That's pretty cool.
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« Reply #70 on: August 24, 2024, 07:44:43 AM »

I feel itchy and frizzy and frumpy
Calm on the surface, but really quite lumpy
But alive!


LOL!

After consulting a rhyming dictionary:

I feel itchy and frizzy and frantic.
Partly didactic and partly pedantic.
But alive!



I would hope that Sondheim would've approved. ;D
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« Reply #71 on: August 24, 2024, 07:45:50 AM »

But not here, and not today. We are expected to top 100 this weekend.

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« Reply #72 on: August 24, 2024, 07:46:57 AM »

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« Reply #73 on: August 24, 2024, 07:47:48 AM »

TOD Redux:

I failed to mention show music!  I think my first true spark of interest came when i saw a Greenville Little Theater production of "I Do, I Do".  Of course, it may have been "Stop the World, I Want to Get Off".  My love for film suddenly merged with a love for theater, and musical theater, in particular.  This would have been when I was in high school, circa 1964 or 65. 
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« Reply #74 on: August 24, 2024, 07:51:43 AM »

Congratulations to DR singdaw on his millstone.

Ditto!!  A little late, but better late than never:
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« Reply #75 on: August 24, 2024, 07:58:15 AM »

DR Ginny, I send my condolences and wishes for a good weekend to your family.
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« Reply #76 on: August 24, 2024, 07:58:38 AM »

I've been listening to the overture to Gypsy on the OBC recording through my headphones all morning. Jesus H. Christ, is it wonderful! When it breaks intro the strip music, I just want to laugh and applaud with joy.

The horn par in the original score says "HornS" and there are clearly two on the recording; but unlike the trumpets, whose intonation is stunning, the horns have a harder time in spots landing on the same pitch. So, were there two in the pit or was a second added to the recording?
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« Reply #77 on: August 24, 2024, 08:03:14 AM »

Congratulations to DR singdaw on his millstone.

Ditto!!  A little late, but better late than never:


singdaw, I was so caught up by the lead-up to your 55,000 millstone that I forgot to congratulate you once it was reached! 

So congrats on your new millstone!
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« Reply #78 on: August 24, 2024, 08:06:29 AM »

I wish my late friend Red Press were still around. Gypsy was the first Broadway show he played. I suspect most of the piccolo and flute work on the recording is his.
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« Reply #79 on: August 24, 2024, 08:16:51 AM »

My beloved George made the Irish press today, thanks to the manager of the Stourbridge Station. At this time, given my health and age, not to mention the half a million buscks, I dounbt I'll get to Dublin to recordJubilee. If I ever do, a trip to England and Stourbridge is on my agenda.
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« Reply #80 on: August 24, 2024, 08:34:07 AM »

I've been listening to the overture to Gypsy on the OBC recording through my headphones all morning. Jesus H. Christ, is it wonderful! When it breaks intro the strip music, I just want to laugh and applaud with joy.

The horn par in the original score says "HornS" and there are clearly two on the recording; but unlike the trumpets, whose intonation is stunning, the horns have a harder time in spots landing on the same pitch. So, were there two in the pit or was a second added to the recording?

I am so impressed with your ability (and Josh's, and others', etc.) to nail all of this type of thing in the listening. And I love the investigative work all of this entails. But this is why y'all make the big bucks!  :D
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« Reply #81 on: August 24, 2024, 08:35:48 AM »

I wish my late friend Red Press were still around. Gypsy was the first Broadway show he played. I suspect most of the piccolo and flute work on the recording is his.

Thank you for that reminder! Shame on me for not thinking of Red Press right off the bat. I think that's the first thing you told me about him when you introduced me to him at whichever rehearsal I first attended.
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« Reply #82 on: August 24, 2024, 08:46:47 AM »

Which is the book that lists the breakdown of the orchestrations for all of the old classic Broadway shows - is it the Steven Suskin book?
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« Reply #83 on: August 24, 2024, 09:06:21 AM »

This is from a Playbill article. Don't know how accurate it is.

According to a statement by Lyric Stage music director Jay Dias, "When the show opened at the Broadway Theatre in 1959, Jule Styne had orchestrators Sid Ramin and Robert Ginzler use a string section that consisted of violins, cellos, and bass. After the initial Broadway run closed, the orchestration was adjusted to allow for theatres to use a more conventional string section division. For the Lyric Stage production, Jule Styne's estate and Sid Ramin himself have not only given permission for the original Gypsy cello parts to be restored, but an originally written acoustic guitar part, cut before the first rehearsal due to budget and seating capacity of the pit, will finally be heard. Lyric Stage's production will form the basis for the Jule Styne estate's work on the critical edition of the score, and it's quite a thrill that Lyric Stage audiences will soon be part of this major step in the restoration of one of the greatest scores in American musical theatre."
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« Reply #84 on: August 24, 2024, 09:20:05 AM »

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« Reply #85 on: August 24, 2024, 09:20:33 AM »

Someone tweeted (Xed?) the video to the title track to Aaron Lazar's new CD, "The Impossible Dream":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=DqTM2YnB1eZQBc92&v=-c0_XeFW52M

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« Reply #86 on: August 24, 2024, 09:21:30 AM »

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« Reply #87 on: August 24, 2024, 09:23:10 AM »

And this one:
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« Reply #88 on: August 24, 2024, 09:23:54 AM »

Almost there.
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« Reply #89 on: August 24, 2024, 09:24:01 AM »

One more.
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