I'm back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[musicaltheatrefan3]

Posted: 8/15/08 at 10:30am

From an amazing 3-week trip to Europe. I went to London (as well as a day in Windsor, Stonehenge, and Bath), Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin, Odense (Denmark, friend lives there), Copenhagen, and Malmö (Sweden). I loved it! It was amazing! In London, I saw "Spamalot" and "Avenue Q", and now that I look back at it, "Spamalot" is not that anti-Semitic, because the song is not exactly mean-spirited, and "Finland" did not bother me, I do not believe that it is anti-Finnish anymore. And I will not let "Avenue Q" winning the Tony over "Wicked" stop me from thoroughly enjoying it. It was a great show. Still don't like it as much as "Wicked", but it is not just a "show about puppets". Also, in Odense, "Annie Get Your Gun" was playing, but I didn't have time to see it, but I did ask one of the girls from the show (they go throughout the street handing people brochures about the production) to sing a song in Danish and she sang "You Can't Get a Man with a Gun" in Danish, and it was a pretty good translation. If I was in Odense longer, I would have seen it. Anyway, just wanted you to know that I'm back, and I will be posting a lot more frequently.

P.S. in Malmö, I saw a poster for "Avenue Q" in Lund! How cool is that! They're doing a tour of Sweden! Then moving back to Stockholm!!!!!!!!!!!!

[NYadgal]

Posted: 8/15/08 at 10:35am

[Unknown User]

Posted: 8/15/08 at 10:37am

"now that I look back at it, "Spamalot" is not that anti-Semitic, because the song is not exactly mean-spirited, and "Finland" did not bother me, I do not believe that it is anti-Finnish anymore."

I was going to crack a joke about the maid at the hotel in Gdansk looking askance at your travel plans, but that line is funnier than anything I could ever come up with.

[tazber]

Posted: 8/15/08 at 10:38am

Welcome back! How's your aunt?

[NYadgal]

Posted: 8/15/08 at 10:40am

Oh, taz, I forgot about the Aunt!

*goes for an unneeded sobbing*

[skb2010]

Posted: 8/15/08 at 10:40am

EDIT: I start next Friday, borstal.

Updated On: 8/15/08 at 10:40 AM

[Unknown User]

Posted: 8/15/08 at 10:40am

How can they afford 3 week theater tours of Europe is my question.

[skb2010]

Posted: 8/15/08 at 10:41am

It's Emma and Jerry Zaks. Thats how.

[Weez]

Posted: 8/15/08 at 10:44am

Well, whoop-de-effin'-do.

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 8/15/08 at 10:46am

Good for you, skb. Learn lots and--as we used to say back in the West Coast olden days--party hard.

[skb2010]

Posted: 8/15/08 at 10:48am

Ha. as I said in the other thread, it's my junior year=ACT.

This should be fun.?

[musicaltheatrefan3]

Posted: 8/15/08 at 10:48am

I wasn't even in Gdansk. I have never been to Poland, and I probably never will. There is a silent anti-Semitism there, and I am not going to places where I would not feel very safe.

It wasn't a 3-week theatre tour, I only saw 2 shows.

[adamgreer]

Posted: 8/15/08 at 10:49am

Welcome back, Emma! Have you see Bailey yet?

[skb2010]

Posted: 8/15/08 at 10:50am

Question:

In a freaking MONTY PYTHON SHOW, how the hell did you think that the song would be mean spirited in the first place? NOTHING in any Monty Python show is serious.

[tazber]

Posted: 8/15/08 at 10:51am

But you claimed this board was anti-semitic and yet you still post.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 8/15/08 at 10:54am

I am not going to places where I would not feel very safe.

Then what are you doing HERE?

[NYadgal]

Posted: 8/15/08 at 10:57am

PalJoey, you took the words right out of my mouth!

[D2]

Posted: 8/15/08 at 12:00pm

Wait a minute, you went to London and saw TWO SHOWS THAT YOU COULD SEE HERE!?! WTF?