I want the agony out of your eyes!
May. 27th, 2010 08:42 am
Yesterday I was reading up on the Glee cast, and I noticed something: Lea Michele and Jonathan Groff left Spring Awakening on May 18, 2008. Lea had originated her role in 2006 when the musical first went to Broadway. ![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
jade_okelani and I were in New York in 2008 and saw 4 musicals, one of them Spring Awakening. So we had to have seen it with Lea and Jonathan! I asked Jade to be sure. She actually managed to find the Spring Awakening Playbill from that trip, and indeed, they were the cast members! She even had her ticket stub still -- we saw it on May 16, just two days before they left the show. I'm 99% certain we didn't see their understudies for various reasons. The sad thing is, we both haaaaaaaaated it. I don't remember ANYthing about it; I just remember being utterly bored and bitter that we had listened to the guy outside TKTS and gotten tickets to this boring show (not that there were many options that night). Jade remembers much more of the details, but basically it just made her want to kill herself. Of course, we might be able to enjoy it more NOW, after Glee, but there's no turning back time. If only we had a pensieve.
The whole experience is a giant blank in my mind. I remember us getting the tickets -- it was like, our first night attempting to get tickets at TKTS -- but nothing else except that I felt the musical was so utterly forgettable. I could not understand at all how it could have gotten the accolades it'd gotten. During that trip we also saw Curtains, which I'd also totally forgotten about until Jade reminded me, and the only thing I remember about that is that David Hyde Pierce was in it.
The biggest reasons why those two musicals were overshadowed was because of the other two shows we saw during that trip -- Avenue Q, which was so f*cking good, and Wicked, which was also f*cking good and for which we had won front-row seats (I don't know if I ever posted about that). Both experiences were so awesome and unforgettable that it probably made the other two pale even more in comparison.
I have made a total impulse purchase: the Actifry. David Lebovitz wrote about it on his blog, and basically what it does is let you 'deep fry' foods -- get the texture of crispy, deep fried foods -- with 1 tbsp of oil. Since I love deep-fried foods and can't stay away even though I know how many calories are involved, THIS IS AWESOME. I just hope it works as well for me as it seems to for other people.
Tomorrow's my first physical therapy appointment for my shoulder. I'm looking forward to possibly getting a diagnosis for what might be wrong with it. It's kind of frustrating that it's been so long that I haven't been able to use that arm normally.
Thank goodness it's a long weekend this weekend. On Sunday I'm going with K. and a few others to an early dinner at Kabul (an excellent little Afghan restaurant in Wallingford; such good lamb kebabs) then to see Sex & the City 2. From the lackluster promos I've seen, I'm not actually that excited about the movie, but so much that's great about S&tC doesn't necessarily lend itself to good clips out of context, so here's hoping.
jade_okelani and I were in New York in 2008 and saw 4 musicals, one of them Spring Awakening. So we had to have seen it with Lea and Jonathan! I asked Jade to be sure. She actually managed to find the Spring Awakening Playbill from that trip, and indeed, they were the cast members! She even had her ticket stub still -- we saw it on May 16, just two days before they left the show. I'm 99% certain we didn't see their understudies for various reasons. The sad thing is, we both haaaaaaaaated it. I don't remember ANYthing about it; I just remember being utterly bored and bitter that we had listened to the guy outside TKTS and gotten tickets to this boring show (not that there were many options that night). Jade remembers much more of the details, but basically it just made her want to kill herself. Of course, we might be able to enjoy it more NOW, after Glee, but there's no turning back time. If only we had a pensieve.The whole experience is a giant blank in my mind. I remember us getting the tickets -- it was like, our first night attempting to get tickets at TKTS -- but nothing else except that I felt the musical was so utterly forgettable. I could not understand at all how it could have gotten the accolades it'd gotten. During that trip we also saw Curtains, which I'd also totally forgotten about until Jade reminded me, and the only thing I remember about that is that David Hyde Pierce was in it.
The biggest reasons why those two musicals were overshadowed was because of the other two shows we saw during that trip -- Avenue Q, which was so f*cking good, and Wicked, which was also f*cking good and for which we had won front-row seats (I don't know if I ever posted about that). Both experiences were so awesome and unforgettable that it probably made the other two pale even more in comparison.
I have made a total impulse purchase: the Actifry. David Lebovitz wrote about it on his blog, and basically what it does is let you 'deep fry' foods -- get the texture of crispy, deep fried foods -- with 1 tbsp of oil. Since I love deep-fried foods and can't stay away even though I know how many calories are involved, THIS IS AWESOME. I just hope it works as well for me as it seems to for other people.
Tomorrow's my first physical therapy appointment for my shoulder. I'm looking forward to possibly getting a diagnosis for what might be wrong with it. It's kind of frustrating that it's been so long that I haven't been able to use that arm normally.
Thank goodness it's a long weekend this weekend. On Sunday I'm going with K. and a few others to an early dinner at Kabul (an excellent little Afghan restaurant in Wallingford; such good lamb kebabs) then to see Sex & the City 2. From the lackluster promos I've seen, I'm not actually that excited about the movie, but so much that's great about S&tC doesn't necessarily lend itself to good clips out of context, so here's hoping.
