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[singdaw]

PAGE SIX

[singdaw]

Good night, friends.

[singdaw]

And others.

[John G.]

Posting a post.

Sounds like something Karen Carpenter would sing.

[John G.]

Good night, Singdaw.

[John G.]

The pie was excellent.

[John G.]

Good night, all.

[Freddie]

  Knee-deep in the last part of Nutcracker. 

It's called a plié.         

LOL!

[Freddie]

Hoping the training goes well tomorrow, John G!

[bk]

Tried watching One Battle After Another - that's pretty much what it is. Almost three hours of it. I dozed off a few times, so I'll try it again, but it's just a little too smart-ass for my taste and frankly I don't know that I ever need to see Leonardo in another movie. That's just me.

[bk]

Page six.

[bk]

I wasn't going to eat more than a snack, but I have to get the taste of the sandwich from earlier out of my mouth - ordered the shrimp basket from a nearby jernt. Had it a couple of weeks ago and it was excellent.

[George]

The notes discussed John Wilson.  This is a favorite YouTube picker-upper.

Tap Your Troubles Away - John Wilson on Broadway
(featuring Anna-Jane Casey)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6skpCNIoes&list=RDD9cDxvkufVQ&index=3

I love this!

[George]

What's more, the auditions are for Assassins and everyone's been instructed to sing something from a Sondheim show. Pray for that baby.

Hope it all went well, ChasSmith!  And that tomorrow goes well, also!

[George]

[George]

I like Steve Hofstetter.  He's funny and insightful.

[George]

Dominick Dunne says Frank Sinatra was a real a-hole during the rehearsals for Our Town. Years later at the Beverly Hills Hotel, for no particular reason, Frank paid a waiter $50 to punch Dunne in the nose.

Oh, my goodness!

[George]

I would have liked to see Spaulding Grey as the narrator.

Years ago, Spaulding Grey came to the Washington Center with one of his solo shows. 

[George]

I ushered for it and got to meet him after the show and got his autograph on one of his books for a friend of mine.  She was a big fan of his. 

[George]

Decided I don't want to cook anything here - so Jersey Mike's Philly ordered.

I was thinking about going to Jersey Mike's after working concessions for A Bright Room Called Day for which I ushered last week, but I had Burger King (BK! ) coupons, so I went there instead.

[George]

Cranberry pecan pie

Very nice, John.

[George]

Also, not talked about was the David Cromer production with Helen Hunt.

I'm guessing the YouTube algorithm didn't bring up my attempt at a spoof of the use of the smell of bacon in the David Cromer production of OUR TOWN.  I love Shauna Hicks' vocal on this one.

More pork and pig references than you can shake a thesaurus at.

"It's Pork! It's Pork! A Hell of a Smell"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6udCDp5ELYY

That's funny, Freddie!

[George]

I love Our Town. Don't know if I have ever seen it live. I loved the TV version BK references. But I don't like Robbie Benson.

I love all three major Thornton Wilder plays. Our Town never fails to break my heart and leave me in tears, but The Skin of Our Teeth is in my pantheon of great plays. I've never seen a production that satisfies my vision of it. In March 2020 - I checked my email to verify this! - the TV broadcast with Helen Hayes as Mrs Antrobus and Mary Martin as Sabina was available online, and I liked it very much; it has since been withdrawn for copyright reasons. YouTube has Acts One and Three of a 1959 BBC telecast with Vivien Leigh as Sabina I wish it was complete.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc-9ntEll1Q&t=258s

Here's the 1983 production on PBS with Harold Gould, Jeffrey Combs, Sada Thompson, Monique Fowler, Blair Brown, John Houseman, and Rue McClanahan (if it hasn't already been posted):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHQ9jcP5fCw

[George]

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Thanks, Jane.

[George]

My Jersey Mike's Philly was not so hat - some weird couple of bites - gristle or something.

Very strange!  I hate it when I find icky things like that.

[George]

OUR TOWN is a 1938 play, which means it goes into public domain in 2033 or 2034, whichever year ends the 95-year copyright.

I wonder if the estates for GROVER'S CORNERS, the Jones and Schmidt musical of OUR TOWN, plan to try to get the musical out there then. 

I doubt anyone's thinking that far ahead.

Probably.  They might start thinking about it a few years before 2034.  It could be like the various and sundried GREAT GATSBY adaptations coming at the same time raring to go the year public domain came.

The same thing happened with The Wild Party...one on Broadway and one off Broadway.

[George]

And I think Phantom, too.  I'd read that Yeston's version was actually written before ALW's version, but Lord Andy's version hit and became the world wide sensation.  Yeston didn't really have a chance after that.

[George]

Although, there are several recordings in Japanese of Yeston's version by the Takarazuka company in Japan.

[George]

At least Fred MacMurray was pretty famous from "My Three Sons" and Disney movies when I was young, so I could deflect to him if anyone brought up Flintstone or Mertz.

He was a good Fred.

I remember not really liking the song "Do the Freddie" when I was very young, but starting to like it later on. 

Freddie and the Dreamers - "Do The Freddie"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdnyvtGP-Gg

That was...interesting.

[George]