So what is this about blogs? Does anyone care what I get up to? Curently watching Cover Girl on dvd - which takes one back. Went to West Side story the other day and realised I had seen it 50 years ago, which, I suppose, casts me into outer darkness. Actually it wore quite well - the music is good, the dancing was terrific, but it does need a production which thinks for itself instead of repeats roughly what happened then. Trouble with musicals is that they don't have the stamina of plays which can take rediscovering - nobody could film a Cover Girl now because there are no people like Kelly or Hayworth or Arden - well maybe Alison Janney could do the part -or Silvers around. The plot if pretty slight, and Kelly's refusal to let Hayworth get her big break is a mite macho, but the numbers are terrific, especially the reflection in the shop windows one. And then there are the song. Eat you heart Lord Lloyd Webber it is long ago and far away indeed. Anyway today - 09/08/20009 - it is raining, I don't feel like braving the wet and the West End is hell on earth as it is full of tourists and there is no sight more debilitating than the tourist in the rain not know where it is headed and bumping into you, filling up the buses and the tubes and worst of all, when they are American, uttering banalities you understand.
Will anyone ever read this? Today's money spent was on a CD of Valmouth. The vocal score is unobtainable. How do they revive shows? Somewhere they must exists, because it is not the only one that is unobtainable. But some were probably never published. However the book was so why not the music? But enough for today. If anybody finds this and reads it do tell me - I assume there is a way of doing that.
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