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| Author: | rogers park bryan [ Wed Nov 09, 2011 12:15 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Where to take obscenely rich customer who likes to spend? |
A customer from New York is flying in. He comes about once every 5 years but when he does its worth it. One time he flew in and the Bulls were playing the Pacers in Game 7 so he bought 10 tickets from a broker. Dude absolutely loves speding and flashing his cash. I dont have one conversation with him that doesnt include him buying something new. So seeing as there is no sporting event tommorow night in Chicago, we are trying to formulate a plan to make the most of this as we speak Any high priced suggestions? |
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| Author: | The Original Kid Cairo [ Wed Nov 09, 2011 12:17 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Where to take obscenely rich customer who likes to spend |
rogers park bryan wrote: A customer from New York is flying in. He comes about once every 5 years but when he does its worth it. One time he flew in and the Bulls were playing the Pacers in Game 7 so he bought 10 tickets from a broker. Dude absolutely loves speding and flashing his cash. I dont have one conversation with him that doesnt include him buying something new. So seeing as there is no sporting event tommorow night in Chicago, we are trying to formulate a plan to make the most of this as we speak Any high priced suggestions? Bring him to my house. |
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| Author: | sjboyd0137 [ Wed Nov 09, 2011 12:18 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Where to take obscenely rich customer who likes to spend |
CHAMPAGNE ROOM!!! |
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| Author: | Chris_in_joliet [ Wed Nov 09, 2011 12:19 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Where to take obscenely rich customer who likes to spend |
The girl on the radio wrote: Polecatz Hotshot hotshot hotshot |
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| Author: | MxdCookie [ Wed Nov 09, 2011 12:21 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Where to take obscenely rich customer who likes to spend |
Just make sure you let me know wherever you plan on going
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| Author: | Douchebag [ Wed Nov 09, 2011 12:23 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Where to take obscenely rich customer who likes to spend |
Frank Cozstanza wrote: Maywood
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| Author: | Killer V [ Wed Nov 09, 2011 12:26 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Where to take obscenely rich customer who likes to spend |
Just have him park a car downtown. |
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| Author: | The Original Kid Cairo [ Wed Nov 09, 2011 12:28 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Where to take obscenely rich customer who likes to spend |
Douchebag wrote: Frank Cozstanza wrote: Maywood Thanks for getting that formality out of the way. |
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| Author: | Telegram Sam [ Wed Nov 09, 2011 12:29 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Where to take obscenely rich customer who likes to spend |
The Lyric is doing Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov at the Civic Opera House. |
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| Author: | rogers park bryan [ Wed Nov 09, 2011 12:54 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Where to take obscenely rich customer who likes to spend |
Telegram Sam wrote: The Lyric is doing Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov at the Civic Opera House. Saw it last night |
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| Author: | Telegram Sam [ Wed Nov 09, 2011 12:59 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Where to take obscenely rich customer who likes to spend |
rogers park bryan wrote: Telegram Sam wrote: The Lyric is doing Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov at the Civic Opera House. Saw it last night Hmmm...Well, it's also Amateur Night at The Admiral. |
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| Author: | Hank Scorpio [ Wed Nov 09, 2011 1:00 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Where to take obscenely rich customer who likes to spend |
Telegram Sam wrote: rogers park bryan wrote: Telegram Sam wrote: The Lyric is doing Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov at the Civic Opera House. Saw it last night Hmmm...Well, it's also Amateur Night at The Admiral. Saw it last night |
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| Author: | rogers park bryan [ Wed Nov 09, 2011 1:02 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Where to take obscenely rich customer who likes to spend |
sjboyd0137 wrote: CHAMPAGNE ROOM!!! Decent chance of that I think |
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| Author: | Rod [ Wed Nov 09, 2011 1:04 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Where to take obscenely rich customer who likes to spend |
Telegram Sam wrote: rogers park bryan wrote: Telegram Sam wrote: The Lyric is doing Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov at the Civic Opera House. Saw it last night Hmmm...Well, it's also Amateur Night at The Admiral. One of my friends from high school had a job painting the seats in The Admiral back when it showed movies. I'm surpised Mike Rowe never showed up. |
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| Author: | Telegram Sam [ Wed Nov 09, 2011 1:06 pm ] |
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Hank Scorpio wrote: Telegram Sam wrote: Hmmm...Well, it's also Amateur Night at The Admiral. Saw it last night I find that difficult to believe. |
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| Author: | Hank Scorpio [ Wed Nov 09, 2011 1:08 pm ] |
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Telegram Sam wrote: Hank Scorpio wrote: Telegram Sam wrote: Hmmm...Well, it's also Amateur Night at The Admiral. Saw it last night I find that difficult to believe.  You bought RPB's lie, why not mine!
