Topic: BEWARE THE IDES OF MARCH (Read 35298 times)

Jrand73 · « **Reply #30 on:** March 09, 2006, 07:57:58 AM »

Hmmm.....

Least favorite:

Brigadoon
Fiorello! (ugh)
Seussical the Musical
Grease

Flops with scores I like:

She Loves Me (another vote, I love this show)
DonnyBrook!
No Strings (was this a flop?)

Maybe I will think of some more when I see more lists.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #31 on:** March 09, 2006, 07:59:03 AM »

Page Two Lucy Dance.

Matt H. · « **Reply #32 on:** March 09, 2006, 08:00:30 AM »

NO STRINGS closed as a hit.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #33 on:** March 09, 2006, 08:01:36 AM »

Hmmmm....I have the silent THE TEN COMMANDMENTS on video (thanks DR MBARNUM) - and I see it is offered on the new DVD version.

I know this new version was discussed here. I have the 2 Disc DVD - is the new version worth the price? Amazon has it for about $17.

Matt H. · « **Reply #34 on:** March 09, 2006, 08:02:36 AM »

I started Suskin's book this morning and got through the introduction and cast of characters. I may read the section on THE ACT as lunch is cooking.

Matt H. · « **Reply #35 on:** March 09, 2006, 08:04:20 AM »

Quote from: JRand55 on March 09, 2006, 08:01:36 AM

Hmmmm....I have the silent THE TEN COMMANDMENTS on video (thanks DR MBARNUM) - and I see it is offered on the new DVD version.

I know this new version was discussed here. I have the 2 Disc DVD - is the new version worth the price? Amazon has it for about $17.

I don't think there has been any change at all to the 1956 version in this edition. The only reason to buy it is to get the silent version as a bonus feature.

I won't be buying this film again. I don't watch it often enough to warrant the new purchase. Maybe years from now when a high def version is available, I may reconsider, but not now.

Matt H. · « **Reply #36 on:** March 09, 2006, 08:07:18 AM »

[sigh] Still no word from Amazon about HARRY POTTER. Others have received theirs and mine hasn't even shipped yet.

bk · « **Reply #37 on:** March 09, 2006, 08:10:32 AM »

I just don't know how you can call Second Act Trouble Suskin's book - it actually says Steven Suskin instead of compiled by Steven Suskin or edited by Steven Suskin. He actually only "wrote" about ten percent of the book.

As I said the other day, the Ten Commandments is exactly the same two discs as the last DVD release - with the addition of a third disc with the silent version.

Matt H. · « **Reply #38 on:** March 09, 2006, 08:15:16 AM »

Quote from: bk on March 09, 2006, 08:10:32 AM

I just don't know how you can call Second Act Trouble Suskin's book - it actually says Steven Suskin instead of compiled by Steven Suskin or edited by Steven Suskin. He actually only "wrote" about ten percent of the book.

Oh, yes, I know. I've just never read most of the articles that he includes, so I am looking forward to it.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #39 on:** March 09, 2006, 08:15:40 AM »

I'm absolutely stunned to read that a couple of theater fans here dislike the score to "Fiorello."

I find it one of the most enjoyable scores I've heard. Totally captivating and glorious.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #40 on:** March 09, 2006, 08:16:38 AM »

For a giggle, I offer Amazon.com's synopsis for the upcoming DVD release of "Gold Diggers of 1933":

"Barneny Hopkins is producing a new show on Broadway, but the day before it opens, the set and costumes are confiscated due to not paid bills. Everybody is sitting on the street and due to depression there is no possibility for the three chorus girls Carol, Trixie and Polly. But they hear rumors, that Hopkins is producing a new show, they invite him and he promises to give them work - when he found a backer to produce it. He hears the tunes of the composer next door, Brad Roberts, Pollys friend. Brad joins them and is backing the show. On opening night he takes over for the juvenile lead, who suffers from lumbago. Roberts has been very puplicity-shy, because he belongs to a wealthy upperclass family from Boston. When his family notices what he is doing, his brother Lawrence and their attorney Peabody come to New York, to end his relation with Polly. But he mistakes Carol for Polly, who does not correct his mistake. Lawrence decides to separate Polly from Brad by drawing her love on himself. But soon he realizes, that he is really in love with that chorus girl."

My favorite sentence is underlined above. All my young adult life, I wanted to take over the lead from an actor who suffered from lumbago.

It was my aspiration...my all...my everything.

And yet...I've never been within 100 miles of a lumbago clinic!

(There are obvious typos in the synopsis. Oddly enough. Amazon PAYS someone to write them...and the other synopses (synopsi?) for the "other" DVDs in the upcoming Busby Berkeley box are even worse...side-splittingly so).

Matt H. · « **Reply #41 on:** March 09, 2006, 08:18:06 AM »

I know they're considered masters, but apart from SHE LOVES ME, Bock and Harnick's scores (even for FIDDLER ON THE ROOF) have never been my favorites.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #42 on:** March 09, 2006, 08:23:30 AM »

When did I fall in love?
What night? Which day?
When did I first begin to feel this way?

How did the moments pass
Unfelt? Ignored?
Where was the blinding flash?
Where was the crashing chord?

