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hit it, boys!

When la Cieca’s dear friend and chief flunky around parterre.com JJ shlepped out this morning to fetch a copy of the New York Post, he seemed oddly keyed  up.  “With what I got in me, I could have been better than any of you,” JJ muttered.

Flinging the tabloid down on the breakfast bar, he continued,  “What I’ve been holding down inside of me… oh, if I ever let it out, there wouldn’t be signs big enough! There wouldn’t be lights bright enough!  Here he is, boys!  Here he is, world!  Here’s James!”

94 comments

  • Alto says:

    “Neither she, nor S Keenlyside are getting any younger.”

    My god! That really is going too far.

    Keenlyside is 49 years old. And the man sings like a god.

    I heard him when he was an outstanding boy soprano and again when he was a choral scholar at Cambridge, and I’m not really ready to think of even myself as over the hill.

    Why must such meaningless bitchiness be voiced? Have you no other means of taking out your frustrations?

  • maria says:

    “Keenlyside is 49 years old. And the man sings like a god.”

    I heard god sing recently and Keenlyside doesn’t sound anything like him.

  • 33blueberries says:

    Yah. God sounds like Boris Christoff.

  • Buster says:

    I thought God was a woman?

    http://www.kellygod.com/

  • Sir Ferris says:

    And I hope that with the NYPost gig, Parterre Box will continue to flourish-it’s one of my regular pleasures.

  • Cassandra says:

    ““banned from the MET forever”;”

    There are several people involved in this production, both from the production team and the singers, that SHOULD be banned from the Met forever.

  • Cassandra says:

    “I heard him when he was an outstanding boy soprano and again when he was a choral scholar at Cambridge, and I’m not really ready to think of even myself as over the hill.”

    Good god, then I’m an infant!

  • idreno says:

    Brava Cieca! … tu canti agli angeli le tue orazioni…

  • Operaman says:

    Please let me add my congratulations on a really fine piece of work.

  • Operaman says:

    When I saw Bizkit on Dooce I near to split my sides a-laffin’. And I immediately thought of La Sonnambula! This is waaay too good not to make the Portland Opera blog next week.