posted on November 2, 2000 01:00:45 PM new
My husband and I love going to Live Theater. Tomorrow we're going to see Les Mis in Cleveland, the second time we've seen this particular play. We've seen Phantom a number of times, in Toronto mostly, and once in Cleveland as well, and our very first experience with live theater was in 1984 when we saw "The King and I" with Yul Brenner (9 months before he died) which got me hooked! Camelot with Richard Harris was great too.
Right now, Les Mis is my favorite...
Our local community theater is quite good, and we've seen a bunch there:
Glass Managerie
Secret Garden
Big River
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Elephant Man
Do Patent Leather Shoes Really Shine Up?
You're a Good Man Charlie Brown
As You Like It
The Fantastiks
Cotton Patch Gospel
Godspell
So Theater goers, what's you favorite? What famous actors have you seen?
posted on November 2, 2000 06:56:51 PM new
I love going to the theatre and like all kinds of plays--though I have a special fondness for musicals and mysteries
The play I have seen most often is "Phantom of the Opera"--22 times and 4 different actors including Michael Crawford & Robert Guillame.
Currently, a friend & I have been glutting ourselves on theatre. Two weeks ago we saw "Thoroughly Modern Millie" at the La Jolla PLayhouse. Last week we saw Brian Dennehy in "Death of a Salesman" at the Ahmonson. On November 11 we are going to the Laguna Beach Playhouse to see a revival of Molnar's 1910 play "The Guardsman," and on the 14th we're going to UCLA to see "Mack and Mabel." We're in hog heaven!
As for famous actors, I have been fortunate enough to see:
Richard Chamberlain in "Sound of Music"
Julie Harris & Charles Durning in "The Gin Game"
Rex Harrison in "My Fair Lady"
Yul Brynner in "The King & I"
Carol Channing in "Hello Dolly"
Rex Harrison & Diane Keaton in "Heartbreak House"
Patrick Stewart's one-man play of "A Christmas Carol"
Vincent Price's one-man play "Oscar Wilde"
Jonathan Frid in "Arsenic & Old Lace"
Jim Dale in "Barnum"
Frank Langella in the stage version of "Dracula"
Stacy Keach in "An Inspector Calls"
I love going to Shakespeare plays (in England as well as here)
Other favorites:
The Mousetrap
Murder at the Vicarage
Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Scarlet Pimpernel (we saw it 3 times, and are going again in January when it opens at the South Coast playhouse in Orange Co.)
La Cage Aux Folles
42nd Street
and a one-woman play version of "Jane Eyre" I saw in Hollywood last year.
I *love* live theatre!!!
edited to change an "i" to an "o"
[ edited by bunnicula on Nov 2, 2000 06:58 PM ]
posted on November 2, 2000 07:04:57 PM new
I hated Les Mis. I thought it was tedious. The songs were dreadfully unhummable, except for that "Master of the House" ditty which ranks right up there with the "Plop, Plop, Fizz, Fizz" jingle in annoyance value. I know I'm in the minority with this opinion but I just didn't get it. You can also include all of the Rice/Webber plays with the above opinion.
I have enjoyed immensely anything choreographed or written by Bob Fosse. I even liked "Pippin". "42nd Street" and "Dancin" were also among my favorites.
In HS I was the understudy for the Conrad Birdie role in my schools production of "Bye, Bye, Birdie". I'll always be particularly fond of that play. I never did get in but I still have all the songs committted to memory. I've taken many a curtain call in the shower.
posted on November 3, 2000 07:16:47 PM new
You didn’t like Master of the House? I loved that song. Here is a partial reprise for you:
Thénardier:
Master of the house
Doling out the charm
Ready with a handshake
And an open palm
Tells a saucy tale
Makes a little stir
Customers appreciate a bon-viveur
Glad to do a friend a favor
Doesn't cost me to be nice
But nothing gets you nothing
Everything has got a little price!
Master of the house
Keeper of the zoo
Ready to relieve 'em
Of a sou or two
Watering the wine
Making up the weight
Pickin' up their knick-knacks
When they can't see straight
Everybody loves a landlord
Everybody's bosom friend
I do whatever pleases
Jesus! Won't I bleed 'em in the end!
Thénardier & Drinkers
Master of the house
Quick to catch yer eye
Never wants a passerby
To pass him by
Servant to the poor
Butler to the great
Comforter, philosopher,
And lifelong mate!
Everybody's boon companion
Everybody's chaperone
Thénardier:
Here the goose is cooked
Here the fat is fried
And nothing's overlooked
Till I'm satisfied...
Food beyond compare
Food beyond belief
Mix it in a mincer
And pretend it's beef
Kidney of a horse
Liver of a cat
Filling up the sausages
With this and that
Residents are more than welcome
Bridal suite is occupied
Reasonable charges
Plus some little extras on the side!
Charge 'em for the lice
Extra for the mice
Two percent for looking in the mirror twice
Here a little slice
There a little cut
Three percent for sleeping with the window shut
When it comes to fixing prices
There are a lot of tricks he knows
How it all increases
All those bits and pieces
Jesus! It's amazing how it grows!
Thénardier & Chorus
Master of the house
Quick to catch yer eye
Never wants a passerby
To pass him by
Servant to the poor
Butler to the great
Comforter, philosopher,
And lifelong mate!
Everybody's boon companion
Gives 'em everything he's got
Mme. Thénardier:
I used to dream
That I would meet a prince
But God Almighty,
Have you seen what's happened since?
`Master of the house?'
Isn't worth me spit!
`Comforter, philosopher'
- and lifelong #*!@!
Cunning little brain
Regular Voltaire
Thinks he's quite a lover
But there's not much there
What a cruel trick of nature
Landed me with such a louse
God knows how I've lasted
Living with this bastard in the house!
Thénardier & Drinkers:
Master of the house!
Mme. Thénardier:
Master and a half!
Thénardier & Drinkers:
Comforter, philosopher
Mme. Thénardier:
Ah, don't make me laugh!
Thénardier & Drinkers:
Servant to the poor.
Butler to the great.
Mme. Thénardier:
Hypocrite and toady and inebriate!
Thénardier & Drinkers:
Everybody bless the landlord!
Everybody bless his spouse!
Thénardier:
Everybody raise a glass
Mme. Thénardier:
Raise it up the master's arse.
All:
Everybody raise a glass to the master of the house!
I rate this song right up there with the Monty Python Australian Drinking Song.
posted on November 3, 2000 07:42:07 PM new
Immanuel Kant was a real pissant who was very rarely stable.
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boosey beggar who could think you under the table.
David Hume could out-consume Shoppenhauer and Hegel,
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine who was just as schloshed as Schloegel.
There's nothin' Neitzche couldn't teach ya 'bout the raisin' of the wrist;
Socrates, himself, was permanently pissed!
John Stuart Mill, of his own free will, after half a pint of shard was particularly ill.
Plato, they say, could stick it away, half a crate of whiskey every day.
Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle, Hobbes was fond of his dram.
And René Déscartes was a drunken fart, “I drink therefore I am.”
Yes Socrates, himself, is particularly missed: A lovely little thinker, but a bugger when he's pissed!
Lumberjacks can't hold a candle to the great philosophers of the world.
posted on November 5, 2000 12:49:27 PM new
We went to one in Houston with Tommy Tune called "Buskers" I don't think it made it to Broadway but I loved it.
I love Tommy Tune.
I also loved Camelot , Equis and anything with lots of dancing.
