Thursday, 4 December 2008

Oliver! musical play/scene list

I made playlist so I have a vague idea when to go where in the musical.
We've had 2 dress-rehersals Sun + Mon in theatre, staged dress rehersal Tue with full audience and and completely full performance last night.
Tonight a shorter show 5:15 then at 8:00 full performance. Then one Friday and on Saturday matinee + evening.


ACT I
Scene 1 Workhouse Dining Hall
"Food, Glorious Food" Oliver, kids Chorus
"Please, sir. May I have some more?"
"Oliver, Oliver" Widow Corney, Mr Bumble, Oliver and kids
Scene 2 Workhouse Parlour ... and into Street
"I Shall Scream" Widow Corney, Mr Bumble
"Boy For Sale" Mr Bumble, Oliver, street people, Mr Sowerberry
Scene 3 The Undertaker's
Liberal terms ...
"That's Your Funeral" Mr Sowerberry, Mrs Sowerberry, Mr Bumble
"Where is Love?" Oliver
morning - fight - ecape Oliver, Noah, Charlotte, Mr&Mrs Sowerberry, Bumble
Scene 4 Paddington Green
"Consider Yourself" Oliver meets Dodger
"Consider Yourself" Adult Chorus
Scene 5/6 Thieves' Kitchen
"Pick a Pocket or Two" Fagin and Gang
"It's a Fine Life" Nancy, Bet, Gang
"I'd Do Anything" Artful Dodger, Nancy, Bet, Oliver, Fagin, Gang
"Be Back Soon" Fagin and Gang
Scene ~7 Street
Oliver is caught stealing from Mr Brownlow – Dodger,Jack,Bow-Street-Runners

ACT II
Scene 1 The Three Cripples
"Oom-Pah-Pah" Nancy and Company
"My Name" Bill Sikes
...
"As Long as He Needs Me" Nancy
Scene 2 The Brownlow's
"Where is Love?" (reprise) Mrs. Bedwin, Oliver
"Who Will Buy?" Oliver and Street sellers
doctor's visit Mr Brownlow, Doctor, Oliver, Mrs Bedwin
Oliver goes with books Mr Brownlow, Doctor, Book boy, Oliver, Mrs Bedwin
"Who Will Buy?" Oliver and Street sellers and Chorus
Nancy catches Oliver
Scene 3 Thieves' Kitchen
Nancy & Bill argument
"Reviewing the Situation" Fagin
Scene 4 Workhouse Parlour and into the Street
honeymoon bliss over for Mr and Mrs Bumble
old lady visits Mrs Bumble - locket
"Oliver" (reprise) Mrs Bumble, Mr Bumble
Scene 5 Mr Brownlow's and into the Street
... Mr Bumble, Mr Brownlow
... Nancy, Mr Brownlow
"As Long as He Needs Me" (reprise) Nancy
Scene 6 London Bridge
Nancy with Oliver caught by Bill Sykes and murdered, Mr Brownlow, street people, BSRs...
? "Reviewing the Situation" Fagin
Finale Full Company kids, adults


Snippets of songs (with the lyrics that tend to trip people up):


Consider yourself at home
Consider yourself one of the family
We've taken to you so strong.
It's clear we're going to get along.

Consider yourself well in
Consider yourself part of the furniture
There isn't a lot to spare
Who cares what ever we've got we share

If it should chance to be we should see some harder days
Empty larder days. Why grouse?
Always a chance we1ll meet somebody to foot the bill
Then the drinks are on the house.

[[ or second time round: ]]

Nobody tries to be lah-di-dah and uppity
There's a cup of tea for all
Only it's wise to be handy with a rolling pin
When the landlord comes to call

Consider yourself our mate
We don't want to have no fuss.
For after some consideration we can state
Consider yourself one of us!



Who will buy This wonderful morning?
Such a sky You never did see!
Who will tie It up with a ribbon
And put it in a box for me?
....
Who will buy This wonderful feeling?
I'm so high I swear I could fly.
Me, oh my! I don't want to lose it
So what am I to do To keep the sky so blue?


