Sunday, November 07, 2010
Guess i won't be seeing *this* on my next NYC trip
My last two trips to NYC have produced two wonderful theatre-going experiences: Bernadette Peters in A Little Night Music and Marin Mazzie in Next to Normal.
If I want to keep my streak going, according to my entertainment bible, Entertainment Weekly, I guess I betetr not see the new musical version of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. Their review is, um, negative doesn't cover it, let me just put it that way.
As the reviewer himself points out there's a ton of amazing talent on the stage...not least being Patti LuPone and Brian Stokes Mitchell (I've missed him). But that's insufficient to save the show, I guess.
Shame.
And I guess I'll be checking out something else. I just have no idea what.
If I want to keep my streak going, according to my entertainment bible, Entertainment Weekly, I guess I betetr not see the new musical version of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. Their review is, um, negative doesn't cover it, let me just put it that way.
As the reviewer himself points out there's a ton of amazing talent on the stage...not least being Patti LuPone and Brian Stokes Mitchell (I've missed him). But that's insufficient to save the show, I guess.
Shame.
And I guess I'll be checking out something else. I just have no idea what.
Labels: brian stoke mitchell, Broadway, Patti Lupone, Women on the Verg
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Guess who I just saw?
Why, Ms Patti LuPone sitting in first class as I boarded a Virgin America flight to NYC!
I did actually catch her eye (my staring, doubtless) and came theesclose to simply saying "I love your work" or "I'm a big fan", as opposed to saying "Oh my God, I saw you play Evita when I was like 14 years old, and you were so awesome!!!!"
But I kept quiet.
When I sat down, back in my seat many rows away in Coach, I did ask the guy sitting next to me if he knew who Patti Lupone was.
Turns out, out of probably 200 people on that plane, I was sitting next to someone who works for her. Color me red-faced. he was nice, though, and gave me the program from a show she's touring about with Mandy Patinkin. I, of course, rambled on to him about how I'd seen them in Evita, and he kind of nodded and then put on his noise-canceling headphones.
I tweeted it for a while, and considered showing Patti's person the power of Twitter, as people responded, but I thought better of it.
I saw her later at Baggage Claim, and she was being perfectly nice to people who approached her, but I had a brush with fame's handler, not fame itself :)
I did actually catch her eye (my staring, doubtless) and came theesclose to simply saying "I love your work" or "I'm a big fan", as opposed to saying "Oh my God, I saw you play Evita when I was like 14 years old, and you were so awesome!!!!"
But I kept quiet.
When I sat down, back in my seat many rows away in Coach, I did ask the guy sitting next to me if he knew who Patti Lupone was.
Turns out, out of probably 200 people on that plane, I was sitting next to someone who works for her. Color me red-faced. he was nice, though, and gave me the program from a show she's touring about with Mandy Patinkin. I, of course, rambled on to him about how I'd seen them in Evita, and he kind of nodded and then put on his noise-canceling headphones.
I tweeted it for a while, and considered showing Patti's person the power of Twitter, as people responded, but I thought better of it.
I saw her later at Baggage Claim, and she was being perfectly nice to people who approached her, but I had a brush with fame's handler, not fame itself :)
Labels: Patti Lupone
