February 2012
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Love and miss you, Anne.
Today I found out via Facebook that one of my favorite professors, a mentor, and good friend lost her battle with cancer. Her name was Anne Lommel, and that’s her above in the fall of 2007 during our production of Ragtime. She was off to a ‘wig party’ after the performance began that night.
I transferred to Pace at the beginning of my sophomore year and fell in love with...
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Huge Life Decisions (not really)
Not at all. I just used that headline to get your attention. It worked, right? Anyways, after a month with my iPhone, I’m finally trying to find the most awesome case I can. I picked up a $5 red Hello, Kitty case at TJ Maxx that’s been holding me over so I don’t have to worry about it crashing to it’s death, but I’ve found a couple that are awesome too and not too...
January 2012
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The things we travel for. #iamanidiot
Some people travel for movie premieres for actors they love, others travel for concerts, and other people travel for theatre and for that last offense I am guilty as charged. When I first heard American Idiot was going on tour, I knew I wanted to see it. Unfortunately the closest the tour was coming to New York was Boston (no DC or Philly?!) so Matt and I groaned, debated possibly bussing it up to...
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Rest & Relaxation
Over the past few years I’ve really had to work on what relaxes me and gets me to sleep. I had three weeks of free time after graduating from college before I went off on a 3 week trip around Europe and because I had no job prospects lined up after that, I was incredibly anxious and had a lot of trouble sleeping. I think there were three consecutive nights where I didn’t get more than...
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New additions to the Off-Broadway production of...
Emma Hunton Is Maureen in Off-Broadway’s Rent, Starting Jan. 13
So, the off-Broadway revival of Rent welcomed some new (and old) cast members this week. I wonder how Ms. Hunton is in the role of Maureen. Anna Leigh Ashford was pretty much the only cast member to get across-the-board great reviews when the revival first opened, so Hunton has huge shoes to fill.
In my opinion, the best...
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Second half of the 2011-2012 season... GO!
The second half the 2011-2012 Broadway officially begins tomorrow! Some could say that it began when Porgy and Bess began previews in December (and opened last week), but I guess it depends on who you talk to. The second half of a Broadway season always begins in January, in my opinion.
Anyways, I digress. Let’s get back onto the topic, shall well? Wit, starring the incomparable Cynthia...
12 Things Happy People Do Differently →
This was an interesting read!
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Too late, and now it sucks to be you too.
In late 2011, I decided to rid myself of friends who didn’t make me feel good about myself, or talk to them and explain to them that I wasn’t happy with our friendship and how I wanted it to change. That sounds demanding but it was for the best for both of us (whoever the other person happened to be). One “friend” who I made the decision to completely cut off was someone...
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New Years Whatever 2012
I’ve always thought New Years resolutions are stupid, and I’ve never written any but I felt the urge to do one this year so I did. I spent last night at two apartment parties for two different sets of friends. They were both great parties; the first more mellow than the second. My champagne intake was way too high, and I ended up making out with a guest at the second party....
December 2011
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My Top Ten Moments of Theatre in 2011
It’s always hard to pick just five moments of New York theatre a to wrap up a year. But it’s especially difficult when you’ve seen and processed the most recent season so I thought I’d do a Top 10 list.
1. First on this list is obviously Sleep No More, presented by Punchdrunk. I’m glad I got in on this before people caught on to what was going on down in Chelsea....
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The part in which I eat my metaphorical hat.
Remember when I wrote about the sad plight of Bonnie and Clyde closing on December 30th and I was going to try to see it this week? Well, my friend and I scored rush tickets (awesome seats: orchestra, J 5 & 7) for last night’s performance. He’d seen it once before and loves Wildhorn, so he found ways to enjoy it. One of my friend’s had told me “it’s not that...
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The final evening at the Brooklyn Night Bazaar
I’d heard about the Brooklyn Night Bazaar via Twitter this week and it seemed like a good time so I went down last night after seeing An Evening With Patti Lupone and Mandy Patinkin with my mom during the day. Inside the downtown NQR platform at Union Square, a band was promoting themselves and their upcoming show at The Knitting Factor. They’re called Moon Hooch (check them out here)...