When did I fall in love?
I can't....recall...
Not that it matters at all...

Rodzinski · « **Reply #43 on:** March 09, 2006, 08:23:54 AM »

Hits whose scores I have no use for:
WICKED, CATS, CAROUSEL, LION KING

Flops I can use:
GREENWILLOW, JAMES JOYCE'S THE DEAD, DARLING OF THE DAY

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #44 on:** March 09, 2006, 08:26:44 AM »

I'm guessing "Dear World" was a huge flop, too.

That and "Mack and Mabel" are my two favorite "flop" scores.

Rodzinski · « **Reply #45 on:** March 09, 2006, 08:26:46 AM »

George- I have that original SALAD DAYS on old, old vinyl. I picked it up once because I liked the cover, and liked it so much I forced it down the throats of my theatre group, directed it, and we had a wonderful time with it. Love that show.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #46 on:** March 09, 2006, 08:27:19 AM »

I despise virtually everything about "Cats".

Matt H. · « **Reply #47 on:** March 09, 2006, 08:28:23 AM »

Quote from: Ron Pulliam on March 09, 2006, 08:26:44 AM

I'm guessing "Dear World" was a huge flop, too.

That and "Mack and Mabel" are my two favorite "flop" scores.

Yes, it was a huge flop and one I should have included in my list as well.

Rodzinski · « **Reply #48 on:** March 09, 2006, 08:29:48 AM »

TPunk was in SALAD DAYS. She played Asphynxia.

Matt H. · « **Reply #49 on:** March 09, 2006, 08:30:22 AM »

Well, I'm heading down now to start prepping lunch and see if I can get the section on THE ACT read.

WBBL.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #50 on:** March 09, 2006, 08:31:52 AM »

Last night's "American Idol""

What can I say? I think Gedeon, Kevin and Will are in the bottom three, although I'd like to see Will stick around.

Elliot, Chris, Ace, Taylor and Bucky were really good last night. REALLY good.

I didn't much care for any of the song choices, including Taylor's -- how quick the judges are to condemn a singer for taking a song too closely associated with another singer...and yet they didn't have a problem with Taylor's sounding like Michael McDonald singing the song he made famous. Who needs mimicry?

? They did the same thing with Ruben, praising his copycat renditions of standards while chastising others for singing songs too closely associated with other performers...and sometimes taking a dig at them for trying to sound like the original.

Oh, well....

Rodzinski · « **Reply #51 on:** March 09, 2006, 08:33:12 AM »

vixmom-
Though I have some scenes with the lovely Debbie Rochon that were pleasant to film in Times Square and Central Park, I'm guessing she would no more remember me than the man in the moon. That girl does like a dozen low-budget horror movies every year.

Charles Pogue · « **Reply #52 on:** March 09, 2006, 08:38:27 AM »

Flop scores I like:

KEAN
HAZEL FLAGG
ANYONE CAN WHISTLE

I'm not much for any of the Lloyd-Webberish/Le Miz brand of musical scores.

Rodzinski · « **Reply #53 on:** March 09, 2006, 08:40:19 AM »

That's a real problem with 80s cinema. A lot of that synth stuff does not age well. And it is possible for a synth score to age well, but the 80s brought a lot of compression and cheesy rhythm machines and keyboard voices that just can't be taken seriously.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #54 on:** March 09, 2006, 08:41:44 AM »

In the I DON'T BELIEVE IT department:

Local weather forecast sez that measurable SNOW fall at sea level MAY OCCUR tonight and tomorrow night. A weird convergence of moisture and cold air -- much colder than normal -- is headed our way this evening.

Meteorologists are expecting temps to be 15 degrees below norm...and norm is in the mid-40s at night here.

So....The Bay Area could get its first sea-level snowfall in AEONS.

Rodzinski · « **Reply #55 on:** March 09, 2006, 08:43:14 AM »

Perhaps my sister can ski the hills of Berkeley.

JMK · « **Reply #56 on:** March 09, 2006, 08:43:59 AM »

Thanks to all the HHW-ers who have emailed and or PM'd me. Not to worry--just very busy right now.

Betsy's cousin Wendy dated Patrick Moraz. I don't think he reads HHW, so BK's review shouldn't bother him.

He has several outstanding CDs out. He of course played with Yes and other supergroups and is an astoudningly gifted keyboard artist, but that doesn't always make for a good film score.

bk · « **Reply #57 on:** March 09, 2006, 08:44:01 AM »

I shall now be on my way to LACC, after which I shall return.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #58 on:** March 09, 2006, 08:44:52 AM »

Quote from: Rodzinski on March 09, 2006, 08:43:14 AM

Perhaps my sister can ski the hills of Berkeley.

I know MY fingers are crossed. I might even have to take a few plants off the balcony tonight!

Jrand73 · « **Reply #59 on:** March 09, 2006, 08:54:52 AM »

Thunderstorms predicted for my area this afternoon....and it does look gloomy.

DR RLP....well that's what makes horse racing, I guess.

Thanks for repeating what you wrote about TTC, MR BK. Like DRMATTH, I think I will skip this release!

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