Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on November 09, 2025, 12:11:03 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes had ANS (ACTIVE NOTES SYNDROME), and now it is time for you to post until the ACS (ACTIVE COW SYNDROME) cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: APPETENCY!
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And now - Dino at the piano.
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I was just about to post this last night, but the day was locked, so here it is:
The most is k.d. lang. I’ve seen her at least eight times.
Not to brag, but I've seen The Manhattan Transfer live 13, count 'em, THIRTEEN times...and not a single disappointing moment (that I can remember). ;D
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Today, I'm going to see (former) DR Jed in a production of The Fantasticks in Tacoma! It's the same theater company where I stage managed An Inspector Calls last year. It'll be fun to see him again!
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Good morning, all!
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Yesterday's Amazon Fresh delivery did me in. After crawling about on the kitchen floor, tugging bags and shooing cats, dragging packs of 24 bottles of water, and raising and lowering myself too many times, my legs, knee and hip joints began to scream, Genug ist Genug! and worked on their terms, not mine. Around 4:30 I literally crawled into bed and focused on very little. I cannot remember a thing I watched, but all three cats lay with me; at various times Stella fought with Annabelle, and Annabelle fought with Thatch. Yjis morning y legs are still in great pain but I need to cart a lot of empty bags and other items to the basement.
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I have a ballet meeting with Doug Fullingtonh this morning on FaceTime to discuss this 20-25 minute ballet we are writing. He got back from his Rhine holidayt on October. 25, and he's been sick since with some crap that's invaded his lungs and vocal chords. Today we will lay out our plans for tomorrow's Zoom meeting with the choreographer and North Carolina School of the Arts.
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DR Vixmom, how wonderful to see you! You have been missed.
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Today, I'm going to see (former) DR Jed in a production of The Fantasticks in Tacoma! It's the same theater company where I stage managed An Inspector Calls last year. It'll be fun to see him again!
Sounds like a fun day! Have a good time, George!
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Yesterday's Amazon Fresh delivery did me in. After crawling about on the kitchen floor, tugging bags and shooing cats, dragging packs of 24 bottles of water, and raising and lowering myself too many times, my legs, knee and hip joints began to scream, Genug ist Genug! and worked on their terms, not mine. Around 4:30 I literally crawled into bed and focused on very little. I cannot remember a thing I watched, but all three cats lay with me; at various times Stella fought with Annabelle, and Annabelle fought with Thatch. Yjis morning y legs are still in great pain but I need to cart a lot of empty bags and other items to the basement.
Pain-free vibes for Larry!
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Good morning, friends.
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And others.
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Hope you are feeling better soonly, DR elmore3003.
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Not enough sleep.
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Good morning, all.
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Another cooking (well, baking) tip:
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Drinking some pumpkin spice coffee.
It's just about the only flavoring in coffee I actually like, other than just a pinch of cinnamon now and then.
I love good New Orleans chicory coffee, too. Haven't had that in quite a while.
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We watched Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein last night and liked most of it. Our only criticism was that a couple of sections in the middle got a little slow, and at 2-1/2 hours length, a bit of snipping there would have done wonders. But it's a beautiful film.
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I'm even inspired to reread the book, which I only tackled once back in my twenties.
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Good to see DR vixmom here!
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Good morning, all.
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I saw the Frankenstein musical. Talk about Genug ist Genug.
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And I don't mean Young Frankenstein, which I have also seen
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Not enough sleep.
Ditto.
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I think I have ACS. Too many cows.
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I saw the Frankenstein musical. Talk about Genug ist Genug.
I wish I'd seen the 1980(?) Broadway production with John Glover, David Dukes, and Dianne Weist (sp?) with a score by Richard Peaslee (Marat/Sade).
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ARLEN AUCTION:
The composer Harold Arlen is best known for the Oscar he won for The Wizard of Oz in 1940. He lived another 46 years without quite matching that feat and left whatever was in his estate to his nephews.
It now turns out he owned a rare early painting by Salvador Dali.
The subject bore a close resemblance to Arlen’s wife.
The painting will be sold at auction by Doyles in NY on November 20.
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In other news, travesty last night at the Kennedy Center:
Before tonight’s performance of Steven’s Classical Mixtape, the National Symphony Orchestra will welcome a very special guest conductor to lead the National Symphony in our national anthem. Reports are that it will be Trump’s Kennedy Center director Richard Grenell.
In any normal circumstances, the musicians would refuse to play and the director would resign.
UPDATE: He’s now offering the baton at future concerts to the highest bidder.
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Oh brother!
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Page Two.
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Things get better vibes for DR VIXMOM.
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Have a better day DR ELMORE.
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I liked PLAINCLOTHES......
