Time To Welcome Another Reader, Girls!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                         I have been meaning to do this for days, darlings, because the follower indicator has been set at 71 for quite some time.  I am not quite sure who the new reader is, but I suspect my (ours, really!) good friends, Lynda and Marilyn, whom we visited this weekend.  With all the traveling and shopping we have done, I had no chance to do my hair.  Can you believe it?  Wash and go just had to do!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                          But, no matter who the new reader is, I bid you welcome.  Things can get pretty outrageous on here, so be prepared for anything.  And, as I tell everyone, it goes great with coffee!

                          I have to confess, sometimes I arrive on here, not knowing what I am going to write about, until I do!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                             So, welcome New Reader. And here is the blog's unofficial theme song!

                             Enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Baby Gojira And I Are Eyeing A Revival Of "Evita!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

                                   I have been looking around for something challenging, of late, and what could be more challenging than "Evita."  Baby Gojira, who loves to dress up, and right now is getting impatient for Spring, and his seasonal outfit, is anxious to wear this, and other gowns.

                                   And, darlings, like the song says, "I came from the people!  They need to adore me!  So Christian Dior me!"

                                    I wouldn't mind playing Eva Peron myself.  So, here is how it will be done.

                                    At the evening performances, Baby Gojira, who has a higher vocal range, will play Evita.  I will play Che Guevara.  On Matinee days, I will play Evita, and Baby Gojira will play Che.  Maybe with a machete!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                     Just think of it, girls!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  The big break both Baby Gojira and I have been waiting for!

                                       Stand back, New York City!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Whenever I Pass Here, I Feel So Clean, And Virginal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                         Whenever David and I go to visit our friends, Lynda and Marilyn, in Morris Plains, the train always stops at Convent Station, by the College Of Saint Elizabeth, and I just feel so good, I want to get off the train, and walk around there.  Maybe get another degree.

                          Instead, I stand by the window, outside the station, and pull my pants leg up, like a skirt, revealing a nifty set of calves, in deference to "Nasty Habits" and the nuns!  Whom I just love!

                            As far back as when I was in high school, I think this was primarily a girls school. But with the online web site, I see boys represented, and, unless they are visiting the girls, I guess it has gone coed.

                             In its day, I am sure the young ladies who went were only those destined for the convent.  I say, bring back those days!  Learn about Catholicism and bodies pain wracked from stone floors.  Don't just watch "The Song Of Bernadette."  Live it!

                              I know, I know. Me, too.  But until they start admitting men to the convent--and why not?????????--I will continue to lift a leg to the sisters, as I travel on my way!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                              Bet they would love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                              And I get to feel so pure!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh, My God!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Will Celia Make It To Broadway?????????????????????

                                The minute I heard the news, months before, I suspected there would be trouble, and now there is.  Aaron Sorkin is planning to adapt "To Kill A Mockingbird" for the stage, and it is supposed to open, or at least commence performing, December 1.

                                 But. now, Harper Lee's estate is suing those behind the production, because Sorkin's adaptation deviates too much from the original story.

                                  Which does not surprise me a bit.  When I heard Celia Keenan-Bolger, whom I adore, was cast as "Scout," I said "Whaaaaaaaaa--!"  Is she going to play a child?  If anyone can do it, it would be Celia, but even on stage, wouldn't it come off as a bit awkward??????????

                                     That is when I began to suspect--and I am sure I am right--that Sorikin's  adaptation is combining the story we all know and love with the recent Lee work, "Go Set A Watchman."  There, Scout is an adult, and I could see Celia, playing that.   But the story overall does not stand up to 'Mockingbird,' so I am not sure what they are going for here.  And how will one get the recent work blended in with the story we know and love??????????

                                       God bless you, Celia, I am with you all the way, and will see what ever you do, but I wonder if the powers behind the throne had thought this out before commencing work on it?

