Happy New Year

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 12/31/10 at 9:13pm

Happy New Year to one & all

[wexy]

Posted: 12/31/10 at 9:20pm

Wishing everyone a happy and healthy new year in broadway world land. All the best...

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 12/31/10 at 9:23pm

Best wishes for each of us for the coming year.

We argue, we spar, but I think that there must be some common ground that brings us all here.

So here's to us!

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 12/31/10 at 9:34pm

May you, your loved ones and the entire cast of Spiderman live to see 2012.
Happy New Year!!

[SeanMartin]

Posted: 12/31/10 at 9:49pm

Yes, well, I go into this year with even less expectations than last. When one is dumped on NYE, one should take it as a harbinger of things to come.

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 12/31/10 at 9:52pm

Seanmartin, one should not.

One should see it as a chance for new opportunities--either with a new person or the same.

But change most often it a good thing, though we often don't see it.

[clever name]

Posted: 12/31/10 at 9:56pm

Happy New Year to all my BWW friends! It sounds silly but I really do look forward to hearing what you have to say and miss you when you stop posting. This year I have laughed my head off here, but I have also been touched by things you have shared. Here's to 2011! Cheers!

[SeanMartin]

Posted: 12/31/10 at 10:14pm

Reginald, thanks for the note of optimism, but somehow I doubt that's really in the cards.

Look, what follows is going to sound whiny as all hell, so if you good folks dont want to deal with it as you're out there enjoying yourselves on NYE, please feel to skip over this post and leave one telling each other what a great time the New Year will be.

For me, it probably wont be. The person in question was probably right to dump me: I wouldnt mix well with his friends (He works for this terribly toney law firm, and I'm just some schlub who's barely making enough to qualify as lower middle class), and, even though he denies it, there's little doubt that he wants someone younger. So be it. I'm not 30 anymore, nor have I been for some time. But still, as if I'm not getting enough reminders of Mortality standing there at the door, holding my hat and coat and reminding me it's almost time to leave...

So. Dumped on NYE. No party invitations and no one really to invite at the last minute. All of the bars in the area are already packed, which is something I've never quite liked, and of course everyone has a serious cover charge on for tonight. So that's out.

So it's NYE, and I'm on the internet because I have nothing else. Big freaking whoop. Yeah, this just augurs all so very well for 2011.

Well, whatever. It's not like you guys really give a fig about someone you will never ever meet, right? So, in the spirit of the holiday season, leave some withering little rejoinder that will quite rightly put me in proper place. My gift to you all.

[Q]

Posted: 12/31/10 at 10:22pm

SM - that actually does kind of suck - sorry.

BUT, you're alive with possibilities before you, and what you make of that opportunity is up to you. The NYE thing really hasn't ever meant much to me - just another arbitrary tick of a man-made device to quantify and qualify. Hopefully, the day will dawn tomorrow, and you will see potential on the horizon, rather than stumbling blocks strewn in your path.

In fact, I wish that for everyone - and it is indeed what I will be looking for myself.

Peace and happiness to all, especially to those facing real tragedy and trauma as we head into this new year.

[wexy]

Posted: 12/31/10 at 10:24pm

Out in with old and in with the new SM, Hanging with lawyers?
Yuck,toney as well double yuck....
NYE is all amateurs anyway.

[sabrelady]

Posted: 12/31/10 at 10:28pm

OK whiny- you asked for it-
Today was my day off. Yesterday morning I had to deal with a panicked hysterical adult child of a patient who was dying from pancreatic cancer. He had been diagnosed nine days before and we only had the time to give him one dose of chemo- a Hail Mary activity if every. I was accused of being heartless and cruel and smug and then ,after the death- had to carry on with the rest of my day- we then transfered a 26 yr old woman to the palliative floor- I don't even know if she is alive at this point.
Yes being alone WHEN YOU DON'T WANT TO BE can suck- but push through it to the other side. Unlike those two people I've described YOU still have opportunities and possibilities to come- maybe for passion and maybe for heartbreak but Gawd Bless tommorrow will come and that's a gift!
So sing along to "Who's Sorry Now?" and raise a glass-
To new opportunities and possibilities!

OK Auntie Sabre's rant is done now-
Happy New Year!

[Q]

Posted: 12/31/10 at 10:39pm

SM - just to be clear, when I referenced those facing real tragedy and trauma, I really wasn't making a backhanded comment to you. I'm actually not much for relative life experience - we all have our paths to walk, and respond in our own ways.

I was referring to a couple of our core BWW members who continue to deal with serious illness, and mostly thinking of our beautiful Robbie (whom I adore with all my heart,) who currently faces a life-changing scenario thrust upon him steeped in heartache and pain. I wish for them, and all of us, peace of heart, mind, and body in the days to come.

[Marianne2]

Posted: 12/31/10 at 10:56pm

Happy New Year everyone!

I'm exciting tonight. Having a Glee marathon and doing laundry. It sure beats going out to crowded places and worrying about getting peed and puked on. I'm also working tomorrow.

