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Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on November 29, 2025, 12:18:57 AM

Title: UWD
Post by: bk on November 29, 2025, 12:18:57 AM
Well, you've read the notes and therefore know what UWD stands for, and now it is time for you to post until the wacky cows come home.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: bk on November 29, 2025, 12:20:24 AM
And the word of the day is: CRAVING!
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: George on November 29, 2025, 01:08:52 AM
This is for real:

Wordle 1,624 2/6

⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Who'da thunk it?? :D
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: Laura on November 29, 2025, 03:53:18 AM
Good morning.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: Laura on November 29, 2025, 03:55:15 AM
I think I figured out Leonard's vocalizing. He wanted me to go for my walk yesterday morning. He follows me and talks when I go to the door every morning. I skipped it yesterday, and that's NOT how we do it.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: singdaw on November 29, 2025, 04:15:54 AM
 ;D
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: singdaw on November 29, 2025, 04:17:55 AM
I watched a bit of the Queen of Versailles review that DR George posted yesterday, and then found that that critic (Mickey JoTheatrer) ALSO reviewed the new London production of Ride the Cyclone, here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5o3DjvB3RQo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5o3DjvB3RQo)
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: singdaw on November 29, 2025, 04:29:15 AM
Good morning, friends.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: singdaw on November 29, 2025, 04:29:22 AM
And others.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: Freddie on November 29, 2025, 04:45:39 AM
I watched a bit of the Queen of Versailles review that DR George posted yesterday, and then found that that critic (Mickey JoTheatrer) ALSO reviewed the new London production of Ride the Cyclone, here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5o3DjvB3RQo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5o3DjvB3RQo)


Mickey Jo is based in the U.K. but seems to come to the U.S. quite a bit.


About the press tickets for people who are (I guess you might call them) YouTube influencers for theater - This other YouTube-based critic, Matthew Hardy, had mentioned in his review of QUEEN OF VERSAILLES
at 15:02 here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmdUSVib3cI
that the press rep for the show "kept me dangling" as to whether they'd be able to get him a press ticket, maybe they could maybe they couldn't - and finally he gave up.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: Freddie on November 29, 2025, 04:52:44 AM
George- Really enjoyed the day and night photos of the Christmas lights in last night's posts!
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: Freddie on November 29, 2025, 04:54:34 AM
John G - Thanks for posting that link that included Barbara Cook and George Hearn. 

That was quite a different interpretation by Barbara Cook, at least from all the many times I've seen her.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: John G. on November 29, 2025, 05:09:06 AM
Good morning, all.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: John G. on November 29, 2025, 05:09:42 AM
John G - Thanks for posting that link that included Barbara Cook and George Hearn. 

That was quite a different interpretation by Barbara Cook, at least from all the many times I've seen her.

Yes, but was she ever enjoying herself.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: elmore3003 on November 29, 2025, 05:10:01 AM
Good morning, all!
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: Freddie on November 29, 2025, 05:10:52 AM
John G - Thanks for posting that link that included Barbara Cook and George Hearn. 

That was quite a different interpretation by Barbara Cook, at least from all the many times I've seen her.

Yes, but was she ever enjoying herself.

Such great fun to watch, too!
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: John G. on November 29, 2025, 05:12:56 AM
TOD:

Glad you enjoyed more of Stella Stevens: The Last Starlet than I did. I think I was a little too young to remember much of her in first run, except in The Poseidon Adventure. She was wonderful in The Ballad of Cable Hogue.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: John G. on November 29, 2025, 05:14:50 AM
My mother lived in the deep South when she left for Hollywood. Every move was scrutinized and judged. To Mom, she was a whore.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: John G. on November 29, 2025, 05:15:33 AM
It would be interesting to find out what Mom would have made of the documentary.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: elmore3003 on November 29, 2025, 05:17:19 AM
This has been a morning of frustrations and I am not happy about it.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: elmore3003 on November 29, 2025, 05:18:08 AM
Back later.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: Freddie on November 29, 2025, 05:28:28 AM
This has been a morning of frustrations and I am not happy about it.


Oh no!   Sending vibes that all ends up OK!
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: Freddie on November 29, 2025, 05:31:54 AM
It would be interesting to find out what Mom would have made of the documentary.


