going to a Sing-along Sound of Music tonight!

[Dookus]

WHEEEE!

How gay am I?

[Book Lover]

1. Have a blast!

You lucky fella! How fun :-)

[Dookus]

2. I've heard about it for years...

but this is the first chance I've had to go. I'm all a-twitter. Hoping I can hit the high notes in Climb Every Mountain.....

:bounce:

[Cheswick2.0]

5. the high note in CEM is only a F or a G

no problem for a tenor or baritone, maybe a problem for a bass. Sing out Louise.

[Paragon]

8. What about that note Kurt hits in "So Long, Farewell"?

I'm pretty sure that one was dubbed in, even if he was pre-puberty.

[booksenkatz]

10. It was dubbed in by

Charmian Carr's (Liesl) sister, Darlene, who was 13 at the time.

From the Things Ya Just Gotta Know section of my brain,

[seamarq]

12. My favorite part of "So Long, Farewell"...

is at the end of the song when the crowd looks up at the children and wave and sing "Gooodbyyyyye"

[Paragon]

14. The DJ at my brother's wedding

...played "So Long, Farewell" as his last song of the night. We all waved and sang at him at the end. OK, we were probably a little drunk. You should've seen me dance the "I flit, I float, I fleetly flee, I fly" part. :silly:

[Cheswick2.0]

15. hmmmmmmmmmmm

If I remember Kurt was a boy soprano at the time. The note was probably only a d or e on the treble staff, but he sang it falsetto so it sounded really high. But of course I have not heard the music in years. I only know about Climb every mountain because I sing it and (as a mezzo) G is my favorite high note.

[Paragon]

3. I'm not gay

...and I could probably recite the dialogue along with the movie, too. Family tradition watching that on TV every time it came on around the holidays.

"Excuse me, Captain - haven't we forgot to thank the Lord?"

[booksenkatz]

11. You're my kinda person

I can recite dialogue from movies, and can sing every commercial jingle I've ever heard, but I can't remember important things.

"Louisa can make it with a whole jar of spiders in her hand!"

"Excuse me, sir, when do they play?"

(SOM is a guilty pleasure of mine, certainly.)

[ikojo]

4. Sound of Music is one of my guilty pleasures!

I love it! I don't tend to go for sappy movies but this one has such good songs and I love the mountains...

I'd love to go to a Sing Along Sound of Music but have thus far been unable to find a victim, oops! I mean a coalition of the willing.

Maybe I ought to go alone but I don't think that would be as much fun.

Do tell us all about it when you get back or tomorrow when you get back on DU!

Have fun!

[Dookus]

6. I have the bestest boyfriend in the world...

he's coming with me even though he's not into musicals and can't carry a tune in a bucket.

[Paragon]

7. A note about Frederick...

He played Peter Parker/Spider-Man in the short-lived live action movies and TV series in the 70's.

This link is great because it has mp3s of the theme music - the cool theme from season one, and the jazz/disco theme of season two. Boy, I'm a geek. :D
http://www.spiderfan.org/noncomic/tv_70s/index.html



On edit: That's Kim "Tootie" Fields' older sister Chip in the picture. She played J. Jonah Jameson's "streetwise" secretary.

[pasadenaboy]

9. I've been

and I'm straight as an arrow. I used to have a thing for Liesle growing up :)

[seamarq]

13. I'm queer as a 3 dollar bill...

but I had a fixation on the Baroness as a kid.

[Paragon]

16. LOL

She does "give some rather gay parties." ;-)

[seamarq]

17. My favorite Baroness line...

...maybe you can complete it for me. She and the Captain are on the veranda and the Captain is looking all squinty eyed and distant. The Baroness walks up to him and says wistfully: "You're far away...where are you?....

What's the rest of the line?...it's hilarious.

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[Cheswick2.0]

18. A story about my Grandmother and SOM

My grandparents were the most stable people in my life. My grandfather was a gentleman in the best sense of the word. My grandmother was a music teacher and quite famous as a Oratorio Contralto in the city of Rochester NY during the 30s and 40s.
When SOM came out I was in fifth grade. That summer I flew from Schenectady to Rochester (I think the flight was about 30 minutes)all by myself and stayed with my grandparents. They took me to the Lilac festival and to see Sound of Music.

They also took a girl about my age who was the granddaughter of one of their good friends. I was my grandmother's favorite, but I was too dumb to appreciate her, she was fussy as hell. But I will never forget the day we saw SOM and afterwords my Grandmother played the score over and over on the piano and taught us all the songs.

After she died when I was in my 20s, my Aunt great aunt Ethel would always tell me when I sang "I can't get over it, you sound just like Mary. You sound just like your Grandmother".