7 minutes ago, carolineg said:

No, the Nurse's Ball is usually in May. Since no one has mentioned it Sidwell will probably fund it and it will happened on Monday. Sorry, Tuesday lol. Because people point out preemptions.

Gh is whacked out man!!!

9 hours ago, carolineg said:

Since no one has mentioned it Sidwell will probably fund it and it will happened on Monday. Sorry, Tuesday lol.

Yep. That way, he can bust out his best Pagliacci.

3 minutes ago, Khan said:

Yep. That way, he can bust out his best Pagliacci.

One can only hope!! Jacinda will sing too.

Listen, I haven't cared about the Nurses Ball since the 90's, but either have it every year or don't. It's weird to have it some years and skip it or don't acknowledge it other years. At the very least Lucy or someone should say it's cancelled this year for whatever reason.

I despise the Nurse’s Ball but I also despise singing on Soaps.

10 hours ago, Taoboi said:

I blame it on the blurring of my days. My bad.

It does feel weird then that we got not much of nothing. Not even a build.

But yep. Probably funded by Sidwell.

I think historically it's been in May, but I do think it has been in June and it was late Summer/Fall that Covid year. I would have to look that up though.

17 minutes ago, Antoyne said:

I despise the Nurse’s Ball but I also despise singing on Soaps.

Well, I think the whole premise has become dated. The first 3 or 4 years of the Nurses Ball were really good. When it became a true variety show with shirtless men dancing it kind of lost the plot and the point. After the 50th Nurses Ball every other one has been a disappointment even if my avatar of Brenda is from a Nurses Ball 😂

2 hours ago, carolineg said:

Well, I think the whole premise has become dated. The first 3 or 4 years of the Nurses Ball were really good. When it became a true variety show with shirtless men dancing it kind of lost the plot and the point.

I much preferred the early years of the Nurses Ball when the focus was fundraising for AIDS research. I despise the emphasis on attendees' wardrobe and the "red carpet" interviews. It should NOT be about the "who's who in Port Charles" !!!! Sometimes they mention Robin as an afterthought but the entire original premise has been so diluted. Recent years have felt like a social media instagram likes/followers contest -- instead of the founding purpose about science and relieving suffering. I don't mind Lucy wearing a gown or several gowns; but I think the rest of the characters should be wearing business attire, and not tuxedos and gowns.

Sony Eddy (the actress who played head nurse Epiphany) -- in real life she championed the nursing profession. Just like actress Mariska Hargitay of SVU does support causes to help rape victims.

When Sonya Eddy died, a few real-life cast&crew of GH suggested creating a real-life scholarship for nursing students, as a way to honor Sonya (I don't know if that ever happened).

I had hoped that the fictional characters could do something similar: To update the Nurses Ball to continue funding HIV research but also to create scholarships for nursing students (and/or medical students) who want to dedicate their lives to serving others. Maybe include the idea of raising funds for scholarships for girls and women pursuing any STEM career (STEM = science, technology, engineering, and mathematics).

The 2023 Nurses Ball was done in conjunction with the GH 60th Anniversary year, and they wanted to make it also be an occasion to honor Jackie Zeman's 40 years on GH by making the fictional Nurses Ball a tribute to Bobbie. This was when Jackie was still alive and her illness was not publicly known. I did like that a lot, but I still hated the sequined gowns and the red carpet nonsense. I'm guessing the tribute to Bobbie/Jackie was long-planned, so they centered it around that.

Sonya died unexpectedly a few months before/after that. I very much liked the separate tribute that GH did for Sonya with Epiphany's memorial service, ending with Rachel Ames' voice on the phone as Audrey telling Elizabeth that she was chosen as Head Nurse to replace Epiphany.
[oops. Edit: Leslie Charleson's voice on the phone as Monica.]

I miss the real-life N'neka Garland (the GH producer, not the fictional bartender character who was named after the producer). The real-life N'neka died the same year as Jackie and Sonya. Several of the cast and crew said she was the heart of the show and always knew what to do, how to plan, and how to be supportive, and she really ran the show. I feel like she would have caught the missing threads and championed the scholarship.

Anyhow, for future Nurses Ball events, I would like to see refocus on medicine, science, and service. Now is the time to bring up the idea for a scholarship -- I'd love to see Elizabeth champion it.

Edit to add: Another idea for the Ball: to raise funds for research for multiple diseases in addition to HIV. But keep HIV since HIV programs still need funding.

Edited 1 minute ago1 min by janea4old

2 hours ago, carolineg said:

The first 3 or 4 years of the Nurses Ball were really good. When it became a true variety show with shirtless men dancing it kind of lost the plot and the point.

For me, it was the year when they found whatshisname hanging from the rafters.

1 hour ago, janea4old said:

I very much liked the separate tribute that GH did for Sonya with Epiphany's memorial service, ending with Rachel Ames' voice on the phone as Audrey telling Elizabeth that she was chosen as Head Nurse to replace Epiphany.

That was Monica.

2 hours ago, Khan said:

For me, it was the year when they found whatshisname hanging from the rafters.

That was probably the last time I was invested too.

Was it Jake for PC that died?

Anyhow, I do sort of agree the show needs to build on the cause to more than HIV research at this point, but I don't really have a strong opinion on what the cause should be so whatever.

I also despise the red carpet interviews. There was a year 1996 or 1997? where they showed everyone arriving and made the couples pose for a photograph like montage and it worked. You could see all the dresses and there wasn't any cringy talking about Olivia being a psychic or anything.

1 hour ago, Vee said:

That was Monica.

whoops, thanks, of course!

1 hour ago, carolineg said:

I do sort of agree the show needs to build on the cause to more than HIV research at this point, but I don't really have a strong opinion on what the cause should be so whatever.

I, myself, would redirect the Nurses' Ball purpose toward funding research on Alzheimer's Disease and other forms of early-onset dementia. Sonny even could dedicate a yearly award or scholarship in Mike's name, lol.

1 hour ago, carolineg said:

Anyhow, I do sort of agree the show needs to build on the cause to more than HIV research at this point, but I don't really have a strong opinion on what the cause should be so whatever.

Eyemites, of course.