Dad passed away in Feb. 2021 and Mom in Feb. 2023.  There are so many things in our lives and in the world where I've wondered how Mom and Dad might have reacted.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: Freddie on November 29, 2025, 05:55:41 AM
Bk- Will the Zoom event be available for later viewing by people who can't be there on Sunday?
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: ChasSmith on November 29, 2025, 06:02:01 AM
Good morning, all.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: ChasSmith on November 29, 2025, 06:02:19 AM
Ha. Things are crazy here, too, this morning, and I'll be back later.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: ChasSmith on November 29, 2025, 06:02:40 AM
But in the meantime, yes, I can make the Zoom tomorrow at 7pm eastern.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: singdaw on November 29, 2025, 07:12:31 AM
~~~IMPORTANT ENVELOPE VIBES~~~ for BK!!!
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: John G. on November 29, 2025, 07:14:00 AM
I made it on time to usher this morning. It’s a holiday art market. No reindeer this time.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: John G. on November 29, 2025, 07:14:23 AM
Page turn.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: John G. on November 29, 2025, 07:15:00 AM
Two!
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: elmore3003 on November 29, 2025, 07:28:41 AM
This morning has been one frustration to another: legs that barely work, computer issues this morning that made me reboot it twice, iTunes issues still hanging over from the mess months ago, and I just picked up the mail to learn that I, who can barely stand and move, am not eligible for home healthcare because I'm not decrepit enough.

I should just die.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: elmore3003 on November 29, 2025, 07:37:21 AM
I've been listening to the new Love Life recordng, which I like more than I expected.  I do prefer Dorothy Loudon's recording of "Economics" (pronounced eek-a-nom-ics) to Opera North (pronounced eck-a-nom-ics). I was afraid the two leads would be too operatic, nit I'm very happy with them . . .  so far.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: Jrand75 on November 29, 2025, 07:54:25 AM
Hopefully the day gets better DR ELMORE!
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: Jrand75 on November 29, 2025, 07:54:59 AM
I like Stella Stevens a lot - but I don't know if I'm interested enough to watch an entire documentary about her.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: Jrand75 on November 29, 2025, 07:55:49 AM
And this from someone who posted an undemanded for Internet Autobiography of Allison Hayes.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: Jrand75 on November 29, 2025, 07:56:36 AM
I did watch about an hour - almost - of Kiss of the Spider Woman.

Perhaps I shall comment IF I finish it sometime or other.

Title: Re: UWD
Post by: Jrand75 on November 29, 2025, 07:57:33 AM
We may get some snow today. Time will tell.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: Freddie on November 29, 2025, 08:14:15 AM
I did watch about an hour - almost - of Kiss of the Spider Woman.

Perhaps I shall comment IF I finish it sometime or other.



Is there still a per-movie rental charge to stream Kiss of the Spider Woman?
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: ChasSmith on November 29, 2025, 08:17:14 AM
DR Elmore, I'm so sorry to hear that all that work applying for the home healthcare was for naught.

A clear example of how far short we fall in providing as much as should be provided.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: ChasSmith on November 29, 2025, 08:18:03 AM
Laundry is happening. And that is a glorious sound. We used a laundromat a few times but you wouldn't believe the piles of laundry that were still here. Little by little it's getting done.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: ChasSmith on November 29, 2025, 08:19:01 AM
We went for fairly basic mechanical (not super-electronic/programmable) machines this time around, and it's like a breath of fresh air.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: Freddie on November 29, 2025, 09:01:26 AM
and I just picked up the mail to learn that I, who can barely stand and move, am not eligible for home healthcare because I'm not decrepit enough.

I should just die.


Did they give any detailed explanation?
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: Jane on November 29, 2025, 09:03:12 AM
From DR Freddie:

Quote
In the same vein, there's some kind of budget problem at TRACKER where they can't afford to get the star Justin Hartley T-shirts that fit him.

;D
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: Jane on November 29, 2025, 09:06:51 AM
DR George, thanks for the congrats to Keith.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: Jane on November 29, 2025, 09:08:07 AM
George, Shelly's pie looks good.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: Jane on November 29, 2025, 09:09:04 AM
George, your sister's house looks lovely.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: Jane on November 29, 2025, 09:09:25 AM
And very festive :)
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: Jane on November 29, 2025, 09:13:50 AM
This is for real:

Wordle 1,624 2/6

⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Who'da thunk it?? :D

CONGRATULATIONS!
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: Jane on November 29, 2025, 09:14:23 AM
I think I figured out Leonard's vocalizing. He wanted me to go for my walk yesterday morning. He follows me and talks when I go to the door every morning. I skipped it yesterday, and that's NOT how we do it.

Very cute and very funny :)
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: elmore3003 on November 29, 2025, 09:23:09 AM
and I just picked up the mail to learn that I, who can barely stand and move, am not eligible for home healthcare because I'm not decrepit enough.

I should just die.


Did they give any detailed explanation?

