Well, I went the the library today...

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Well, I went the the library today...

Posted: 6/28/05 at 8:13pm

And basically rented out their musical theatre selections.

Here's what I got:

Kristin Chenoweth's Let Yourself Go
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
Brigadoon
Verdi masterpieces (for my own purposes)
Oklahoma!
42nd Street
La Traviata (for my own...purposes)
Sweeney Todd
Pippin
Ragtime
Follies
Bounce
A Little Night Music

Sounds like a good start on my Golden Age embarkment, eh?

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re: Well, I went the the library today...

Posted: 6/28/05 at 8:16pm

Igloo, did you ever think of taking out a BOOK from the library? Reading is fundamental, you know.

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re: Well, I went the the library today...

Posted: 6/28/05 at 8:17pm

You sound like my daughter!! Let us know your "reviews" of the discs that are "new" to you,please.

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re: Well, I went the the library today...

Posted: 6/28/05 at 8:19pm

Igloo? Wow! It must be a new member!

What the puck?!

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Posted: 6/28/05 at 8:19pm

Well, I got books too...

Steinbecks' Grapes of Wrath
Patterson's 2nd Chance
Noises Off!
West Side Story
The Tempest
Taming of the Shrew

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re: Well, I went the the library today...

Posted: 6/28/05 at 8:21pm

Oh snap. Showed you Dolly, she got classics!

Aigoo, tell us what you think!

"The stage is where I live and come alive and act out all the things that go on in my life. It's not just what I do for a living, it's my shrink and my love affair. No one in my life has ever or ever will kiss me on the mouth like this lover called my relationship with my performance."

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Posted: 6/28/05 at 8:21pm

I want a three page report on the inter-chapters in GRAPES OF WRATH.

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Posted: 6/28/05 at 8:21pm

Dollypop is just thinking "wishfully" due to the extreme heat!

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Posted: 6/28/05 at 8:22pm

Sure...but I daresay that Sparknotes would do a better job than I.

English isn't exactly my first language...

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Posted: 6/28/05 at 8:25pm

I want you to report on what the inter-chapters are, why Steinbeck chose to use them and what their over-all impact is on the work.

You will be graded.

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#11

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Posted: 6/28/05 at 8:26pm

O_O.

But I...I..don't want to...

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#12

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Posted: 6/28/05 at 8:29pm

I read GoW in one day because my teacher decided to test us on the summer readig we were supposed to do(i know...seriously, who actually reads summer reading?)...I skipped all of those interchapters. Thankfully it was the reading test the standard class takes (it was AP English).

From what I remember it was a good book

You aren't feeling overwhelmed are you?

#13

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Posted: 6/28/05 at 8:32pm

Igloo, how can you DARE imply that you don't want to do this? Do you know how I can punish you? I'll lock you in a closet with Liam for a weekend. That's how I'll punish you!

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Posted: 6/28/05 at 8:36pm

Those local color inter-chapters annoyed me after a while when I read that novel. I understood their purpose, but they broke up the narrative too much for me.

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Posted: 6/28/05 at 8:36pm

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

SO.MANY. SPELLING ERRORS!

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Posted: 6/28/05 at 8:47pm

I LOVE John Steinbeck! Last summer I held my first annual "Steinbeck Summer" and read like 7-8 of his novels. I had read Grapes of Wrath a few years ago in high school, but I think it's about time to open it up again.

I went to the library today too and got A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - my all-time favorite, non-Harry Potter, book. I thought I owned it, but can't find it anywhere...

I tried to find Light in the Piazza but our stupid library doesn't have it! Grr!

~Jessica

"If you start from a place of joy and charm, you can get away with a lot in the second act. It may be that that's my life. I'm not sure." ~Roger Bart

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Posted: 6/28/05 at 8:51pm

I really enjoyed Kristin's CD. It really showcases her skill. Wow. I'm really impressed by her.

Listening to A Little Night Music...still not seeing the great thing about Sondheim...but maybe after listening to these...10 other CD's it'll dawn on me.

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Posted: 6/28/05 at 8:56pm

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Posted: 6/28/05 at 9:03pm

Yeah I just made a library trip recently and FINALLY got "Into the Woods", and also picked up "Nine" and "A Little Night Music". I loved the first two, but I just could never bring myself to listen to the whole "..Night Music"... wasn't too thrilling for me. But have fun with Charlie Brown!!

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Posted: 6/28/05 at 9:20pm

My social studies teacher made us watch the movie because we were covering the Great Depression. I was so bored.

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Posted: 6/28/05 at 9:20pm

"Into The Woods" is probably your safest bet if you want a good introduction to Sondheim. His music is an acquired taste. You have to tune your ear before you can really enjoy it.

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Posted: 6/28/05 at 9:28pm

Yeah, I have Into the Woods. I think I'm still in the mind of Wicked and RENT, is all.

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Posted: 6/28/05 at 9:29pm

ITW was my first Sondheim - and was a perfect introduction. (Actually, I may have seen WSS before that, but I don't count that). A Litte Night Music may be one of his least accessible scores -- even after all these years there're still parts I don't get -- like Liasons -- no matter how many times I listen to it, I just don't how this song is in the same score as The Miller's Son, Send in the Clowns, A Weekend in The Country, and You Must Meet My Wife - the latter two being some of the best lyrics in the entire musical theater canon!

"A weekend in the country, we should try it..."
"How I wish we'd been asked"
"A weekend in the country, peace and quiet"
"We'll go masked.."

"A weekend in the country"
"Uninvited, they'll consider it odd"
"A weekend in the country, I'm delighted!"
"Oh my God."

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Posted: 6/28/05 at 9:38pm

Maybe I don't realize how genius Sondheim really is because I don't know...how hard it is to write lyrics. I know that it's hard to fit in lyrics to such complicated melodies...but for some reason, I'm not realizing HOW hard it is. Because my lyrics go as far as
Hello, how are you?
My name is Tom.
I'm 46 and balding,
and I live with my mom.

::shrugs::

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#25

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Posted: 6/28/05 at 9:43pm

You really think ALNM is inaccessible? Maybe it's because I have a background in classical, but I actually found this score to be lovely from the first time I listened to it. Now, something like Anyone Can Whistle or Sunday in the Park With George- that can get relatively inaccessible.

Aigoo, maybe Company or Follies will be more up your alley.

Updated On: 6/28/05 at 09:43 PM

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