Topic: THE HAND - THE HAND (Read 893 times)

elmore3003 · « **Reply #60 on:** April 23, 2025, 09:35:04 AM »

Quote from: MichaelG on April 23, 2025, 08:39:45 AM

Which leads me to the TOD: BK (or DR elmore, or anyone else who might know), do you know the story behind the Dance a Little Closer Broadway cast recording? How did it get made, given the show's quick close, and then how did it see the light of day 4 years later?

I saw the turkey; it was awful. When I heard the demo, Ithought the show was still set in the early 1940s. I was floored when I saw it and it was set in the present. I see the recording was produced by Robert Sher. He certainly didn't pay for the recording, so he had to raise the funding. Lerner and Strouse may have put money into it, and I don't know how soon after closing the recording was actually made.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #61 on:** April 23, 2025, 09:42:11 AM »

Good ~~morning~~ - oh, damn it to HELL - afternoon, all.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #62 on:** April 23, 2025, 09:45:15 AM »

I've been busier than all get-out this morning. I came up to my desk at 9 a.m. and it's taken till after NOON to get caught up making a phone call, sending emails, replying to other emails, and even accepting yet another show gig for May.

I keep saying "After such-and-such, I'm done for a while", and then another thing comes along. I guess I really shouldn't complain, right?

ChasSmith · « **Reply #63 on:** April 23, 2025, 09:49:44 AM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on April 23, 2025, 05:12:07 AM

Former DR Edisaurus's cat Major was euthanized yesterday. He was suffering from surgery, diabetes, and cancer, and her hopes to bring him home alive never happened. She posted this photo six hours ago on Facebook. She realized that in 12 years of loving and living with Major, she had many photos of him, but not one with her, so one of the technicians took this yesterday.

My heart breaks for her.

I am so sorry to read this. What a sad and horrible ordeal.

It's one thing when your beloved companion is old and has health issues and you know the end is coming. But how horrible, if surgery was tried and it didn't succeed. HUGE vibes of comfort for FDR Edisaurus.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #64 on:** April 23, 2025, 09:53:05 AM »

Quote from: Jrand74 on April 23, 2025, 06:50:28 AM

At one getting place there was a 43" 4K tv for $138 and a 53" 4K tv for $238.....so you ight check your local WalMart if you are in the market for one.

I don't think I would have it delivered - but go to the store and purchase it. Most of the bad reviews are from folks who got a broken tv set delivered.

Were you just browsing them yourself, DR Jrand74, or was this in reply to someone else shopping around for a TV? Those prices are incredible. But I'm completely out of touch with what TV machinery costs nowadays.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #65 on:** April 23, 2025, 09:56:10 AM »

I've seen The Beast With Five Fingers, but I think only a couple of times - and years ago - because my memories of much of it are pretty vague.

John G. · « **Reply #66 on:** April 23, 2025, 10:21:43 AM »

Dance a Little Closer was in previews on my second visit to New York. Somehow I noticed Alan Jay Lerner leaving the theater after a preview and stepped into an elevator at the Marquis Marriott with him and others on the show’s creative team. I had picked up a Playbill someone had discarded. He asked if I had seen the show. I lied and said I enjoyed it.

I don’t know if I would have enjoyed the show, but I love Charles Strouse’s music for it. There are four or five songs I really love, especially There’s Always One You Can’t Forget and I Never Want to See You Again.

John G. · « **Reply #67 on:** April 23, 2025, 10:22:42 AM »

Wasn’t that Brent Barrett’s Broadway debut?

Jrand74 · « **Reply #68 on:** April 23, 2025, 11:53:09 AM »

DR CHAS SMITH I just happened to go down that aisle to get to the food for the pair of keets and I was surprised at the prices.

I remember MR BK was talking about getting a 4K TV to see some new Blu Rays -

I doubt with the tariffs we will ever see such low prices in the near future.....but I just don't NEED another TV.

Freddie · « **Reply #69 on:** April 23, 2025, 12:11:39 PM »

I saw this posted (by Andrew Milner) on FB.

Very quick but fun and cute.

"Did Cass Elliot come up with the musical Hamilton ?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDd2EYUGS34

elmore3003 · « **Reply #70 on:** April 23, 2025, 12:20:08 PM »

Quote from: ChasSmith on April 23, 2025, 09:56:10 AM

I've seen The Beast With Five Fingers, but I think only a couple of times - and years ago - because my memories of much of it are pretty vague.

U've seen it once, maybe 20 years ago or longer.

bk · « **Reply #71 on:** April 23, 2025, 12:28:49 PM »

I'm up, I'm up - eight hours of sleep.

bk · « **Reply #72 on:** April 23, 2025, 12:29:02 PM »

Got a modern major miracle.

bk · « **Reply #73 on:** April 23, 2025, 12:29:25 PM »

Got a dinner invite from the Pearl's, so I'll be joining them.