Yes, I'm too fit.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: Rodzinski on November 29, 2025, 09:30:23 AM
Sorry Elmore. What a ripoff.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: Rodzinski on November 29, 2025, 09:33:04 AM
TOD: Nutty Professor, Advance to the Rear, The Mad Room.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: Freddie on November 29, 2025, 10:31:41 AM
This YouTube short seems to sum up the HEATED RIVALRY gay hockey series targeting its non-sports-minded audience :)

"HEATED RIVALRY Cast Talks Skin Care"
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2gogBBFju20
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: ChasSmith on November 29, 2025, 11:13:44 AM
Back from picking up a prescription, and doing another load of laundry. My number three. (We're not doing HUGE loads; we're taking it easy to get used to the machine.) I'll have a few more to do over the next couple of days, but this gets me to where I need to be.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: Jrand75 on November 29, 2025, 12:36:43 PM
TOD:

Li'l Abner
Poseidon Adventure
Where Angels Go Trouble Folows
How to Save Your Marriange and Ruin Your Life

and almost everything.

I liked especially in the last one I mentioned she is trying to get Dean Martin to notice her. They get in an elevator together....and she says: "Do you have the time?"

And Dean says: "I don't have a watch."

And she looks at her watch and says: "It's four thirty."  The face she makes when she realizes what she's done and her rush from the elevator on the next floor are very funny.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: Jrand75 on November 29, 2025, 12:38:37 PM
DR CHAS SMITH the complication of the washing and drying process is baffling to me. I also just buy the equipment that does the job and doesn't require NASA style electronic training to operate.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: Jrand75 on November 29, 2025, 12:39:22 PM
I want a piece of Shelly's pie.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: Jane on November 29, 2025, 12:39:37 PM
TOD:

I liked especially in the last one I mentioned she is trying to get Dean Martin to notice her. They get in an elevator together....and she says: "Do you have the time?"

And Dean says: "I don't have a watch."

And she looks at her watch and says: "It's four thirty."  The face she makes when she realizes what she's done and her rush from the elevator on the next floor are very funny.

:))
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: Jrand75 on November 29, 2025, 12:40:07 PM
We now have even a couple of more houses decorated for the season....it's fun to look out the front and back doors when it gets dark to see what else has been added.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: Jane on November 29, 2025, 12:44:11 PM
Nice. 
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: Jane on November 29, 2025, 12:45:48 PM
THREE!

(https://www.quntis.com/cdn/shop/files/5_9603ba16-211e-4cba-9d6f-945713d716d8.jpg?v=1732864763&width=2000)
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: MichaelG on November 29, 2025, 12:46:35 PM
RIP Tom Stoppard. Arcadia is one of my favorite plays ever. I made sure to see Leopoldstadt on Broadway. But there are so many plays of his I haven't seen yet.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c74xe49q7vlo
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: MichaelG on November 29, 2025, 12:47:19 PM
Does anybody here have any stories of people trying to get Stoppard to write a musical theater book or an opera libretto? Surely folks must have tried.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: Freddie on November 29, 2025, 12:48:53 PM
TOD:

Li'l Abner
Poseidon Adventure
Where Angels Go Trouble Folows
How to Save Your Marriange and Ruin Your Life

and almost everything.

I liked especially in the last one I mentioned she is trying to get Dean Martin to notice her. They get in an elevator together....and she says: "Do you have the time?"

And Dean says: "I don't have a watch."

And she looks at her watch and says: "It's four thirty."  The face she makes when she realizes what she's done and her rush from the elevator on the next floor are very funny.


LOL!
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: Jane on November 29, 2025, 12:49:02 PM
TOD:

How to Save Your Marriange and Ruin Your Life


I watched the trailer on IMDB and that scene was in it :)

I forgot how wonderful Eli Wallach & Anne Jackson were.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: Freddie on November 29, 2025, 12:49:47 PM
We now have even a couple of more houses decorated for the season....it's fun to look out the front and back doors when it gets dark to see what else has been added.


Sounds wonderful!
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: Jane on November 29, 2025, 12:50:09 PM
RIP Tom Stoppard. Arcadia is one of my favorite plays ever. I made sure to see Leopoldstadt on Broadway. But there are so many plays of his I haven't seen yet.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c74xe49q7vlo

:(
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: Freddie on November 29, 2025, 12:50:22 PM
RIP Tom Stoppard. Arcadia is one of my favorite plays ever. I made sure to see Leopoldstadt on Broadway. But there are so many plays of his I haven't seen yet.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c74xe49q7vlo


:(

Title: Re: UWD
Post by: Jane on November 29, 2025, 01:01:40 PM
I always enjoyed Stella Stevens.  I like her best in The Nutty Professor.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: Jrand75 on November 29, 2025, 01:40:19 PM
There was a play I saw at a Festival in Ireland that I think was by Tom Stoppard about a man who auditioned for a community theatre production of The Three Penny Opera. He was cast in the chorus and eventually ended up playing the lead.

But I can't find a play with that description in the list of his plays. It must be someone else. But it was hilarious.

My favorite part was during a rehearsal the director would get to a certain part in the blocking and then the piano player would start to play. Each time the director would say: "Not yet we're moving on."

