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  1. I was raised similarly, but because my family was arts and sciences, and Maurice Seymour the famous photog was close friend. Ben Vereen was a friend of dad, i performed in a few small nothings… Though i did perform at Avery Fischer Hall at Lincoln Center. My two cousins went to juliard, and one had his recital at Alice Tully Hall at lincoln center. My photography and arts has me meeting/working with people like Trump, Hiltons, Hearst family, Clinton Family…. i knew betty friedans husband… Patty hearsts daugthers.. Tommy Tune knows me, as does the fashion editor of the times… Pharrel. and many more.

    my whole live has orbited around.
    including doing some work with bill cosby, and sesame street..(That was the most fun, no credit voices… Bob used to call me up when Joan Rivers was doing home shopping network wanting to find things to sell. (really weird to grow up, and have your childhood friend call you asking how you doing and if you have anything for joan… twighlight zone))

    my favorite broadway stuff?
    Jesus Christ Superstar (album, play, movie)..
    [i performed in an off broadway version years after dad went to see with mom at ben vereens invite (he was judas on the broadway version)]

    in fact we also loved Pippin too…
    i like the original cast, not the greatest american hero version that is all thats left.

    bob fosse… (which is where ben vereen again)

    dad used to do photo touch up with brishes for top stars,so my childhood was filled with opera singers and so on.

    a friend is a power opera singer who performs the chorals at carnegie hall every year.

    weird world
    i also grew up in a slum
    poor.. not middle class suburbia like everyone thinks
    they think that cause they dont know you can succceed
    i dont tell them as they behavior is revealing in their common bigotry…

    given my bit of autism, i can remember whole scores and such for music easy. so i pretty much always had a walk man in my head… i can compose and i can make up on the fly (i was first string soloist clarinet.. and i am half deaf)

    this and a few coins will get me on the subway

  2. Favorite lines from broadway plays

    “I wonder if all the fornicating i am getting is worth all the fornicating i am getting” Charlemaign in Pippen

  3. Neo, my parents saw “Take Me Along” on Broadway and brought the LP recording home for my 4 siblings and I. We loved the music and the words and played it a lot. “Staying Young” sung by Walter Pidgeon is sublime.

  4. I was kind of thinking “Well, here it is 5 pm….”

    The definition of racy is kind of flexible, because we did this show when I was in high school

    Although everyone who has been involved in theater knows that things don’t always go according to plan (to say the least), my favorite story is from “How to Succeed..”

    Our lead was a great guy (probably not in Morse’s league!) and sang with enthusiasm, but had a tendency to go flat.
    Our “orchestra” that year was a single pianist, a professor at a college in another state (although not too far away) and a buddy of our director. I was his page turner (I was on stage in later shows, but there’s gotta be somebody on the bottom of the credits).

    When our star started going flat in his biggest solo, I watched the pianist stop, listen carefully, shift his hands just above the ivories, and come in dead on pitch in the new key.

  5. There could be a nice little thread going on all the ways the stage heroines would be suing the heroes for harassment.

    We could start with Eliza Doolittle as the prototype feminist (GBS was a socialist, of course, but I don’t think Lerner & Loewe pushed much of an agenda, IIRC).

    Nothing can quite top “Just you wait” for verbal evisceration, and even Gloria Steinem would approve of “I can do without you.”

    However although she broke free of the oppression for awhile, she was clearly subjugated by Higgins in the end.

    And who knows what hanky-panky they were up to during those language lessons.

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