>>Other than where you currently live, where would your dream >>home be and why?
Pretty much any well-maintained and well-managed home on the West Side of NYC.
>>What's the last great show that you saw?
This would have to be a tie between SPRING AWAKENING and JOURNEY'S END. Saw SPRING twice, loved it both times. Nothing I've seen since has been as impressive. JOURNEY'S END was great, too, a real surprise.
It wasn't exactly theatre, but I went to a screening of Guy Maddin's BRAND UPON THE BRAIN, a latter day silent film which had live musicians performing a score, foley artists producing sound effects, a countertenor, and narration supplied by Edward Hibbert. One of the most exciting experiences I've ever had going to the movies. I wrote more on my blog, check it out.
>>What are you currently reading?
Dickens' THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP. I've read it before, and liked it, mostly. The whole business with Little Nell taking so long to do what anyone with any sense knows she's going to do is a drag, but there's no mistaking the energy of the rest of the book. Wonderfully effective melodrama and mad vivid comedy.
>>What's your favorite CD of all time?
Impossible to choose. Some favorites would include the OBCA of SPRING AWAKENING, anything by Thelonious Monk or John Adams.
>>PC or Mac?
PC. I liked Macs, I used to have to work on one. They definitely have their charms.
>>What is the greatest performance you have ever seen on stage? >>On screen?
I can't narrow it down to one, sorry. Some of the most memorable have been:
Richard Thomas in FIFTH OF JULY
Len Cariou as Sweeney Todd
Kathy Bates and Anne Pitoniak in NIGHT MOTHER
Jessica Tandy in FOXFIRE
Kate Nelligan in PLENTY
Bernadette Peters in SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE
Raul Esparza in THE NORMAL HEART
Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel in WICKED
the casts of THE LIEUTENANT OF INISHMORE and JOURNEY'S END and SPRING AWAKENING
and so on and so on.
Film wise, the list would never end. I'll choose Bert Lahr and Margaret Hamilton in THE WIZARD OF OZ, because nobody ever seems to choose them.
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick
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