Topic: FROU FROU (Read 33389 times)

singdaw · « **Reply #120 on:** August 29, 2008, 10:47:12 AM »

How often do you have to charge that iPhone, anyway? You seem to be getting good use out of it!!

singdaw · « **Reply #121 on:** August 29, 2008, 10:47:39 AM »

Very sad story, DearReaderLaura DR.

DearReaderLaura · « **Reply #122 on:** August 29, 2008, 11:00:28 AM »

My mother taught me to always send in an RSVP.

FJL, thank you so much for the gracious invitation to dinner. I must send my regrets, however, as I will be in Arizona that day.

Jane · « **Reply #123 on:** August 29, 2008, 11:06:14 AM »

Quote from: singdaw on August 29, 2008, 10:23:51 AM

Am I the only one that did not already know this Coat of Oz story?

I wasn't aware of this interesting story.

bk · « **Reply #124 on:** August 29, 2008, 11:06:30 AM »

Back from a REALLY difficult long jog - but I made it.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #125 on:** August 29, 2008, 11:13:38 AM »

Did Joel Grey have his Oscar with him?

What does the German bigamist have around the house:
Frau, Frau.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #126 on:** August 29, 2008, 11:14:15 AM »

Not sure about the planets today, DR JEANNE, but the new moon in Virgo tomorrow tells us to find similarities and forget differences.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #127 on:** August 29, 2008, 11:15:28 AM »

My sister made a video for my parents' anniversary party. It is an MPEG-4. I downloaded it and burned it and it works on my TV....not hers.

I converted it to AVI, works on my TV....no one else's.

Any suggestions for FREE programs or what FORMAT to burn it to that will enable EVERYONE to play it?

FJL · « **Reply #128 on:** August 29, 2008, 11:21:30 AM »

Laura - Darn your jet-setting schedule.

Will Sandra be able to make it, though?

FJL · « **Reply #129 on:** August 29, 2008, 11:21:45 AM »

George · « **Reply #130 on:** August 29, 2008, 11:27:31 AM »

Quote from: Ben on August 29, 2008, 04:00:30 AM

Morning all. I'm up and ready to go to the airport. My flight doesn't leave untill early afternoon but I'm a morning person so I'm up and ready (as I just said). I probably won't post again until I get to Fort Atkinson.

I don't have an iPod and I gave up Walkmans years ago so I'm not listenin' to nuttin' I'll read the New York Times at the airport and I'll continue reading my book, Thirty Days Hath November by the late, great Walter Kerr.

