Topic: BOOKS INTO MOVIES (Read 3861 times)

Jrand74 · « **Reply #30 on:** July 20, 2021, 07:20:11 AM »

Last night's choreography was an ordeal. Everyone decided that they didn't understand when they should start or finish everything....even though they were given MEASURE NUMBERS and they had their books in their hands.

There is also one idiot woman who says everything should begin on the 2 & 4 counts - although I have specifically instructed them to start on 1......

And of course then she gets the people around her going with her and everyone is off.

ANYWAY....between that and updating the website and approving the costumes and being cast as Kolenkhov in YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU (aka the Bruce Kimmel role, since he would be perfect) I am as busy as a one-armed paper hanger....

I will be glad when this show is over.....and all I have to think about are my lines....and the publicity stories and photos and slideshows and the special dinner we're planning for our outgoing president....

THE END

Jrand74 · « **Reply #31 on:** July 20, 2021, 07:25:33 AM »

Hello, Page Two.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #32 on:** July 20, 2021, 07:29:33 AM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on July 20, 2021, 06:45:03 AM

I wonder if any DR has an mp3 file of the Andre Kostelanetz Columbia recording of Harold Arlen's "Blues Opera?" This piece has haunted me since 1992!

No, but that certainly sounds intriguing.

There are original LPs available. It's a 1958 release but appears to have been mono only. Hmm...

ChasSmith · « **Reply #33 on:** July 20, 2021, 07:39:38 AM »

I ordered one. If the vinyl is in truly good condition, I'll digitize it.

Jane · « **Reply #34 on:** July 20, 2021, 08:43:31 AM »

DR TCB I suppose you wouldn't mind being trapped on a ship. Too many sea days and I want off

singdaw · « **Reply #35 on:** July 20, 2021, 09:23:12 AM »

I guess the angelic side of kitties deserves a chance, too.

Jane · « **Reply #36 on:** July 20, 2021, 09:28:42 AM »

Cute kitty.

Druxy · « **Reply #37 on:** July 20, 2021, 09:37:16 AM »

I'm pleased to announce that the audio edition of my play, JACK OAKIE, is now available via Amazon, audible.com and iTunes.

Jack Oakie’s forte was comedy. He appeared in over 100 motion pictures, mostly as a likable, somewhat dim-witted buffoon, and often in his early films, in a college setting.

Although he co-starred with the likes of Clara Bow, W. C. Fields, Bing Crosby, Alice Faye, Betty Grable, and Doris Day, his most durable performances were in THE CALL OF THE WILD (1935) with Clark Gable and Loretta Young, and THE GREAT DICTATOR (1940) in which he spoofed Benito Mussolini to Charlie Chaplin’s Adolph Hitler. That role earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

Richard Travis delivers a brilliant performance as Oakie in the play, which is also available in paperback and Kindle editions. Performance rights are available.

https://www.amazon.com/Jack-Oakie-One-Person-Hollywood-Legends/dp/B099NXV4DZ/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1626797654&sr=8-1

bk · « **Reply #38 on:** July 20, 2021, 10:43:52 AM »

I'm up, I'm up - five hours of sleep. Have lost a Kritzerland cast member - I was worried about her but I decided to take a chance - she used to be with us quite often, but not in years now. I was right to be worried. So, we're desperately trying to replace her, which is daunting as the first rehearsal is two days from today.

bk · « **Reply #39 on:** July 20, 2021, 10:44:39 AM »

I sent elmore the Blues Opera mp3s, which I have in iTunes, along with Hugh Martin's marvelous Grandma Moses Suite, also by Kostelanetz.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #40 on:** July 20, 2021, 10:58:03 AM »

Quote from: bk on July 20, 2021, 10:44:39 AM

I sent elmore the Blues Opera mp3s, which I have in iTunes, along with Hugh Martin's marvelous Grandma Moses Suite, also by Kostelanetz.

Downloaded and uploaded. Thank you!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #41 on:** July 20, 2021, 11:07:31 AM »

In 1992 or 93, after Babes in Toyland, Houston Grand Opera contacted me about Blues Opera. They were thinking about a tour of Porgy and Bess and wanted another piece for African-American actors to tour with it. Theyt asked me to look into both Blues Opera and its source, St Louis Woman, since I would be orchestrating it for them. So I schlepped out to Queens to an office of a woman representing Harold Arlen and looked over the Blues Opera vocal score. I sent Houston my report; I actually thought St Louis Woman was a better piece.