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| Author: | rogers park bryan [ Wed Nov 09, 2011 1:30 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Where to take obscenely rich customer who likes to spend |
Sam I guess my reveiw thread was pruned. Here are my thoughts Czar turn: Furlanetto's commanding portrayal adds power to Lyric's 'Boris Godunov' The Russian tale of power politics is formidable Those who think opera has nothing in common with current political theater should pay particular attention to one scene in Lyric Opera's gripping revival of Mussorgsky's masterpiece, "Boris Godunov." The despondent Russian czar, wracked with guilt over the regicide that put him on the throne, warns his young son Fyodor of the battle for supremacy among the ruling classes – "liars and rogues" who use the easily deluded rabble as pawns in a calculated game of power politics. The contemporary resonances are uncanny. "Boris Godunov" has come down to us in so many rewritten and prettified versions that we need to be reminded the composer got it right the first time around, with his original version of 1869. That was the version that returned to the Lyric repertory, in Stein Winge's admirable production, Monday night at the Civic Opera House. The performance, dominated by Italian bass Ferruccio Furlanetto's formidable assumption of the title role, in his belated Lyric debut, drove home with compelling force Mussorgsky's meditation on assassination, conscience, intrigue and the corrupting effect of absolute power. Lyric audiences were introduced to the original "Boris" in this same Winge staging in 1994, when Bruno Bartoletti, now Lyric's artistic director emeritus, conducted. Since then, the composer's initial version has overtaken all the others in opera houses around the world. Bartoletti's advocacy has passed, along with his baton, to Andrew Davis, the company's current music director. It's Davis' first "Boris" and good enough for a maiden voyage into this greatest of Russian operas. He draws responsive playing from the orchestra to match the robust, deep-toned singing of Michael Black's 90-voice Lyric Opera Chorus, making the most of its crucial role as the oppressors and oppressed of late-16th-century Russian society. Stage director Julia Pevzner draws strong performances as well from a large supporting cast that includes several company debuts. The San Francisco Opera-owned production, with sets by Goran Wassberg and costumes by Kari Gravklev, mirrors the raw-boned power of Mussorgsky's music, with its bare harmonies and stark orchestration. This is a shorter, tougher, grittier "Boris" than the Rimsky-Korsakov revision familiar to most Lyric audience members. Missing is the so-called Polish act Mussorgsky added for his 1872 revision, which means there's no major female character and no love interest. Gone, too, is the grandly rousing finale, set in the Kromy Forest, where the victorious Pretender, Grigori, prepares to advance on Moscow. The gains outweigh the losses. The version on view here is less of a grand historical pageant than a case study in the psychological disintegration of its protagonist. Although Boris is a devoted father who tries to be a just and wise ruler, he is brought down by the weight of his ambiguous complicity in the murder of the young czarevitch Dmitri, second son of Ivan the Terrible. And Furlanetto has made this touchstone bass role his own. The qualities that make him a superb Verdi singer also make him a superb interpreter of the complex and contradictory anti-hero. He was the first Italian to sing the title role in St. Petersburg, Russia, and his portrayal has also graced the theaters of Milan, Venice and Vienna. Nature may not have endowed Furlanetto with a big, black, Slavic-style bass in the Boris Christoff or Nicolai Ghiaurov mold – to cite two illustrious Borises from Lyric's past. Never mind. His formidable voice – full, even, effortlessly powerful, blessed with varied colorations -- combined with his skills as a singing actor to convey the czar's torment and downfall with stunning immediacy. The rolling vocal authority he lavished on the czar's "public" scenes was achieved without bluster, just as the domestic scenes between Boris and his two beloved children, Fyodor (Emily Fons) and Xenia (Emily Birsan), were a triumph of finely sculpted legato phrases. Such touches as the half-mad ruler's wrapping himself in a giant map of Russia at the end of the Hallucination Scene were bone-chilling. The final scene, in which the dying czar urged his son (and heir-apparent), to guard Russia's borders, seek justice and preserve the faith, also packed great vocal and dramatic punch. Although Furlanetto was denied Boris' traditional tumble down a flight of stairs, its absence jibed with the absence of melodrama in his portrayal. The other standout in Monday's performance was Andrea Silvestrelli. The Lyric Opera veteran delivered the aged monk Pimen's two narratives with wonderfully grave dignity and a deep, booming bass that sounded as authentically Russian as that of Furlanetto |