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I guess this side effect of the weight loss drugs is common enough to have made it into a SNL sketch -
At 3:09 into this video - "Can't afford food? Have some cheap Ozempic. Now you're not hungry and you get to take one weird painful poop a week."
SNL's opening segment last night -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUDwGI0KW5Y
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Moonshine & Mistletoe is finally up at the Joy Machine Records website, along with the recording booklet.
https://www.joymachinerecords.com/artists/moonshine-mistletoe
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Have a better day DR ELMORE.
Thanks, DR Jrand75. I just had a good meeting with Doug about the ballet.
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Moonshine & Mistletoe is finally up at the Joy Machine Records website, along with the recording booklet.
https://www.joymachinerecords.com/artists/moonshine-mistletoe
Congratulations, Larry!
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Moonshine & Mistletoe is finally up at the Joy Machine Records website, along with the recording booklet.
https://www.joymachinerecords.com/artists/moonshine-mistletoe
Congratulations, Larry!
Thanks, DR Freddie. You'd think that info would be up before the release, but . . .
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I saw the Frankenstein musical. Talk about Genug ist Genug.
I wish I'd seen the 1980(?) Broadway production with John Glover, David Dukes, and Dianne Weist (sp?) with a score by Richard Peaslee (Marat/Sade).
Nope. The one with Christine Noll and Hunter Foster.
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I am enjoying the new Michael Connelly, The Proving Ground. The villain is AI, which is really fun.
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From DR Rodzinski:
You and Mrs Rodz would get along well.
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Hi DR Vixmom :)
Thanks for the congrats to Keith.
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Thank you DR Kevin for the "fantastic!"
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DR Kevin, congrats on your Wordle in three.
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Whew!
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Today, I'm going to see (former) DR Jed in a production of The Fantasticks in Tacoma! It's the same theater company where I stage managed An Inspector Calls last year. It'll be fun to see him again!
Enjoy the show.
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I saw the Frankenstein musical. Talk about Genug ist Genug.
I wish I'd seen the 1980(?) Broadway production with John Glover, David Dukes, and Dianne Weist (sp?) with a score by Richard Peaslee (Marat/Sade).
Here's a Times article from Dec. 2020, looking back forty years later on that Broadway FRANKENSTEIN.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/30/theater/frankenstein-broadway-flop.html
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I guess this side effect of the weight loss drugs is common enough to have made it into a SNL sketch -
At 3:09 into this video - "Can't afford food? Have some cheap Ozempic. Now you're not hungry and you get to take one weird painful poop a week."
SNL's opening segment last night -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUDwGI0KW5Y
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I am enjoying the new Michael Connelly, The Proving Ground. The villain is AI, which is really fun.
I found that very interesting.
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Thank you for the link, DR Elmore!
With the booklet, too. That is great to see!
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It's Sunday! On the Broadway Radio Show, Barry Joseph talks about his new book "Matching Minds with Sondheim: The Puzzles and Games of the Broadway Legend... it's intriguing, fascinating, entertaining, and a must have if you want a deeper understanding of who Stephen Sondheim was. If you thought you already knew all about Sondheim, you are sadly mistaken as this book will show you. You won’t look at or listen to another Sondheim musical the same way again.
https://www.haineshisway.com/the-broadway-radio-show-2/
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And here comes the snow.
Quite a lot of it, but I don't think we will get any accumulation.
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That's a nice booklet DR ELMORE
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I'm up, I'm up - nine and a half hours of sleep.
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Giamela's sub was waiting for me outside the front door.
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About to eat it.
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That's a nice booklet DR ELMORE
Except for the photo of DJ on the horse, the other photos are my cousin Holly's family photos of our grandparents and her mother from the 1940s and 50s of my grandparents' Appalachian farm.
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The horse seems to be taking it in stride.
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The horse seems to be taking it in stride.
LOL!
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PAGE THREE
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This is a question for the best folks on the internet - here at HHW.
What Broadway musical cast recording that is not generally appreciated do you think the rest of us would enjoy?
I will start by mentioning NEW GIRL IN TOWN with several snappy numbers and some really pretty solo songs and duets.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvTVB0hkoc8&list=OLAK5uy_lkCZe1ON-nJiTEemWzpzJpOI-ER8Kq4zg&index=13
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And now I will uphold my annual tradition.
On the day of the first snow fall, I always watch Where Eagles Dare.
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This is a question for the best folks on the internet - here at HHW.
What Broadway musical cast recording that is not generally appreciated do you think the rest of us would enjoy?