Nothing ever came of this, but I have friends working on the show right now, and another conductor friend just sent me an email asking me what I knew about the show. When Encores! announced they were doing it years ago, I took Rob Fisher, their MD then, to dinner and begged for bthe orchestration job. I gave him a copyt of my Houston report, and he hired Ralph Burns. He never returned the report.

After all of that, I had never heard the Kostelanetz recording, so now I will!

John G. · « **Reply #42 on:** July 20, 2021, 11:37:17 AM »

Some story, Elmore. Too bad you didn’t get the job.

John G. · « **Reply #43 on:** July 20, 2021, 11:37:49 AM »

I like the Hugh Martin Grandma Moses Suite.

Jane · « **Reply #44 on:** July 20, 2021, 12:03:55 PM »

Quote from: bk on July 20, 2021, 10:43:52 AM

I'm up, I'm up - five hours of sleep. Have lost a Kritzerland cast member - I was worried about her but I decided to take a chance - she used to be with us quite often, but not in years now. I was right to be worried. So, we're desperately trying to replace her, which is daunting as the first rehearsal is two days from today.

Good luck finding someone.

bk · « **Reply #45 on:** July 20, 2021, 12:23:18 PM »

No luck so far.

bk · « **Reply #46 on:** July 20, 2021, 12:23:25 PM »

Very irritating.

bk · « **Reply #47 on:** July 20, 2021, 12:23:35 PM »

Unneeded drama.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #48 on:** July 20, 2021, 12:40:29 PM »

All drama should be ONSTAGE.

Vibes for MR BK to find the right person.

Think of people alphabetically and someone will come to you.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #49 on:** July 20, 2021, 12:41:23 PM »

Tonight we are only doing Pharaoh's Dream Explained and Stone The Crows - so there will be time to work on other things.

Unless the musical director spends an hour and half teaching those songs......

Jane · « **Reply #50 on:** July 20, 2021, 12:44:46 PM »

Quote from: bk on July 20, 2021, 10:43:52 AM

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

I should take a nap and try to catch up to you. If only I had five hours of sleep

Ginny · « **Reply #51 on:** July 20, 2021, 01:20:30 PM »

Tuesday afternoon greetings! We visited paper crafting shops in Circleville and Ashville and are now settled in the Columbus ‘burbs.

Ginny · « **Reply #52 on:** July 20, 2021, 01:29:16 PM »

TOD: Chris was one of my best friends in high school. We both went to college at Michigan, but didn’t see much of each other until graduation day when we, quite by accident, processed into the arena side by side and sat together to receive our Bachelor’s degrees. We kept in touch pretty well after I moved to Ohio and she and her husband attended our wedding. We visited her family in the early ‘90s as they were moving into a new home in Michigan and then we lost touch. She and I reconnected just before our 50th high school reunion in 2018 and picked up right where we’d left off.

singdaw · « **Reply #53 on:** July 20, 2021, 02:55:16 PM »

Quote from: Jrand70 on July 20, 2021, 12:40:29 PM

All drama should be ONSTAGE.

Amen!

singdaw · « **Reply #54 on:** July 20, 2021, 02:58:41 PM »

I forgot to mention that we watched the first 2 episodes of Schmigadoon! (the only 2 that are available so far).

It's a thin premise, spread thinly. It generated a few gentle chuckles from me, but the DH declared that he didn't need to see any more episodes, and it is not terribly well executed. Kristin Chenoweth is stuck in a humorless, one-note harridan role.

The fun for me is listening for the classic songwriting models behind the contemporary material.

singdaw · « **Reply #55 on:** July 20, 2021, 03:02:33 PM »

Sad to read that Dover Publications, purveyor of affordable scores, has run into difficulty.

Dover Publications went bust. What happens now to their scores? - Slipped DiscSlipped Disc | The inside track on classical music and related cultures, by Norman Lebrecht (slippedisc.com)

singdaw · « **Reply #56 on:** July 20, 2021, 06:33:36 PM »

Yikes! A lull.

singdaw · « **Reply #57 on:** July 20, 2021, 06:33:50 PM »

But only a few more

singdaw · « **Reply #58 on:** July 20, 2021, 06:33:58 PM »

Will take us

singdaw · « **Reply #59 on:** July 20, 2021, 06:34:10 PM »

onward and upward

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