[SeanMartin]

Posted: 12/31/10 at 11:07pm

I'm sorry if I sounded shallow or uncaring about the rest of the world -- oh look, poor Sean , nowhere to go on NYE. That's not how it was meant. It's just that... I really liked this guy, and I was under the (apparently) mistaken impression he liked me as well. And since it's been, like, three years since someone looked at me that way, I was real hopeful for this one.

Well, guess that's what life on the wicked stage will get you, right? All sorts of promises no one has intentions of keeping. Perhaps better to have found it out now instead of letting this get any further and having to deal with an even bigger crash somewhere around, oh, Valentines, perhaps. Yeah, that would be a real bummer...

So I go to bed soon and get up and go to work, because that's apparently all I'm really good for. And that's not whiny self-pity talking, just hard cold reality.

Life sucks... and not in that warm, pleasant way either.

[strummergirl]

Posted: 12/31/10 at 11:08pm

Happy New Year everyone! Watching Kathy Griffin and Anderson Cooper on CNN. I love the trainwreck-ness of their whole countdown broadcast.

[madbrian]

Posted: 12/31/10 at 11:19pm

Well, 2010 has been an awful year for us, so it can't end soon enough. I'd say 2011 can't be any worse, but what with Murphy's Law and all, and my wife's maiden name being Murphy, I know better.

[uncageg]

Posted: 1/1/11 at 12:49am

Happy New Year. (We actually have an hour and 15 minutes to go here in Denver)

I am hoping for a good 2011. This past year has been one challenge after another. Surgery and 5 months recovery and the economy that is forcing me to move back home to Philly with not that much to live on. I am spending my New Years Eve sitting on my floor in my empty apartment that I leave tomorrow typing this! I am being positive and optimistic though. I have family and good friends back east and I am looking at this as a new chapter in my life. I will "miss the mountains" but am ready to make NYC my new home.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 1/1/11 at 1:14am

There's nothing wrong with your post, except for the maudlin self-pity and exhibitionistic narcissism of posting your problems in somebody else's Happy New Year thread.

So you've got problems--big problems, existential problems. So what? So does everyone, and a lot of people have BIGGER problems--life-and-death problems.

"I cried because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet."

This is Roxy's Happy New Year thread. If you want everyone to talk about your problems, start a Feel Sorry for SeanMartin thread.

Happy new year, Roxy, to you and Mrs. Roxy.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 1/1/11 at 1:28am

To Joey

Thanks for the kind words. We do not agree on many issues but let us disagree in a friendly manner. Hopefully the new year will be a good & prosperous one for you.

To Sean Martin

This party left you. From what you said, you are better off. I had many lonely days & nights before I met Mrs R. Finding the right one is better than finding anyone. You think you have it bad. My next door neighbor's sister was taken in to the hospital for a stomach ailment & wound up on a ventilator. She was taken off, thought to be out of the woods, & was just put back on a day or so ago with possible pneumonia. This woman lost another sister last year. Your problems are miniscule compared to those with real problems. Those who sleep in the street, go to bed hungry, & live in substandard conditions. I know you think it is the end of the world. It will be if you let it.

Go to sleep, get up tomorrow & say to this person **** you and go on.

Updated On: 1/1/11 at 01:28 AM

[SNAFU]

Posted: 1/1/11 at 1:47am

Happy New Year Mr Roxy and to the Mrs also.
Happy New Year to everyone! Yeah sure, life sucks at times, but ya know what? When you think of the mere miracle that we are all here able to bitch and complain, hurt , love, celebrate and cry, is something to be in awe of! We all made it through another year, some for the better, some for the worse but we made it damn it! Try to be a little happy, grateful and in awe.
We can say FU to what has passed if we want and hope for the future!
May things be happier, brighter and filled with laughter in 2011!

[singalongsong2]

Posted: 1/1/11 at 1:51am

Happy New Year everyone!

[JudasIscariot]

Posted: 1/1/11 at 2:41am

Happy New Years everyone! Give 2011 Hell, and goodnight and joy be with you all.

[SeanMartin]

Posted: 1/1/11 at 7:48am

Well, thanks, PJ, for reminding me of my place.

Had that been posted by some cute your thing, people around here would have been tripping over themselves in the rush to offer their condolences and make none-too-gently worded invitations of "support".

But since I'm not, it's moved into the "get over yourself, honey!" category -- do I have it right?

Thank you for reminding me that I should never ever ever open my goddam mouth and say something that would in the very slightest way pose a threat to the unmitigated joy that all of you have found for the new year. For that I shall be *forever* grateful!

Hell, why should any of this matter. You folks dont give a damn who I am, because I'm not *one of you*.

So fine. Take it for what it's worth. Happy 2011, everyone! I hope it brings ALL OF YOU such f*cking joy that your teeth rattle.

Updated On: 1/1/11 at 07:48 AM

[kooky]

Posted: 1/1/11 at 9:55am

HAPPY NEW YEAR ...

[Q]

Posted: 1/1/11 at 9:57am

Um, why single out PJ, and then act like he speaks for everyone? His isn't the only response you got, And by your very presence you're 'one of us', as that's the only criteria.

By the way - from experience, I wouldn't assume that you'll never meet any of us. I've met and now know quite a few