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| Author: | Telegram Sam [ Wed Nov 09, 2011 1:33 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Where to take obscenely rich customer who likes to spend |
Your turn, Hank. |
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| Author: | SteveSarley [ Wed Nov 09, 2011 1:34 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Where to take obscenely rich customer who likes to spend |
Possibly some late season crappie fishing or maybe some goose hunting? |
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| Author: | Ed_from_Lisle [ Wed Nov 09, 2011 1:35 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Where to take obscenely rich customer who likes to spend |
Would your customer pay top dollar for a personal tour of Mackeyland? Maybe Bobby Hull can be there to regale you with stories of his improprieties from back in the day. |
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| Author: | badrogue17 [ Wed Nov 09, 2011 1:46 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Where to take obscenely rich customer who likes to spend |
Mens locker room showers at Northwestern. Too soon? |
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| Author: | Ugueth Will Shiv You [ Wed Nov 09, 2011 1:49 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Where to take obscenely rich customer who likes to spend |
rogers park bryan wrote: A customer from New York is flying in. BRick certainly has expensive taste. |
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| Author: | jackref [ Wed Nov 09, 2011 1:50 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Where to take obscenely rich customer who likes to spend |
What about that place in Buffalo Grove where you rent out and race Indy cars? |
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| Author: | rogers park bryan [ Wed Nov 09, 2011 1:50 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Where to take obscenely rich customer who likes to spend |
Ugueth Will Shiv You wrote: rogers park bryan wrote: A customer from New York is flying in. BRick certainly has expensive taste. Funny you mention that. Rick used to work for my company. |
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| Author: | rogers park bryan [ Wed Nov 09, 2011 1:53 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Where to take obscenely rich customer who likes to spend |
jackref wrote: What about that place in Buffalo Grove where you rent out and race Indy cars? Nice suggestion. Ill mention that. Right now its looking like Ruth's Chris then the Viagra Triangle. |
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| Author: | Frank Coztansa [ Wed Nov 09, 2011 1:54 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Where to take obscenely rich customer who likes to spend |
SteveSarley wrote: maybe some goode hunting? What did he ever to to anybody? |
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| Author: | Douchebag [ Wed Nov 09, 2011 2:37 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Where to take obscenely rich customer who likes to spend |
It looks like Axl has been rocking the buffet line hard recently. |
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| Author: | Krazy Ivan [ Wed Nov 09, 2011 2:41 pm ] |
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| Author: | bigfan [ Wed Nov 09, 2011 2:44 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Where to take obscenely rich customer who likes to spend |
Unless the guy loves Ruth Chris, no way! If he is about dropping the cash go to David Burke's Primehouse. 45 day aged ribeye! They have a 75 day as well, he can spend on! You got some Ace Frehly at the HOB, gotta be some decent MILF/ExGroupies to view and touch. Dont know if this is a youg guy, old guy? You can do VIP's for some ass, or Lucky Strike. Reserve a lane, not cheap at all and usually good chicks/drunk chicks doing office outing things, which for some reason is good hunting in my world. Can always end up at Jillys to end the Viagred evening. |
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| Author: | Rod [ Wed Nov 09, 2011 3:21 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Where to take obscenely rich customer who likes to spend |
bigfan wrote: If he is about dropping the cash go to David Burke's Primehouse. 45 day aged ribeye! They have a 75 day as well, he can spend on! Caveman steak and eggs! A huge ribeye and a giant faux eggshell filled with scrambled eggs and chunks of lobster. No side dishes necessary. |
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