Topic: STULTIFIED AND STUPEFIED (Read 3163 times)

John G. · « **Reply #31 on:** October 13, 2024, 06:19:31 AM »

I'm still mad you had to endure all of that Life Begins at 8:30 mishegas, Elmore.

Freddie · « **Reply #32 on:** October 13, 2024, 06:20:44 AM »

Quote from: John G. on October 13, 2024, 06:07:04 AM

Lots of weird dreams, including one in which I am driving backwards and can't stop.

That brings to my mind this from Harold Rome's score for PINS AND NEEDLES.

"You can't stand still on freedom's track
If you don't go forward, you go back
You can't giddyup by saying Whoa
And sitting on your status quo!"

Barbra Streisand sings "Sitting on Your Status Quo"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjyyLcVnN9M

Freddie · « **Reply #33 on:** October 13, 2024, 06:31:49 AM »

This is fun! YouTube brought me this.

Seth Rudetsky - Deconstructs "Sitting On Your Status Quo" from Pins and Needle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gDFzmlW5J8&t=2s

Freddie · « **Reply #34 on:** October 13, 2024, 06:35:28 AM »

Quote from: singdaw on October 13, 2024, 05:55:28 AM

What a lot of unpleasantness! Sorry, DR elmore3003.

But going through those posts on castrecl, they're all really lovely about Larry!

Freddie · « **Reply #35 on:** October 13, 2024, 06:37:58 AM »

I feel like YouTube is offering to send me down a rabbit hole of Seth Rudetsky's deconstructions.

I guess it can tell when you watch something all the way through, and then keeps offering you much more in the same vein.

Freddie · « **Reply #36 on:** October 13, 2024, 06:38:34 AM »

So many more commercials before the videos on YouTube lately, for some reason.

Freddie · « **Reply #37 on:** October 13, 2024, 06:44:44 AM »

I wonder what I watched on YouTube that lets the system "know" or "assume" (can computer systems do those things?) that I'd find this type of coverage of Hurricane precautions entertaining.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_2_CREZlqY8
I guess there's nothing there that you wouldn't see at a pool or in a Joshua Logan production or in a Frankie Avalon-Annette Funicello movie.

But I wouldn't want to be watching that on an office computer.

Freddie · « **Reply #38 on:** October 13, 2024, 06:48:33 AM »

Maybe it follows when you watch a Barbra Streisand YouTube, followed by a Seth Rudetsky deconstruction of a Barbra Streisand YouTube?

Jrand74 · « **Reply #39 on:** October 13, 2024, 06:52:40 AM »

It's one guest and me.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #40 on:** October 13, 2024, 06:52:59 AM »

And DR JOHN G.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #41 on:** October 13, 2024, 06:53:24 AM »

The wedding yesterday was nice, but when I got home for some reason I was exhausted and fell asleep.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #42 on:** October 13, 2024, 06:53:44 AM »

Now I am preparing for two meetings and hoping they don't take ALL DAY.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #43 on:** October 13, 2024, 06:53:46 AM »

Quote from: John G. on October 13, 2024, 06:19:31 AM

I'm still mad you had to endure all of that Life Begins at 8:30 mishegas, Elmore.

I'm mostly angry over what a good recording this could have been; there were at least three cut songs that should have been included as an appendix and both the Library of Congress and Robert Kimball dumped me and my team for the conductor I asked them to replace and who then proceeded to prove everything I said about him was true. He's been getting by for 10 years or more now on the credit for this recording when in fact he was removed from the sessions and another and better conductor finished it for him.

Freddie · « **Reply #44 on:** October 13, 2024, 06:54:57 AM »

Quote from: Jrand74 on October 13, 2024, 06:53:24 AM

The wedding yesterday was nice, but when I got home for some reason I was exhausted and fell asleep.

Great that you had a good time, even if it was exhausting.

Freddie · « **Reply #45 on:** October 13, 2024, 06:58:23 AM »

In case anyone else is following what's going on at the York theatre, with the abrupt resignations there:

This was posted on Saturday evening (yesterday) on TalkinBroadway All that Chat by "JDKlain" - whom I'd bet is the delightful Jane Klain from CASTRECL.
https://www.talkinbroadway.com/allthatchat_new/d.php?id=2606585

Freddie · « **Reply #46 on:** October 13, 2024, 07:00:06 AM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on October 13, 2024, 06:53:46 AM

Quote from: John G. on October 13, 2024, 06:19:31 AM
I'm still mad you had to endure all of that Life Begins at 8:30 mishegas, Elmore.

I'm mostly angry over what a good recording this could have been; there were at least three cut songs that should have been included as an appendix and both the Library of Congress and Robert Kimball dumped me and my team for the conductor I asked them to replace and who then proceeded to prove everything I said about him was true. He's been getting by for 10 years or more now on the credit for this recording when in fact he was removed from the sessions and another and better conductor finished it for him.

Hoping you are writing memoirs. Your memories are an important part of theater music history.

John G. · « **Reply #47 on:** October 13, 2024, 07:03:12 AM »

Time to stir.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #48 on:** October 13, 2024, 07:04:38 AM »

On a happier note, on this day in 1903, a new extravaganza, Babes in Toyland opened on Broadway at the Majestic Theatre at Columbus Circle. It had opened in June at Chicaho's Grand Opera House for a three-month run before touring east to Pittsburgh, Baltimore, and Washington DC, before opening on Broadway. During the tour, one song was replaced, a cast member was replaced, several cast membewrs were switched about, and a new song, "I Can't Do the Sum," was written for the Broadway opening.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #49 on:** October 13, 2024, 07:25:59 AM »

Good morning, all.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #50 on:** October 13, 2024, 07:26:54 AM »

I have been lazing about this morning, and that will have to come to an end now.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #51 on:** October 13, 2024, 07:29:21 AM »

Those are valuable reminiscences, DR Elmore, even while they are about awful situations. I came here later and didn’t know about this thing. What a crime that particular recording disaster is.

Ginny · « **Reply #52 on:** October 13, 2024, 08:21:11 AM »

Sunday morning greetings! I’m not sure why I haven’t posted for a week, but here I am.

Ginny · « **Reply #53 on:** October 13, 2024, 08:26:59 AM »

DR Rodzinski, there was a production of “Dirty Work at the Crossroads” at my Detroit high school in the spring of 1966. I helped with props and got to perform the offstage policeman’s whistle.

singdaw · « **Reply #54 on:** October 13, 2024, 08:29:34 AM »

Another vote for several volumes of DR elmore3003's memoirs.

singdaw · « **Reply #55 on:** October 13, 2024, 08:29:49 AM »

singdaw · « **Reply #56 on:** October 13, 2024, 08:30:52 AM »

Going out for brunch.

singdaw · « **Reply #57 on:** October 13, 2024, 08:31:04 AM »

This afternoon, napping and packing.

singdaw · « **Reply #58 on:** October 13, 2024, 08:31:15 AM »

Not necessarily in that order.

singdaw · « **Reply #59 on:** October 13, 2024, 08:31:21 AM »

One more.

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