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Tradition!
This coming Sunday, I will sit down and enjoy a tradition that I have enjoyed for 17 years now - The Tony Awards. My mother raised me on a steady diet of Rodgers & Hammerstein, Lerner & Loewe, Charnin & Strouse, even a little Sondheim (Forum was fine, but I don't think showing a seven-year-old a late night viewing of Sweeney Todd is the best idea ( Read more... ) -
The Hills are Alive...
I should be studying for Biopharmaceutics right now. I have been, really, I swear I have. And I'll get back to it soon, too ( Read more... ) -
Hit me, finals, one more time
One down, two more (and a project) to go. Finished up my biostats final in record time. I didn't really even need to take it to pass the class, so I'm not too worried about it at this point. Tomorrow morning is Biopharmaceutics and Drug Delivery (which could have been a really interesting class with a different instructor). Wednesday morning is ( Read more... ) -
Neat...sweet...petite
This popped up last night in Variety's "Breaking News"
They're creepy and they're kooky, and they're headed to Broadway. "The Addams Family," a new large-scale tuner based on the cartoons of Charles Addams, aims to hit the Rialto in the 2009 -10 season.
Composer-lyricist Andrew Lippa ("The Wild Party") is writing the songs, while Marshall Brickman ( Read more... ) -
Theater Geek Time!
My next candidate for "Why the hell did they make that into a Broadway musical" is the 1996 travesty based on the popular Tom Hanks movie "Big." See for yourself (albeit with poor quality video):
Not even Susan Stroman choreography could save this little disaster, which ran just under 200 performances. This was also a financial disaster for FAO ( Read more... ) -
(Take Me) Out Tonight...well, last night, really
Last night I got to see the musical RENT for the fourth (or was it the fifth) time. Our seats were fabulous and the show, overall was wonderful. The messages presented in the show hit home with a little more force than some of my previous viewings. Roger was a little weak in the first act, but rallied in the second act to completely win me over ( Read more... ) -
Airplanes!
Both my parents owned their own businesses and they opted to include my sisters and me in their daily activities. As a result, I've had some interesting experiences. My father ran the pre-flight screening operations at our local airport from the time the FAA first required screening until the day the TSA took over (he's now a TSA supervisor). In ( Read more... ) -
Our Akita, Evita...
I find myself in posession of *two* pairs of tickets to see Rent, one next Wednesday night and the other pair for the following Sunday night. I was wondering if anyone is interested in purchasing the pair for the Wednesday night performance.
These are great seats - Main floor, section 2, row H, seats 7 and 8. Almost close enough to touch Mimi's ( Read more... ) -
There's no place like home
I'm sure many of you have now heard about the water main that burst this morning, creating a large sinkhole under the south end of the University bridge. The sinkhole swallowed two cars and caused the closing of the bridge until at least this afternoon. It also backed up other traffic into the University area to the extent that my normally 15- ( Read more... ) -
Oh, The Places You'll Go
Well, well, I've been a lot more places then I thought. Of course, Nebraska through Ohio was kind of one big blur of grain fields punctuated here and there by a rock quarry.
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