Everybody's Out of Step....... - Page 10

Acrylic-bob · 12-12-2011, 15:56

Ooops! I forgot that 'baby' falls off the balcony at the end.

jaysay · 12-12-2011, 18:04

Still very little input from the thread starter, who is fast becoming the Accyweb s***stirrer

mobertol · 12-12-2011, 20:02

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Originally Posted by Acrylic-bob

Ooops! I forgot that 'baby' falls off the balcony at the end.

Never mind "Baby" what happened to the poor cat?

Not sure I'll "sleep tight" until I know...

(Something in that dance made me think of Nazi Germany -or is that just my over-active mind...)

Acrylic-bob · 14-12-2011, 14:58

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Originally Posted by mobertol

Never mind "Baby" what happened to the poor cat?

Not sure I'll "sleep tight" until I know...

(Something in that dance made me think of Nazi Germany -or is that just my over-active mind...)

I don't know what happened to the kitten, maybe the cleaning lady took care of it.

I know what you mean though about the vigorous arm movements. I wonder who the choreographer was?

Acrylic-bob · 14-12-2011, 15:05

For some bizarre reason I thought that "Golddiggers" was directed by Busby Berkeley. However on checking I find that the movie was directed by a chap called Mervyn LeRoy. Berkeley is credited with creating and directing the dance numbers. I'm glad I cleared that up.

mobertol · 14-12-2011, 15:21

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Originally Posted by Acrylic-bob

For some bizarre reason I thought that "Golddiggers" was directed by Busby Berkeley. However on checking I find that the movie was directed by a chap called Mervyn LeRoy. Berkeley is credited with creating and directing the dance numbers. I'm glad I cleared that up.

That's probably because he is credited as Director at the beginning of the You tube clip....

Isn't he the one who did all the kaleidascope type dancing/swimming routines?

Acrylic-bob · 14-12-2011, 16:15

He certainly was hunny.

here's another tid-bit from "42nd Street" (1933) featuring the utterly divine Ruby Keeler and the so so soigne Dick Powell.

At the end of the show Dick Powell pulls down the safety curtain, you will note that it has 'ASBESTOS' written on it, which reminds me of my misspent childhood. I managed to get into the old Hippodrome Music Hall in Accy, and there was an enormous safety curtain there too, made of woven asbestos. Being kind of dumb then, I have always had a healthy disregard for Elf-n-Safety, we cut holes in it so that we could use a rope from the fly tower to swing through the safety curtain out over the orchestra pit.
Ahhh, happy days - wot fun!

MargaretR · 14-12-2011, 16:20

Looks like I will survive a depression - I can tap dance

Acrylic-bob · 14-12-2011, 16:24

How cool is that! So can I -just. Perhaps we should team up. Marge and bob. What do you think?

MargaretR · 14-12-2011, 17:55

I'd better get practicing then

Margaret Pilkington · 14-12-2011, 18:14

I would pay to see you both dance.

cashman · 14-12-2011, 18:15

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Originally Posted by Acrylic-bob

He certainly was hunny.

here's another tid-bit from "42nd Street" (1933) featuring the utterly divine Ruby Keeler and the so so soigne Dick Powell.

At the end of the show Dick Powell pulls down the safety curtain, you will note that it has 'ASBESTOS' written on it, which reminds me of my misspent childhood. I managed to get into the old Hippodrome Music Hall in Accy, and there was an enormous safety curtain there too, made of woven asbestos. Being kind of dumb then, I have always had a healthy disregard for Elf-n-Safety, we cut holes in it so that we could use a rope from the fly tower to swing through the safety curtain out over the orchestra pit.
Ahhh, happy days - wot fun!

were the understage doors still working in your days in the hippodrome A-B? bet yeh got in through that little window entrance at the end of the back,which was at ground level.

Acrylic-bob · 14-12-2011, 18:23

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were the understage doors still working in your days in the hippodrome A-B? bet yeh got in through that little window entrance at the end of the back,which was at ground level.

How did you know that? We also found a little room at the top of the theatre with oddly sloping walls. It was only when we poked a big hole in the plaster and looked through it that we realised that we were looking down into the theatre from the top of the proscenium arch

jaysay · 14-12-2011, 18:25

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How did you know that?

He's all knowing all seeing is out cashy Bob, they don't put bay windows in slums mate

Acrylic-bob · 14-12-2011, 18:29

You mean, we were being, spied on ?