The Official Joanna Gleason Love Thread <3- Page 5

[Brooks_Hatlen]

Posted: 3/1/06 at 9:14pm

and Brooks_Hatlen...do you have a way of sending that clip to me/anyone? hahaha. i'd love to see it!

I have lots of clips (this one ranking pretty high on the list, my Love & Wars are also desirable to make it easier to jump to episodes of interest) that I would like to digitize and share. Right now I don't have any form of video input to any of my computers, but my dad has a video capture card. We're going to work on consolidating several Joanna-clips onto fewer VHS tapes this weekend (like put all of the DRS on TV things together that are currently scattered) so hopefully "One Of These Days" (TM) I'll get so port some of that over to computer and into mpeg during a visit to my folks.

On a related note, we're thinking of getting a TiVo and I've heard of hacking that to pull mpeg clips from it via the ethernet interface. If this is doable this might become an easy way for me to mpeg lots of Joanna things in the collection. No promises on turnaround time or feasibility, just things I'm pondering.

To Mamie: Those photos are awesome! May I ask where you found them? Like the program for the show or something else I need to find?

[Musical_nerd]

Posted: 3/1/06 at 10:36pm

Post 101!

Yay yay Joanna.

[Mamie]

Posted: 3/1/06 at 10:46pm

Brooks - there's a book published each year called "Theatre World". These go back (as far as I can tell) to the 1944-1945 theatre season. The book is filled with hundreds of black and white photos from every Broadway and off-Broadway play produced that season. Later editions also included some regional theatre. There is also special sections in the back on new performers appearing that year, winners of the annual Theatre World awards, members of the theatrical community who passed away during that year, etc. Those two pics were from a couple different editions of that book. It's a great reference source for anyone who's interested in the theatre!

The new Playbill "Broadway Yearbook" is a bigger, fancier, colorful version of this book. I hope the Playbill book is successful enough to continue each year and that it starts to include more actual photos from the productions!

[ohhoney_]

Posted: 3/2/06 at 6:59pm

ooooh that sounds fabulous! i hoep you get your tivo soon hehehe.

i am doing an independant study next year for school, where you create an entire class for yourself...I'm going to do "Theatre History 12" hand made by meeee. And there shall be a whole unit on Joanna Gleason.

well maybe not. but there should be. actually. it should be Advanced Joanna Gleason 12.

[ohhoney_]

Posted: 3/3/06 at 9:55pm

i'm singing "it takes two" in voice lessons.

i have some frigging big shoes to fill. well, fill in my own mind.

i am the baker's wife & my best friend is cinderella. we're going to buy golden slippers tomorrow.

pics to follow!

[Brooks_Hatlen]

Posted: 3/3/06 at 9:57pm

Today in history...

See: http://www.playbill.com/news/article/68049.html for more, but one year ago today DRS opened with Joanna and the original cast.

Interesting to note that according to that link, Andre was originally played by Paul Jbara.

I wonder if he's at all related to that Greg guy.

[Mamie]

Posted: 3/3/06 at 10:53pm

There's another Broadway actor/singer/song writer named Paul Jabara. He was in the original cast of Hair and he was a writer, lyricist, actor, and a few other things in a show called "Rachael Lily Rosenbloom and Don't You Ever Forget It". In one of the write ups of that show his name was spelled three different ways - Jabara, Jbara, and Jbarra. I'm sure when they wrote that they just did a quick check on the last name, saw "Paul" listed and picked it up without really looking at it.

[ohhoney_]

Posted: 3/5/06 at 6:57pm

i slept in the office of the theatre school after the 2 classes i taught finished up. so no golden slippers were purchased.

[ohhoney_]

Posted: 3/6/06 at 8:56pm

rhode island is neither a road, nor an island.

discuss amongst yourselves.

[ohhoney_]

Posted: 3/7/06 at 7:38pm

okay okay PHOTO CAPTION THIS ONE

[ohhoney_]

Posted: 3/10/06 at 1:35pm

BUMP!!!!!

[ohhoney_]

Posted: 3/11/06 at 7:03pm

i willn't give up

has anyone seen "Crimes and Misdemeanors" ?

[Zyla]

Posted: 3/11/06 at 7:26pm

I haven't seen it, sorry.
I don't have a creative caption for the photo either. Again, sorry.

Just wanted to contribute to the thread. I've only seen Joanna Gleason in DRS, but she was wonderful in it!

[Jwaa]

Posted: 3/11/06 at 7:56pm

i bet she is a beautiful friend

her comedic value is done with grace and style which is why i love her work...and when she wants to be, she can just be sooo easily loved by an audience...she is such a loveable character!

X

[ohhoney_]

Posted: 3/13/06 at 10:02pm

Jwaa...too true. I remember once on the Into The Woods livejournal community, people were arguing that the Baker's Wife was to blame for basically all of their problems in the show and that she should be hated! I was just like "UHHHHH JUMP BACK."

is she in "Hannah and Her Sisters" or did I just make that up?

[Brooks_Hatlen]

Posted: 3/14/06 at 6:51pm

is she in "Hannah and Her Sisters" or did I just make that up?

Joanna was in that movie. She played Carol, and it might have been her first role on the silver screen. I'm not sure about this. IMDB and JoannaGleason.com both list this as her first file movie appearance, but some of Joanna's early playbills lists this other movie, I can't remember the name of it right now. I'll look it up then.

Gotta jet - the netflix gods just brought us the Tracy Takes On that has Joanna in it. I have never seen this one, and it's getting harder and harder now to track down the things she was in that I haven't seen.

I think the holy grail of Joanna appearances would be to get copies of her show "Personal Side" as this wasn't on broadcast TV and at a time when most home viewers didn't have video tape recording devices.

[BP Broadway Diva]

Posted: 4/12/06 at 4:42pm

hey...does anyone know joanna's last day in DRS for sure? I know Lucie starts May 29th but i can't find anywhere when joanna's last day is! thanks a lot for any info cause i would love to see her one last time before she leaves the show.

danielle

[ohhoney_]

Posted: 4/12/06 at 6:54pm

She's leaving at the end of April. I guess her understudy is doing the show until Lucie starts?

[BP Broadway Diva]

Posted: 4/12/06 at 7:32pm

thanks! i'm gonna try and hopefully get there next week to see it!

[ohhoney_]

Posted: 4/12/06 at 7:44pm

New Interview!

[Brooks_Hatlen]

Posted: 4/30/06 at 4:11pm

With today bringing Joanna's last DRS performance I thought maybe we should breath some new life back into this old thread.

Part of me is really going to miss her, a lot, but another part of me is anxious to see Lucie as Muriel. It’s kind like that feeling where you want to see neat new things, but deep down you know that what you had will never be surpassed.

Am I the only one going to miss her?

[JbaraFan1]

Posted: 4/30/06 at 7:09pm

Fans of Joanna might enjoy these images of her from Greg's web cam, including several of her backstage during Saturday's (4/29) matinee and evening shows. Follow the link to view...
Gregory Jbara Cam Tribute to Joanna Gleason

[Brooks_Hatlen]

Posted: 4/30/06 at 7:15pm

Speaking of Joanna on Greg’s web cam, check out the tribute using cam images on http://www.joannagleason.com

[ohhoney_]

Posted: 4/30/06 at 9:23pm

*sob*