He did this about six times. Then the seventh time he got to a song cue and he said "Music, please....." the piano player had gone to the bathroom.....LOL
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: MichaelG on November 29, 2025, 02:08:32 PM
I tried searching for the play DR Jrand75 describes but had no luck. However, I did find this announcement of a new Threepenny adaptation. Now that the German version is in the public domain in the USA, folks can do their own English translation/adaptation however they want, as we can see here.

https://playbill.com/article/katrina-lenk-and-george-abud-to-star-in-new-adaptation-of-threepenny-opera
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: Freddie on November 29, 2025, 02:09:45 PM
I tried searching for the play DR Jrand75 describes but had no luck. However, I did find this announcement of a new Threepenny adaptation. Now that the German version is in the public domain in the USA, folks can do their own English translation/adaptation however they want, as we can see here.

https://playbill.com/article/katrina-lenk-and-george-abud-to-star-in-new-adaptation-of-threepenny-opera

I wonder if that would mean the song "Mack the Knife" is in the public domain.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: MichaelG on November 29, 2025, 02:12:08 PM
I wonder if that would mean the song "Mack the Knife" is in the public domain.

Not the English lyrics by Blitzstein or other later translations. But if you make your own translation, no problem!
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: MichaelG on November 29, 2025, 02:13:10 PM
But songs have compulsory licenses for recording, so it's not such a big deal like grand rights for a stage production.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: Freddie on November 29, 2025, 02:13:36 PM
I wonder if that would mean the song "Mack the Knife" is in the public domain.

Not the English lyrics by Blitzstein or other later translations. But if you make your own translation, no problem!


Do you think (from what you might know of such things) the music for "Mack the Knife" might be public domain?
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: elmore3003 on November 29, 2025, 02:18:54 PM
Does anybody here have any stories of people trying to get Stoppard to write a musical theater book or an opera libretto? Surely folks must have tried.

He did an English version of The Love for Three Oranges.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: elmore3003 on November 29, 2025, 02:22:08 PM
I wonder if that would mean the song "Mack the Knife" is in the public domain.

Not the English lyrics by Blitzstein or other later translations. But if you make your own translation, no problem!

Do you think (from what you might know of such things) the music for "Mack the Knife" might be public domain?

iNot if the Kurt Weill Foundation has anything to do with it! Lenya may have copyrighted the score in 1954 with the Bltzstein version. She may have had some clout since, if I recall correctly, there was Brecht-Weill litigation over the poor percentage Brecht gave Weill.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: Freddie on November 29, 2025, 02:29:56 PM
I wonder if that would mean the song "Mack the Knife" is in the public domain.

Not the English lyrics by Blitzstein or other later translations. But if you make your own translation, no problem!

Do you think (from what you might know of such things) the music for "Mack the Knife" might be public domain?

iNot if the Kurt Weill Foundation has anything to do with it! Lenya may have copyrighted the score in 1954 with the Bltzstein version. She may have had some clout since, if I recall correctly, there was Brecht-Weill litigation over the poor percentage Brecht gave Weill.


Interesting!  Thanks for that information, Larry.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: MichaelG on November 29, 2025, 02:31:51 PM
The foundation addressed this in one of their newsletters. The German piano-vocal score and libretto entered the USA public domain on January 1, 2024. But that does not include the orchestrations, English translations, post-1928 additions, etc.

https://www.kwf.org/wp-content/uploads/kwn_412_p1-13.pdf#page=3
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: MichaelG on November 29, 2025, 02:34:42 PM
Hence the new book, lyrics and orchestrations in the upcoming Off-Brand Opera production.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: Freddie on November 29, 2025, 03:02:35 PM
Thanks, MichaelG!
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: Freddie on November 29, 2025, 03:14:37 PM
I'm trying to get an audio-CD-length or show-length group of parodies where I don't need to RELY on "Parody" classification never being challenged by the original writers.  The best approach to accomplish this looks like having all the tracks be with public domain music or original music.

Title: Re: UWD
Post by: George on November 29, 2025, 03:54:17 PM
George- Really enjoyed the day and night photos of the Christmas lights in last night's posts!

Thanks, Freddie!  Glad you liked them.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: George on November 29, 2025, 03:56:59 PM
I'm done with the first concessions shift. The second act started and I'm now at the downtown Meconi's Subs (https://www.meconissubs.com/).  I'll eat, then head back to the Center for the second performance for which I'm concessioning. :)
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: George on November 29, 2025, 03:57:47 PM
John G - Thanks for posting that link that included Barbara Cook and George Hearn. 

That was quite a different interpretation by Barbara Cook, at least from all the many times I've seen her.

Yes, but was she ever enjoying herself.

Absolutely!
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: George on November 29, 2025, 04:04:28 PM
This has been a morning of frustrations and I am not happy about it.


Oh no!   Sending vibes that all ends up OK!

