Aaand this week is off to an early start....
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
With Tracy Letts?
That is awesome, Aurelia.
I was just watching the finale of Pippin, with William Katt, because Linda Holmes was tweeting about Pippin, and I realized that despite loving musical theatre AND Stephen Schwartz/Godspell, I had never really listened to it.
I recognized the woman playing Pippin's wife, and it was Maeve from Guiding Light. That was weird!
Man, I forgot that living in the eastern time zone means there aren't a pile of posts by the time I get up and at em.
I recognized the woman playing Pippin's wife, and it was Maeve from Guiding Light.
Oh, funny! Of course, now I'm sort of regretting never seeing it at the ART here. But my formative Pippin was a school production the summer before I started high school, with Matt Damon as Pippin!
With Tracy Letts?
Yep. The whole cast. The Steppenwolf production went from Chicago to D.C. to New York.
If you missed the Tonys' opening number, and have any interest in musical theater, you should really watch it: [link]
I saw a review of him in Once; I so want to see it!
He was really terrific in it. As an adaptation of the film, the stage version is problematic, but on it's own it's gorgeous. I did love the way they arranged the songs for more voices. (And unlike that bizarre wretched Sweeney Todd from a few years back, this time it actually makes sense for the actors to carry their own instruments and play them onstage.)
If you missed the Tonys' opening number, and have any interest in musical theater, you should really watch it: [link]
I don't have real teevee, so I watched this am, and I cried. I think big opening numbers have the same effect on me as parades do.