I hold my standard for Gilbert & Sullivan at the level of the film Topsy-Turvy (with a sublime turn by James Broadbent). It's an amazing film - not just for the central story, but also for the picture it presents of how theatre was made in that era. Anyway, I thought it was pretty good ( Read more... )

this is an amazingly beautiful thing. this is art. this is comedy.

Still. Bored ( Read more... )

I am spending all day day in the theatre. There's a rental loading in their set and rehearsing. I was here at 7:45 in the sweet bleeding morning. I have brought with me anything that might enterain me: my laptop, for writing; Angela Carter's Burning Your Boats, for reading; Neil's Sandman #2, for reading; and a cup of vanilla yougurt, for ( Read more... )

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Here's a great article about What To Wear, that avant-garde opera I worked on for CalArts.  It even has a picture from the show, which if nothing else, you should go look at.  In the picture, you can kinda see these plexiglass panels hanging between the audience and the stage - so the story goes that Richard decided he wanted plexi panels and the ( Read more... )

Oh please, ohpleaseohplease let today be the first sign of fall.  Today is the first overcast day in a long time, since February or March or so.  I really don't do well during the summer.  It makes me lethargic and depressed.  It's like seasonal depression in reverse.  But come fall and winter, man, I love it.  I'll take a blustery day over ( Read more... )

All I know for certain, is that this made me laugh so hard I cried.

This is only, literally, the second of these comics that I've read.  I'm gonna go read more.  I think I like it.

ETA:  i have no words.  it's about three-sixty from the other one, but damn.

ETA also: this one also made me cry laughing.  i'm gonna say not worksafe for language.

ETA ( Read more... )

My apartment is situated at the front of the building, near the main street entrance.  But it's sort tucked back and behind one of the staircases to the second floor.  As a totally geeky digresion, yes, I live both under the stairs and in number 42.  Hee.  /geek ( Read more... )

In my recent sleep deprived hunt for online reading material, I found this:  What I Learned On My First Musical.

It is most amusing and, ya know, true.

Hopefully, the PM and I will start working on our little show again, and soon.  Next week is class sign-up.  It's very strange to think that I still sort of know what's going on up at CalArts, without ( Read more... )