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[Freddie]

Page Five!

[John G.]

Well, this has been quite the week with three (3) books happening on HHW.

BK's is here now, on Kindle.

DR Elmore's on Kindle will be released on Aug. 4.

DR John G., what's the ETA on yours?

THe fall. Don't know exactly when.

[John G.]

So, one of the two people who were supposed to take the bar exam in my room didn't show up today. So, it was two proctors in a room of one tester.

[John G.]

I volunteered to move to another room and got sent to one with a lone proctor. He was supposed to have had eight take the test. Only four showed up. That's another 50 percent rate. How odd considering you have to pay hundreds to take the test.

[John G.]

I used my time wisely. I read all of "To Broadway, to Life! The Musical Theater of Bock and Harnick."

[John G.]

Three volumes of Lost in Boston, one volume of Unsung Musicals and the Prime Time Musicals CD are all mentioned.

[John G.]

The only semi-mistake I noticed is that the writer attributes New Girl in Town to Robert Merrill, which leads me to think of the opera singer, not Bob Merrill the lyricist.

[Freddie]

I volunteered to move to another room and got sent to one with a lone proctor. He was supposed to have had eight take the test. Only four showed up. That's another 50 percent rate. How odd considering you have to pay hundreds to take the test.

That's really interesting about the proctor to test taker ratio.

[MichaelG]

But I've gotten to the You Captured My Heart (Working Title) show songs, and what is that "rights limitations" about? The composer wasn't a rookie when he wrote that, I would think he must have gotten the rights. Did they just get rights to the workshop but not recording rights? Anybody know more about the story?

Are those the songs from the show based on Dodie Smith's  I Capture the Castle?

Yes, although you don't see those names anywhere in the release.

[Freddie]

But I've gotten to the You Captured My Heart (Working Title) show songs, and what is that "rights limitations" about? The composer wasn't a rookie when he wrote that, I would think he must have gotten the rights. Did they just get rights to the workshop but not recording rights? Anybody know more about the story?

Are those the songs from the show based on Dodie Smith's  I Capture the Castle?

Such magnificent material in that show!

[Rodzinski]

I have a great Lerner & Loewe RCA Living Stereo two-record set with Robert Merrill

[Freddie]

But I've gotten to the You Captured My Heart (Working Title) show songs, and what is that "rights limitations" about? The composer wasn't a rookie when he wrote that, I would think he must have gotten the rights. Did they just get rights to the workshop but not recording rights? Anybody know more about the story?

Are those the songs from the show based on Dodie Smith's  I Capture the Castle?

Yes, although you don't see those names anywhere in the release.

I think it's not unusual to have agreed in the rights contract with the owner of the novel, for the composer-lyricist to retain the rights to use their songs, even after the rights to do the musical stage version had lapsed.

[Jane]

I volunteered to move to another room and got sent to one with a lone proctor. He was supposed to have had eight take the test. Only four showed up. That's another 50 percent rate. How odd considering you have to pay hundreds to take the test.

That is rather shocking.

[Freddie]

I wonder how it worked with the rights of the adaptors (speaking of Bob Merrill) who created SUGAR, the musical based on SOME LIKE IT HOT -  that allowed the recent Broadway musical SOME LIKE IT HOT to happen. 

[bk]

Had pasta with butter, meat, and the tiny bit of parmesan I had left.

[bk]

It was tasty.

[bk]

Took pill two.

[bk]

Otherwise, just catching up on stuff and relaxing. This day has flown by.

[John G.]

TOD:

I always liked Shemp best. I was not a fan of Curly Joe.

[John G.]

I wish I lived in Houston. The Museum of Fine Arts there is having a Kurosawa film fest throughout August.

[John G.]

Facebook wants me to add Jason Alexander as my friend.

[Freddie]

Had pasta with butter, meat, and the tiny bit of parmesan I had left.

That sounds good!  What kind of meat?

[KevinH]

Good evening!

[KevinH]

Congrats on your. book listing, DR elmore!

[MichaelG]

But I've gotten to the You Captured My Heart (Working Title) show songs, and what is that "rights limitations" about? The composer wasn't a rookie when he wrote that, I would think he must have gotten the rights. Did they just get rights to the workshop but not recording rights? Anybody know more about the story?

Are those the songs from the show based on Dodie Smith's  I Capture the Castle?

Yes, although you don't see those names anywhere in the release.

I think it's not unusual to have agreed in the rights contract with the owner of the novel, for the composer-lyricist to retain the rights to use their songs, even after the rights to do the musical stage version had lapsed.

I know nothing about licensing novels, movies etc. for stage musicals. So rights lapsing is a new concept to me. I mean, we have that in music tech all the time, where the license for musical works is for a few years. But to create a musical and do all that creative work based on a time limit for the rights? I wouldn’t have thought of that. Thanks for guiding me through my naïveté about this.

[KevinH]

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Good, DR George!  And Keith!   I got it in 4 too.

[George]

I volunteered to move to another room and got sent to one with a lone proctor. He was supposed to have had eight take the test. Only four showed up. That's another 50 percent rate. How odd considering you have to pay hundreds to take the test.

Very strange.

[George]

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Good, DR George!  And Keith!   I got it in 4 too.

Great minds think alike, I guess.

[George]

I used my time wisely. I read all of "To Broadway, to Life! The Musical Theater of Bock and Harnick."

I drove my friend Shelly to an appointment just south of Tacoma, and I started reading BK's new book while waiting.  It's very good!

[John G.]

Schmidt and Jones wrote a lovely score for Grover’s Corners, a musical version of Our Town. Kander and Ebb musicalized The Skin of Our Teeth. Both based on Wilder plays. Both had the rights yanked from them.