Can the adults please smoke? — Page 121

I didn't. The replacement, Sarah Chalke, is decidedly great on the NBC sitcom Scrubs.

you might as well say them before someone else does, Nina.

I have changed d*cks mid stream -- it can be fun!

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Hey, did any of you ladies ever participate in wife-swapping "key" parties? The Ice Storm had a brilliant portrayal of this 1970s debauchery.

Spill the beans.

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oh, Nina, I don't know how to tell you I'm not really 15. JRB, please help me out here.

yes

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Casting questions...

Why on earth did they cast Bridget Hanley to play Candy Pruitt on Here Come the Brides? She looked sooo much older than Bobby Sherman's Jeremy Bolt...

Sorry...it has always BUGGED me...

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Dick York (who was my favorite) had to give up the series because of health issues. He's also the one who came out years later - and Elizabeth was very good friends with him and helped provide care for him up until his death.

Wow...this had sunk down on the page and for a moment I thought it had been pulled.

Did they pull an actor switch on the Mother's In Law series with Eve Arden and Kaye Ballard. Seems to me that Kaye's husband was played by two different actors? Roger Corman and...?

Am I mis-remembering????

And, weren't there two Marilyn Munsters?

And, two Chris Partridges (first season was dark-haired, dark complected Jeremy Gelbwaks. His family relocated to D.C. and they hired blonde and fair-skinned Brian Forster.)

And, if you look carefully the first/pilot episode of "Rozanne" the little boy playing D.J. is different.

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Did anymone mention Joan Collins as that femme fatale "Crystal Allen" in the MGM remake of THE WOMEN entitled THE OPPOSITE SEX?

Surely you remember that?

Silly song that is stuck in my head today..just wanted to share:

Sunshine, lollipops and rainbows,
Everything that's wonderful is what I feel when we're together,
Brighter than a lucky penny,
When you're near the rain cloud disappears, dear,
And I feel so fine just to know that you are mine.

My life is sunshine, lollipops and rainbows,
That's how this refrain goes, so come on, join in everybody!

Sunshine, lollipops and rainbows,
Everything that's wonderful is sure to come your way
When you're in love to stay.

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OKAY...so what do you say that if this show makes it to Broadway we all go together???

BIG HAIR IS STILL IN
I had an amazing time at another presentation this week and apparently I'm not the only one. After two industry-heavy showings of Beehive on Broadway, everyone in town is buzzing about the chance of the musical becoming a late entry in the 2004-05 season. And why not? Big hair and big laughs and a '60s setting is certainly working for Hairspray, and that show doesn't even have can't-miss songs like "Downtown," "It's My Party," "My Boyfriend's Back," "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?" and "You Don't Own Me" in it!

Produced by Jeffrey Richards and Michael Rothfeld, Beehive on Broadway is a complete reworking of the 1986 show that played for 600 performances at the Top of the Gate off-Broadway and helped launch the careers of Pattie Darcy Jones (Smokey Joe's Café), Alison Fraser, Jasmine Guy and Adriane Lenox. The high-voltage musical is still a tribute to the all-girl pop sounds of the '60s, but the songs are now loosely wrapped around a book (by Jim Goeghan) that tells of two lovelorn black girls in contemporary time who are visited by a guardian angel girl group that takes them back to their decade to teach them lessons in love and R.E.S.P.E.C.T. with the help of the girl group songbook. Sound silly? Well, it is. And it knows it is, which is always the key to these things.

Former Broadway baby Debbie Allen (who, for my younger readers, worked her way up the ranks on Broadway in '70s and '80s dancing in shows like Purlie, Raisin and Ain't Misbehavin' before playing both Anita in West Side Story and Charity in Sweet Charity) is set to make her debut as a director/choreographer with Beehive on Broadway. Even if the presentation that I saw was only two-thirds or so of the final show, I was dazzled by Allen's work. There was one stunning dance piece after another and a real flow to the entire proceeding. I think we may have to convince Allen to stick around these parts and teach some of the new breed of Broadway choreographers a thing or two, Lydia Grant style!

What's really exciting about Beehive on Broadway is it's completely ladies night. Sure, there are men in the show (that Allen shows off in a sexy beach dance scene), but it's all about the primary female roles. Can you think of the last time you saw a Broadway musical that kept the men in the background and offered a showcase for six dynamic and talented female triple threats instead? Well, I can't! At the reading, the contemporary gals were played by Kearran Giovanni (Bare) and Nikki James (All Shook Up) while the girl group was made up of the hilarious team of Tracy Jai Edwards, Mandy Gonzalez, Francesca Harper and a high-belting, high-camp Orfeh.

It remains to be seen whether or not producers will bring Beehive on Broadway into such a crowded season of musicals. But something tells me that a fun-loving tuner like this might be just what this town needs.

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KMF..you're in...new we need to get DGrant out of the hot tub to come along. Lets tell him we play him all the way there...LOL !!

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