[dba-Tech] Pygmalion

It sounds like a great night out...you will remember that for years. 

We usually see a play about once a month; the last one we saw was a called
"That Face", a pretty rough drama along the lines of "Who's Afraid of
Virginia Wolf" but interesting enough this award winning play was written a
nineteen year old girl...a playwright with a great future.  

Have not seen a musical since Gigi...a perennial family favourite. South
Pacific always holds a soft spot as, when ten, I was one of the top hundred
news carriers in the city and we all received matinee tickets to a new movie
plus free popcorn and drink. (Was in love with Mitzi Gaynor for years.)

My father used to sing in a number of operettas, mostly Gilbert and Sullivan
but unfortunately, like my mother, I had difficultly hitting a note with a
scatter gun.

Back to work...

Jim 

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Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2013 8:12 AM
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Subject: [dba-Tech] Pygmalion

We went to see a staging of Shaw's Pygmalion last night - its the centennial
of the play.  Shaw's always entertaining.  Higgins was played by Robert Sean
Leonard - better known as Wilson in House.  But it was a bit distracting to
watch as the dialog led into so many great songs from the musical and Rex
Harrison is for me the definitive Higgins. 
 
So we came home and you tubed some of the tunes, then more of them.  I'd
forgotten how many great tunes there were in that show.  Look at this list:
 
http://musicals.net/cgi-bin/songlist?sn=57
<http://musicals.net/cgi-bin/songlist?sn=57&show=My+Fair+Lady>
&show=My+Fair+Lady
 
When I was a kid we had the 33 rpm album and my sister loved it.  So I got
to hear it a lot.  Along with a lot of other musicals - she was big on that.
I didn't care much for them at the time, but they stuck in my head like
music will and now I love the songs - South Pacific, West Side Story,
Carousel, Oklahoma, Paint Your Wagon.  That's uniquely American music. 
 
I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face has become a pretty popular jazz standard
- we play it in the trio.  Wish I could sing it. 
 
Coincidentally, we went to another play a couple of weeks ago - invited to a
dress rehearsal at the North Coast Rep - with the same theme: Educating
Rita.  It was a movie a few years back.  Professor transforms a working
class woman into an intellectual and she eventually moves off without him.
The Pygmalion story but without Pygmalion's moral question 
 
That's my a.m. ramble.  
 
R
 
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