“Heart weeps ( Read more... )

So, I just saw a production of Noel Coward's "Brief Encounters" adapted for the stage by a woman named Emma Rice. Evidently, this production has been bouncing around the world for around six years, but I'd only heard of it briefly and never in any detail ( Read more... )

Also: Losing the art in the artifice. That's how "Jekyll and Hyde" needs to be reviewed. It's lost the story in the trappings, like so many people do. Like the real hamburgers grilled on the Steppenwolf set-- Yeah, you can do it, but do you need to ( Read more... )

If you're traveling in the north country fair ( Read more... )

Today was much better ( Read more... )

Listening to the "Newsies" soundtrack that showed up in the mail today.

Crying to "Santa Fe." It's so beautiful, and just another reminder that seeing the show in New York wasn't a crazy dream-- It really happened. All those years of dreaming about the show making it big, and it's gone so far..

It's beautiful. Honestly.

♥

My a cappella group is just wonderful. We had a three-hour rehearsal yesterday where we really didn't do anything but talk, but afterwards we went to the place in Logan where we're going to be for the Art Apocalypse seventh week and sang "The Book of Love" (which needs work, but is slowly coming back together) and "Dog Days." The latter sounded ( Read more... )

Not quite feeling right. Everything feels twisting and awkward and wrong-- like I've just missed a step going downstairs, like I don't want to do anything but I know the ship is sinking, like there's just dread lurking in my peripheral vision but I can't pinpoint why ( Read more... )

By the way, Newsies is going to Broadway.

I don't know how I haven't mentioned this, because I've been thrilled about it since the news came out months ago that the was a stage adaptation headed for the Papermill Playhouse in New Jersey... But it's official. It's going to Broadway, now, and I can't even see straight.

Dreams come true...Funny-- if ( Read more... )

Quick entry, because I'm so busy I can't see straight ( Read more... )