I will start by mentioning NEW GIRL IN TOWN with several snappy numbers and some really pretty solo songs and duets.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvTVB0hkoc8&list=OLAK5uy_lkCZe1ON-nJiTEemWzpzJpOI-ER8Kq4zg&index=13
I dunno, DR Jrand75. Recommending Broadway cast recordings to this crew seems like bringing coals to Newcastle, aside from news of new productions and releases. But let me think...
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And here comes the snow.
Quite a lot of it, but I don't think we will get any accumulation.
Good luck you don't need to shovel snow.
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And now I will uphold my annual tradition.
On the day of the first snow fall, I always watch Where Eagles Dare.
This is a nice tradition.
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Indeed. Thanks DR JANE.
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DR MICHAELG this is true.....but I am always pleasantly surprised with what my fellow HHW'ers have to say.
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There ain't no flies on me.
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Yesterday's Amazon Fresh delivery did me in. After crawling about on the kitchen floor, tugging bags and shooing cats, dragging packs of 24 bottles of water, and raising and lowering myself too many times, my legs, knee and hip joints began to scream, Genug ist Genug! and worked on their terms, not mine. Around 4:30 I literally crawled into bed and focused on very little. I cannot remember a thing I watched, but all three cats lay with me; at various times Stella fought with Annabelle, and Annabelle fought with Thatch. Yjis morning y legs are still in great pain but I need to cart a lot of empty bags and other items to the basement.
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Hope you feel better quickly, Larry!
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Intermission! It's going well.
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Jed is playing Bellamy, Louisa's father, and he's very good, as is the rest of the cast.
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Thanks for the intermission theater repor, George!
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Intermission! It's going well.
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This is a question for the best folks on the internet - here at HHW.
What Broadway musical cast recording that is not generally appreciated do you think the rest of us would enjoy?
I will start by mentioning NEW GIRL IN TOWN with several snappy numbers and some really pretty solo songs and duets.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvTVB0hkoc8&list=OLAK5uy_lkCZe1ON-nJiTEemWzpzJpOI-ER8Kq4zg&index=13
I enjoyed a lot of songs on the BRING BACK BIRDIE cast album.
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The show is over and the second act was as good as the first!
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All the actors were really good...not a weak link in the bunch.
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This was pretty much the set:
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I didn't get a picture of the trunk that Henry and Mortimer come out of, but it was really nice, too.
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The place only holds 40 seats, and this is where I was sitting:
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Literally, right next to the harp.
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There were no microphones and you could hear everyone and everything.
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It was an absolutely delightful production!
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Today, I'm going to see (former) DR Jed in a production of The Fantasticks in Tacoma! It's the same theater company where I stage managed An Inspector Calls last year. It'll be fun to see him again!
Sounds like a fun day! Have a good time, George!
Thanks, Freddie! I did!
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Sub sandwich wasn't nearly as good as the first time - in fact, kind of not good.
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I listed only one item so far.
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Took some photos and will try and get more up in a bit.
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I saw the Frankenstein musical. Talk about Genug ist Genug.
Have you seen the National Theatre play version with Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller who switched back and forth playing Frankenstein and the Creature? I saw both versions and it was amazing!
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ARLEN AUCTION:
The composer Harold Arlen is best known for the Oscar he won for The Wizard of Oz in 1940. He lived another 46 years without quite matching that feat and left whatever was in his estate to his nephews.
It now turns out he owned a rare early painting by Salvador Dali.
The subject bore a close resemblance to Arlen’s wife.
The painting will be sold at auction by Doyles in NY on November 20.
Very interesting!
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PAGE FOUR DANCE!!
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In other news, travesty last night at the Kennedy Center:
Before tonight’s performance of Steven’s Classical Mixtape, the National Symphony Orchestra will welcome a very special guest conductor to lead the National Symphony in our national anthem. Reports are that it will be Trump’s Kennedy Center director Richard Grenell.
In any normal circumstances, the musicians would refuse to play and the director would resign.
UPDATE: He’s now offering the baton at future concerts to the highest bidder.
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:P
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The show is over and the second act was as good as the first!
Wonderful.
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All the actors were really good...not a weak link in the bunch.
I would have liked to have seen it.
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There were no microphones and you could hear everyone and everything.
The best way to listen.
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George, I enjoyed seeing your photos.
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Oh brother!
I really like that cast album. ;)
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51CXG0U6DvL._SL1500_.jpg)
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Keith got Wordle in four.
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Moonshine & Mistletoe is finally up at the Joy Machine Records website, along with the recording booklet.
https://www.joymachinerecords.com/artists/moonshine-mistletoe
Very cool! And it's great that they have the booklet.
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Keith got Wordle in four.
Congrats to Keith!
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Gratuitous Post #101!!
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The show is over and the second act was as good as the first!
Great to hear that!
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And thanks for the terrifiic photos, George!
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Keith got Wordle in four.
