Aaah, I'm in agreement with your choices, Loislane. I was just curious about your preferences. I would add Kandor and Ebb, Jerome Kern, Boublil and Schonberg, and - oh, there are just too many to list here. I like them all.
And, I don't mind if I'm the only one here who likes ALW.
Lois, you're right that I should ask the next question, but I'm passing my turn because I'm going to be online only sporadically for the next couple of weeks, and I don't want to start anything I can't finish. So the next question is open.
And, Raggedy, I'm glad you don't mind being the only one here who likes ALW, because (a) I didn't intend my opinion to be an expression of superiority (it's just an opinion), and (b) I ain't changing it!
And Bree, after what you told us about "Woman in White", I wouldn't dream of trying to change your opinion. (lol)
Pretty busy here right now, but if I think of a question, I'll post it. In the meantime, feel free to chat.
How/what was the movie, mac? Was it by any chance Lemony Snicket? (Just a guess, because you said you were taking your niece.) If so, I'd be interested in what you thought of it: the reviews I've read have been all over the place, so I don't know whether to see it or not.
My 13-year-old niece loved Lemony Snicket. (She saw it last Friday with her mom.) She can't stop talking about it.
We saw National Treasure - her choice. (She was afraid it would vanish what with all the new ones opening.) If you recall my problems with Nicolas Cage, you know how much I love my niece.
It was actually quite enjoyable - exactly what you'd want for an adventure movie. And Cage actually didn't disturb me too much.
What commendable auntly devotion!
I recently saw coming attractions for a film called WeatherMan, in which (if I understood correctly) Michael Caine plays Nicolas Cage's father. Not a casting choice that would have occurred to me, especially since it didn't sound like any attempt was made to reconcile their accents.
bree wrote:
I recently saw coming attractions for a film called WeatherMan, in which (if I understood correctly) Michael Caine plays Nicolas Cage's father. Not a casting choice that would have occurred to me, especially since it didn't sound like any attempt was made to reconcile their accents.
Reminds me of when Sean Connery played Dustin Hoffman's father in a film.
Oh, yeah -- and wasn't Matthew Broderick the grandson in that movie?
Matthew Broderick did play the grandson. It was a 1989 movie called "Family Business". Around the same time, Dustin Hoffman played Tom Cruise's brother in "Rainman". Dustin Hoffman remarked that having Sean Connery as a father or Tom Cruise as a brother would happen "only in movies".
Funny! And so (in view of our discussion yesterday) is this: I just got an e-mail from the Kennedy Center with the header: "A cast of Broadway stars performs THE MUSIC OF ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER"!
December 28 through January 2 (with a New Year's Eve performance, if you haven't yet made your plans for that evening). No mention in the message about plans for a telecast.
The performers include Liz Callaway, Robert Evan, Hugh Panaro (I think he was Gaylord Ravenal in the Broadway revival of Showboat a few years ago), Sarah Pfisterer, Alice Ripley, and Ray Walker. The message says, "The concert will also include the U.S. premiere of music from Andrew Lloyd Webber's hit London musical The Woman in White, as well as new music from the eagerly awaited film version of The Phantom of the Opera."
Dam Sam. I'm all booked up that week. (Sorry, ALW. ) I guess I'll just have to wait until they make the hit musical "Woman in White" into a movie. (lol)
ha! Don't worry Aggie, 5'll get you 10 that they turn the concert into a performance on TV and a DVD!
I don't know how I could have forgotten Kern; Andrea would kill me! And Kander & Ebb. I was really quite taken with the History of the Musicals on PBS. I'm sure this thread discussed it, but I just loved seeing it. I understand the need to keep live theater just that, but gosh I wish they would just film stuff to keep a record of it.
I saw National Treasure, mac and agree it was fairly festive. I'm also not much of a Cage fan, but he was fine. I do love a good follow the clues and ancient groups type movie. This one owed more than a little to DaVinci Code and Raiders...but that was fine, they owed it all to films before them.
Big explosions, hostages, ancient rites and treasures and that scary moment waiting for the sun to hit something to indicate THE WAY! Oh, yea...bring it on!
I also saw the burgler movie with Hoffman, Connery and Broderick, and all I could think of was..who were the wives/mothers supposed to be??? yow. Now this would be a good game! Who could get you from Sean Connery to Dustin Hoffman? And from Hoffman to Broderick?
Sean Connery to Dustin Hoffman may require a brief encounter with Dame Edna.
Hey Loislane: Check this out:
http://www.able2know.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=36716&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
I've been transferring VHS tapes to DVD and have been discovering Broadway stars I wasn't familiar with at the time. Bree and Mac are familiar with most of them. The shows I'm taping are Cameron MacIntosh Special, Stephen Sondheim, Bob Fossee, Broadway Treasures, ALW, Rogers and Hammerstein and Hart, etc., etc. I'm having a ball.
I'm looking for a thread that went by the wayside that dealt with From __ to ___. If I find it, I'll post the link.
Hi Wandeljw: Would you like to post a question?
Hi Raggedy,
Thanks, but I will be at different relatives' places on different days this weekend.
Happy Holidays!
Happy Holidays to you, too. ENJOY.
Thanks for link, Aggie! I see the musical fiends all descended on this one!
I was a near baby (7) when my mom took me to see My Fair Lady and that was it!! I was hooked. I was madly in love with Richard Burton, so Camelot was the next one. Hmmm, just gave away myvintage, huh!?
Well, since everyone is going or planning or hanging out--why don't we just chat until after New Year's, then bree can come back with a question.
