Topic: NOTES WITH JUICE (Read 12157 times)

bk · « **on:** August 28, 2012, 11:01:49 PM »

Well, you've read the notes, the notes had a modicum of juice, and now it is time for you to post until the cows come home - they're currently out getting juiced.

bk · « **Reply #1 on:** August 28, 2012, 11:03:16 PM »

And the word of the day is: BENISON!

Ben · « **Reply #2 on:** August 29, 2012, 02:27:04 AM »

Morning all.

That is all.

Danise · « **Reply #3 on:** August 29, 2012, 04:07:37 AM »

Good morning all! I feel like I didn't sleep at all last night but I did. I'm so tired. Oh well.

Love the photos of baby Harry!

Not much else going on.

Vibes to all!

Have a wonder filled day!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #4 on:** August 29, 2012, 04:26:21 AM »

Good morning, all! Today, I have to clean and tide and get thie apartment ready for the air conditioning service men. They will need to take the AC from its wall seeve, and I need to insure there's plenty of room for this to be accomplished. The service men will show up between noon and five, so I've got things to do,

Last night I was on the phone for two hours with the Man From Philadelphia. Some good things were discussed, and I know what needs to be accomplished at Toyland in rhe next few months.

More coffee, and to work.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #5 on:** August 29, 2012, 05:18:30 AM »

Remember DR CHAS SMITH if you want to join the Hellcats - today you have to wear slacks to school!

Jrand74 · « **Reply #6 on:** August 29, 2012, 05:18:49 AM »

Cute baby pics! And they were all of the same baby....and they were all the same pic....

Jrand74 · « **Reply #7 on:** August 29, 2012, 05:19:32 AM »

Thanks for sharing the event pics DR GINNY.....very nice!

Today the Comcast man is coming here - hopefully he will bring me a new HD cable box. Of course mine has been working fine since I made the call yesterday.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #8 on:** August 29, 2012, 06:07:44 AM »

Good morning, all.

Slacks to school today, got it, DR JRand62. That was a fine motion picture. Some truly great cinema.

And a wonderful compilation of trailers was sent along with it, during which I finally fell asleep, woke up on the couch at 5 a.m., went to bed, and now here I am, sucking up the COFFEE and sneezing like a giraffe. Though I'm not really sure how giraffes sneeze. And they are just allergy sneezes, but there have been more than enough of them already, thank you very much.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #9 on:** August 29, 2012, 06:08:47 AM »

Quote from: Jrand62 on August 29, 2012, 05:18:49 AM

Cute baby pics! And they were all of the same baby....and they were all the same pic....

There can never be too much of little Harry!

So, DR JRand62, has the cast reached funny? When do you open?

elmore3003 · « **Reply #10 on:** August 29, 2012, 06:10:57 AM »

I have to drop off a package to goddaughter Charlotte and stop in a furniture shop. I'm looking for a 3-4 drawer chest, between 30-34 inches tall and about 30 inches wide.

John G. · « **Reply #11 on:** August 29, 2012, 06:34:17 AM »

Good morning, all.

Vibes for all.

Matthew · « **Reply #12 on:** August 29, 2012, 06:35:45 AM »

What DR John G said. Ditto.

Matthew · « **Reply #13 on:** August 29, 2012, 06:35:54 AM »

hello, goodbye

ArnoldMBrockman · « **Reply #14 on:** August 29, 2012, 06:36:46 AM »

Quote from: bk on August 28, 2012, 11:03:16 PM

And the word of the day is: BENISON!

And The Song Of The Day Is: SABBATH PRAYER

John G. · « **Reply #15 on:** August 29, 2012, 06:39:27 AM »

DR Jose, you recently wished me luck with "The Gershwin's Porgy and Bess." Well, I'm finally carving out a few minutes to listen to it. And the result is mixed, which is better than I can say of either "Newsies" or "End of the Rainbow." I might actually be able to finish this one.

That said, the Disney-fied white bread orchestrations are a horror. It sounds like Up with People or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir should be singing to them. And the chorus does sound a little too polished. Everything is a little too mechanical.

Norm Lewis sounds great, though. I'm not entirely sold on Audra, however. Maybe by the end of the recording.

Kerry · « **Reply #16 on:** August 29, 2012, 06:42:01 AM »

Wednesday indeed!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #17 on:** August 29, 2012, 06:55:12 AM »

I have ordered a table, 30 inches wide and 32 inches tall, with two shelves and I've delivered Charlotte's gift to her doorman. It's warm but the humidity is finally under control.

I have to vacuum and tidy up now.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #18 on:** August 29, 2012, 07:02:47 AM »

We open on September 13 DR ELMORE....

I actually got a compliment on a piece of business I devised last night to replace something that wasn't working.....and now and then I do hear some laughter from behind the table.

