The Official Raúl E. Esparza "Spread the Love" Thread, Part 3 — Page 37

The will call line and the refund line kind of bled together, but it looked like a pretty large number of people were backing out when they heard. Maggie Gyllenhaal was there! It was exciting, I never see famous people.

I wish you could literally switch your tickets for another night, but they just give you your money back.

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I can ask tomorrow, if that would make anyone feel better.

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So he missed a show for the first time in months. I don't see why there's a crisis over him taking a day off; people take a day off work all the time. It's not as though he had a perfect attendance record that he's now besmirched. Who knows, maybe he's taking that "I lost the Tony and I want to sit around my house in pajamas eating ice cream" day he couldn't take last week for appearance sake. Or finally watch the Sopranos finale on Tivo.

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Updated On: 6/22/07 at 12:13 AM

That just made me think of The Normal Heart, hehe

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Hee, about the sugar? "All the rest is just to stay alive."

I'm trying to figure out when to go in place of yesterday's performance. Maybe Sunday. I need someone to go with meee.

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Updated On: 6/22/07 at 01:10 PM

I'll go! *runs*

Bleh, actually I have to fill out more job applications this weekend. I'd like to get one before mid-July so I can justify going up there. And to get the proverbial monkey (aka Mom and Dad) off my back.

Sign you're a geek: I watched Sicko the other night and they went to Cuba to get medical help for 9/11 relief workers who had been denied care by their insurance companies (really sad story). But they talked to Che Guevara's daughter about socialized medicine and her opinion of the US government. It kind of reminded me of Evita, with "Che Guevara" commenting on the deficiencies and corruption of the Argentine government. So I listened to Evita.

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Updated On: 6/22/07 at 01:34 PM

Heh, ironically, that's why they went to Cuba in the first place. They showed news clips of the White House talking about the amazing medical facilities available to the Al Qaeda prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, so they took the 9/11 rescue workers down there for treatment. Needless to say, they didn't get in. So they went to a Cuban hospital and got all the necessary tests and treatments done for free. One woman needed these $120 inhalers that were sold at the local pharmacy for the equivalent of 5 cents. Even Cuba (which he sarcastically referred to as the third world country where Lucifer [Castro] lives) has a better life expectancy than America.

It's actually done rather well. He shows all the various levels of corruption within the US health care system, where basically they'll do anything within their power to not have to dole out the services you've been paying for. Then he goes to Canada, the UK and France and shows how socialized medicine *actually* works in comparison. Considering all the Republican bullsh*t that universal health care is the devil and will reincarnate Stalin himself, the difference was absolutely astonishing. We're the only Western industrialized nation that *doesn't* have universal health care and yet we're invading other countries and telling them *their* government system is archaic and oppressive? Yeah, that makes so much sense.
Scroll down to watch it online (legally)

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Updated On: 6/22/07 at 02:04 PM

thanks for the link! I dont know if I should watch it now or wait to see it in the theater..

But yeah, its also interesting how much the perspectives on Che vary, especially within the Cuban community.

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Oh, I dont know - I'd love to hear that interview though. And yes, I mean almost every figure like that either has a huge following for or against. But I agree that those tee shirts are annoying.

If they ever have Bush tee shirts like that in another ten years I will cry

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Ariella, I think he mentioned it in the Chatterbox, too, but he talks about it in my favorite interview with him.

When he was cast as Che Guevara in the 20th-anniversary national tour, his decidedly anti-communist mother said, "Over my dead body!" His exile grandfather, who had supported the revolution and joined the Castro government before becoming disillusioned, was even more pungent. "I knew that son of a bitch," he told his grandson, "and he didn't sing and dance!"

The new ActorQuest is up. I'm going to miss reading those every week. This one has an adorable picture of Raúl looking very tuckered out.

I wonder how the last show has been selling. Has anyone heard?

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I wonder how the last show has been selling. Has anyone heard?

When I asked if there was anything left for that day, the woman in the box office said "a few." I guess that means it's selling nicely?

Is ActorQuest definitely going to stop after Company closes?

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