Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on May 16, 2025, 12:32:12 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes were Strouse-ian, and now it is time for you to post until the Strouse-ian cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: RELIEF!
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So last night, we had our first complete run-through of Into the Woods! It was also a designers' run for the designers. The only inconvenience (and it was a big one) was that four, count 'em, FOUR actors weren't there! And a fifth didn't get there until the second act. ::) But we got through it all!
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The prodigal George returns.
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I've said it before and I'm saying it again - I need a new computer. I can't wait until this damn thing suddenly won't work anymore and I lose something important.
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The every two weeks thing has become every week now.
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Trying to get the big files over to a hard drive - and it is taking FOREVER.
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Then when I finish and try to get the in the trash, THAT takes forever.
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Three of the actors are in Centralia College's production of Company that opens tomorrow night, except that they were supposed to have their rehearsals during the day! The fourth actor felt like a cold was coming on (or maybe it was allergies) and felt that he should stay home.
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The fifth actor (she plays Red) had a school concert and forgot to let Jed know that she had a conflict. However, it all went well and Jed is actually quite pleased at where they are right now.
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If this keeps on keeping on, I'll just restart the damn thing, but really, I've just about had it with this nonsense. This thing is a decade old. It's been great but I need something that works, has the latest stuff, etc. This is just unbearable, and yet here I am, having to bear it.
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I've said it before and I'm saying it again - I need a new computer. I can't wait until this damn thing suddenly won't work anymore and I lose something important.
Do you save everything to the internal hard drive? If you do, when you get the new computer, can you have everything save to an external hard drive (or maybe get a couple)? If it's like Windows computers in that respect, saving things to external memory could help your computer work faster. Just a thought.
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Three of the actors are in Centralia College's production of Company that opens tomorrow night, except that they were supposed to have their rehearsals during the day! The fourth actor felt like a cold was coming on (or maybe it was allergies) and felt that he should stay home.
Vibes there are no more mix-ups like that!
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The fifth actor (she plays Red) had a school concert and forgot to let Jed know that she had a conflict. However, it all went well and Jed is actually quite pleased at where they are right now.
Well, that's good that Jed is OK with the progress!
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Lovely links in the notes. And as always, great to hear Elmore's wonderful orchestrations.
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Terrific to hear the thing that hadn’t arrived arrived!
And vibes for another portion of a modern major miracle.
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If this keeps on keeping on, I'll just restart the damn thing, but really, I've just about had it with this nonsense. This thing is a decade old. It's been great but I need something that works, has the latest stuff, etc. This is just unbearable, and yet here I am, having to bear it.
Computer vibes for BK.
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Hoping all is well with singdaw and his DH and the move to the new apartment!
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Good morning, all!
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Well, I'm sitting here weeping over Micvhele's "Disneyland." She was a lovely lady who died far too young. Sadly, I wept through most of BK's notes this morning. I did indeed orchestrate Jason's "Once Upon a Time," which may be my favorite Charles Strouse song. I remember that when I was working on Jason's recording, I was still woprking at The Drama Book Shop, and "Once Upon a Time" came up was discussing what things I was working on, and it was a favorite song among many of the employees.
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Yesterday was another sickly day, so I did not accomplish much as I would have liked. I would like to spend the weekend - I kept thinking yesterday was Friday, so I'm a mess - getting through the entire A&T audiobook so I can then get on to proofing the book.
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When I was growing up, my dad was a very stoic man. I can think of maybe 3-5 times I ever saw him weep or become emotional during the first 33 years of my life when I saw him on a regular basis. Then, when I was in my late 40's, after my mother's death, he became much more emotional. By 2005, two years before his death, he would weep very often. I remember my brothers and me talking about this.I've now entered that stage: I'll be talking to Ann, Joshie, Rob, or another friend or family member about something I read, heard, saw, or remembered, and I'm suddenly fighting tears or wailing like a baby.
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In summer 1988 or 89, I orchestrated The Chocolate Soldier at Goodspeed. The ill-advised Annie 2 was playing at the smaller theatre, and I went back to Connecticut to see it. I met Charles Strouse then, and he was a true gentleman. He had seen The Chocolate Soldier the night before, and he was very complimentary about my orchestrations, and I had so many wonderful things to say about several of his shows. I wisely said nothing about Bring Back Birdie, one of the msot inept and god-awful things I've ever seen. I did not know then that in 6-7 years later I would be orchestrating a complete album of his songs with Jason Graae.
