Topic: THE ALL FAT PASTRAMI SANDWICH (Read 452 times)

bk · « **on:** January 18, 2026, 12:43:37 AM »

Well, you've read the notes, the notes were all fat, and now it is time for you to post until the all fat cows come home.

bk · « **Reply #1 on:** January 18, 2026, 01:01:45 AM »

And the word of the day is: INGENIOUS!

George · « **Reply #2 on:** January 18, 2026, 01:21:35 AM »

Wordle 1,674 5/6

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George · « **Reply #3 on:** January 18, 2026, 01:21:48 AM »

Loved the cast picture, BK!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #4 on:** January 18, 2026, 04:29:23 AM »

Good morning, all

elmore3003 · « **Reply #5 on:** January 18, 2026, 04:30:05 AM »

Yes! The cast photo was fun.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #6 on:** January 18, 2026, 04:33:13 AM »

I spent the little time I ha, after sleeping so late, laying out the ballet sequence in which the tailors and the King haggle over the price. This morning, I will look over it, maybe revise a few things. I won't freeze it until it'a copied - Doug is an amazingly fast copyist - and he and I discuss it.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #7 on:** January 18, 2026, 04:41:47 AM »

Last night I watch a bootleg of the 1998 PBS broadcast of the New York City Opera's glorious production of Benjamin Britten's 1940 "operetta" Paul Bunyan. I believe I saw every performance in 1998. The PBS broadcast was - and still is - a dud, with the PBS director's "concvept" to shoot from front of stage to "let's include the backstage crew and not really shoot the opera." It was a horrid decision since the shots of a crew member in the flies raising a cluster of clouds or shots backstage of actors leaving the stage constantly vremoved the viewer from the opera and its magic, which was thrilling in Mark Lamos' production.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #8 on:** January 18, 2026, 04:46:38 AM »

Still, it was fun to see my Moonshine & Mistletoe colleague David Lutken twelve years before I met him as Narrator and my friend Jeffrey Lentz as Johnny Inkslinger. As to the opera, it's a score that gets under my skin, breaks my heart, and leaves me by the "Save animals and men" finish a weeping mess. Britten's score, which he disowned for years until Peter Pears convinced him to reconsider in the early 1970s, I hear bits of Peter Grimes and Albert Herring, but the great ensembles "Once in a blue moon" and "Great day of discovery" should have made the piece a success eighty years ago.

John G. · « **Reply #9 on:** January 18, 2026, 04:56:34 AM »

Good morning, all.

Freddie · « **Reply #10 on:** January 18, 2026, 05:29:24 AM »

Lovely photo of the finale in the notes!

ChasSmith · « **Reply #11 on:** January 18, 2026, 05:33:23 AM »

Good morning, all.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #12 on:** January 18, 2026, 05:34:12 AM »

SN*W.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #13 on:** January 18, 2026, 05:34:49 AM »

For the second consecutive day.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #14 on:** January 18, 2026, 05:41:31 AM »

DR Elmore, I don't know Britten's Paul Bunyan at all, and I now deeply envy your history with the City Opera production.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #15 on:** January 18, 2026, 05:46:43 AM »

I'm relieved to hear the Second Performance Curse is now behind them, and I hope the improvements will be evident today.

Jrand75 · « **Reply #16 on:** January 18, 2026, 05:59:57 AM »

Such a terrific photo in the notes.

Performance and Talk Back vibes for MR BK.

Jrand75 · « **Reply #17 on:** January 18, 2026, 06:01:22 AM »

Very interesting link DR FREDDIE.

I guess just because I never heard it or saw it performed in the production of JOSEPH i saw doesn't mean it wasn't always there!

Remarkable. Now I shall have to get out my copy of the material and see if it's there.

John G. · « **Reply #18 on:** January 18, 2026, 06:05:36 AM »

Great photo in the notes.

John G. · « **Reply #19 on:** January 18, 2026, 06:06:33 AM »

It is very cold this morning. But the sun has got its hat on, as the song says, and is coming out to play.

Jrand75 · « **Reply #20 on:** January 18, 2026, 06:36:14 AM »

SNL last night was the WORST episode I have ever seen.

Freddie · « **Reply #21 on:** January 18, 2026, 06:43:57 AM »

Quote from: Jrand75 on January 18, 2026, 06:01:22 AM

Very interesting link DR FREDDIE.

I guess just because I never heard it or saw it performed in the production of JOSEPH i saw doesn't mean it wasn't always there!

Remarkable. Now I shall have to get out my copy of the material and see if it's there.

Which was the first production of JOSEPH that you saw?

My first was a production in 1976 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music which starred Cleavon Little - who was already pretty famous then - as the Narrator. (I don't know when the Narrator being female became the norm.)

singdaw · « **Reply #22 on:** January 18, 2026, 06:54:07 AM »

Good morning, friends.

singdaw · « **Reply #23 on:** January 18, 2026, 06:54:13 AM »

And others.

singdaw · « **Reply #24 on:** January 18, 2026, 06:54:22 AM »

Very cold here.

singdaw · « **Reply #25 on:** January 18, 2026, 06:55:06 AM »

Lovely video of Laurie Beechman & Company.

singdaw · « **Reply #26 on:** January 18, 2026, 06:56:06 AM »

Thanks for reminding me, DR Jrand75. I want to go back and catch the pre-Christmas SNL with Ariana Grande and Cher.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #27 on:** January 18, 2026, 07:01:11 AM »

Quote from: Jrand75 on January 18, 2026, 05:59:57 AM

Performance and Talk Back vibes for MR BK.

Ditto!

Donald · « **Reply #28 on:** January 18, 2026, 07:04:21 AM »

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ChasSmith · « **Reply #29 on:** January 18, 2026, 07:31:06 AM »

As to today's topic: Anything approaching an all-fat pastrami (or corned beef, or you name it) sandwich is extremely undesirable to me. That's putting it nicely. I see these posts where people are praising their deli sandwiches for the generous amount of fat in them, and the huge blobs of it are absolutely disgusting.

I know fat=flavor, but there's plenty in it inherently. When I cook a corned beef, I trim the living HELL out of it before slicing and serving, and it's always full-of-flavor delicious. In fact, I'll bet MY cut of a corned beef or pastrami would cost a bloody fortune in a deli.

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