4 posts tagged “broadway”
in all the hub-bub of getting married, i neglected to 'review' the drowsy chaperone. stan, my mom, joan & i all went on the friday before my wedding. joan, who is my best friend from college and about the sweetest people in the world, had come up on the tuesday before my wedding, to hang. why do you need a backstory on this? you don't. she's just amazing and the world should know of her ... hilariously she married a man name john holmes and she always wanted to be named kate so he calls her kate so now that she's married she's now kate holmes. five years ago when she said she was legally changing her name to kate holmes, i pointed out katey holmes, to which she replied, "oh, she's just a blip." ... ok ok ok! i know - this is a review of the drowsy chaperone.
will it come as a surprise to anyone when i say i LOVED it? prolly not. it had so much heart and laughter and giddy delight. jonathan crombie played the man in chair as indicated by the link i embeded in his name. he's amazing. every fricking second he was on the stage, and he was on every fricking second, the man was so present and alive and heartbreakingly endearing and i will probably try and see everything he does. people of america, keep an eye out for mr. crombie, another wonderful canadian actor. danny burstein is still in the show as aldolpho - he was nominated for a tony for the role. he had this crazy over the top character that could have just been that crazy and over the top but instead, he managed to make me laugh every time he did his accent thing bit. i have no idea what i'm talking about at this point because i'm really hung over. OH! joanna worley was in the cast. she made me worried every time i saw her. she was great but i kept expecting her to just fall over. kind of like watching a toddler run. mara davi - i think that was who i saw but i don't have my program - was incredible.
i think it's closing around or after christmas, so again - if you have $110 bucks just inching to be spent, go to this show. i saw it for free. man, do i get lucky with the free tickets or WHAT? amirite, everybody?
my mother's review is: it was very different. but i think she liked it.
people of nyc, go see xanadu. i know what you're going to say - it's $95 a head (or thereabouts) it's based on perhaps the worst movie made in the '80's and to that i say, yeah - it is way too much money to spend and no, it was not the worst movie of the '80's, that title goes to slumber party massacre II. chrystal bernard! you crazy so & so.
xanadu on the broad-way is probably the most fun i've had at a broadway show since avenue q. is it because i'm a flamboyantly gay man, may hap, but be you gay, straight or even republican, i think you'd probably* have a great, great time.
my tony for the show goes to jackie hoffman.
tony roberts was fantastic. kerry butler is great, though at times, hard to understand. mary testa couldn't be bothered to attend. (i will now go on a tear) REALLY? YOU COULDN'T COME? IT'S ONLY BEEN ON BROADWAY FOR F*ING 2 - 3 MONTHS. YOU CAN'T MISS THE FIRST YEAR. DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH I WANT TO BE ON BROADWAY? NO, I'M SURE YOU DON'T BECAUSE YOU DON'T KNOW ME. WELL, LADY! I KNOW YOU AND YOUR WORK ETHIC. IT STINKS ... ALSO, ETHEL MERMAN WOULD NEVER DO THAT. THINK OF ETHEL. her understudy was fantastic and i hope takes over the role. annie golden was mary testa's understudy and she was really funny - she however gets the award for worst headshot currently on broadway. can't get it from the website but i linked to it so check it out. curtis holbrook is every 13 year olds wet dream. so cute. i all of the cast was so good. the muses - which are clearly the rest of the cast - were all fantastic. it was fun. it was funny. it was worth not paying anything to see (thank you jen broome!) but i'm going to take stanny!bot this christmas. so there.
*notice i said probably
ps - afterwards, jen & went to new grill cafe in the world wide plaza and saw robert sean leonard. oh, you've still got it robert sean leonard.
hiya! after many people telling me to pick this book up, i did and i liked it. it's good. i look forward to the movie and um, yeah, i'll probably read the series. actually, i have been hearing about this series for years. the first time was when i dated dead to me and we were at one of his geek friends house who was a complete snob. a snob, i hasten to add, who still plays dungeons and dragons. not that there's anything wrong with that, but at least i get laid. of course, at the time it was by dead to me so look who's bragging? this book has nothing to do with (i think) dungeons and dragons but lyra is a fucking awesome little kiddo who would have been nice to know about when i was her age. at 36, it's a little bit barn door and all that. sort of like "spring awakening"* sans the sex. speaking of, i told you so. i walk by there every morning on my way to work (there being the theater) and there is always a line of girls and gay boys in their 'teens sitting and reading teen cosmo or whatever awaiting the cheap seats on stage. it reminds me of the three times (3? really? you freak) i sat waiting to see rent in the cheap seats. i wanna roll my eyes but i remember getting up at 5 in the morning and sitting on the mean streets and having a blast. so, i control my eyes and puff furiously on the smoke i shouldn't be having instead.
this was a book review at one point wasn't it?
i still haven't finished:
and since i finished golden compass, i will pick it up again. i ain't a quitter! look how good i'm doing with smoking.
*it's so nothing like spring awakening as to be laughable - i just wanted to be a told you so
It was Stanny! and my 2 year anniversary on Tuesday. I had free tickets to Chicago & we had dinner at a restaurant we like. It was like we were grown ups. What we discovered after ordering our drinks -super tuscan for me, some citrus vodka drink with tonic for Stan - Chicago's call time was 7:00 PM. Seven? Really? So, we had an appetizer and scooted over to see Chicago. I wish we had just stayed and ate. The show was lackluster. Close it already or get some people who actually want to be on Broadway in the show. That's not completely fair because Bianca Marroquin, the woman who played Roxy, was pretty great. I saw the first three months of Chicago,working as an usher for the show. It was magical, the cast was a dream team of Broadway talent and I got to watch them warm up on the stage before the show, do the show and blow everyone away every night. It was probably one of the coolest jobs I ever have had. Here it is ten years later and I've got the relationship I never thought possible, I'm watching Joey fucking Lawrence try to be someone he's not and my life is on the Northside of perfect. What I'm saying, dear Chicago, things change. Could you please change for the good as well?