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Good morning, all.
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Slept well. And I’m grateful.
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Wonderful memories in the notes and from Elmore.
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Notes absorbed. Downed.
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Short interview of Jonathan Groff relating his spitting during "Just in Time" to his spitting during "Merrily We Roll Along"
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/UYdYoYj5h3Q
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Just for a. change of pace - To share a less-nice story about Charles Strouse amid all the love, though I suspect it was his lawyers who did this rather than him: I've uploaded quite a few hundreds of parody videos on YouTube over the last 15+ years, since 2008, and the only time anyone tried to shut down my channel over a parody was a Charles Strouse song. (At the time, I had a contact person at YouTube, and I called that person and showed him how clearly it was a parody and my channel was restored right away. But if I hadn't happened to have a YouTube contact person, it would have been a big obstacle to contest it.)
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Kitty cleanup was particularly difficult this morning. Once again, one of the cats - Stella, I suspect - used the bathtub as a litter box, adding a more serious cleaqnup time to the usual and forcing me to get up and down on my knees several more times than my body would like. On top of that, because I kept forgetting to order more scouring powder to clean the tub, I used ammonia which burns botrh eyes and lungs. I now feel very nauseous.
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I knew that I was expecting to find in the mailroom rthis morning a carton from Chewy.com and Amazon, both containing cat food. I really did not particularly want to schlep downstairs and drag up one heavy carton and one of unknown weight. When I opened thew door, I found both cartons sitting on my door mat, thanks to Ann and Jen, God love them.
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Page Two!
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Page 2 Dance!
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Good morning, all. From:
Intermission!
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Lovely thoughts in the notes, and lovely thoughts here.
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DR John, I'm sorry you didn't get Wordle yesterday.
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So last night, we had our first complete run-through of Into the Woods! It was also a designers' run for the designers. The only inconvenience (and it was a big one) was that four, count 'em, FOUR actors weren't there! And a fifth didn't get there until the second act. ::) But we got through it all!
That is a BIG inconvenience.
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I've said it before and I'm saying it again - I need a new computer. I can't wait until this damn thing suddenly won't work anymore and I lose something important.
I hope you are able to get a new computer before then.
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If this keeps on keeping on, I'll just restart the damn thing, but really, I've just about had it with this nonsense. This thing is a decade old. It's been great but I need something that works, has the latest stuff, etc. This is just unbearable, and yet here I am, having to bear it.
Prices might be going up soon on new computers.
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Yes DR JANE I'm sure they will.
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Lovely notes and links.....
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Feeling a bit better today.
I don't have to go out or do anything in particular today - so that is good.
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Good morning.
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DR JANE if I don't answer her call I immediately get a message saying: "Thanks for not answering my call. I don't know what I did to make you mad. You really should talk to me and let me know......"
Every TIME.
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The weather is still decent. I just refilled the bird feeder outside the window so Leonard will have something to watch. The window can be open another hour or so.
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I really like your neighbors, Elmore.
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Only BK and Gerrit Graham remain from the core cast of The Creature Wasn’t Nice.
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Not sure about the guy who was the creature.
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Good Night, and Good Luck will be broadcast on CNN on June 7, the night before the Tonys.
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I'm up, I'm up - about four hours of sleep, BUT - a modern major miracle happened and that is a very good thing.
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Just had some Korean-Texan fusion barbecue. I enjoyed it.
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I'm up, I'm up - about four hours of sleep, BUT - a modern major miracle happened and that is a very good thing.
Excellent.
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Feeling a bit better today.
I don't have to go out or do anything in particular today - so that is good.
That's great to hear!
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DR JANE if I don't answer her call I immediately get a message saying: "Thanks for not answering my call. I don't know what I did to make you mad. You really should talk to me and let me know......"
Every TIME.
Is that one of her default settings?
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I'm up, I'm up - about four hours of sleep, BUT - a modern major miracle happened and that is a very good thing.
Good news, BK!
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I really like your neighbors, Elmore.
Thanks! I do, too.
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Back, and doing a load of laundry to get me through the next several days.
