tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post5052954845389528028..comments2024-03-26T07:58:59.761+00:00Comments on I'll think of something later: From Tarby to Edna in WimbledonDavidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-76563502943615800692011-12-18T22:20:11.401+00:002011-12-18T22:20:11.401+00:00Thank you for the comments... have expanded on the...Thank you for the comments... have expanded on the translation. Petipa can be irritatingly vague!Gavin Plumleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08367649538228383713noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-35174496378571152672011-12-18T14:37:31.297+00:002011-12-18T14:37:31.297+00:00A last peek in over at PD leads me to write here: ...A last peek in over at PD leads me to write here: no question who's who in our house, and so, from hedgehog to hedgehog, a happy holiday to you!Susan Scheidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09250142489341777926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-7488492371249082442011-12-18T12:30:53.798+00:002011-12-18T12:30:53.798+00:00Mere Gigogne is another one to make us all feel jo...Mere Gigogne is another one to make us all feel jolly - I'll take up the thorny question of the translation with you Over There: I reckon the word should be 'Cicogne', ie 'stork'. Always been unclear about this.<br /><br />Equally exhilarating as hyper-ballet, I think, is Smetana's Dance of the Comedians. Last week my two-year-old goddaughter whirred around like a catherine wheel to it. <br /><br />If only root canal could be avoided by simple brushing and flossing...it's me gums (I grow old).Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-74149406668877251462011-12-18T10:29:22.001+00:002011-12-18T10:29:22.001+00:00Poor you with the root-canal... one of those thing...Poor you with the root-canal... one of those things I absolutely dread. May have to go off and brush my teeth an extra time just in case. Glad that Dame Edna and Co. made up for it. <br /><br />That English Gig from the Nutcracker was seemingly designed for the party scene in Act 1 - rather than Act 2. Petipa wanted a parallel group of Diverts, with a Chinese Dance, Spanish Dance, Italian Dance, English Dance, Russian trepak and a cancan. The idea was clearly dropped. But as Tchaikovsky never wrote the other dances for Act 1, I guess Lanchbery arranged the surviving sketch as an addendum to the Diverts in Act 2. <br /><br />Mother Gigogne - one of my absolute favourites, along with the Tumblers' Dance from Tchaik's Snow Maiden - is today's 'door' in my Nutcracker advent calendar. <br /><br />BTW, I felt it fitting that my 'word verification' for this comment is 'sherb'. I could do with a sherbet fountain right now. But it might bring on that root-canal sooner rather than later...Gavin Plumleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08367649538228383713noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-35249220294636099482011-12-17T19:19:21.824+00:002011-12-17T19:19:21.824+00:00Luke must be seen as A Very Dependable Chap to pla...Luke must be seen as A Very Dependable Chap to play Mr Brownlow, Howard. Presumably he doubled as workhouse boy...<br /><br />The colonies ref was a bit of silliness, of course, Sue...but here's a good one which I wish I'd been there to see: Desmond Barritt, wonderful actor, a great dame, I'd imagine, stepping forward after silence greeted a joke: 'Come on, this is panto, not Pinter'.<br /><br />And seasonal restfulness/exhilaration/what you will to you too.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-60662639227621317762011-12-17T14:31:21.382+00:002011-12-17T14:31:21.382+00:00So British, in fact, that I had to look up the wor...So British, in fact, that I had to look up the word (Wikipedia does list several former colonies, BTW, but the US isn't mentioned). However, thanks to the edu-mate, who is a Brit, I did see and laugh my way all the way through Noises Off and have laughed through Dame Edna, though not for a while and only on TV. <br /><br />And speaking of the need for laughter, I hadn't realized how extensive your dental troubles were, so here's to laughter as a much more suitable reason for a jaw to ache, and may the dental work be behind you soon!<br /><br />I am off to NYC for the holidays and won't be able to be online so much. One of the things I will miss most is checking in Over Here to see what you're up to. I'll look forward even more keenly, then, to catching up when I have a chance to get online.<br /><br />In the meantime, while you bear no responsibility for this, you did, with this post, inspire my last entry in my own contribution to seasonal silliness.<br /><br />Have a wonderful holiday season!Susan Scheidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09250142489341777926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-78478130830949563382011-12-17T12:10:18.611+00:002011-12-17T12:10:18.611+00:00I read Michael Billington's rave review of Dic...I read Michael Billington's rave review of Dick Whittington and so I'd already resolved to put it in the diary somehow, along with Noises Off, and now yours has stiffened that resolve. (Oh God innuendo is contagious...). I'm glad you enjoyed it so much and it helped to relieve the dental discomfort.<br /><br />Sadly I am old enough to remember Oliver from the 1960s and did in fact see it then but I was too young to remember where. I think it was probably in the West End so I doubt if La Humphries was in the cast. By chance Luke has just played Mr Brownlow in his school production of Oliver!<br /><br />Sorry to hear the eye injury is still troublesome even if only mildly.Howard Lanenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-1291547470652360032011-12-17T11:31:54.492+00:002011-12-17T11:31:54.492+00:00Stiff lower left jaw, more like, Laurent - and the...Stiff lower left jaw, more like, Laurent - and the stiffer (ie the more numb) the better during deep drilling...<br /><br />I hadn't realised until recently how very British (English?) panto is...Dame Edna's fellow colonials remind me of the fact. But I'm sure bad panto is just awful.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-59580487130742335722011-12-17T02:11:04.892+00:002011-12-17T02:11:04.892+00:00Will loves the Panto and Dame Edna, I discovered i...Will loves the Panto and Dame Edna, I discovered it all thanks to him. So lucky to be in in London to see it all.<br />Hope you do not have much longer at the dentist. What is it they say, Stiff upper lip!Laurenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03297393116796129135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-20030000984355794522011-12-17T00:55:59.146+00:002011-12-17T00:55:59.146+00:00I think the Dame was treading a consummate line la...I think the Dame was treading a consummate line last night between child- and adult-pleasing - as was everyone else (the 'presenters' go by the name of 'First Family Entertainment'). Without compromise, I might add, or rather finding a different kind of golden mean, one of the most difficult things in the world. The humour was broad and sometimes Rabelaisian but oddly never coarse. I came out quite struck by the profound effect of laughter - hence the reference to a Wagner-Ring feeling in the review - which is something more than just escapism. <br /><br />And how kind of you to remember the eye, to whit the sinal fracture, over a year old now if much less in postponed diagnosis; yes, it's only mildly troublesome and no further surgery is necessary.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-82521524387155967122011-12-17T00:47:12.166+00:002011-12-17T00:47:12.166+00:00I am full of envy, no, that's not good - what ...I am full of envy, no, that's not good - what about I am happy at least to hear such wonderful reports of exactly what we are not getting down here. There is an enormous intellect under that wisteria wig, I'm sure you know, and no, that Dame's output is not pitched at children. Don't we need more laughter, more happy days.<br /><br />What with the dentist and the eye (I trust no news is good news there) I hope the coming year is relatively intervention-less.wandererhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08196036534397389760noreply@blogger.com