~~~Ditto!!~~~
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: George on November 29, 2025, 04:06:37 PM
This morning has been one frustration to another: legs that barely work, computer issues this morning that made me reboot it twice, iTunes issues still hanging over from the mess months ago, and I just picked up the mail to learn that I, who can barely stand and move, am not eligible for home healthcare because I'm not decrepit enough.

I should just die.

Oh, no. :(
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: George on November 29, 2025, 04:10:24 PM
I like Stella Stevens a lot - but I don't know if I'm interested enough to watch an entire documentary about her.

One of the earliest times I saw one of her movies was when I (and maybe my sister?) watched the movie Arnold (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069732/reference/?ref_=nm_flmg_job_1_accord_1_cdt_img_105) late night TV when I was probably much too young to watch it. ::)
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: George on November 29, 2025, 04:12:13 PM
Laundry is happening. And that is a glorious sound. We used a laundromat a few times but you wouldn't believe the piles of laundry that were still here. Little by little it's getting done.

I need to do some laundry, too...I've procrastinated about it for far too long. :P
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: George on November 29, 2025, 04:13:02 PM
PAGE 4OUR DANCE!!

(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSc4QWgyWc7gkAu0bNPLX8nTjsuUIVwEY8iSKYCW9zEc_W9p0XIwoZg2bQ&s=10)
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: George on November 29, 2025, 04:13:08 PM
DR George, thanks for the congrats to Keith.

You're very welcome,  Jane!
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: Jane on November 29, 2025, 04:14:28 PM
I'm done with the first concessions shift. The second act started and I'm now at the downtown Meconi's Subs (https://www.meconissubs.com/).  I'll eat, then head back to the Center for the second performance for which I'm concessioning. :)

Enjoy the rest of your evening.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: George on November 29, 2025, 04:15:25 PM
I'm done with the first concessions shift. The second act started and I'm now at the downtown Meconi's Subs (https://www.meconissubs.com/).  I'll eat, then head back to the Center for the second performance for which I'm concessioning. :)

Enjoy the rest of your evening.

Thanks, Jane.  I'll just be relaxing here at Meconi's until I need to leave in time to get another parking spot. ::)
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: Jane on November 29, 2025, 04:16:30 PM
I like Stella Stevens a lot - but I don't know if I'm interested enough to watch an entire documentary about her.

One of the earliest times I saw one of her movies was when I (and maybe my sister?) watched the movie Arnold (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069732/reference/?ref_=nm_flmg_job_1_accord_1_cdt_img_105) late night TV when I was probably much too young to watch it. ::)

While this sounds vaguely familiar, I really don't remember it.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: George on November 29, 2025, 04:17:02 PM
George, Shelly's pie looks good.
George, your sister's house looks lovely.
And very festive :)

Thanks x3!!
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: George on November 29, 2025, 04:17:17 PM
This is for real:

Wordle 1,624 2/6

⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Who'da thunk it?? :D

CONGRATULATIONS!

Thanks, again!
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: George on November 29, 2025, 04:26:51 PM
This YouTube short seems to sum up the HEATED RIVALRY gay hockey series targeting its non-sports-minded audience :)

"HEATED RIVALRY Cast Talks Skin Care"
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2gogBBFju20

;D
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: George on November 29, 2025, 04:28:22 PM
I want a piece of Shelly's pie.

I can get the recipe, but sadly (for you) it's almost all gone. ;)
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: John G. on November 29, 2025, 04:28:36 PM
I survived the art market this morning.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: John G. on November 29, 2025, 04:28:56 PM
Headed off to a birthday dinner with friends.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: George on November 29, 2025, 04:28:58 PM
TOD:

Li'l Abner
Poseidon Adventure
Where Angels Go Trouble Folows
How to Save Your Marriange and Ruin Your Life

and almost everything.

I liked especially in the last one I mentioned she is trying to get Dean Martin to notice her. They get in an elevator together....and she says: "Do you have the time?"

And Dean says: "I don't have a watch."

And she looks at her watch and says: "It's four thirty."  The face she makes when she realizes what she's done and her rush from the elevator on the next floor are very funny.

:))
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Post by: John G. on November 29, 2025, 04:29:11 PM
Gratuitous post 102!
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Post by: George on November 29, 2025, 04:29:22 PM
Headed off to a birthday dinner with friends.

Have a great time, John!
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Post by: John G. on November 29, 2025, 04:29:50 PM
TOD:

Li'l Abner
Poseidon Adventure
Where Angels Go Trouble Folows
How to Save Your Marriange and Ruin Your Life

and almost everything.

I liked especially in the last one I mentioned she is trying to get Dean Martin to notice her. They get in an elevator together....and she says: "Do you have the time?"

