How DID We Survive?- Page 150

[shira467]

Posted: 5/7/05 at 5:23am

Good morning everyone (okay, I haven't gone to sleep yet, but oh well).

I have seen West Side Story. The movie. With the whole god bless Marni Nixon thing. And to be honest, I even teared up, proving that I actually do have a heart on occasion. Rare, but still occasional.

Just thought that would make Boobs and DGrant have a happy morning.

And with that, good night!

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 5/7/05 at 9:16am

Shira...West Side Story...a movie near and dear to my heart...another one I would always search the TV Guide to see if it was on. It was also the 1st show I ever did...I played Baby John...I was 14 at the time.

Posted: 5/7/05 at 9:22am

Wow - Yesterday was quite a turning point for our little girl - she was up before the crack of noon AND teared up watching a movie! And about that scotch comment . . .

Boobs and Beav - face it, we're all big fags

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 5/7/05 at 9:24am

And proud of it DG !!!!!

[shira467]

Posted: 5/7/05 at 3:53pm

I couldn't resist the scotch comment, it was too easy!

Now, it's after-noon, back to your regularly scheduled Shira.

Boobs as Baby John...now that's an image I would have loved to see!

[DayDreamer]

Posted: 5/7/05 at 10:35pm

In my first theater production I was Chino in WSS. It holds a very dear place in my heart. I own the special edition dvd. Got a nomination for the local theater awards for Best Performance in a Minor Role. Didn't win... it was rigged, RIGGED I TELL YOU!

[shira467]

Posted: 5/8/05 at 2:38am

LOL, DayDreamer. I'll bet it was rigged!

Has everyone been in a production of WSS besides me? Oy!

Just got back from Hamilton High School's production on Millie -- AMAZING!

[shira467]

Posted: 5/8/05 at 11:35am

Good morning everyone! I'll be bringing the Mother's Day breakfast, I see.

Mimosas and an basket of fresh pastries.

I'm off to teach...have a great day everyone!

By the way...I'm up before 9! How exciting is that!

Updated On: 5/8/05 at 11:35 AM

[DayDreamer]

Posted: 5/8/05 at 2:00pm

[DayDreamer]

Posted: 5/8/05 at 3:46pm

Future home of Princesses...



The 5th Avenue Theatre's interior was modeled after China's Forbidden City, The Temple of Heaven and the Summer Palace.

[shira467]

Posted: 5/8/05 at 9:49pm

That looks like an awesome theatre!

[shira467]

Posted: 5/9/05 at 12:58pm

Good morning tout le monde! I'm up before noon - again!

Posted: 5/9/05 at 1:00pm

Shira - are you trying to upset the delicate balance of the universe or what?

[shira467]

Posted: 5/9/05 at 1:01pm

I am trying to shake things up a bit, yes. I assume I am succeeding?

Posted: 5/9/05 at 1:05pm

Sometimes it makes me wonder if I really know what time it is. Did you have a good weekend?

[shira467]

Posted: 5/9/05 at 1:07pm

Does anybody really know what time it is? Does anybody really care?

I had a great weekend!

I saw the Hamilton High School production of Millie on Sat. night, and then yesterday afternoon I went to see my first production of Into the Woods, which was very good. Little Red was a *little* old for the role, but since she'd played it before, she did a great job anyhow.

Then, home I went, and my mom and I went out to Spago for Mother's Day, which was delicious.

How about yours DG? And how is darling Robert? And everyone else, for that matter?

Posted: 5/9/05 at 1:11pm

Weekend was good. This was the Pacific Playwright's Festival - 4 staged readings and one fully-mounted world-premiere. And Saturday night was a party at our good friends' house. Robert had a severe allergy attack, so missed out on about half the fun - but I went anyway

[shira467]

Posted: 5/9/05 at 1:13pm

Sounds like a fun-filled weekend!

Tell Robert to feel better!

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 5/10/05 at 5:15am

Morning all !!! Coffee is brewing and there some toast with butter and jelly. Now sit down with a nice cup of coffee and your toast and go back in time.....