For finale:


I'd do anything
For you, dear, anything
For you mean ev'rything to me.
I know that I'd go anywhere Humm
For your smile, anywhere
For your smile ev'rywhere I'd see.
Let the clouds of grey come along Quietly
Never mind if they come along
Surely they won't stay very long
If you'll only say
You're mine alone.
I'd risk ev'rything Out loud!
For this kiss ev'rything
Yes I'd do anything, anything for you!

Tuesday, 21 October 2008

Summer photo updates

http://www.dspsrv.com/~jamesc/photos/

I just put some photos on the web this night.
And mailed them to some people.

http://picasaweb.google.com/gaoithe/200808SelectionHolidayHolland

Holidays in Holland.
Two days in Rotterdam.
10 days in De Lage Vuursche and visit Baarn. And Rachel visits us.

We meet Siebe (and Hidde and Benthe) in Utrecht.
We go on a pedal boat with Hans and find Blackberries.

We stay 4/5 days in Duinrell (Wassenaar) and then fly home from Schiphol.

Trains and buses everywhere.
Good fun actually.
Moving suitcases quite manageable really.
I had the heavy green one, Daire the big orange one, Fionn had buggy+Maeve+Kate.
Steps/lifts in train stations were the most awkward thing.

Thursday, 16 October 2008

other kids misfortune in Duinrell

We were in Duinrell near/in Wassenaar in THe Netherlands for a few days.
We went over to a nice oldish section of the park where Rick de kikker has some boats, fun water squirting things, scary fast slides/rides.

This one wasn't too bad.
There were a few places where you got squirted with water as you innocently passed by.
This one had a button you could stand by and press whenever a kid entered the wet section of the path.
Our kids were braving it ... and getting a bit wet each time.
In fact Kate decided standing on the jets of water worked quite well.
A strange girl though went to zoom through at top speed just as water started and what with the floor being wet and all slipped and crashed down. Oh my she roared! She fell on her side so no injury but I did feel a bit guilty for pressing the water button!
p.s. Kate didn't find out about the button until back in Ireland looking at the photos.
http://picasaweb.google.com/gaoithe/200808SelectionHolidayHolland#5237151596072007714

This one was worse.
Daire went in a tub that gets ratcheted up a slope then zooms down slide and shoots out over water tethered with rope to splash land. Daire went on grand. I helped him. I really don't like these things and avoided this one. But when we were going to get on raft in the following picture, we were opposite the tub. There was a kid in it crying and his Dad was trying to do something. I offered to help but ... the Dad wanted to pull the rope and send the tub on it's way!!! Uhmmm. No. Kid really really doesn't seem to want to do this. "Go on! He'll enjoy it!" Uhmm. No. Sorry. I don't think I can do that to the kid. Then the thing timed out and doors opened. "Oerrr! c'mon Daire let's jump on this raft and RUN AWAY!"
http://picasaweb.google.com/gaoithe/200808SelectionHolidayHolland#5237151897691199794

Friday, 12 September 2008

work work ...

Work's been busy. Checking status also evening/night and morning.

Scripting satyup/monitoring scripts and doing manual monitoring of site to keep data coming.
A couple of apps are regularily hanging or crashing.
1 because of using too much memory
2 because of a couple of bugs (hang+crash).

For now scripting fun monitors things, restarts anything (including monitor scripts! if they die (happens when all memory used on box)). Hackery jiggery pokery.

And raid where all user accounts had something going on - was SLOOOOOW for 2 days.
Everyone moved to working on local disk which was full faster than two blinks of an ethernet-status-led.


