She pulls a Divine Brown... does that mean her character performs oral service upon his??? Lucky, LUCKY Lady!!!!!

TV Guide long ago slithered  into the same cesspool of misbegotten stupidity as has the vast majority of the rest of the Mass Media... Hard to believe that they used to have people like Cleveland Amory writing for them ... Soooo distasteful!

G. (a sexy, if curmudgeonly Fifty)

Dear Fans,

I'm not really a worshipper at the Shrine of Donna, but those in New England might want to consider seeing her in this production being staged in Waltham, Mass.:

Broadway legend, Donna McKechnie, is Lucille in Nanette!
 (To order tickets Call 781-891-5600 and mention code TMNANETTE)

Broadway legend, Donna McKechnie,
is Lucille in
No, No, Nanette!

Tony Winning Best Actress in colorful 20's song and dance extravaganza!

Broadway's own, Donna McKechnie, headlines as Lucille in the joyous "I Want To Be Happy" musical!

Vincent Youmans' "Nanette" serves up plenty of comedy, romantic misunderstandings, 1920's Manhattan, breezy
Atlantic City, sea side fun, bathing beauties and even - "Tea for Two!"

Watch for Donna's song and dance turns in "Too Many Rings Around Rosie" and the delightfully syncopated Castle
Walk choreography of "You Can Dance With Any Girl!"

Featuring: Jessica Greeley as Nanette, Mary Jane Houdina as Sue, Waltham Mayor Jeanette McCarthy as Pauline, Jerry
Walker as Jimmy, Russell Rhodes as Billy and Jason Michael Butler as Tom.

Directed by Robert J. Eagle - Choreographed by Eileen Grace

Professional sets-costumes! Full pit orchestra! Air conditioned! Plenty of free parking!

cheers, G.

Thanks to a buddy with a netflix subscription, over the weekend I got to see some of the new DVD of The Possession of Joel Delaney (1972), starring Shirley Maclaine, Michael Hordern, and a very young Perry King.  I was intrigued because I had really wanted to see the movie back in the day but was too young (I think it was rated R).  Anyhow, I found out when the opening credits were running that our very own Lovelady Powell and Peter Turgeon have roles in the movie.

Check it out--the hairstyles and early Seventies clothes in the opening party sequence are a freak!  Shirley Maclaine has on false eyelashes above and below!

G.

Those freckles on Julia are soooo cute ... (even if The Divine One would have slapped me for saying so!).

Great images of Magda and Sandor, too.  Did I miss Liz?

xo Steve

Just chiming in to say that I also love Marie's performance as Eve.  Even though Adam gets to be a tiresome bore during this part of the story, Eve is always worthwhile viewing.

G.

How fascinating.  I had never heard of this before!  I presume it was mentioned in Malia's book about Jonathan's career.

The episodes were probably wiped, unfortunately...

G.

RJ Jamison in her definitive book "Grayson Hall: a Tough Act to Follow" confirmed that this is indeed Laura Olsher, not Grayson (although I still think the outrageous Chinese water-torture bit sounds like GH). 

Grayson herself said in a fan interview ca. 1969/70 that she had recorded the vocal work for this LP.  I've wondered if she did do some work for it but for whatever reason Olsher, who I think was under contract to do Disney's LPs (they did a cartload of them back then) wound up performing in the released product.

G.