Friday, August 14, 2020

The Piaf forever stamp was 2012, and even then we were worried about how snail-like even "snail mail" was

 The Piaf forever stamp was 2012, and even then in that election year we were worried about how snail-like even "snail mail" was. The snail makes a guest appearance at 0:30 and this is believed to be the post office snail's first (and maybe only?) appearance in a La Môme parody video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5Z6iz4jPsw

Thank you to the amazing Jan Horvath for the vocal here. 


Also: This is from the bill and call log from a Miami lawyer for a Landau family estate and elder care matter who I hired August 10 2020 with a $15,000 retainer.

Theater connection: Look at August 14 - why is a lawyer for a Landau family matter talking to Jen Tepper, who is a Broadway producer who at the time I had a Human Rights issue with, and with whom this antitrust issue 

http://fred-and-the-economy.blogspot.com/2022/02/to-robyn-goodman-and-producers-of-other.html 

is going on since 2010. And for more than a half hour, and the lawyer writes that Jen gives him a "Better understanding."




Saturday, August 8, 2020

Looking back ten years ago this week- one of the most successful replacement casts ever!

Looking back ten years ago this week-  one of the most successful replacement casts ever! 

It's 10 years this week since one of the best reviewed and most surprisingly well-realized replacement pairs to follow a premium success: when Bernadette Peters and Elaine Stritch took over in the revival of "A Little Night Music." This was a tribute, the "overheard" negotiating with Stritch's agent - who was reported in the press to have been asking for extras that didn't exist ány more, even though Stritch really openly wanted to do the show. With real love for Ms. Stritch, a low-tech take on one of those silly hypothetical lists of supposed demands for things that hadn't existed in years - and she had said she was never going to turn the show down anyway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgev_fewvlQ


And this was A LITTLE SITE MUSIC - celebrating the first Sondheim show to go premium in 2009.

Act 1 - Accountess Charlotte / Anne / Madame Alarmfeldt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2mMKTJhdMc

Act 2- Disarray / Petra / Frederika checking the box office

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iVjlnbTx1g