And Dean says: "I don't have a watch."

And she looks at her watch and says: "It's four thirty."  The face she makes when she realizes what she's done and her rush from the elevator on the next floor are very funny.

:))

That scene is in the documentary.
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Post by: George on November 29, 2025, 04:29:55 PM
We now have even a couple of more houses decorated for the season....it's fun to look out the front and back doors when it gets dark to see what else has been added.

Very nice!
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: George on November 29, 2025, 04:30:22 PM
THREE!

(https://www.quntis.com/cdn/shop/files/5_9603ba16-211e-4cba-9d6f-945713d716d8.jpg?v=1732864763&width=2000)

Cute!
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Post by: George on November 29, 2025, 04:32:12 PM
RIP Tom Stoppard. Arcadia is one of my favorite plays ever. I made sure to see Leopoldstadt on Broadway. But there are so many plays of his I haven't seen yet.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c74xe49q7vlo

Oh, no. :( I've see two different local productions of Arcadia.  DR Jed was in one.  They were very different but both very good.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: George on November 29, 2025, 04:34:09 PM
There was a play I saw at a Festival in Ireland that I think was by Tom Stoppard about a man who auditioned for a community theatre production of The Three Penny Opera. He was cast in the chorus and eventually ended up playing the lead.

But I can't find a play with that description in the list of his plays. It must be someone else. But it was hilarious.

My favorite part was during a rehearsal the director would get to a certain part in the blocking and then the piano player would start to play. Each time the director would say: "Not yet we're moving on."

He did this about six times. Then the seventh time he got to a song cue and he said "Music, please....." the piano player had gone to the bathroom.....LOL

That sounds like a really fun play, Jrand!
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Post by: George on November 29, 2025, 04:34:30 PM
I tried searching for the play DR Jrand75 describes but had no luck. However, I did find this announcement of a new Threepenny adaptation. Now that the German version is in the public domain in the USA, folks can do their own English translation/adaptation however they want, as we can see here.

https://playbill.com/article/katrina-lenk-and-george-abud-to-star-in-new-adaptation-of-threepenny-opera

Very cool!
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Post by: George on November 29, 2025, 04:37:00 PM
The Evergreen State College is going to be putting on The Threepenny Opera, but they're using the 2002 translation. 
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Post by: George on November 29, 2025, 04:37:14 PM
I was thinking about auditioning, but at the time, TAO was going to be putting on a play that would rehearse at the same time.  Our play fell through, but by then it was too late for me. :-\
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: George on November 29, 2025, 04:37:31 PM
Timing...it's all in the timing. ::)

;)
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Post by: George on November 29, 2025, 04:38:53 PM
The foundation addressed this in one of their newsletters. The German piano-vocal score and libretto entered the USA public domain on January 1, 2024. But that does not include the orchestrations, English translations, post-1928 additions, etc.

https://www.kwf.org/wp-content/uploads/kwn_412_p1-13.pdf#page=3

Very interesting.
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Post by: Freddie on November 29, 2025, 04:52:16 PM
I was thinking about auditioning, but at the time, TAO was going to be putting on a play that would rehearse at the same time.  Our play fell through, but by then it was too late for me. :-\

:(


Title: Re: UWD
Post by: Jane on November 29, 2025, 04:53:54 PM
George, Shelly's pie looks good.
George, your sister's house looks lovely.
And very festive :)

Thanks x3!!

You are welcome x3 :)
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: Jane on November 29, 2025, 04:54:07 PM
This is for real:

Wordle 1,624 2/6

⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Who'da thunk it?? :D

CONGRATULATIONS!

Thanks, again!

You are welcome.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: Jane on November 29, 2025, 04:54:30 PM
Headed off to a birthday dinner with friends.

Have fun.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: Jane on November 29, 2025, 04:55:03 PM
THREE!



Cute!

Thanks.
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Post by: Laura on November 29, 2025, 05:01:11 PM
Good evening.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: Laura on November 29, 2025, 05:01:39 PM
I spent an hour at a cat cafe this afternoon. I didn't bring anyone home with me.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: Laura on November 29, 2025, 05:01:54 PM
Except my daughter.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: Jane on November 29, 2025, 05:10:11 PM
I spent an hour at a cat cafe this afternoon. I didn't bring anyone home with me.

Sweet.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: Jane on November 29, 2025, 05:10:24 PM
Except my daughter.

;D
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Post by: Jrand75 on November 29, 2025, 05:35:38 PM
DR MICHAELG thanks for the info. Very interesting.
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Post by: Jrand75 on November 29, 2025, 05:35:58 PM
DR JOHN G I guess I'm not the only one who liked that scene!
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: Jrand75 on November 29, 2025, 05:47:19 PM
I worked on a production of TTPO in the fall of 1986. It was a lot of fun. I was on the stage crew - Stage Right Deck Captain.

