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Do people even read motorized anymore? Hm. Who knows.
Anyway, so I figured I should update? Can't remember when I last did so, so here it goes.
Just got back from NYC, had a two and a half week trip there to basically get drunk, smoke a lot and have some sex. Does that border on being tmi? Eh. Anyway, in that regard it worked out quite well :P The Good
Porgy and Bess - I know that there was a whole lot of outrage about this particular adaptation of it, and I've listened to the older scores etc, but to be honest this was my favorite show. So much so that I forked out $150 twice to see it. Can I just say, AUDRA MCDONALD? Why has this woman never entered my life before??? SHE WAS FLAWLESS AND IT IS MY NEW LIFE GOAL TO LISTEN TO EVERYTHING (pretty much done) AND SEE EVERYTHING THAT SHE HAS EVER DONE EVER. Would I have enjoyed it as much had it been somebody else in that lead role? Probably not. But thankfully I didn't have to face that option. Orchestration was amazing. Costumes (which were apparently designed by one of the ANTM contestants from cycle 7) were amazing. Overall production value was amazing. Let's just say I'm looking forward to the cast album that drops early May.
Anything Goes - So here's something that a lot of you folks probably don't know, but I am a massive Sutton Foster fan (so the thought of her headlining a series for ABC is thrilling!). Anyway, I saw this one twice as well, the first was a 21st present from my folks and the second was all me. This show. Seriously. I'd already listened to the OBC recording like 7 trillion times, but to see it live was amazing. THE CHOREOGRAPHY! OMG. And Sutton. Oh Sutton. You are the light of my life, woman.
On a side note, I met Joel Grey (who's also in it) a couple of nights before I went to see it at the Metropolitan Club. A friend of mine put me onto it and the guy that was launching his album that night plays the Purser in the show, so the night my mate and I went to see it Joel grey was just like, sitting 5 feet away from us. My friend had no idea who he was, and so when I went all weird and fangirl on him he was like, ready to disown me. Then we saw the show and he understood. But anyway, that was cool. Apparently Sutton Foster went to the Met Club the night previous but we obviously weren't there... forever kicking myself.
Other Desert Cities - old flisters will understand my complete adoration in regards to Stockard Channing, and she definitely DID NOT DISAPPOINT! She was glorious. The script was glorious! I bought the script about a week later and it reads just as well on page as it does performed, which is rare and completely delightful. Beautiful production. John Robin Baitz is probably my favorite contemporary playwright/screenwriter and he did not disappoint. At. All.
Death of a Salesman - Phillip Seymore Hoffman. Andrew Garfield. Linda Emond. PERFECTION. I still can not get over HOW GOOD Phillip Seymore Hoffman was in this. Andrew Garfield (who I don't feel particularly for or against) surprised me with how good he was at playing Biff. Goddamn. Of course it's an amazing play - and I've seen it about 7000 times before - but this was by far the most gut wrenching. I put it all down to Hoffman and his ability to carry an entire audience with him. Like seriously, that man is amazing. The sets weren't out of this world, which was disappointing because there are fun things that you can do for that play, but overall it was impeccable.
Venus In Fur - Nina Arianda. FUCK. Incredibly written/directed. I'm not sure how I felt about Hugh Dancy but all I have to say is NINA ARIANDA BE IN MY LIFE ALL. THE. TIME. Seriously have not been able to process this yet, and it's been over a week since I saw it, but it was just perfection. Might have a better comment once I've ordered the manuscript, recieved the manuscript and read it without Nina Arianda and her glorious face/being.
Godspell - Ugh. By far the best ensemble that I saw. All of them were glorious. And in 'Turn Back, O Man' I got felt up by the girl singing it, which made me happy :P
The Rest of Them
Stick Fly - I'll be honest, the only reason I saw this was to see Joanne from Rent (the movie, don't judge) make out with Charlie from the West Wing. So far as the play was concerned, I think the most fun was hearing the crowd's reactions (it was the end of the run so cheap tickets, and I was the only white person in the theatre). But yeah. Tracie Thoms is pretty good. I like her.
Rent - Great musical. Terrible production.
Seminar - Alan Rickman = genius, god, etc etc etc. He was fabulous. I loved the actress that played 'Kate' as well but have no idea what her name was. Pretty funny. Definitely speaks to the overeducated, which I enjoyed :P
Wit - I'd only ever seen Cynthia Nixon in SATC but she did amazingly well in this! I think this is a glorious play, seriously fabulous. The writing is sublime.
How to Succeed (with Nick Jonas) - Idk. I heard rave reviews about this and then was a little disappointed. Best thing about this show was that I was in the front row... Nick Jonas is pretty good on stage though - I saw him in Les Mis and he was good. He was good in this as well. Pity he's a Jonas brother.
The Road to Mecca - Not all too bad. I love the writer of this (literally have his anthology that has been read many times), but idk. It wasn't bad by any means but it wasn't exactly great either. I blame the directing/sets tbh. Carla Gugino is sexy as fuck and can act as well which trust me, I was the most surprised by. The others were good too but Carla Gugino just lights up the stage.
Phantom - I'm probably not the best to comment on this seeing as it was an 8.00 show and I'd gotten half an hours worth of sleep the night before, so I might have been drifting off to sleep...? I love this show though, and it was a pity that they had the understudy Christine on because she didn't quite hit those notes...
I'm pretty sure I've forgotten something, but yeah, I watched a lot of theater
What else is happening? Am doing honours this year, which basically means that I have to write a mini-thesis (not as big as PhD, but still substantial). Still figuring out what the hell to do for that. I'm also in the midst of writing a play (hence the copious amounts of money spent on theater tickets), so that should be done hopefully by the middle of the year... hopefully.
