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This is really touching. Yes,

Richard Day — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 06:53:04 +0000

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This is really touching.

Yes, sometimes the kids clean up after the parents.

Your comment is like it came out of Dickens.

But your story and my story and Reilly's story are not that much different.

There is a reality there for sure!

D. D. ..My dad would come

trkingmomoe — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 06:42:37 +0000

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D. D. ..My dad would come home drunk on xmass Eve and just knock the tree over. After me and my brothers got old enough to understand the problem, we would just put the tree half way up with few lights and tinsel. Then after midnight mass we would wait in our beds for the xmass tree toss to end. After all was quiet and my dad was snoring loudly, whoever was still awake would creep down the steps to clean up. We would retrim the tree with things we had made and the reserve lights. When it was all finished, we would eat toast in front of the tree enjoying our masterpiece and grateful for the blue law on xmass day.

He talks about this show and

Richard Day — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 07:07:13 +0000

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He talks about this show and the Ghost & Mrs. Muhr and a lot of other experiences.

It is a fun movie!

He was also in the kids show

cmaukonen — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 03:13:04 +0000

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He was also in the kids show Lidsville by Sid and Mary Croft.

Yes yes and yes. I have

Richard Day — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 02:21:10 +0000

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Yes yes and yes.

I have recently been drawn to the new generations of comedians.

How in the hell do you keep the audience rapt for an hour, for an hour and a half or more?

It is true talent.

The One Man Show as it used to be called!

Hal Holbrook was the first for me as I recall watching PBS before it was even called PBS.

Lecturing is an art as I just discussed in a blog on a Joseph Campbell.

They stand upon the stage with no notes and perform their craft!

Stewart did one hell of a job as Scrooge in a movie based upon this play to which you refer.

Oh, and thanks for chiming in!

This old blog was important to me!

I remember vaguely thinking I

MrSmith1 — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 02:17:42 +0000

In reply to Smith! You were the one who

I remember vaguely thinking I had written this response before ... LOL

Glad I could be of service once again in adding some background info. I grew up going to Broadway shows, and when TV was centered in NYC in the 50's and early 60's, it was only natural they'd look to Broadway to recruit game show panelists. Peggy Cass had been a hit in the non-musical play of Auntie Mame, for example, and Paul Lynde had been in Bye Bye Birdie. Kitty Carlisle, besides being a pretty fair singer in her youth (she starred in the Marx Bros. movie Night at the Opera) was also married to playwright / director Moss Hart for many years. Why I have this strange affinity for remembering such trivial factoids, I don't know. It's scary sometimes.

Time flies, doesn't it?

I was reminded reading your

Oxy Mora — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 02:05:07 +0000

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I was reminded reading your blog that I had seen Stewart do his one man version of Scrooge live on stage in L.A in the late 90's. It was the most amazing performance. Originally I had wondered how a one man show could possibly keep one entertained for at least two hours. But the performance was spectacular. A few items on the stage, some lighting, etc. But Stewart's range of voices, including women, and the Cratchet family and intonations and stage delivery were mesmerizing.

The great thing about doing this with bright folks like y'all is that the grey matter is kept in flux and one remembers things long forgotten. Thanks.

BTW, speaking of "How to Succeed" I had watched Mad Men for a year before I realized who was playing the Agency President.

Smith! You were the one who

Richard Day — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 01:08:00 +0000

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Smith! You were the one who gave the history in my 3 year old blog. hahahahahaha

Yes.

Charles was a great man!

And then and now, you reminded us both of this!

Damn.

You have been my friend for a long time! for sure!

What few remember now was

MrSmith1 — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:59:22 +0000

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What few remember now was that he was a supporting lead in the original Broadway production of Hello Dolly, introducing the song, 'It Only Takes a Moment'. He also was in the original Broadway production of How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying, playing the Boss' nephew, Bud Frump. Later, he became a very well-respected stage director, nominated for a Tony award, I believe, for directing Julie Harris in the Belle of Amherst, a one woman show about Emily Dickinson.