                                        And why do artists think they can imprint their own stamp on something already done to such perfection?  I am talking about the 1962 film, directed by Robert Mulligan, written by Horton Foote, and with Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, and Robert Duvall.  Not to mention the haunting Elmer Bernstein score!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                         How does one improve on that?   Impossible!

                                          So, there is a dilemma. I adore Celia, and want to see her on the stage, but this may not be what I end up seeing her in.  I think Harper Lee's estate should shut the production down.

                                           She, and the 1962 film, have said it all.  Leave them be.

Seth Rudetsky Is A Moron!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                               There just is no accounting for dizzy Theater Queens, dolls, and who should know, better than I?  Usually, I don't have a beef with Seth; his deconstructing of show tunes, which I took on, and his musicianship are superb.  I would love having him as an accompanist.

                                 But I really have to say something when he got into the whole "Gypsy"/Little Lamb" thing.

                                 That song has caused more problems for the show.  When it was being mounted, back in 1959, Jerome Robbins wanted it out, and Jule Styne said if it went, he would, too.  I can see why Robbins wanted it out; it is a book song, and, originally, he had planned "Gypsy" to be a concept musical, minimally staged, celebrating the history of the variety stage in America.

                                  It had to be a book musical, the drama was so palpitating.

                                  But for Seth Rudetsky to say he dislikes "Little Lamb" so much that when listening to "Gypsy" cast recordings, he skips the song, going directly to "Dainty June And Her Farmboys," well, Seth, you are just one big MORON!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                   "Little Lamb" is a gorgeous song.  Soft and tender, which is something this loudest and brassiest of shows needs.  More important, though Rose is the lead character, Louise/Gypsy gets the title, and this song is important in getting to know something about her--that she knows she is not the best, that she knows she is performing beyond her age level, and that she is being deprived of a different kind of childhood she may have wanted, but at least holding and singing to the lamb gives her some semblance of.  Without "Little Lamb." Louise's character would not make much sense.

                                   Seth, get with the program!  Darlings, give the song a listen.  It is simply gorgeous and will make you cry!

                                     Here is the song from the Patti Lu Pone revival!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                     Baaaaaaaaaaaaa to you, Seth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Round Heeled Tramps, And Boobs On The Make!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                    Ah, yes, New York in the Forties.  When even prostitutes dressed to look glamorous!!!!!!!!!  The boobs on the make, by the way, are not female, but rather the businessmen type, like Lou Donovan, in this novel, who goes about wheeling and dealing from city to city, and wife to mistress!  A comfort in every port, darlings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                     As for the women, they are on the make too.  The wives want to keep their hubbies at home, paying attention to them.  The mistresses want to make their paramours into hubbies!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                      Have times changed?   Definitely!  Has this game of roundelay changed?  Not especially.  But the era Dawn Powell writes about--of elegant hotels, bars, and club cars on trains--is so much more glamorous than the sleek but phony times we live in today, where everything is so barren and ugly, rather than glamorous.

                                       But Dawn Powell has the last laugh.  This is the book's best line--

                                       "A good address is a girl's best mother!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

                                        Now, that is one thing that has not changed!  Securing a good apartment is the one thing to guarantee success in this town!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                         You have to read Dawn Powell, darlings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                          Funnier, and more elegant, than that Candace Bushnell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Time To Welcome A New Reader, Girls!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                 Girls, I am so amazed!  The follower indicator has reached 70, which means we have a new reader.  I would like to welcome DB Law to this blog, and loved the comments on Seamus.  He is a honey!

                                 Feel free to browse and comment on here.  Just about anything goes on here--no porn; I mean not even a comment about Stormy Daniels---oops, that's as far as I go!  So many interesting things out there to write about, and I cover a lot nobody does.  With strong, unapologetic--but never intending to offend--opinions.

                                  As I can attest, this blog goes great with coffee!

                                  So, everyone on here and myself, bid you welcome, DB Law!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                  And here is the blog's unofficial theme song, "Call Me!"

                                  Enjoy!