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The morning show was pretty good. The cast has only two actual public performances in this short run, tonight and tomorrow night, so having an invited audience and some bussed-in school kids this morning made for a good final dress rehearsal.
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Now I have to spend a couple of hours looking at music for a voice student "master class" tomorrow, which is mainly an early group rehearsal for a recital in August.
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And then back to the Windy City this evening.
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I really like your neighbors, Elmore.
They are good people.
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Feeling a bit better today.
I don't have to go out or do anything in particular today - so that is good.
Very good. I hope you feel much better by the end of the day.
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DR JANE if I don't answer her call I immediately get a message saying: "Thanks for not answering my call. I don't know what I did to make you mad. You really should talk to me and let me know......"
Every TIME.
No wonder she is driving you crazy.
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The weather is still decent. I just refilled the bird feeder outside the window so Leonard will have something to watch. The window can be open another hour or so.
:)
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Having Panda Express for food.
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I just am.
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Not in the mood for anything else, really.
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If I was, I'd have it.
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Hopefully, it will be a good batch.
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We all need a good batch every now and then, don't we?
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I know I do.
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I had a Big Ass Salad for lunch. Again.
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Should be here in about ten minutes.
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I had a Big Ass Salad for lunch. Again.
I will be having one for dinner.
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Keith & I have both been given a one year return date from the dermatologist. It has been a number of years since we didn't have to return in six months, if not sooner.
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Without DR Freddie here to remind me, I forgot to take a photo of my 142000 post. Oh well ;D
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Without DR Freddie here to remind me, I forgot to take a photo of my 142000 post. Oh well ;D
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Congratulations, Jane, on your 142,000 millstone!
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We seem to need the additional postings today, so hoping other people will congratulate you as well. :)
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Without DR Freddie here to remind me, I forgot to take a photo of my 142000 post. Oh well ;D
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Congratulations, Jane, on your 142,000 millstone!
Thank you.
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We seem to need the additional postings today, so hoping other people will congratulate you as well. :)
;D
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Friday afternoon greetings! I don’t know where the week has gone…
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Congratulations to DR Jane on her 142,000 milestone!
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One thing that has kept me busy this week is knitting. Last week I finished a crib-sized “Gram Blanket” for new grandson George. Monday morning I woke up with the brainstorm that Charlotte and Hannah need mini versions for their baby dolls. Found enough of 2 different yarns in my stash, started both projects, and now I’m alternating between them. I hope to finish them before we go visit.
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One thing that has kept me busy this week is knitting. Last week I finished a crib-sized “Gram Blanket” for new grandson George. Monday morning I woke up with the brainstorm that Charlotte and Hannah need mini versions for their baby dolls. Found enough of 2 different yarns in my stash, started both projects, and now I’m alternating between them. I hope to finish them before we go visit.
That sounds like a great present for them, Ginny!
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Good afternoon!
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Congrats, DR Jane, on your milestone!
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Wordle: 5/6
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Food was good - very full now.
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Think I'll sit on the couch for a bit, then try some writing.
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Congratulations to DR Jane on her 142,000 milestone!
Thank you.
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FOUR!
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One thing that has kept me busy this week is knitting. Last week I finished a crib-sized “Gram Blanket” for new grandson George. Monday morning I woke up with the brainstorm that Charlotte and Hannah need mini versions for their baby dolls. Found enough of 2 different yarns in my stash, started both projects, and now I’m alternating between them. I hope to finish them before we go visit.
Cute. Good luck finishing them before your visit.
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Congrats, DR Jane, on your milestone!
Thank you.
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Nice.
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Keith also got Wordle in four.
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Dozed off but only for about fifteen minutes. I may plop down on the bed for a bit.
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Then again, I may not.
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So, the geniuses at Warner Bros. Discovery came up with the "brilliant" idea two years ago to rename HBO Max simply Max. Well, everyone hated it and it lost them consumers. This year, in a week or so, they've come up with the "brilliant" idea of changing Max to - wait for it - HBO Max. I'm thinking the obvious solution here is to fire all the dunderheads who work there and let me run the damn company.
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I heard that was an attempt to avoid paying people HBO residuals because Max wasn't HBO. If so, I guess it didn't work.
