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[John G.]

Two!

[Laura]

We've been getting more rain this week. Of course, we were out in our little camping trailer. We finally just came home early for reasons.

"came home early for reasons" sounds mysterious.  Was it just due to the rain?  Hope everything was OK.

We booked the trip before DIL got the job. We need to pick up Grandson at school on Wednesdays and wait until Son gets home. Seemed silly for one of us to sit in the trailer in the rain while the other one did grandparent duty. Then drive back in the dark and rain, just to come home the next morning.

[John G.]

TOD:

On the 20th Century
Gypsy
A Little Night Music
Anyone Can Whistle
Chess OBC
Merrily We Roll Along
The Rink

Nope:
Pippin
The latest two Gypsy revivals
The Act

[Laura]

Elmore, I hope your assessment goes well. Or not well. Whichever will get you the services you need.

[Freddie]

Elmore, I hope your assessment goes well. Or not well. Whichever will get you the services you need.

Ooh, good point!

[ChasSmith]

DR MichaelG, thanks for the heads up on "Pretty Wins"!

[ChasSmith]

Looking forward to further repors.

[John G.]

Elmore, I hope your assessment goes well. Or not well. Whichever will get you the services you need.

Ditto, my friend.

[John G.]

The line for the pantry is lengthy again.

[John G.]

I hope we can feed everyone.

[elmore3003]

Elmore, I hope your assessment goes well. Or not well. Whichever will get you the services you need.

It lasted around 30 minutes, and it seemed to go well. I will hear if I'm good for healthcare in about ten days.

[elmore3003]

If any of you DRs have read Annabelle & Thatch and have not posted a review on Amazon, would you please do so?
If you've posted on Amazon, would you cut and paste your review on Barnes & Noble? I could use all the help possible!

[elmore3003]

Re TOD: I seem to love every Columbia original and studio cast album made between 1945 and 1980. I just can't remember or post them all! How could I omit the monaural Gentlemen Prefer Blondes or Finian's Rainbow (although I prefer the 1960s RCA recording) or the stereo Bye Bye Birdie, Thurber Carnival, or Anyone Can Whistle among others.

I also love the MGM cast recording of Carnival and the RCA Hello, Dolly!

[ChasSmith]

Re TOD: I seem to love every Columbia original and studio cast album made between 1945 and 1980. I just can't remember or post them all! How could I omit the monaural Gentlemen Prefer Blondes or Finian's Rainbow (although I prefer the 1960s RCA recording) or the stereo Bye Bye Birdie, Thurber Carnival, or Anyone Can Whistle among others.

I also love the MGM cast recording of Carnival and the RCA Hello, Dolly!

I'm so glad you mentioned the 1960s Finian's Rainbow! Last time I listened to that I was blown away by it, absolutely loved it. And I agree with all the rest of that.

[Jrand75]

Feel better vibes for DR JOHN G and DR GEORGE.

[Jrand75]

I enjoyed DR MICHAELG's take on Versailles.

Looking forward to the news on Chess.

[Jrand75]

TOD:

So many cast albums already mentioned. I enjoy them all.

I also like the London Cast album of Bye Bye, Birdie! with Chita Rivera and Peter Marshall.



I like New Girl In Town - on RCA.

[elmore3003]

TOD:

So many cast albums already mentioned. I enjoy them all.

I also like the London Cast album of Bye Bye, Birdie! with Chita Rivera and Peter Marshall.

I like New Girl In Town - on RCA.

And my late friend Robert Nichols in the Paul Lynde role!

[elmore3003]

I like New Girl in Town as well as Take Me Along.

[Jane]

DR John, I hope you are finding comfort in watching some of Bonnie's favorite films.

Also, I'm glad you are getting some relief for your back with the chair heating pad.  I find putting my seat warmer on in the car helps my back.  I use all year round.

[Jane]

Interview vibes for DR John.

[Jane]

Get well vibes for both DR George & Shelly.  Vibes you don't give each other what you have.

[Jane]

George, thanks for the congrats to Keith.

[Jane]

From George:

I was prescribed benzonatate, a.k.a.Tessalon pearls (never heard of either).

That is what I was prescribed at urgent care.  I too and not heard of it.  It helped some and reduced the uncontrollable cough, however, it was the prednisone that really worked since my cough was caused by the GCA.

[bk]

Third night of five hours of sleep. Got to reverse that. Maybe back to bed for a bit.

[Jane]

George, it is good your lungs were clear.  Having had broncititis too often, and issues with my lungs, I always think it is good to get them checked when I have a bad cough, or more importantly, a tight cough.

[bk]

All the Columbia cast albums mentioned are great - from the mono era I'd add the Lieberson recording of On Your Toes with Portia Nelson and Jack Cassidy and certainly My Fair Lady. Stereo - it doesn't get better than Subways are for Sleeping, then all the ones folks have mentioned, but even the flops like Mr. President sound amazing.

[bk]

I remember getting the CD of She Loves Me and thinking it was the worst recorded show ever - so it's interesting that ChasSmith says the record is better. The CD was one of two or three that some guy named Larry Lash did - who that was or is I have no idea and since he probably had zero experience with tapes, who knows what he used or how it was mastered. I know he also did Whoop-Up. I do remember Baker Street sounding pretty good on LP. RCA was hit and miss, but when they hit they were very good, as with Take Me Along and I Do! I Do! and quite a few others. If playing the CD versions, I find those to not always be great - some distortion that I don't recall from the LPs - hard to know if they were being lazy and using the album masters or if they went back to the three-track tapes.

[bk]

Capitol did some nice-sounding cast recordings - again, hit and miss, but their Molly Brown is great, so is Funny Thing, I recall Tovarich and Gay Life sounding very good, The Music Man was one of their first if not first stereo albums and it could have been better. Love the album for Little Mary Sunshine and and Funny Girl, Fiorello, and Golden Boy are all very good albums (despite Sammy's laryngitis).

[bk]

Back to Columbia - of course, I love A Thurber Carnival and also Lieberson's recordings of plays like Virginia Woolf and Luv. Flower Drum Song is a great cast album, even though I like the movie orchestrations way better. The Most Happy Fella is an all-time fave, and boy was it a shame it wasn't stereo. One must mention Camelot, West Side Story, 1776, Annie, all the Columbia Sondheim shows, flops like What Makes Sammy Run, Here's Love, Bravo, Giovanni, etc. all produced beautifully.