Jane · « **Reply #74 on:** April 23, 2025, 01:10:22 PM »

Quote from: Freddie on April 23, 2025, 09:04:53 AM

Quote from: Jane on April 23, 2025, 09:02:19 AM
I just realized today is the 23rd, two days after Keith's birthday, and the anniversary of our becomming a couple two days after his seventeenth birthday.

Congratulations, Jane and Keith!

Thank you.

Jane · « **Reply #75 on:** April 23, 2025, 01:12:54 PM »

Quote from: bk on April 23, 2025, 12:29:25 PM

Got a dinner invite from the Pearl's, so I'll be joining them.

Enjoy your evening.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #76 on:** April 23, 2025, 01:27:52 PM »

Oy! I decided to join or friend as many cat sites or animal rescue groups I could cozy up to on Facebook, Instagram, TilTok, Bluesky, and X, so that when Annabelle & Thatch is published, I can do a big blitz for potential buyers. On X, just now, I trned down several cats because their posts were too coy for words:

Blair is a pretty tuxedo cat and this is his post: hi mine name bur. i thimk im…8…? emorgé from forests’s fier to ambolish prisom's.

shura (all black cat): 6 yeers olde , love to sit in thee bath 🛁 amd playe wiff strawers 🥤 middol childe but iym the biggist

Little Clee (another pretty black cat(: helo iam cleo (clee type). i, m elven yers old and So smol its imbarasing . canaut speall, nevre went to schol.

Oy! Gives me headache!

ChasSmith · « **Reply #77 on:** April 23, 2025, 01:31:52 PM »

John G. · « **Reply #78 on:** April 23, 2025, 01:32:42 PM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on April 23, 2025, 01:27:52 PM

Oy! I decided to join or friend as many cat sites or animal rescue groups I could cozy up to on Facebook, Instagram, TilTok, Bluesky, and X, so that when Annabelle & Thatch is published, I can do a big blitz for potential buyers. On X, just now, I trned down several cats because their posts were too coy for words:

Blair is a pretty tuxedo cat and this is his post: hi mine name bur. i thimk im…8…? emorgé from forests’s fier to ambolish prisom's.

shura (all black cat): 6 yeers olde , love to sit in thee bath 🛁 amd playe wiff strawers 🥤 middol childe but iym the biggist

Little Clee (another pretty black cat(: helo iam cleo (clee type). i, m elven yers old and So smol its imbarasing . canaut speall, nevre went to schol.

Oy! Gives me headache!

My blood sugar went up reading that.

singdaw · « **Reply #79 on:** April 23, 2025, 01:34:23 PM »

~~~HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, DR JANE & DH KEITH!!!~~~

singdaw · « **Reply #80 on:** April 23, 2025, 01:35:20 PM »

A nap was had, at long last.

singdaw · « **Reply #81 on:** April 23, 2025, 01:36:08 PM »

We missed the 2 Coachella weekends, but this weekend will be a Country dealie.

singdaw · « **Reply #82 on:** April 23, 2025, 01:38:46 PM »

So far, though, not as crowded in town. People or traffic. I am not complaining.

singdaw · « **Reply #83 on:** April 23, 2025, 01:40:06 PM »

Congratulations on the MMM, BK.

Freddie · « **Reply #84 on:** April 23, 2025, 01:42:20 PM »

Coachella could be one of Tevye's daughters in a Fiddler update, if you read it to scan like Chavaleh.

Freddie · « **Reply #85 on:** April 23, 2025, 01:42:59 PM »

Great modern major miracle news!

Jrand74 · « **Reply #86 on:** April 23, 2025, 02:20:52 PM »

Congrats to MR BK on the MMM.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #87 on:** April 23, 2025, 02:21:57 PM »

I am seeing recently a Bounty commercial featuring music from Pirates of Penzance which always makes me laugh.

So my question for ASK BK DAY:

What was your exposure to Gilbert & Sullivan?

All Dear Readers are welcome to chime in.

MichaelG · « **Reply #88 on:** April 23, 2025, 02:24:03 PM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on April 23, 2025, 09:35:04 AM

Quote from: MichaelG on April 23, 2025, 08:39:45 AM
Which leads me to the TOD: BK (or DR elmore, or anyone else who might know), do you know the story behind the Dance a Little Closer Broadway cast recording? How did it get made, given the show's quick close, and then how did it see the light of day 4 years later?

I saw the turkey; it was awful. When I heard the demo, I thought the show was still set in the early 1940s. I was floored when I saw it and it was set in the present. I see the recording was produced by Robert Sher. He certainly didn't pay for the recording, so he had to raise the funding. Lerner and Strouse may have put money into it, and I don't know how soon after closing the recording was actually made.

The album says it was recorded on May 25, two weeks after it opened/closed.

I suspected Lerner and/or Strouse paid for the recording and then eventually found someone to release it. Especially with Lerner's wife as the female lead.

MichaelG · « **Reply #89 on:** April 23, 2025, 02:34:07 PM »

The CD offers in memoriam credits to Lerner and Frederick Brisson, "without whose talents and perseverance there would be no show and no recording."

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