Just Wondering Randomly

[jazzy_dave]

Do you read a newspaper now? If so, paper or online?

Have you ever ridden a horse?

Do you like musicals, and if so, what is your favourite and why?

Comments

[wantedonvoyage.livejournal.com]

I love these little surveys, thank you for doing them! :)

I subscribe to the electronic edition of the Camden Courier-Post but I also read stories from the New York Times, Asbury Park Press and Bergen Record. We experimented with a subscription to the paper edition of the Times but we couldn't keep up and it was contributing to a clutter problem, so we cancelled it. Interestingly it costs more to get the electronic subscription only than to take a physical copy of the paper (which comes with the electronic access)! We also have a "hyperlocal" news blog, owned and largely written by a former newspaper journalist, which gives a lot of context (and good gossip) to local issues.

Yes, I rode a horse the first time when I was five and got thrown off it, but that didn't stop me. i have done so several time since.

I am selective about musicals; there needs to be more plot than razzle-dazzle. I'm not crazy about the (recent?) trend to write a very thin plot around a particular catalog of music (e.g. Mama Mia).

My favorite is Chess which may technically be a rock opera. HCD and I broke the bank to see one of two performances of it at the Royal Albert, but it was quite worth it!

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

I adore Chess. There aren't too many people around who even remember it. You are right that it had meat to it and a sincerely kick ass sound track. Now I'm going to have Arbiter running through my head all day.

[rolypolypony.livejournal.com]

Ches is totally my favorite musical as well! I've never seen a professional performance of it, as I came to it well past its prime, but I've seen a couple of local theater productions - of both the original and of the Broadway version - and they were rather good!

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's very cool. I fell in love with it when I was working for a local production of it. One Night in Bangkok can still send me into a panic (we had to entire redress the set in the matter of 1:47 minutes). Still love the song, even with the memories attached to it.

[rolypolypony.livejournal.com]

Oh wow!!!! That's really neat! And, yeah, I can totally imagine the panic!!! Whew, boy!

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

It was pretty crazy with the actors running off stage to change into their Bangkok number as we were trying to shift a dozen tables, chairs, etc. onto the stage. After that, it was all downhill. Ah, good times.

[rolypolypony.livejournal.com]

Whew, boy!!! :D