Ah, couldn't remember if I actually mentioned Sweeney here, went back to check my post from that night, didn't find anything, so I suppose I don't hafta scold you all about not reading every word of my long posts :-P
Umm to make a long story short...er(it is me...), at play on Broadway on the..17th I think...I was talking to my friend and a friend of hers for a little bit, she intro'd me to her but not her to me, thought that was kinda odd. Later found out she is Johanna's understudy in Sweeney, they went to college together. We saw her again after and of course this time I start asking all about the instruments and experience and what-not and how amazing I think it is to act and play instruments the same production, etc. Finally I said I had a second row ticket for this upcoming Saturday(29th) which I had to get to watch instrument playing close up so I could follow fingers. So she was like oh okay, well do you wanna come back on that day? And I paused, never hearing it referred to as "back", wasn't quite sure if she meant backstage or stage door(I was tired..) then kinda realized and I was like sure! So she said just to tell the guy I'm here to see her or something. (Funny moment where smart me says okay, wait lemme get your name and then my friend who's her friend says Amanda, in addition to the fact that you can ask me before we go, her name will be in the playbill...oopsy, forgot. Hehe, I'm funny.) So yeah, going "back"...may just be a quick hey in a dressing room or, I don't know, tis exciting though. Though I certainly won't hafta make certain requests seeing that where I would request(pit) isn't really utilized in this production, but should be fun.
"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