Posted on 09/20/2011 12:21:05 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts
Edited on 09/20/2011 12:44:08 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
JOHNSTOWN, Pa.
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So, ironically, they switched to “Oklahoma”, which has about as much to do with Timothy McVeigh as Kismet has to
do with Islamic Jihadists.
I have the Blu-ray of Ali Baba & the 40 Thieves on order from England. I love those Montez/hall “Arabian Nights” films! They are “B” movies; but so are most films shot today!
BTW, Howard Keel of so many fifties musicals like Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, found a second career on the Dallas TV show playng the husband of Miss Ellie, the matriarch of the clan.
The word nekulturny is Russian and means, uncultured. Big insult over there, means you are a yahoo who does not appreciate the Bolshoi and Swan Lake.
I, personally, think “The Farmer and the Cowboy Should be Friends” promotes violence between those two parties.
Great memory. I wish I could go back in time to see “Prez” on stage in “The Music Man.” At least we have the movie,which is not perfect, but very good.
It thrills me to hear that young people are participating in community theatre. Here in NJ, it is a dying hobby. I still look back fondly on my community theatre days. Sometimes I thnk they were more professional than the professionals I now work with.
“Stranger in Paradise” was a mega hit in the 1950s. We had the record so I remember its beautiful melody as if it was yesterday.
It saddens me that a young singer will not be able to study this song and share it with an audience. So sad and stupid. As someone else said, we allow the GZ mosque and ban “Kismet.” Pretty dumb, huh?
I credit Howard Keel for getting me into musicals. I never cared for musicals until I saw 7 Brides for 7 Brothers. I always thought musicals were sort of "sissy" until I saw Keel as a burly backwoodsman singing "Bless yore Beautiful Hide" with that bass baritone voice of his. "7 Brides" is still one of the great musicals, IMO. I probably would not have become an opera fan if I had not gotten used to hearing near-operatic voices like Keel's.
The barnraising sequence in 7 Brides is one of the outstanding moments in movie musical history. One of my favorite performers - Russ Tamblyn - does amazing leaps and somersaults. He’s also a pretty good straight actor.
>Kismet isn’t of the culture of today, its of the culture
of the 50’s.
As are Brigadoon, Der Rosenkavalier, Oklahoma,
anything with Howard Keel, anything with Nelson Eddy/Jeannette MacDonald....etc.<
Well, we certainly cannot have high schoolers exposed to anything with even a hint of middle eastern flavor. Better to let the denizens of the school perform something modern and trendy like that off Broadway musical with the nude male singers or something.
< /sarcasm>
Ha! I thought of you when I saw this headline!
In fact, I think I'll destroy my Nelson Eddy recording of "Blue heaven and you and I, and sand kissing the moonlit sky....."
Makes me want to strap on a suicide bomb. You too??
(btw, Eggs....where in the world did you see a Kabuki Christmas musical?? LOL! That's the funniest thing I've ever heard!)
San Fransisco, where else?
Heheheh.
I coulda guessed that. :)
‘_________then the professionals I now work with.’
So sorry - I - rather, my WEBTV system - lost the ability to comment on FR just about a week ago. I just re-upped, and see you replied to the KISMET subject.
Last Feb./March, our 250 seat community theater, presented ‘Oliver!’ Six week run, Fri., Sat., and Sun.
12 year old granddaughter got to play a werk ‘ous orphan in opening number, and then Charley Bates, Dodger’s pal, the rest of the show. Yes, girls were cast, for as we know, few boys show up for theater!
Granddaughter was ready to jump in as Dodger, because ‘stuff’ was ‘appenen! You know, theater politics . . . not ‘Dodger’s’ fault, tho.
Granddaughter is somewhat a natural, and constantly charmed the audience - great smile, good singer, and did lots of made up bits, allowed by the director (can’t think of the real term)!
G-ma bragging, but totally true!
Then her mom directed about 18 homeshool kids, 8 to 18 this summer in most of the songs from
‘Joseph,’ and once again, granddaughter plays a boy! Performed in a backyard!
This is the 4th year for broadway in the backyard here!
Do you go into Manhattan (my birthplace! then raised on L.I.) to work/act?
In the ‘30’s, my uncle was a kid actor on Broadway. Went to Children’s Professional School. Toured in the ‘Dead End’ kids - think he was ‘Spit?’
Keenan Wynne helped him with homework - actually, I heard ‘did his homework,’ from the family! He went to Hollywood briefly - did ‘Penrod and Sam,’ at Warner Bros.
Scottish-born, ‘Bertie’ went to Canada to join up with their army, and served as a commando in WWII. Took some rifle butts to the kidney’s and don’t know what all, brought back to a Montreal hospital, where he ‘clowned’ ‘till the end. Died in 1943 in that hospital.
So, there’s a ‘theater gene’ in our family!
Ahhh - Russ Tamblyn, in _____Brides_____.
And remember him in ‘West Side Story,’ one of my all-time favorite movies, after ‘The Red Shoes!’
Old thread but I’m glad I caught your post. It saddens me that boys no longer turn out for theatre auditions. It’s ruining theatre in large part as the gay agenda takes over, and most of the plays that get on B’way & Off’B’way reflect that.
When I was a kid, dozens of little boys would have turned out for a production of “Oliver.”
Yes, there is a role called “Spit” in “Dead End.” It was originally played by Leo Gorcey - he’s the one who gets the “mark of the squealer.” So your family is real show biz!!
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