STATFILEINFO2=$STATFILEINFO1
STATFILEINFO1=$STATFILEINFO
STATFILEINFO=`ls -al status.txt`
if [[ "$STATFILEINFO" == "$STATFILEINFO1" ]] ; then
if [[ -z $STATFILEALERT ]] ; then
date
echo "WARNING: status.txt file no change STATFILEINFO=$STATFILEINFO"
fi
STATFILEALERT=$(date)
else
STATFILECHANGING=$(date)
if [[ -n $STATFILEALERT ]] ; then
date
echo "CLEAR WARNING: status.txt file no change STATFILEINFO=$STATFILEINFO"
fi
STATFILEALERT=

fi

Thursday, 4 September 2008

installing git (and in particular git-svn on solaris)

This might make you really really glad you use a linux with a sane package manager!
Thanks to anyone who wrote on solving Error.pm/SVN::Core.pm problem on the internet.
That helped!

I had one same^H^H^Himilar issue on cygwin and solaris
I want to use git-svn.

cygwin just had one error "Can't locate SVN/Core.pm" (git package was installed).
This solved by installing the additional subversion-perl package.
$ cygcheck.exe -l subversion-perl


solaris (as usual! was more difficult) ... :-E

solaris 10 opensolaris/blastwave doesn't have a git package !? :-o (for intel/amd)
So I have git installed using sunfreeware packages
http://sunfreeware.com/programlistintel10.html#git
AND make sure all the dependancies are installed from SFW also, see the minor grief I had below missing expat (not for git itself but for getting perl Alien::SVN to compile so I could get git-svn working)

First error "Can't locate Error.pm" solved easily enough.
$ wget home.comcast.net/~ericblake/Error.pm
And copy to somewhere in $PERLLIB path.
$ cp Error.pm /usr/perl5/vendor_perl/

Next error "Can't locate SVN/Core.pm"

$ perl -MCPAN -e shell
cpan> install Module::Build
cpan> install Alien::SVN
didn't work :( didn't like /usr/sfw/bin/gmake :(

Manifying blib/man3/Alien::SVN.3
/usr/bin/perl "-Iblib/arch" "-Iblib/lib" Build.PL Build
Too early to specify a build action 'Build'. Do 'Build Build' instead.
gmake: *** [Build] Error 2
/usr/sfw/bin/gmake -- NOT OK

$ cd ~/.cpan/build/Alien-SVN-1.4.6.0
$ perl "-Iblib/arch" "-Iblib/lib" Build.PL
## manually enter /usr/sfw/bin/gmake
incidentally, $(/usr/sfw/bin/gmake --version) == "GNU Make 3.81"

$ ./Build
starts building subversion but then argh!
"subversion/libsvn_subr/xml.c", line 34: cannot find include file: <expat.h>

$ pkginfo -l |grep expat
PKGINST: CSWexpat
NAME: expat - XML Parser Toolkit
VENDOR: http://expat.sourceforge.net/ packaged for CSW by Damjan Perenic
NAME: libexpat - XML parser library
DESC: libexpat - XML parser library 1.95.7
$ /usr/sbin/pkgchk -l CSWexpat |grep include
NOTE: Couldn't lock the package database.
Pathname: /opt/csw/include
Pathname: /opt/csw/include/expat.h

meh. :-7 mixing packages from CSW and SFW would be a bit messy
get and install SMCexpat (from sunfreeware)
now:
/usr/local/include/expat.h
/usr/local/include/expat_external.h

$ ./Build
looks better, goes further
... but linking problems
cc: Warning: option -- passed to ld


Oh right. It used sun compiler throughout.
Back to configure.
$ perl Build.pm
Would you like to pass any arguments to configure? [--libdir=/usr/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4/i86pc-solaris-64int/Alien/SVN --prefix=/usr/perl5/5.8.4 ]CC=/usr/sfw/bin/gcc

$ ./Build
...
Undefined first referenced
symbol in file
libintl_bind_textdomain_codeset /.cpan/build/Alien-SVN-1.4.6.0/src/subversion/subversion/libsvn_subr/.libs/libsvn_subr-1.so
libintl_bindtextdomain /.cpan/build/Alien-SVN-1.4.6.0/src/subversion/subversion/libsvn_subr/.libs/libsvn_subr-1.so
libintl_dgettext blame-cmd.o
ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to .libs/svn
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
gmake: *** [subversion/svn/svn] Error 1
building subversion failed at inc/My/SVN/Builder.pm line 121.