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"Give me some mothafuckin' OJ!"
I felt something magical as I entered the Cherry Lane Theatre last Saturday to see Asuncion, a new play written by and starring Jesse Eisenberg. It’d only taken me 25 years and hundreds of theatre-going experiences, but here I was, finally, at the Cherry Lane, a theatre with some much history behind it.
But this isn’t about the Cherry Lane, it’s about Eisenberg’s...
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Bang! Broadway's Bonnie & Clyde Will Close Dec. 30 →
And the first show of the 2011-2012 theatre season bites the dust (at least I’m pretty sure, someone correct me if I’m wrong). This is Frank Wildhorn’s second flop in a single year, and his fifth consecutive flop on Broadway.
Bonnie and Clyde spent years in development, or at least it seemed like we were hearing about it for years. I’d heard pretty good things about it out...
“How do I define history? It’s just one fucking thing after another.”
– The History Boys by Alan Bennett (via coherentexistence)
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"Extraordinary how potent cheap music is!"
I will admit that I was a bit nervous as to how Kim Cattrall would fair onstage in Private Lives, but not nervous enough to keep me from buying a ticket. Noel Coward’s Private Lives is a classic comedy about an ex-husband and wife, Elliot (Paul Gross) and Amanda (Kim Cattrall), who wind up staying in adjacent hotel suites on their honeymoons with their new beaus and end up running away...
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"Dear Lions" @ Mercury Lounge - November 29th,...
The band Dear Lions conquered the Mercury Lounge once again last Tuesday as they played in honor of the release for their second EP. Playing to a substantial and enthusiastic crowd, the band played selections from their first EP, followed by songs off the second one, and towards the end they played a brand new song that they’d just written that day.
Afterward they were selling their 1st...
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November 2011
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Giving thanks, and letting go.
This Thanksgiving was one of the best and most relaxing I’ve had in a while. I took a train to my parents house on Long Island on Wednesday afternoon - it was a really, really long train ride. I almost fell asleep. I digress. My family from Maine drove down and we all cooked ardently on Wednesday night. I was in charge of my favorite thing: the cranberry sauce. I also helped my cousin Eliza...
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Things I have stuck in my head right now:
Michael Esper singing “Nobody Likes You” during Homecoming. That is all.
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Everything You Missed in the Hunger Games Trailer:... →
The extended trailer for The Hunger Games was revealed yesterday. It looks really, really awesome. I hope it’s as awesome as it seems. Above is a really cool article about quick moments frozen from the trailer. Jennifer Lawrence also won me over when she volunteers as a tribute. Geez, I’m really excited.
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Things that I shouldn't necessarily be tee-hee...
I’ve written once about this guy recently and I debated over the last week or so, “Can I stay friends with him?” I thought he was a really great person at one time; really smart, helpful, caring, open, very knowledgeable. After yesterday I knew I’d been mistaken, and I was incredibly happy about that and over him in about 10 minutes flat. He’d once told me,...
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Dodging a Bullet
I’ve debated writing about this for a few days now, but I decided I should, mostly because I can. This is my blog, right? I vaguely alluded to a guy a couple of months ago that I had some sort of a relationship with. The road got rocky recently and we both showed a couple of personality flaws this week that have saved us a lot of trouble in the future.
Two weeks I’d gotten upset at...
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Lesson learned: Trust your instincts.
A little over two weeks ago, I’d received quite a long message on OkCupid from a guy who was very attractive. I was impressed because he’d actually read my profile, it seemed. I had a busy two weeks ahead so we just messaged and texted through out the next weeks.
Alarms started to go off in my head though the more we communicated. One night, while texting, he said he’d composed...
October 2011
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Pinch me.
I was convinced I was being punk’d until I finally saw my name on the list inside the door of The Studio at Webster Hall. The Studio is a small underground bar that holds around 300 people. Did I really see my favorite band in a venue that wasn’t big enough to fit my graduating class from high school? Yes. Was I really three people from the stage the entire time? Yes. Did I survive the...