Congrats to Keith!
Thanks.
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I saw the Frankenstein musical. Talk about Genug ist Genug.
I wish I'd seen the 1980(?) Broadway production with John Glover, David Dukes, and Dianne Weist (sp?) with a score by Richard Peaslee (Marat/Sade).
Nope. The one with Christine Noll and Hunter Foster.
I used to have that cast recording.
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Wordle 1,604 6/6
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Whew!
Yet, again. ;D
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Today, I'm going to see (former) DR Jed in a production of The Fantasticks in Tacoma! It's the same theater company where I stage managed An Inspector Calls last year. It'll be fun to see him again!
Enjoy the show.
Thanks, Jane! I did!
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That's a nice booklet DR ELMORE
Except for the photo of DJ on the horse, the other photos are my cousin Holly's family photos of our grandparents and her mother from the 1940s and 50s of my grandparents' Appalachian farm.
Very cool!
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Thanks for the intermission theater repor, George!
You're welcome, Freddie!
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There were no microphones and you could hear everyone and everything.
The best way to listen.
Definitely!
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George, I enjoyed seeing your photos.
Thanks, Jane!
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And thanks for the terrifiic photos, George!
You're welcome, again, Freddie!
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I like this one quite a lot.
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We are having dinner guests for the first time in our new apartment tomorrow night, so I've got a lot of things to do.
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Starting with getting a good night's sleep.
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Good night, friends.
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And others.
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I wish there was a cast album of James Joyce’s The Dead, but alas, no. In another crowd, I’d sing the praises of Lil Abner’s songs, but that is much appreciated by some folks here, indeed.
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Dozed off for a bit, then watched a movie.
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I thought it was nine o'clock - it's only seven.
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Said she’d be here at 8, it’s almost 11.
-Roger Miller, “Hey Little Star”
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This is a question for the best folks on the internet - here at HHW.
What Broadway musical cast recording that is not generally appreciated do you think the rest of us would enjoy?
I will start by mentioning NEW GIRL IN TOWN with several snappy numbers and some really pretty solo songs and duets.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvTVB0hkoc8&list=OLAK5uy_lkCZe1ON-nJiTEemWzpzJpOI-ER8Kq4zg&index=13
I love New Girl in Town.
I would add Ballroom, The Good Companions and Out of This World.
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I saw the Frankenstein musical. Talk about Genug ist Genug.
Have you seen the National Theatre play version with Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller who switched back and forth playing Frankenstein and the Creature? I saw both versions and it was amazing!
Nope. Sounds like fun.
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I wish there was a cast album of James Joyce’s The Dead, but alas, no. In another crowd, I’d sing the praises of Lil Abner’s songs, but that is much appreciated by some folks here, indeed.
There is a private recording. It’s really good.
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Went to the memorial service of my friend today. Folks tried to be joyous, but that actually worked against it. Still, it was a nice sendoff.
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The room was packed to overflowing with she really touched a great many lives.
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I saw a bunch of chefs who worked with her over the years. That was nice.
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Good night, all.
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Waiting on a snack so I can take pill three.
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Here's an item that might be of interest - it won't last long :)
https://www.ebay.com/itm/236449945887
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Snack was good - pill three taken.
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And no one here.
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But us chickens.
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Page five is ridic.
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And not even near another page.
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Not very sporting.
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Not very nice.
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Not sugar and spice.
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Let's think twice.
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Roll the damn dice.
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Get rid of ICE.
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This won't suffice.
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We could get lice.
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Pay the price.
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Throw some rice.
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Take my advice.
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In a trice.
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Oh well.
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Well oh.
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I like this one quite a lot.
(https://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=8141.0;attach=27835)
I like this one quite a lot, too. :)
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PAGE SIX ORIGINAL CAST JANE EYRE DANCE!!
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I wish there was a cast album of James Joyce’s The Dead, but alas, no. In another crowd, I’d sing the praises of Lil Abner’s songs, but that is much appreciated by some folks here, indeed.
Rodzinski, there is a cast recording of the Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre production (https://castalbums.org/recordings/James-Joyces-The-Dead-2004-Pittsburgh-Cast/4954), but from what I understand, it was only sold at the theater, so copies are very hard to come by now...and are quite expensive.
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Here's an item that might be of interest - it won't last long :)
https://www.ebay.com/itm/236449945887
Very cool!
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So, I just noticed that TODAY, November 9th, was the 24th anniversary of our very own HHW! :D
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A VERY HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO HAINES HIS WAY!!
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Oops, I always forget these things - we're now in our 25th year here - amazing - talk about I'm Still Here.
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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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And yet here we are, stuck in the muck of page six.
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Nothing to be done about it now, I'm afraid.