I only wish our leading man had had at least a small idea of what it was about and what he was doing. It was brutal to listen to night after night.

Here's a photo from the production.....it was ghastly.....it was just ghastly.

https://iuidigital.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/PT/id/595/rec/2
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Post by: Jrand75 on November 29, 2025, 05:48:42 PM
We have had about 2 inches of snow since 6 p.m. but it seems to have stopped.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: singdaw on November 29, 2025, 08:04:58 PM
DR MICHAELG thanks for the info. Very interesting.

DITTO!
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: singdaw on November 29, 2025, 08:05:56 PM
  I didn't bring anyone home with me.

But you don't have an orange one.          8)
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: singdaw on November 29, 2025, 08:06:12 PM
Everyone should have an orange one.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: singdaw on November 29, 2025, 08:06:29 PM
I was blocked from getting in here for at least an hour.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: singdaw on November 29, 2025, 08:06:37 PM
But everything seems OK now.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: singdaw on November 29, 2025, 08:06:46 PM
Good night, friends.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: singdaw on November 29, 2025, 08:06:52 PM
And others.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: bk on November 29, 2025, 08:13:08 PM
I'm up, I'm up - seven hours of sleep.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: bk on November 29, 2025, 08:13:20 PM
Thought I'd posted already.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: bk on November 29, 2025, 08:13:43 PM
Site was down - fixed now.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: George on November 29, 2025, 08:47:19 PM
I spent an hour at a cat cafe this afternoon. I didn't bring anyone home with me.

There's a cat café in Lacey, and my niece has been there.  I haven't yet.
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Post by: George on November 29, 2025, 08:47:30 PM
Site was down - fixed now.

Whew!!
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: George on November 29, 2025, 08:54:38 PM
I worked on a production of TTPO in the fall of 1986. It was a lot of fun. I was on the stage crew - Stage Right Deck Captain.

I only wish our leading man had had at least a small idea of what it was about and what he was doing. It was brutal to listen to night after night.

Here's a photo from the production.....it was ghastly.....it was just ghastly.

https://iuidigital.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/PT/id/595/rec/2

It's a nice picture, though.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: George on November 29, 2025, 08:55:20 PM
Everyone should have an orange one.

Not always...look what happened to Melania. ::)

;)
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: George on November 29, 2025, 08:55:39 PM
:))

(No sympathy, though.)

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Post by: George on November 29, 2025, 08:57:49 PM
My concessioning for Studio West's production of The Nutcracker is over.  Ballet Northwest's production of the same ballet will be in a couple of weeks. 

Heading home now.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: John G. on November 29, 2025, 09:17:24 PM
Dinner was fun. And the food was excellent. I had a very American meal: gumbo, chicken pot pie and peach cobbler.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: John G. on November 29, 2025, 09:17:48 PM
I’m exhausted.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: John G. on November 29, 2025, 09:18:03 PM
So, I am going to bed.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: John G. on November 29, 2025, 09:18:14 PM
But first …
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: John G. on November 29, 2025, 09:18:28 PM
We need to move on
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: John G. on November 29, 2025, 09:18:40 PM
Page turn!
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: John G. on November 29, 2025, 09:18:47 PM
Six!
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: John G. on November 29, 2025, 09:19:03 PM
Good night, all.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: Jane on November 29, 2025, 09:57:23 PM
I was blocked from getting in here for at least an hour.

I just stopped in to see if we were back.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: Jane on November 29, 2025, 09:58:22 PM
Everyone should have an orange one.

Not always...look what happened to Melania. ::)

;)

:))
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: Jane on November 29, 2025, 09:58:48 PM
:))

(No sympathy, though.)


;D
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: Jane on November 29, 2025, 10:00:09 PM
I seem to have suddenly come down with a head cold this afternoon.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: Jane on November 29, 2025, 10:01:17 PM
I'm hoping it is just allergies and I will be fine in the morning but I doubt it.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: Jane on November 29, 2025, 10:01:37 PM
Keith got Wordle in five,
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: Jane on November 29, 2025, 10:02:01 PM
"night
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Post by: bk on November 29, 2025, 10:53:15 PM
These pills I take are amazing for fixing the double vision and speech issues, but they are really messing with my innards - I feel weird inside and it's just unpleasant. Worth it for the fixes and hopefully holding other problems at bay, and I think it may improve when I start to do the final thing they want me to do with the IV drip. That will be in January.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: bk on November 29, 2025, 10:53:47 PM
Weird.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: bk on November 29, 2025, 10:53:55 PM
Weirdly weird.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: MichaelG on November 29, 2025, 11:40:25 PM
I worked on a production of TTPO in the fall of 1986. It was a lot of fun. I was on the stage crew - Stage Right Deck Captain.