So I think Funny is at least in sight.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #19 on:** August 29, 2012, 07:05:55 AM »

"Some Laughter From Behind the Table" -- the title of your next book.

Ginny · « **Reply #20 on:** August 29, 2012, 07:09:36 AM »

Wednesday morning greetings! Today I'm going to Dayton to join the grantwriters for some training on using the federal census website. Once an info-geek, always an info-geek, I guess!

John G. · « **Reply #21 on:** August 29, 2012, 07:12:33 AM »

Does anything think Alice Ripley should play Queen Ann Romney?

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #22 on:** August 29, 2012, 07:33:58 AM »

Good Morning!

I'm up, I'm up... And I played some Ravel last night.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #23 on:** August 29, 2012, 07:35:07 AM »

Is that like checkers?

Jrand74 · « **Reply #24 on:** August 29, 2012, 07:35:23 AM »

Quote from: ChasSmith on August 29, 2012, 07:05:55 AM

"Some Laughter From Behind the Table" -- the title of your next book.

I like it!

Jrand74 · « **Reply #25 on:** August 29, 2012, 07:36:01 AM »

My question for ASK BK DAY...

what is the funniest British farce you have seen onstage......what is the funniest British farce you have read.....

Jrand74 · « **Reply #26 on:** August 29, 2012, 07:37:56 AM »

SEE HOW THEY RUN has many funny lines....but one of my favorites comes from the Bishop of Lax....to a man who is pretending to be married to the Bishop's niece.....

"I thought you had been called to the church - apparently you have been called to the bar!"

Later when all 4 men in the play show up wearing their jackets and collars:

Sergeant: What is this, the crow's nest?

Bishop: Sergeant....arrest.....most of these vicars!

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #27 on:** August 29, 2012, 07:40:55 AM »

Quote from: John G. on August 29, 2012, 06:39:27 AM

DR Jose, you recently wished me luck with "The Gershwin's Porgy and Bess." Well, I'm finally carving out a few minutes to listen to it. And the result is mixed, which is better than I can say of either "Newsies" or "End of the Rainbow." I might actually be able to finish this one.

That said, the Disney-fied white bread orchestrations are a horror. It sounds like Up with People or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir should be singing to them. And the chorus does sound a little too polished. Everything is a little too mechanical.

Norm Lewis sounds great, though. I'm not entirely sold on Audra, however. Maybe by the end of the recording.

DR JohnG - The recording serves the production better than the actual on-stage production. -And it's very "kind" to Norm Lewis who basically gets dwarfed in the theatre by the more operatic male voices sharing the stage with him. Audra was dealing with the beginning of her sinus infection when they were in the recording studio, so... However, it's her whole package - singing and acting - that won(?) me over in the theatre.

As I believe I expressed after I first saw the show, what really pissed me off was the fact that all of the changes and modifications that the artistic team talked about in the press did not seem fully realized, nor did they make the "opera" more "realistic". -I'm sorry, but an Overture is not "realistic".

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #28 on:** August 29, 2012, 07:43:06 AM »

Quote from: Jrand62 on August 29, 2012, 07:35:07 AM

Is that like checkers?

Well... Considering I was basically sightreading the piece last night, I guess it could have sounded like checkers.

John G. · « **Reply #29 on:** August 29, 2012, 07:44:48 AM »

Quote from: JoseSPiano on August 29, 2012, 07:40:55 AM

Quote from: John G. on August 29, 2012, 06:39:27 AM
DR Jose, you recently wished me luck with "The Gershwin's Porgy and Bess." Well, I'm finally carving out a few minutes to listen to it. And the result is mixed, which is better than I can say of either "Newsies" or "End of the Rainbow." I might actually be able to finish this one.

That said, the Disney-fied white bread orchestrations are a horror. It sounds like Up with People or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir should be singing to them. And the chorus does sound a little too polished. Everything is a little too mechanical.

Norm Lewis sounds great, though. I'm not entirely sold on Audra, however. Maybe by the end of the recording.

DR JohnG - The recording serves the production better than the actual on-stage production. -And it's very "kind" to Norm Lewis who basically gets dwarfed in the theatre by the more operatic male voices sharing the stage with him. Audra was dealing with the beginning of her sinus infection when they were in the recording studio, so... However, it's her whole package - singing and acting - that won(?) me over in the theatre.

As I believe I expressed after I first saw the show, what really pissed me off was the fact that all of the changes and modifications that the artistic team talked about in the press did not seem fully realized, nor did they make the "opera" more "realistic". -I'm sorry, but an Overture is not "realistic".

Judging solely from the recording, what they did was to make the show Broadway instead of opera. Not a bad intent to reach audiences that prefer Broadway or find it more accessible. But they also made too much of it "Broadway" with jazz hands built into the orchestrations.

But there are some good moments. I'm enjoying "Oh, Doctor Jesus" particularly, and I did like Bess' scene with Crown.

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