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So, as I sit writing this it is snowing like mad! We’ve had an inch in less than 10 minutes 😯 ! The forecast is for 6 to 8 inches in the mountains; we’re sorta mountains here but I think we’re in for a doozy. My hubby and boys are camping out in this weather for scouts. Glad it’s not me! 😀
What’s a girl to do when she has the house to herself and she ain’t going out in that cold, white stuff? Well, she makes hot cocoa and cinnamon rolls for breakfast, pops in the DVD for the Sound of Music, stays in her jammies and bunny slippers and enjoys the extras on the DVD, particulary the interviews and documentaries with Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer.
I was raised on lots and lots of musical theatre. Mum loved music and loved to sing and always had some record or other on. I can remember lots of Rogers and Hammerstein especially The Sound of Music, Oklahoma!, The King and I and South Pacific. Then there were Lerner and Loewe’s classics, Camelot, My Fair Lady and Brigadoon all the original Broadway recordings.
Dad worked for IBM at the time but had started off in the recording business and had a huge collection of things that he had worked on including the Per Gynt Suite, Peter and the Wolf and the Nutcracker. He also was an award winning stage lighter for Brigham Young University.
I poured over those album covers with all the gorgeous Broadway costumes and stages. There were trips to the San Francisco Opera House to see the King and I, with the King played by Ricardo Montalban (I was 8 or 9 at the time) and Anna played by Sally Ann Howe from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and The Nutcracker Ballet where we saw Baryshnikov dance. Lots of outings to the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts for Hello Dolly, Oliver, West Side Story and more.
I guess this upbringing is why I like the extras on the DVD’s more than the movie itself. I want to know how they did that. It also affected my choices for college. I wanted to know so much and a major in theatre only covered so much. I wound up with a 3 part major that I wrote myself in theatre, literature and fine art, with an emphasis on costume design and construction. My husband says I know a little bit about a lot of stuff and it makes me dangerous! 😈
So, thanks for letting me ramble but it’s time to get back to the movie. Later I’ll finish up the tutu’s and fairy wings for the neighbor’s daughters and get started on my nekkid pyo’s! Hot cocoa anyone? 😀
twindragonsmum
p.s. we’re now up to 2 inches with the snow 😯 !
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Wow!!! That’s a lot of snow in a short time. I’m in Florida. I’d just like the temperature to drop into the 70’s…that would be heaven for me!! 😆
That is a lot of snow. Like Starbreeze I’m in the Southeast so I would appreaciate the temps dropping into the low- to mid-70s.
Wow…I’d looove to see lots of snow..it seems all we ever get here is an inch or two at most. We have lots of ice though. Blech… I love fall though, the colors are spectacular and I love the smell too. Everything smells better in fall… 😀
Ooh, hot cocoa and cinnamon rolls for me too! I’m in the SE too (and waiting for lower temps), but I’d never turn down hot cocoa and rolls. 😀
I usually buy the deluxe editons of the DVDs so I can watch the specials on the productions and how they created the costumes. I enjoy them as much as the movies.
You got snow too? We had our first snow this morning! Thank goodness it disappeared. This afternoon I had four hours of motorcycle lessons. 😆
sounds like a GREAT day to me!!
I LOVE the Old Musicals when they knew how to make movies and spent the money they needed to to make them. The Musicals day seemes to have faded. I LOVE movies like Guys and Dolls, West Side Story, Hello Dolly, etc… I LOVE costumes too. I need to learn how to sewDragon Master wrote:sounds like a GREAT day to me!!
I LOVE the Old Musicals when they knew how to make movies and spent the money they needed to to make them. The Musicals day seemes to have faded. I LOVE movies like Guys and Dolls, West Side Story, Hello Dolly, etc… I LOVE costumes too. I need to learn how to sewThe sewing is the easy part; it’s the detail work that’s hard. Actually, it’s sewing in a straight line that’s easy. Once you get into cartridge pleating, corsetry (like trying to find substitues for whale bone or spring steel) or shoemaking, that’s hard. Embroidery work or hand beading is time consuming but very satisfying 😀
twindragonsmum
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We gots no snow yet, but it was decidedly cold this morning. We usually dont get snow before the end of DZecember. You sound like you are doing something you love! How nice would that be. Rare are the people who actually manage to enjoy their work.
Another musical lover! Hurray!! I remember listening to all those shows over and over. And don’t forget L & L’s Gigi! (I know it started as a movie and then went to the stage.) I can still sing most of those songs though my voice is not what it used to be!
That sounds like a wonderful way to spend a cold and miserable day. Though I usually go for tea and curl up with the four-footed babies beside me and read a book. I’ll have to try the cocoa and cinnamon rolls next time.
I’m next door in western WA and right now all we are getting is wind and rain. At least I did not lose power like some people did.
Not me I grew up in Kansas City, MO and there was lots of snow every winter it was cold and nasty that’s why I retired in Florida so I don’t have to see anymore snow. I lived in Roswell, GA for 10 years and one year they got almost 2′ of snow between 7AM and 3PM, fortunately, it was a saturday and by monday afternoon it was gone. I hibernated but still had to clear away severl feet of snow to unbury my corvette which by the way went nowhere on snow and ice.
laphon1 wrote:Another musical lover! Hurray!! I remember listening to all those shows over and over. And don’t forget L & L’s Gigi! (I know it started as a movie and then went to the stage.) I can still sing most of those songs though my voice is not what it used to be!
That sounds like a wonderful way to spend a cold and miserable day. Though I usually go for tea and curl up with the four-footed babies beside me and read a book. I’ll have to try the cocoa and cinnamon rolls next time.
I’m next door in western WA and right now all we are getting is wind and rain. At least I did not lose power like some people did.
How could I forget Gigi? Also really like Funny Face with Audrey Hepburn (who really sang her part) and Fred Astaire. Of course with the snow, it’s got me thinking Whit Christmas 😯
I did get some good book time and snuggles with the kitty-babies under the down comforter! Where in Washington are you? We used to live in Richland about an hour outside Yakima and have family in Benton City and Newport. And yes, I’m a theatre geek! 😈
twindragonsmum
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I’m in Mukilteo just south of Everett.
I loved Funny Face. I read somewhere that when AH was doing Breakfast at Tiffany they wanted to cut Moon River which she also sang. She is reported to have said “over my dead body.”
Do you remember Kiss Me, Kate? How about Kismet? Carousel? Flower Drum Song? The Music Man?
I spent a lot of time doing community theater, mostly musicals, before my job changed and I began working nights. I guess I’m another theater geek.
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