That's it from my end of the pond.

~~~Travel Vibes for DR Ben!!~~~

Jrand74 · « **Reply #131 on:** August 29, 2008, 11:28:20 AM »

Vibes for DR ELMORE and for DR TOMovOZ

Jane · « **Reply #132 on:** August 29, 2008, 11:29:27 AM »

Quote from: FJL on August 29, 2008, 11:21:30 AM

Laura - Darn your jet-setting schedule.

Will Sandra be able to make it, though?

DearReaderLaura · « **Reply #133 on:** August 29, 2008, 11:38:24 AM »

I will need to let her RSVP for herself.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #134 on:** August 29, 2008, 11:44:34 AM »

DR FJL - I also will be unable to make the cotillion, but I look forward to the rotogravures of the event.

MBarnum · « **Reply #135 on:** August 29, 2008, 11:48:06 AM »

No doubt everyone will be dressed in their finery.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #136 on:** August 29, 2008, 11:54:32 AM »

DR Singdaw - Why don't we all meet in front of the Ed Sullivan Theater (David Letterman's "home", 53rd and Broadway) at 10:00 and we shall proceed from there. -Most likely Popover or Sarabeth's on the UWS.

bk · « **Reply #137 on:** August 29, 2008, 11:55:14 AM »

Further thoughts about the new Gypsy CD, sound preferences aside:

I hate some of these tempos - so weird. This particular conductor is my least favorite of all the B'way conductors working. While I like Patti very much, she's really working overtime here - and not always for the better. Laura is very good, as is Boyd. I'm up to Little Lamb.

bk · « **Reply #138 on:** August 29, 2008, 12:10:08 PM »

Man, these tempos are TERRIBLE - speeding up and slowing down and stopping in If Mamma Was Married. If these decisions and the decisions on the choral inflections in the boys' stuff in the vaudeville numbers are the musical director's, well, it's not to my liking. And everyone is so busy trying to not do anything anyone's ever done before that it's completely distracting. The Dainty June's dialogue within the cow song and B'way transition is so forced and unfunny - hard to not get the tinsel and glamour speech right. And Laura's bored "moo moo moo moo's" are just odd. The character is TRYING to be good, not trying to be bored. Now the Tulsa is over-singing All I Need Is The Girl - I wonder what the word "debonair" means - weird pronunciations, too - is this guy American. I started out enjoying this CD, but my enjoyment is withering with each new track.

Matthew · « **Reply #139 on:** August 29, 2008, 12:12:03 PM »

I have a scenario for all DR's to chime in on...

If you were working on a show (in any capacity), say a show by one of bk's close personal friends, and you are witness to the director hacking the script to bits - you know leaving out dialogue/lyrics that tell the story, because they feel the "show is too long". Would you contact the licensee regarding these cuts? Or would you just keep your mouth shut?

bk · « **Reply #140 on:** August 29, 2008, 12:13:18 PM »

This is the worst All I Need Is The Girl I've ever heard - now the guy's screaming - literally. Embarrassingly bad - I shall have to go put on the original cast album and listen Paul Wallace, who understands what the song was about. Has Arthur Laurents lost his sanity?

bk · « **Reply #141 on:** August 29, 2008, 12:14:33 PM »

Quote from: Matthew on August 29, 2008, 12:12:03 PM

I have a scenario for all DR's to chime in on...

If you were working on a show (in any capacity), say a show by one of bk's close personal friends, and you are witness to the director hacking the script to bits - you know leaving out dialogue/lyrics that tell the story, because they feel the "show is too long". Would you contact the licensee regarding these cuts? Or would you just keep your mouth shut?

They are doing something completely illegal. Would the director know it was you doing the reporting? Because it should be reported it.

bk · « **Reply #142 on:** August 29, 2008, 12:14:54 PM »

I do like having some of the dance music and instrumental stuff that's new to CD.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #143 on:** August 29, 2008, 12:15:01 PM »

My next project is to see how this blood glucose meter works.

I can think of three "frou-frous" in world literature:
1. Title character in a French play of the 1860's
2. Gabrielle's couplets in LA VIE PARISIENNE about how the dress of the sophisticated Parisienne goes "frou frou" when she walks
3. One of Danilo's grisettes at Maxim's in THE MERRY WIDOW.

bk · « **Reply #144 on:** August 29, 2008, 12:15:22 PM »

MERMAN! Me want MERMAN. Or Lansbury. And that's IT.

bk · « **Reply #145 on:** August 29, 2008, 12:16:01 PM »

Welcome thirteen GUESTS.

bk · « **Reply #146 on:** August 29, 2008, 12:17:53 PM »

Together Wherever We Go - no vamp (one of the great vamps ever), rubato opening, and there are all sorts of weird re-orchestrations in almost every song.

bk · « **Reply #147 on:** August 29, 2008, 12:19:15 PM »

I will say that Together Wherever We Go is one of the all-time great theater songs.

Jeanne · « **Reply #148 on:** August 29, 2008, 12:24:55 PM »

Quote from: JRand58 on August 29, 2008, 11:14:15 AM

Not sure about the planets today, DR JEANNE, but the new moon in Virgo tomorrow tells us to find similarities and forget differences.

Good advice any day, I'd say. thanks, Jack.

Jane · « **Reply #149 on:** August 29, 2008, 12:25:06 PM »

DR elmore, if you look in the local paper you might find a support group, or free clinic where people help you adjust to diabetes. If not I'm sure there are on-line groups who will be willing to answer any questions & offer tips.

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