$ vi src/subversion/Makefile
add -lintl to end of BOTH (:-7) of these lines:
SVN_APR_LIBS = /usr/local/lib/libapr-0.la -lsendfile -lrt -lm -lsocket -lnsl -lresolv -lpthread -lintl
SVN_APRUTIL_LIBS = /usr/local/lib/libaprutil-0.la -ldb-4.2 -lexpat -liconv -lintl

$ ./Build
...
$ ./Build install

I bet if I just took the perl files from Cygwin or linux it would have done the same job ... !?


bash$ svn ls https://$MYREPO
ld.so.1: svn: fatal: relocation error: file /usr/local/lib/libsvn_subr-1.so.0: symbol libintl_bindtextdomain: referenced symbol not found
Killed

AUGHGHGHGHGHH!

reinstall svn sunfreeware package,

svn okay now but git svn still has lib problems

$ git svn clone https://$MYREPO --trunk=trunk --branches=branches --tags=tags
ld.so.1: git-hash-object: fatal: relocation error: file /usr/local/bin/git-hash-object: symbol deflateBound: referenced symbol not found
Can't use an undefined value as a symbol reference at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Git.pm line 421.

HA! deflateBound is in libz

I'm so STUPID! Get zlib from sunfreeware (remember what I said earlier about ALL dependancies!!)


and I'm running with this
$ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:/usr/sfw/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
probably don't need that but was picking up libgcc, libiconv from /opt/csw instead of /usr/local


So in conclusion: Alien::SVN (which provides SVN::Core) is quite awkward to build for solaris (gmake, cc vs gcc and lib differences on solaris)

Wednesday, 3 September 2008

WAH! Poor Maeve stays overtime in creche.

We rush up and Fionnuala heads with Daire and Kate to catch school bus.
My turn to bring Maeve in morning today.
Usual pleasant morning bumble around house, I'm logged into work, Maeve plays, get coffee, some housework.
I'm on motorbike so I put on gear before bringing Maeve to creche.

...
At 12:00 I see an email from Fionn.
How is Maeve .... ? wtf ? and :-o
I'm in Clontarf.
Uoh ohhh!
I phone Fionn and she legs it to collect Maeve!

So anyway it would have been handier if I worked from home Fri instead and then Fionn could get bus or whatever to Limerick earlier and I supervise kids while working from home in afternoon and we were talking about doing this and getting Tracy to mind Maeve Wed afternoon. And somehow it got into my head that that was what we were doing. But upon reflection there was never an actual confirm yes we will do that. And Fionn was thinking it was too late notice for Tracy.

Anyway :-7 Maeve was in Eimear's house.
And she's talked about it a couple of times since (and seems a bit chuffed to have visited it!).

"unfortunate mis-communication" =~ a strange format of massive Terabyte disk other disappearance of data.

Tuesday, 2 September 2008

Maeve going to new creche

Fionn and I are dropping Maeve and then scooting off to work.
My turn with Maeve this morning.

Maeve was grand this morning - hopping to get off to school.
The first week is from 9:30 to 11:30 wah! We didn't expect that.
When Daire and Kate headed out door at 8:11 with Fionn Maeve was all ready and stepped out with them.
SO we found things to distract us for a while, Maeve played and helped unload dishwasher.
We sang some songs after the dishwasher then collected a clothes wash
(but there wasn't really enough so we left it in basket) and she scooted outside and we swept up stones.

Maeve scooted up to giant steps (but path is uneven so not the best even on the flat bit).
Met some parents and kids and tried to catch+remember names.
9:35 clambering on bike and 10:05 in work.