My Mom used to cut chicken, chop eggs and spread mayo on the same cutting board with the same knife and no bleach, but we didn't seem to get food poisoning.
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My Mom used to defrost hamburger on the counter AND I used to eat it raw sometimes too, our school sandwiches were wrapped in wax paper in a brown paper bag not in ice pack coolers, but I can't remember getting ecoli.
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Almost all of us would have rather gone swimming in the lake instead of a pristine pool (talk about boring), no beach closures then.
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The term cell phone would have conjured up a phone in a jail cell, and a pager was the school PA system.
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We all took gym, not PE... and risked permanent injury with a pair of high top Ked's (only worn in gym) instead of having cross-training athletic shoes with air cushion soles and built in light reflectors. I can't recall any injuries but they must have happened because they tell us how much safer we are now.
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Flunking gym was not an option... even for stupid kids! I guess PE must be much harder than gym.
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Every year, someone taught the whole school a lesson [and provided comic relief] by running in the halls with leather soles on linoleum tile and hitting the wet spot. How much better off would we be today if we only knew we could have sued the school system.
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Speaking of school, we all said prayers and sang the national anthem and staying in detention after school caught all sorts of negative attention.
We must have had horribly damaged psyches.
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I can't understand it. Schools didn't offer 14 year olds an abortion or
condoms (we wouldn't have known what either was anyway) but they did give us a couple of baby aspirin and cough syrup if we started getting the sniffles.
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What an archaic health system we had then. Remember school nurses? Ours wore a hat and everything.
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I thought that I was supposed to accomplish something before I was allowed to be proud of myself.
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I just can't recall how bored we were without computers, Play Station,
Nintendo, X-box or 270 digital TV cable stations.
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I must be repressing that memory as I try to rationalize through the denial of the dangers could have befallen us as we trekked off each day about a mile down the road to some guy's vacant lot, built forts out of branches and pieces of plywood, made trails, and fought over who got to be the Lone Ranger. What was that property owner thinking, letting us play on that lot? He should have been locked up for not putting up a fence around the property, complete with a self-closing gate and an infrared intruder alarm.
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Oh yeah... and where was the Benadryl and sterilization kit when I got that bee sting? I could have been killed!
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We played king of the hill on piles of gravel left on vacant construction sites and when we got hurt, Mom pulled out the 48 cent bottle of Mercurochrome (kids liked it better because it didn't sting like iodine did) and then we got our butt spanked. Now it's a trip to the emergency room, followed by a 10-day dose of a $49 bottle of antibiotics and then Mom calls the attorney to sue the contractor for leaving a horribly vicious pile of gravel where it was such a threat.
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We didn't act up at the neighbor's house either because if we did, we got our butt spanked (physical abuse) there too and then we got butt spanked again when we got home.
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Mom invited the door to door salesman inside for coffee, kids choked down the dust from the gravel driveway while playing with Tonka trucks (Remember why Tonka trucks were made tough .. it wasn't so that they could take the rough Berber in the family room), and Dad drove a car with leaded gas.
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Our music had to be left inside when we went out to play and I am sure that I nearly exhausted my imagination a couple of times when we went on two week vacations. I should probably sue the folks now for the danger they put us in when we all slept in campgrounds in the family tent.
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Summers were spent behind the push lawn mower and I didn't even know that mowers came with motors until I was 13 and we got one without an automatic blade-stop or an auto-drive. How sick were my parents? Of course my parents weren't the only psychos. I recall Donny Reynolds from next door coming over and doing his tricks on the front stoop just before he fell off. Little did his Mom know that she could have owned our house. Instead she picked him up and swatted him for being such a goof. It was a neighborhood run amuck.
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To top it off, not a single person I knew had ever been told that they were from a dysfunctional family. How could we possibly have known that? We needed to get into group therapy and anger management classes!
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We were obviously so duped by so many societal ills, that we didn't even notice that the entire country wasn't taking Prozac! How did we ever survive?
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LOVE TO ALL OF US WHO SHARED THIS ERA!

[shira467]

Posted: 5/10/05 at 5:19am

Gee...I wish I'd been a part of that!

Off to bed y'all! (And DG, I'll also be up before noon!)

[shira467]

Posted: 5/10/05 at 11:12am

Ha! Up before noon!

Posted: 5/10/05 at 11:13am

Shira - my faith in the balance of the universe is shaky at best right now - please be careful.

[shira467]

Posted: 5/10/05 at 11:17am

My apologies -- my DDS appointment is at 9, what else am I to do?

Your faith will be restored, one day. Just wait til summer (unless I find an internship).

[bdwaygirl]

Posted: 5/11/05 at 9:54am

I miss the beacs during the day!!

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 5/11/05 at 10:03am

Is that beacon trying to drag Donny off???