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 moljul
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| posted: 2/9/2006 at 10:45:45 AM ET
Hope it makes it to Broadway eventually.
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/97843.html
"I'm one star away from Dolly Parton ... and Raymond Massey is between us. I hope we don't suffocate him." Bernadette Peters receiving her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, April 24, 1987
|  Sister Rose
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NYC | posted: 2/9/2006 at 1:37:25 PM ET
IN MY MIND, I'M ALREADY THERE.
I can't work...I'm too excited...somebody get me some ritalin.
I was on the phone w/ PAFan when I saw the news and I almost had a stroke right then and there.
http://sarahbsadventures.blogspot.com/
| Karen
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5/3/2002 | posted: 2/9/2006 at 3:49:24 PM ET
Sister Rose, I thought of you immediately when I saw this.
Doesn't the plot sound almost Victorian in its sentimentality? It almost doesn't sound like a contemporary play. Not that that probably makes any difference to the people who are dying to see Angela Lansbury back on stage in anything.
| Sister Rose
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I know I'll love it. Like I've said, a staged reading of the New York phone book will suffice. Bernadette will read the white and Angie will read the yellow.
http://sarahbsadventures.blogspot.com/
|  Mandy
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8/14/2003 | posted: 2/9/2006 at 6:10:38 PM ET
So did you get your plane ticket yet?
"Let's admit one thing right upfront: With the possible exception of Bernadette Peters, not everyone stays young and cute forever." (NYPost 2/2/05)
| Sister Rose
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NYC | posted: 2/9/2006 at 6:33:03 PM ET
Of course. They haven't even released the venue much less the ticket information. Oy vey. This is dedication (at least that's what I'm choosing to call it.)
http://sarahbsadventures.blogspot.com/
| Sister Rose
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NYC | posted: 2/17/2006 at 2:02:52 PM ET
Of course I'll be there...did anybody doubt that I wouldn't be able to get tickets? Well, I did, but I was going anyway...and yes I do have tickets! HOORAY!
http://sarahbsadventures.blogspot.com/
| Sister Rose
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| jmslsu01
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northern VA | posted: 3/13/2006 at 9:57:25 PM ET
Sarah, your honest opinion-was it overly sentimental? Realizing, of course, that this is in the very beginning stage. But I am wary of novels, movies, etc featuring terminally ill children. There's what people imagine and then there's reality.
Glad that you had an excellent trip, and that the hotel situation was quickly taken care of.
Jenn
| Sister Rose
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I haven't read the novela however now I think I will. It is told through the letters from 10 year old Oscar to God. Granny Rose, the pink lady, encourages Oscar to seek out God, whom he doesn't believe in, because he is very angry that nobody will actually tell him that he is dying from cancer - especially his "a**hole parents". Granny Rose curses too and it is delightful (because it was Angie? I'm not sure) Over the course of 12 days, he writes letters to God telling him in sort of a journal - Granny Rose encourages him to age by the hour - a year per hour - so he will know what it feels like to grow up and live a life. It is funny - there is typical language of a boy. There is sentimentiality but it is not sickening. There was a fairly wide range of ages in the theatre even it it did hold only 150 people - I would say the youngest was 18 and the oldest were well into the 90s. I guess I could see this as a Hallmark movie, which are usually well done, or maybe an off-Broadway play. Apparently it has had great success in Europe.
Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran & Oscar and the Lady in Pink
http://sarahbsadventures.blogspot.com/
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