Aside from that, not much else is happening. What's up with you flisters?
Anyway, so I figured I should update? Can't remember when I last did so, so here it goes.
Just got back from NYC, had a two and a half week trip there to basically get drunk, smoke a lot and have some sex. Does that border on being tmi? Eh. Anyway, in that regard it worked out quite well :P The Good
Porgy and Bess - I know that there was a whole lot of outrage about this particular adaptation of it, and I've listened to the older scores etc, but to be honest this was my favorite show. So much so that I forked out $150 twice to see it. Can I just say, AUDRA MCDONALD? Why has this woman never entered my life before??? SHE WAS FLAWLESS AND IT IS MY NEW LIFE GOAL TO LISTEN TO EVERYTHING (pretty much done) AND SEE EVERYTHING THAT SHE HAS EVER DONE EVER. Would I have enjoyed it as much had it been somebody else in that lead role? Probably not. But thankfully I didn't have to face that option. Orchestration was amazing. Costumes (which were apparently designed by one of the ANTM contestants from cycle 7) were amazing. Overall production value was amazing. Let's just say I'm looking forward to the cast album that drops early May.
Anything Goes - So here's something that a lot of you folks probably don't know, but I am a massive Sutton Foster fan (so the thought of her headlining a series for ABC is thrilling!). Anyway, I saw this one twice as well, the first was a 21st present from my folks and the second was all me. This show. Seriously. I'd already listened to the OBC recording like 7 trillion times, but to see it live was amazing. THE CHOREOGRAPHY! OMG. And Sutton. Oh Sutton. You are the light of my life, woman.
On a side note, I met Joel Grey (who's also in it) a couple of nights before I went to see it at the Metropolitan Club. A friend of mine put me onto it and the guy that was launching his album that night plays the Purser in the show, so the night my mate and I went to see it Joel grey was just like, sitting 5 feet away from us. My friend had no idea who he was, and so when I went all weird and fangirl on him he was like, ready to disown me. Then we saw the show and he understood. But anyway, that was cool. Apparently Sutton Foster went to the Met Club the night previous but we obviously weren't there... forever kicking myself.
Other Desert Cities - old flisters will understand my complete adoration in regards to Stockard Channing, and she definitely DID NOT DISAPPOINT! She was glorious. The script was glorious! I bought the script about a week later and it reads just as well on page as it does performed, which is rare and completely delightful. Beautiful production. John Robin Baitz is probably my favorite contemporary playwright/screenwriter and he did not disappoint. At. All.
Death of a Salesman - Phillip Seymore Hoffman. Andrew Garfield. Linda Emond. PERFECTION. I still can not get over HOW GOOD Phillip Seymore Hoffman was in this. Andrew Garfield (who I don't feel particularly for or against) surprised me with how good he was at playing Biff. Goddamn. Of course it's an amazing play - and I've seen it about 7000 times before - but this was by far the most gut wrenching. I put it all down to Hoffman and his ability to carry an entire audience with him. Like seriously, that man is amazing. The sets weren't out of this world, which was disappointing because there are fun things that you can do for that play, but overall it was impeccable.
Venus In Fur - Nina Arianda. FUCK. Incredibly written/directed. I'm not sure how I felt about Hugh Dancy but all I have to say is NINA ARIANDA BE IN MY LIFE ALL. THE. TIME. Seriously have not been able to process this yet, and it's been over a week since I saw it, but it was just perfection. Might have a better comment once I've ordered the manuscript, recieved the manuscript and read it without Nina Arianda and her glorious face/being.
Godspell - Ugh. By far the best ensemble that I saw. All of them were glorious. And in 'Turn Back, O Man' I got felt up by the girl singing it, which made me happy :P
The Rest of Them
Stick Fly - I'll be honest, the only reason I saw this was to see Joanne from Rent (the movie, don't judge) make out with Charlie from the West Wing. So far as the play was concerned, I think the most fun was hearing the crowd's reactions (it was the end of the run so cheap tickets, and I was the only white person in the theatre). But yeah. Tracie Thoms is pretty good. I like her.
Rent - Great musical. Terrible production.
Seminar - Alan Rickman = genius, god, etc etc etc. He was fabulous. I loved the actress that played 'Kate' as well but have no idea what her name was. Pretty funny. Definitely speaks to the overeducated, which I enjoyed :P
Wit - I'd only ever seen Cynthia Nixon in SATC but she did amazingly well in this! I think this is a glorious play, seriously fabulous. The writing is sublime.
How to Succeed (with Nick Jonas) - Idk. I heard rave reviews about this and then was a little disappointed. Best thing about this show was that I was in the front row... Nick Jonas is pretty good on stage though - I saw him in Les Mis and he was good. He was good in this as well. Pity he's a Jonas brother.
The Road to Mecca - Not all too bad. I love the writer of this (literally have his anthology that has been read many times), but idk. It wasn't bad by any means but it wasn't exactly great either. I blame the directing/sets tbh. Carla Gugino is sexy as fuck and can act as well which trust me, I was the most surprised by. The others were good too but Carla Gugino just lights up the stage.
Phantom - I'm probably not the best to comment on this seeing as it was an 8.00 show and I'd gotten half an hours worth of sleep the night before, so I might have been drifting off to sleep...? I love this show though, and it was a pity that they had the understudy Christine on because she didn't quite hit those notes...
I'm pretty sure I've forgotten something, but yeah, I watched a lot of theater
What else is happening? Am doing honours this year, which basically means that I have to write a mini-thesis (not as big as PhD, but still substantial). Still figuring out what the hell to do for that. I'm also in the midst of writing a play (hence the copious amounts of money spent on theater tickets), so that should be done hopefully by the middle of the year... hopefully.
Aside from that, not much else is happening. What's up with you flisters?