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#11
Daily Threads / 14-MAR-23 Happy Pie Day!
Last post by DiveMilw - Mar 14, 2023, 06:46 PM
I guess I should have written the date as 3.14 or 3-14.  
The pies were appreciated by my students and the class next door.  I had pie for breakfast.   ;D
#12
Movies / Re: Wicked (movies)
Last post by scenicdesign71 - Mar 14, 2023, 01:59 PM
Part 1 will now premiere a month sooner then previously announced -- Thanksgiving (instead of Christmas) 2024:

https://variety.com/2023/film/news/wicked-movie-release-date-thanksgiving-1235553635/

The article also includes complete casting; rehearsals began last summer, and filming has been underway since December in the UK.

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#13
Daily Threads / 13-MAR-23 Monday
Last post by DiveMilw - Mar 13, 2023, 07:34 PM
It is the day before Pie Day (3.14) as I was reminded while browsing social media.  So, after I woke up from an unplanned nap, I went to the grocery store to buy pie to bring into class tomorrow.  That will be a nice treat.  I got one cherry pie and one apple pie.  Unless my eight students are hungry for pie I'll be sharing with the other classes.  ;D
#14
Games / Re: The Sondheim Lyrics Chain
Last post by scenicdesign71 - Mar 12, 2023, 06:08 PM
Your punctuation looks A-1 to me.

The snub-nosed, spit-curled pink babies were from "Who Could Be Blue?/Little White House", originally sung by one of the young Follies couples, IIRC, as a sticky-sentimental first pass at what later became the perkier, more upbeat four-part counterpoint of "You're Gonna Love Tomorrow"/"Love Will See Us Through".

After being cut from Follies, the original duet was later featured in the 1980 revue Marry Me A Little and preserved on its original cast album.  Later still, that track was included on the 1985 multi-disc compilation A Collector's Sondheim, which is where I became aware of it.

#15
Daily Threads / 12 March 2023 dud of a Sunday
Last post by KathyB - Mar 12, 2023, 01:32 PM
In addition to losing an hour of sleep, I went to Safeway to get some Haagen-Dazs ice cream bars, and they were out of all of them. I then went to Home Depot to get some LED replacements for fluorescent tubes, and they don't work. They came with some extra wiring, so apparently I need to easily rewire the ballast to have these tubes work. "Easy" being a judgment call. There is absolutely no light in the bathroom when the fixture is off, so I'm already thinking it won't be as easy as it says it is, and I should find either (a) some replacement bulbs that don't require rewiring, or (b) a professional to come and do the easy job of rewiring.

:P
#16
Games / Re: The Sondheim Lyrics Chain
Last post by KathyB - Mar 11, 2023, 03:40 PM
I don't even know where that last lyric comes from.  :-[

QFM, so I don't know if I'm getting all the punctuation accurate:

I've some business
With her mother.
See, it's business!
Oh, no doubt!
But the business 
With her mother
Would be hardly the business I'd worry about.
#17
Daily Threads / Re: 07-MAR-23 PO Tuesday
Last post by scenicdesign71 - Mar 08, 2023, 05:13 PM
This PO looks interesting.

And Donna is SO good!  :-*
 

#18
The Work / Re: SWEENEY TODD, Broadway 202...
Last post by scenicdesign71 - Mar 08, 2023, 01:45 PM
NYT piece, a decent though not wildly-informative overview of the new production (currently about halfway through previews, opening March 26):

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/08/theater/sweeney-todd-sondheim-josh-groban.html


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#19
Daily Threads / 07-MAR-23 PO Tuesday
Last post by DiveMilw - Mar 07, 2023, 06:16 PM
No, not pissed off.....Pacific Overtures!  
Signature posted a video about their upcoming production.  And there is a song sung by Donna!
#20
TV / Re: TV Shows That Don't Deserv...
Last post by scenicdesign71 - Mar 07, 2023, 02:29 PM
Brand-new trailer for Schmicago, on Apple TV+ ...now they're saying April 5th (instead of the 7th):