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So, the geniuses at Warner Bros. Discovery came up with the "brilliant" idea two years ago to rename HBO Max simply Max. Well, everyone hated it and it lost them consumers. This year, in a week or so, they've come up with the "brilliant" idea of changing Max to - wait for it - HBO Max. I'm thinking the obvious solution here is to fire all the dunderheads who work there and let me run the damn company.
;D
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Having fish tacos for dinner. They’re okay. The beer, a local lager, is excellent.
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I'm glad you are enjoying the local larger.
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I was finally able to return to the notes and open the links.
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Once Upon a Time is truly beautiful.
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It is popcorn and tv viewing time.
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I don't know what we will be watching.
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Lot of Livin’. Lot of lovin’ for this one.
https://youtu.be/rS38PiZ2-RA
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Hello, friends.
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Far from caught up.
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Congratulations on being fully cast, DR Jrand74!
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It's been a week, but it's over now. Keys are turned in for the old apartment.
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I've learned two important lessons this week:
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I'm old.
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And: I haven't been diligent enough about dusting. 8)
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We were under a tornado watch last night. No tornados, but lots of really heavy wind.
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And lots of rain today.
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STILL on page four.
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But slowly marching forward.
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Dignity. Always dignity.
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PAGE FIVE
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Tomorrow, I will do laundry and get caught up on the past few days of posts.
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And unpack more of many, many boxes.
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Good night, friends.
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And others.
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In honor of Mr. Strouse, I just watched about an hour of Annie - in Yiddish. A terrible production and presuming there was an audience, which I think there was, not one laugh.
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I've done nothing but doze off - I must get a good night's sleep.
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In honor of Mr. Strouse, I just watched about an hour of Annie - in Yiddish. A terrible production and presuming there was an audience, which I think there was, not one laugh.
That’s the way you honor someone’s memory? Oy.
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I'm old.
Join the club.
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Three of the actors are in Centralia College's production of Company that opens tomorrow night, except that they were supposed to have their rehearsals during the day! The fourth actor felt like a cold was coming on (or maybe it was allergies) and felt that he should stay home.
Vibes there are no more mix-ups like that!
Thanks, but actually, this wasn't a "mix-up." :P
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If I remember correctly, the actors in our show auditioned and were cast long before the auditions for Company even happened. They told that director that they were cast and had priority, and she said no problem.
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They were supposed to have day rehearsals last week and this whole week (being a college production, even though community members were cast), then just this past weekend, that director decided to have an invited dress rehearsal for last night and wouldn't let people leave (even from some of the rehearsals last week) until they were done with their rehearsals...our show be damned! >:(
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I think our actors who were caught in the middle of all this will never audition for that director again. I certainly won't ever audition for her!
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And I'm home.
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My niece and I played Phase 10 at my mom's house tonight...it was just the three of us.
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My niece won the first two, count 'em, TWO of the three games, and my mom won the last game.
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Good for them ::)
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;D
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After I left mom's, I went to Fred Meyer to get some USB cables and I actually found what I needed!
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And now, I'm home.
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The fifth actor (she plays Red) had a school concert and forgot to let Jed know that she had a conflict. However, it all went well and Jed is actually quite pleased at where they are right now.
Well, that's good that Jed is OK with the progress!
Yes. He understands the minds of young-ish kids (one of his kids is a teenager!), and she actually is pretty much memorized, so he wasn't worried about her.
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But she needs to be there so that everyone she interacts with can rehearse, too.
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Lovely links in the notes. And as always, great to hear Elmore's wonderful orchestrations.
SUPER DITTO!! :D
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Terrific to hear the thing that hadn’t arrived arrived!
And vibes for another portion of a modern major miracle.
~~~DOUBLE DITTO!!~~~
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If this keeps on keeping on, I'll just restart the damn thing, but really, I've just about had it with this nonsense. This thing is a decade old. It's been great but I need something that works, has the latest stuff, etc. This is just unbearable, and yet here I am, having to bear it.
Computer vibes for BK.
~~~DITTO, TOO!!~~~
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Hoping all is well with singdaw and his DH and the move to the new apartment!
~~~ANOTHER DITTO!!~~~
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In summer 1988 or 89, I orchestrated The Chocolate Soldier at Goodspeed. The ill-advised Annie 2 was playing at the smaller theatre, and I went back to Connecticut to see it. I met Charles Strouse then, and he was a true gentleman. He had seen The Chocolate Soldier the night before, and he was very complimentary about my orchestrations, and I had so many wonderful things to say about several of his shows. I wisely said nothing about Bring Back Birdie, one of the msot inept and god-awful things I've ever seen. I did not know then that in 6-7 years later I would be orchestrating a complete album of his songs with Jason Graae.
