beth - no chance you and hubby could nip up to my place for a spot of brunch and DJ groping?

Ooh! The Goonies!

I'm a little drunk. Appletini and a beer. Fun!

I love New York. I love living here. I saw a Broadway show tonight - Frost/Nixon, a dramatization of the circumstances around the David Frost / Richard Nixon interviews that led to him confessing his wrongdoing on TV. It was really good. Then, I went to a bar that has a cabaret show every Friday night where anybody that wants can sing Broadway songs. Only most of the people there are really really good, so it's not your normal karaoke, and the crowd is very Broadway Musical Theater fan.

Tonight, among other things, I heard one of Idina Menzel's original understudies for Elphaba in Wicked (Kristy Cates - she also played the role in Toronto and Chicago, apparently, and had her own private ending of Defying Gravity written for her by Stephen Schwartz) sing two amazing songs, then casually sing Defying Gravity with all the belting gloriousness that the song can bear. Then the host of the cabaret told naughty stories about her for a while. Then some other awesome people sang. Then i had to leave because I have to teach in 9 hours, yes, even on a Saturday (which means no theater with Zenkitty. Sadness.). I will definitely be back at that event on future Friday nights. Yay.

beth - no chance you and hubby could nip up to my place for a spot of brunch and DJ groping?

DH is doing musician stuff - and I am wondering what is happening with the chairs. Which sounds crazy. But I won't let people go crazy at the last minute - because it turns me into a bitca. ( i always think of a bitca and this tiny little extremely annoying wanna be bitch. I would prefer a real bitch )

Tonight, among other things...

Green like Elphaba about Gris's night. That sounds amazing!!

I, on the other hand, went to see Disturbia with a friend. It was pretty good, but the teenagers in the theater made it even better. They were so into it that I was laughing out loud at their extreme reactions.

Then, I came home and have been working on job hunting. Why did I choose to go into a teaching area where there is not only no shortage, but there are too many of us for the number of jobs? Why did I do that again?

Kristy Cates

Cool! The night I saw Wicked on Broadway, Kristy Cates was playing Elphaba. I remember saying to my companion, "How could anyone be better than that? She's an understudy?!?"

I'm not sure, but I think I might have seen her too. I saw it when the original cast was still "in," but had understudies or standbys for Elphaba, Galinda, AND The Wizard (it was odd). But I don't remember if it was Kristy or the standby, Eden Espinosa (who I believe is playing Elphaba in L.A. right now) and I no longer have my playbill for the checking. She's definitely amazing.

My theater buddy and I are planning on going back pretty much every week now, since Friday is our theater night anyway. It's perfect!

When I saw it, Stephanie somebody was playing Elphaba. she'd been in Boy from Oz (ha) during the original casting. I thought that she was better than Idina Menzel.

I was at CCM with both Kristy Cates and Shoshanna Bean. I actually designed more than one show with them as singers while I was there.

I saw it with most of the original cast, but it was during the couple of weeks when Norbert Leo Butz was injured, so Taye Diggs was Fiyero. (I love Taye, but he was clearly hadn't rehearsed that role enough.)

When I saw it, Stephanie somebody was playing Elphaba

Stephanie J. Block? I saw her in The Pirate Queen a couple of months ago. She was good, but the show was only so-so.

I saw Ana Gasteyer as Elphaba here in Chicago.