Halfway through day one and BOY am I glad I bought the Gold tickets in the first batch. Weather is beautiful, opening number was awesome, "In Trousers" panel great. I have my kids with me this year, and I was really worried that the 10 year old would be bored. Nope. She got to meet Fredi Walker-Browne on somebody else's ticket (she had an emergency and had to go so she passed out all her autograph and photobooth tickets), got to see Lesli Margherita kill it in the opening number and is now ch...
Been listening to "Falsettos" on repeat and thinking about how many wonderful songs there are out there in the musical theatre canon sung from fathers to their sons and mothers to their sons and even fathers to their daughters, but am struggling to find one from a mother to her daughter. I know there has to be something perfect out there. Help?
So any thoughts about Christian going up against himself in Lead Actor? I mean, I know Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was a train wreck on the West End, but word is that it's been completely reworked and the man is magic in a bottle. And if he isn't nominated for Falsettos, we will have witnessed the definition of miscarriage of justice.
I am making my own hall passes for my new drama program. I need a library, nurse, hall, office, bathroom, counseling, "break" and "other" pass. I want to put quotations from theatre on each of these. I have quotes from "Music Man" for library, "Romeo and Juliet" for nurse, "Urinetown" for bathroom, "Hamilton" for break. Any ideas for the rest?
The free program "Audacity" is amazing and can take out individual words while the music plays on, can play a word backwards to mask it, can clip moments altogether (Madison's line became "You knock me down I get back up again" seamlessly. There actually only had to be 15 edits total for my 5th graders, because I sent out permission slips in email containing the Grammy performance and told them I wouldn't be editing anything they heard in that song. So I got to keep "Bastard" and "Whore" thro...
VIP was worth it last year for the front of room seating for the big events alone. Yes the private meet and greets were cool, though limited by the snowstorm. And I did like the guaranteed autographs/photo booths (and we get DOUBLE that this year). But being in the 3rd row on the aisle for both the Rent reunion and the Hamilton panel made those tickets worth every penny.