Well, we didn't see Producers or BBM--we saw Memoirs of A Geisha...it was decent, not wonderful, entertaining but dragged and I was confused at times...though perhaps it was my own fault for thinking half the movie we were in China, when we were really in Japan. Oops.
Ooh, everyone who hasn't seen it, go rent the King and I! It's a great show, movie, and personality aside, Yul Brenner just gives one of the most amazing performances in it. Mandi, I don't remember Anthony saying Yul punched him? Hmm, gotta rewatch...but yeah the louder story was amusing. It was Yul's final go around as the King in a revival tour, and at that point he was getting old and a little more irritable and therefore meaner I suppose. For a while I'm sitting there saying how could Anthony be in King and I, he's too really white to be one of the King's children, then when he mentioned Louie, I hit myself on the head w/ a big duh. Anyway, at the climax of the play, Louie has a very important line letting Anna know the boat's here, b/c Anna has to decide between going on the boat or staying. Yul was constantly telling Anthony he had to be louder, and just one night when he did it, Yul who's supposed to be dying on the bed, suddenly comes to and out of nowhere screams "Louder!" Maybe the king had a slight relapse...I would love to hear Anthony's "Whistle A Happy Tune."
And I'm so happy! Mentioned the Adam thing to my friend at Brandeis tonight(she saw the movie w/ me)...forgot that it was Friday and she's pretty religious and observes Shabbat so never goes out or anything once the sun sets Friday, so she can't come w/ me, but lives in a single and tries not to do much work on Fridays anyway, and said if necessary I could stay w/ her. Would be easier to stay at BU, but the important thing is now I know I have somewhere to stay and can definitely go, will just have months to sort out the details. Maybe I'll try to convince some of my BU friends to go, they get in for free, and I'll explain he's really more rockish than broadway...we'll see.
"If there was a Mount Rushmore for Broadway scores, "West Side Story" would be front and center. It snaps, it crackles it pops! It surges with a roar, its energy and sheer life undiminished by the years" - NYPost reviewer Elisabeth Vincentelli