I only wish our leading man had had at least a small idea of what it was about and what he was doing. It was brutal to listen to night after night.

Here's a photo from the production.....it was ghastly.....it was just ghastly.

https://iuidigital.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/PT/id/595/rec/2

I played trumpet in a production at college. I recall it was okay, but I had no stage experience then, just pit musician and audience member. So I didn't have opinions then, at least not beyond liking it or not liking it.
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Post by: MichaelG on November 29, 2025, 11:41:15 PM
Now it's fun to be able to identify why things are working or not. My wife and I sure do have opinions now!
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: MichaelG on November 29, 2025, 11:41:49 PM
We just got back from Wicked: For Good and enjoyed it very much.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: MichaelG on November 29, 2025, 11:43:12 PM
I was surprised by how little I remembered from Act II of the show vs. Act I. But that's why there are two movies. Nobody's paying attention as well after Defying Gravity, even after intermission.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: George on November 30, 2025, 12:28:26 AM
I seem to have suddenly come down with a head cold this afternoon.

No! :o
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: George on November 30, 2025, 12:29:03 AM
~~~Feel Better Quickly Vibes for Jane!!~~~
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: George on November 30, 2025, 12:29:28 AM
Keith got Wordle in five,

Good for Keith!
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: George on November 30, 2025, 12:32:09 AM
I was surprised by how little I remembered from Act II of the show vs. Act I. But that's why there are two movies. Nobody's paying attention as well after Defying Gravity, even after intermission.

My friends Margo and Shelly want to go see it, and we're thinking about watching the first movie again before we go. 
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Post by: George on November 30, 2025, 12:32:22 AM
We may watch part 1 a day or two before seeing part 2...all that movie time in one day might be too much for us.
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Post by: George on November 30, 2025, 12:32:29 AM
;D
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: George on November 30, 2025, 12:32:56 AM
Glad you enjoyed it, Michael!
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: George on November 30, 2025, 12:35:06 AM
Well, tomorrow I get to sleep in! :D
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: George on November 30, 2025, 12:35:25 AM
And, I also really need to do laundry.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: George on November 30, 2025, 12:35:55 AM
Then, it'll be the HHW Zoom call!
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: George on November 30, 2025, 12:37:06 AM
At some point soon, I need to put the faucet protectors on the outside faucets of my house.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: George on November 30, 2025, 12:38:36 AM
Well, I put one on the front faucet, but where it is coming out of the wall, the cover doesn't completely protect the faucet...there's too much of a gap.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: George on November 30, 2025, 12:41:37 AM
Here you can see the decorative siding and the gap:
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: George on November 30, 2025, 12:43:07 AM
I don't know if I should cut the cover to match the gap and put more foam edging on it, or find a smaller cover that just fits better.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: George on November 30, 2025, 12:45:17 AM
Ooo...maybe I could get some of these!

PAGE RUPERT FAUCET COVER DANCE!!

(https://mobileimages.lowes.com/productimages/d7bf7d66-dc65-4ff9-acda-3ced4356c1f4/00597808.jpg)
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: George on November 30, 2025, 12:46:40 AM
That would solve the problem of the gap!
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: bk on November 30, 2025, 12:47:22 AM
New notes are up.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: bk on November 30, 2025, 12:47:32 AM
Up are new notes.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: bk on November 30, 2025, 12:47:45 AM
I've seen them.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: bk on November 30, 2025, 12:48:15 AM
I've read them.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: bk on November 30, 2025, 12:48:22 AM
I wrote them.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: bk on November 30, 2025, 12:48:35 AM
I was going to keep them short, but I didn't.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: bk on November 30, 2025, 12:48:45 AM
They are long.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: bk on November 30, 2025, 12:48:52 AM
Is that wrong?
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: bk on November 30, 2025, 12:49:03 AM
They can be had for a song.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: bk on November 30, 2025, 12:49:21 AM
You know who'd enjoy them - Suzie Wong.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: bk on November 30, 2025, 12:49:28 AM
No bong.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: bk on November 30, 2025, 12:49:37 AM
No King Kong.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: bk on November 30, 2025, 12:49:46 AM
No Cheech and Chong.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: George on November 30, 2025, 12:49:57 AM
My faucet on the back has the same problem, so TWO "faucet socks" will be needed.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: bk on November 30, 2025, 12:50:07 AM
No Sammy Fong.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: bk on November 30, 2025, 12:50:19 AM
No gong.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: bk on November 30, 2025, 12:50:29 AM
No Mah Jong.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: bk on November 30, 2025, 12:50:58 AM
No Ping Pong.
Title: Re: UWD
Post by: bk on November 30, 2025, 12:51:19 AM
They're strong.
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Post by: George on November 30, 2025, 12:52:30 AM
Gratuitous Post #201!!