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Oct. 17th, 2008 05:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
newmoonstarLast night I actually got back to work on my medieval dress! (Are the pigs flying yet?) Got the sleeves all pinned and was about to cut them out when I was interuppted, but hopefully I'll get back to it tonight. I've gotta finish this thing, if only so I don't have pieces of a half-made dress stewn all over my bedroom anymore!
I'm unaccountably distressed by the news that American Girl is retiring Samantha. I'm 21 (22 next week!) and I shouldn't care about the American Girl dolls any more, but it was such a big part of my childhood. Samantha was the first AG doll I got. And her clothes and accesories are the cutest, by far, now that they've changed Felicity's stuff to make it more modern, and all her new clothes are frou-frou historically inaccurate junk. And I always did hope to get Samantha's sailor dress and school dress someday, since they were from the original books, and so cute. And I desperately need her high button shoes. Or any shoes for her, since she came with those heinous plastic ones that are a)ugly and b)impossible to get on and off. And now I'm freaking out because if I ever want them I'll have to get them now. Oy. My birthday is coming up, so I could use that as an excuse to splurge on this stuff, but holy crap it's so expensive. Which is, of course, the reason I've put it off so long. Ugh. Couldn't they have retired Molly instead? Her clothes and accessories aren't as cute! And I don't want any of them! *cries*
Listening to more Broadway shows. Bloomer Girl is a show I've been curious about for a while, since it's by E.Y. Harburg, and such a radical female protagonist for a musical is pretty uncommon, for the 40's or now (at least for anyone but E.Y. Harburg!) It's sort of hard to judge it as a show, since the synopsis from the CD booklet is highly vague, and several of the songs are for characters not even mentioned, so there's not a lot of context to illuminate the songs. But some of them are quite good anyway; 'Evelina' being the best, with it's most beguiling melody. There's a very funny feminist number in 'It Was Good Enough for Grandma', and a standard 40's love song in 'Right as the Rain'. I really do wonder why there are two whole songs given to the character played by Joan McCracken, because for one thing her character is one not mentioned in the synopsis, but more importantly she can't sing. Whatever you might call the unattractive noise she makes in her two songs, you cannot call it singing. The rest of the cast is alright, however I really do wish it had been Nanette Fabray in the lead in the first place, since she's so awesome, and Celeste Holm, though adequate, hasn't got the same sort of charm. Apparently Barbara Cook did a TV version of Bloomer Girl in the 50s too, which I would absolutely kill to see, so I can only hope somebody puts it out on DVD someday!
I'm unaccountably distressed by the news that American Girl is retiring Samantha. I'm 21 (22 next week!) and I shouldn't care about the American Girl dolls any more, but it was such a big part of my childhood. Samantha was the first AG doll I got. And her clothes and accesories are the cutest, by far, now that they've changed Felicity's stuff to make it more modern, and all her new clothes are frou-frou historically inaccurate junk. And I always did hope to get Samantha's sailor dress and school dress someday, since they were from the original books, and so cute. And I desperately need her high button shoes. Or any shoes for her, since she came with those heinous plastic ones that are a)ugly and b)impossible to get on and off. And now I'm freaking out because if I ever want them I'll have to get them now. Oy. My birthday is coming up, so I could use that as an excuse to splurge on this stuff, but holy crap it's so expensive. Which is, of course, the reason I've put it off so long. Ugh. Couldn't they have retired Molly instead? Her clothes and accessories aren't as cute! And I don't want any of them! *cries*
Listening to more Broadway shows. Bloomer Girl is a show I've been curious about for a while, since it's by E.Y. Harburg, and such a radical female protagonist for a musical is pretty uncommon, for the 40's or now (at least for anyone but E.Y. Harburg!) It's sort of hard to judge it as a show, since the synopsis from the CD booklet is highly vague, and several of the songs are for characters not even mentioned, so there's not a lot of context to illuminate the songs. But some of them are quite good anyway; 'Evelina' being the best, with it's most beguiling melody. There's a very funny feminist number in 'It Was Good Enough for Grandma', and a standard 40's love song in 'Right as the Rain'. I really do wonder why there are two whole songs given to the character played by Joan McCracken, because for one thing her character is one not mentioned in the synopsis, but more importantly she can't sing. Whatever you might call the unattractive noise she makes in her two songs, you cannot call it singing. The rest of the cast is alright, however I really do wish it had been Nanette Fabray in the lead in the first place, since she's so awesome, and Celeste Holm, though adequate, hasn't got the same sort of charm. Apparently Barbara Cook did a TV version of Bloomer Girl in the 50s too, which I would absolutely kill to see, so I can only hope somebody puts it out on DVD someday!