That is so cool, Larry. :)
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Short interview of Jonathan Groff relating his spitting during "Just in Time" to his spitting during "Merrily We Roll Along"
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/UYdYoYj5h3Q
It's great that he embraces his moisture producing issues. ;)
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Just for a. change of pace - To share a less-nice story about Charles Strouse amid all the love, though I suspect it was his lawyers who did this rather than him: I've uploaded quite a few hundreds of parody videos on YouTube over the last 15+ years, since 2008, and the only time anyone tried to shut down my channel over a parody was a Charles Strouse song. (At the time, I had a contact person at YouTube, and I called that person and showed him how clearly it was a parody and my channel was restored right away. But if I hadn't happened to have a YouTube contact person, it would have been a big obstacle to contest it.)
Oh, my goodness! :o
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Glad it all got worked out quickly, Freddie!
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PAGE SIX DANCE!!
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Kitty cleanup was particularly difficult this morning. Once again, one of the cats - Stella, I suspect - used the bathtub as a litter box, adding a more serious cleaqnup time to the usual and forcing me to get up and down on my knees several more times than my body would like. On top of that, because I kept forgetting to order more scouring powder to clean the tub, I used ammonia which burns botrh eyes and lungs. I now feel very nauseous.
Oh, no! I hope the burning and the nauseous feeling passed quickly!
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I knew that I was expecting to find in the mailroom rthis morning a carton from Chewy.com and Amazon, both containing cat food. I really did not particularly want to schlep downstairs and drag up one heavy carton and one of unknown weight. When I opened thew door, I found both cartons sitting on my door mat, thanks to Ann and Jen, God love them.
Great friends like that are a joy to find!
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Page SIX?
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Again?
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We need the errant and truant to return.
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Page six is sick.
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And ridic.
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I shall not rest until we're off this damn page.
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But it's a long way.
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And George has disappeared.
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Just up and left.
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But I'm here.
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And I'm not leaving.
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And I don't care who knows it.
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If this keeps on keeping on, I'll just restart the damn thing, but really, I've just about had it with this nonsense. This thing is a decade old. It's been great but I need something that works, has the latest stuff, etc. This is just unbearable, and yet here I am, having to bear it.
Prices might be going up soon on new computers.
I have a Windows 10 computer and will need to upgrade myself fairly soon. :P
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I wonder if who DOES know it?
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I wonder if it knows who?
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Who's on first.
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What's on second.
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I doin't know's on third.
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On we go.
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We go on.
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Nothing can stop me now.
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I'm on a roll. An onion roll.
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New notes are up.
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Up are new notes.
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I've seen them.
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I've read them.
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I wrote them.
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They can be read by others.
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Whew.
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Of course I do not care for this page.
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But I don't think I can make another twenty-eight postings.
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That would just be boring.
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Perhaps I'll take a Pepcid.
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Sometimes one must take a Pepcid.
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It's just done.
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Feeling a bit better today.
I don't have to go out or do anything in particular today - so that is good.
That is good news, Jrand!
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George Shearing playing a solo Tenderly as if written by Rachmaninoff - we get a bit of the famous piano concerto, a bit of the famous third movement of the second symphony, and, of course, Tenderly.
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Astonishing.
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Beyond brilliant.
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Well, at least we got halfway down this page I do not care for.
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Not quite halfway.
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NOW we're halfway.
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But who isn't?
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And now we get Mr. Shearing playing It Never Entered My Mind - as if by Erik Satie. Genius, I tell you. I think I definitely would credit Mr. Shearing with teaching me clever arranging tricks.
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Now we're over halfway.
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I want to be way way.
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May as well make 200 postings.
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DR JANE if I don't answer her call I immediately get a message saying: "Thanks for not answering my call. I don't know what I did to make you mad. You really should talk to me and let me know......"
Every TIME.
I have friends who've complained about family members like that. Fortunately, I haven't experienced that.
~~~COPING VIBES FOR JRAND!!~~~
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This should do it.
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This should do it.
Sorry that I stole your post #200, BK. :-\