Coming next year:

Quote from: KathyB on May 22, 2024, 01:52 PMI miss @DiveMilw

Awww....thanks Kathy.  I have missed you guys as well.  I can't believe I have not been on in over a month.  I guess work has kept me busy lately.  And the past two weeks I was in four states for either work or vacation.  This meant that my allergies got supercharged with all sorts of pollen.  Over the weekend all I did was take nap after nap after nap.  Then on Monday I was too tired to go into work.      I went in late because I had to lead a conference call that could not be rescheduled.  Yesterday, I stayed home the entire day.  (I had another conference call but I pushed that one off until tomorrow.)  I'm feeling much better today.      I am thankful for the three day weekend coming up.  

Kathy, I agree.  A titanium shoulder is extremely badass!!  

Last night I saw a production of The Lehman Trilogy staged in the round, which, according to the talkback, is unique among productions of the play. It was excellent, but currently I have a difficult time sitting still for more than an hour.  During the first intermission, I stretched, and during the second, I walked laps around the theatre. That is my last show until next fall. I still have a chance to see the touring production of Company, and there's even a convenient Thursday matinee this week, but I don't think either my budget nor my stamina can handle it.

I miss @DiveMilw 

Trailers are trailers, and this one does its job — including its generous length, which, at risk of spoiling many eye-popping visuals and quite a bit of plot, serves up a gluttonous helping of what the show's fans have presumably been thirsting for.  In any case, despite my own rather mild appreciation for the source material, this does look grand:



Plus a little behind-the-scenes love-fest with Chu, Erivo and Grande:

Yay!    Hope you're enjoying it.

From last to first:


Here come the Jets like a bat outta hell:
Someone gets in our way, someone don't feel so well.
Here come the Jets — little world, step aside!
Better go underground, better run, better hide.

Guess what showed up at my door today? Guess what I spent the last 75 minutes listening to! 

Once the revolution is up and humming,
That'll be the end of the world,
Your world.
The world of private jets and screening rooms,
And hundred-thousand-bucks-an-ounce designer perfumes,

I keep thinking,
Such a fine beginning,
Such a lovely evening we could spend.

Such a fine beginning,
I keep thinking
More about the end.



There are several possible choices using this target phrase — but, if I'm honest, I'm kinda fishing for the most recent instance, just to introduce SJS's youngest offspring into this game.

Playbill:  Inside Orchestrator Jonathan Tunick's Project to Make Sondheim's Scores Sound Bigger
                             A re-orchestrated version of A Little Night Music will premiere at Lincoln Center.  Tunick says Sweeney Todd is next.

I do hope they record this.  I'd love to see it, and there are plenty of tickets still available at the moment, but they start at $148 for the nosebleeds and go up to $338 for almost anything on the orchestra or first-mezzanine levels.  I'll keep an eye on the prices, though, just in case they prove dynamic enough to swerve toward more-affordability.