June 09, 2004

Random Thoughts...

  • On the Tony's...The awards were decent this year. Everyone seems to be talking about "Avenue Q" as David beating out the Goliath. It's kind of refreshing that an organized awards show can still reward the innovative, fresh and bizarre. The best quote I've found describing the reaction to Avenue Q's winning is from Lisa Bornstein, at the Rocky Mountain News: "...the boisterous, uncalculated response of the audience. Awards for Avenue Q brought screams and shouts for the little show that could. Even once they're famous, theater people are still the kids that hung out together in high school." [source]
  • Also on the Tony's...Yeah, so Brían F. O'Byrne's acceptance speech pleaded, nay; begged and demanded people come see his show "Frozen." I'd like to, I really would. However, it's darn near impossible for me to come see it, or any of the other nominated plays, with the cost of Broadway tickets being what they are. Tickets to "Frozen" begin at $80 according to Telecharge. I know people gotta eat, but only having one price bracket?
  • On Assassins...Man, I have nothing but fond memories of Assassins from La Salle. Really kind of cool to have worked on a production that occurred before the production that most will remember. I'm still hoping that they release another cast recording from this version, perhaps one with "Something Just Broke" included. Assassins also suffers from the above complaint, with decent tickets being well over $50.
  • My season for next year...According to the Villanova website, these are the shows that the program is mounting for the '04-'05 season:
    ART
    by Yasmina Reza
    translated by Christopher Hampton
    directed by Harriet Power
    October 5-17, 2004
    		 THE VISIT
    by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
    adapted by Maurice Valency
    directed by Jonathan Carr
    November 9-12, 2004
    TWELFTH NIGHT or, What You Will
    by William Shakespeare
    directed by James J. Christy
    February 15-27, 2005
    		 BIG RIVER
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
    music & lyrics by Roger Miller
    book by William Hauptman
    adapted from the novel by Mark Twain
    directed by Peter M. Donohue, O.S.A.
    April 5-24, 2005
    More info is available here I'm kind of excited. Of the shows, I've only seen "Art" before, and that was in New York when Wayne Knight and George Segal were in it. I didn't care for it at the time, hopefully I'll enjoy working on it more than I enjoyed watching it.
  • I finally got the last of my stuff unpacked today from what I took home from La Salle. The boxes and bags had been sitting in our living room, making a huge mess of the place. I had gotten most of the essentials out right after getting home, of course, but the boxes of papers, desk supplies, kitchen stuff, and winter clothing remained. I'm a packrat, but I wound up throwing out a good deal of stuff that I'll never need again. I also found the remote control to my little television which is an incredible help...I had thought it was lost forever. It was a walk down memory lane, seeing all of the papers from the last year: duty schedules, flyers that were never posted, birthday cards, programs, maps, RA conference binders, Masque documents, scripts, notebooks from first semester...
The trip to Philadelphia fell through for today. It was a productive day at home, though.

Just very tired now...not sure what's up for Wednesday yet.

Posted by Matthew at June 9, 2004 02:28 AM
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