Can the Adults Please Smoke? Chapter 35: Look Who's Here,We're Still Here!! — Page 6

Q's day

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Yikes! Q, stay safe.

Morning all.

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Q, that's horrible. I hope it doesn't get out of control. Stay safe!

Deet, I saw my first B'way show 36 years ago and it wasn't a musical. I saw "Sherlock Holmes" with my H.S. English class. About a year later I saw my first musical on B'way which was "Grease"

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I loved SHERLOCK HOLMES! I think that was the first non-musical I saw. By the time I saw that I was going into the city and seeing shows by myself, once a month on a Saturday (matinee.) My allowance ($10 a week) paid for the ticket and train fare. (Okay, most of the time my beloved Aunt Marie would slip me a couple of extra bucks under the table. )

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Q, this is the one I saw...I saw it Feb. 1975. I remember because we had a blizzard that day. It was the only day my school closed for snow that whole year! We had to take the PATH train into the City.



Being a hitherto unpublished episode in the career of the great detective and showing his connection with the STRANGE CASE OF MISS FAULKNER


Broadhurst Theatre, (11/12/1974 - 1/4/1976)
Preview: Nov 6, 1974 Total Previews: 7
Opening: Nov 12, 1974
Closing: Jan 4, 1976 Total Performances: 471




Category: Play, Drama, Revival, Broadway
Description: A play in four acts
Setting: London. 1891.
Comments: "...They still live for all that love them well: in a romantic chamber of the heart: in a nostalgic country of the mind where it is always 1895." --Vincent Starrett ("The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes")

Opening Night Cast


Philip Locke Professor Moriarty
John Wood Sherlock Holmes
Barbara Leigh-Hunt Madge Larrabee
Trevor Peacock Sidney Prince
Tim Pigott-Smith Doctor Watson
Nicholas Selby James Larrabee
Harry Towb John Forman
Wendy Bailey Ensemble
Arthur Blake Parsons
John Bott Count Von Stahlburg
Joseph Charles Ensemble
Sean Clark Billy
Alan Coates Ensemble
Robert Cook Newsboy
Ensemble
John Keston Sir Edward Leighton
Joe Marcell "Lightfoot" McTague
Ensemble
Mel Martin Alice Faulkner
Pamela Miles Thrse
Martin Milman Alfred Bassick
Morgan Sheppard Jim Craigin
George Spelvin John
Keith Taylor Thomas Leary
Michael Walker Ensemble

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Stay safe, Q.

I used to cream myself watching The White Shadow. I know, TMI.

My second Broadway show wasn't until 1979 after I graduated college and moved to DC. It was Sugar Babies. J'adore.

The only thing I saw in all those years in between was a national road tour of A Chorus Line. Living in Greensboro, NC sucked where theater was concerned.

Updated On: 12/1/11 at 09:19 AM

Even my mother adored SUGAR BABIES.

After bitching about how cold and windy it was that night and she was never going to get tickets for a show in December ever again...

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My first show was Peter Pan at the Papermill Playhouse in 91 or 92.

First broadway musical was Cats in 95. Then Les Mis and Scarlet Pimpernel in 97. Radio City & MSG's The Christmas Carol thrown in there somewhere.

**ducks**

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Oh what a night, late December, back in....

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Can I assume PJ saw Priscilla last night?

No, actually. I saw On a Clear Day. My bf and I were going with my friend Jack Donahue, the jazz vocalist, and meeting for dinner first at Angus McIndoe.

Jack, who knows a lot of people, is often a little breezy with communications. He texted me in mid-afternoon: "OK if my frnd Sheldon from Prsclla joins us @ Angus?"

The last person I knew named "Sheldon" was a cousin of my father's who never married and lived with his mother until she was 93 and worked for the post office until he retired and moved to Florida. So I imagined Jack's friend "Sheldon" to be an elderly Jewish man who went to the races and was never very nice to me. But what could his relationship be to Priscilla? The musical? Maybe he was a retired stagehand...

Jack texted me about a half hour before we were supposed to meet and said "Tug o war w/my contacts. May b few late. Order me double Dewars on the rox." Great, I thought, I'm going to have to entertain this Sheldon guy until Jack arrives.

When I got to the restaurant, Angus said, "Your guests are waiting for you," and I turned around and our other friend, Bob, said to me, "Why didn't you tell me Tony was joining us?"

I was about to say, "Oh, you must be Jack's friend" when my jaw dropped open and I started hyperventilating. The fact that Tony was charming and sweet and down-to-earth made the whole thing even funnier. But when Jack arrived, I said, "That was not a nice trick you played on me--telling me your friend's name was 'Sheldon'!"

"His name IS Sheldon," he replied, and before I could argue with him, Tony said, "Doesn't Jack call everyone by their last name? I thought that was just his thing."

My first show in New York was The Music Man, with Van Johnson.

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Updated On: 12/2/11 at 06:20 PM

I do, too.

All of it.



...I just got home from a soiree with Hoda and Kathie Lee. A party of their 'Favorite Things'. I was sent home with a gift bag filled with wine, make-up, jewelry and other goodies. They'll come in handy when I have to stuff stockings on Christmas Eve.

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But everyone would have to agree to be identified only by their last names only--no "Mr" or "Ms" and no first names.

And everyone would get at least moderately dressed up.

And there could be a piano.

And people could sing!

But no first names!

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Is this a thread? Is what I am doing called a drive-by?

I would like to come to this party. Please invite Baldwin, Yazbeck and Burstein.

Thanking you in advance.

Vrrrrrrrrrroommmmm.

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