Sunday night was Tony night! So today's Music Monday is dedicated to Broadway.

Mostly, it's dedicated to Newsies: the Musical. Because as fun as the movie was, there were a lot of problems with it. And the show fixed a lot of those problems and made it awesome. I saw it in May and might see it again.

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I posted this on Facebook, Twitter, and in the Dragonfly, but I think there are a few people who are here who are not in any of those places.

I went to see the play Regrets yesterday. I went alone, because I couldn't find a buddy to go with me, but it worked out fine. I took the bus to the Port Authority, and then walked up to 55th St (about 12 ( Read more... )

Quickly, because I don't have a lot of time. FAN DAY at the Paper Mill Playhouse was in October.

FAN DAY was celebrating the first professional stage production of Newsies. There was a pre-show reception at the theater where fans could casually meet & greet with the actors from the show... and the movie. Yes, that's right. Oh, and it wasn't just ( Read more... )

In TV news, I finished watching Everwood last week. I'm glad I finally finished it, and let me say that the series finale made so much more sense this time around. I'd watched it when it first aired, but at the time I'd only seen the first season. I don't even remember if I'd seen all of first season at the time. I had so many questions like " ( Read more... )

Anecdote #1:

A few weeks ago, when I went to see Lend Me a Tenor, toward the beginning of the play, one of the female characters was gushing to her boyfriend about the opera star, and how she met him once, and he kissed her! She asked for an autograph, lent him a pen, and he kissed her palm. The boyfriend's response? "He's Italian; they kiss ( Read more... )

So, this evening, I had the pleasure of watching the movie HairWell, there's this one scene where the entire group gets arrested. And they're standing in the courthouse, and the judge sentences them to 30 days in the workhouse or a $50 fine each ( Read more... )

Just had the following conversation with tibby82.

adina: How much do I love that you have Spot Conlon as one of your interests? Yet, he's the only one, which I find incredibly amusing. No Racetrack, no Jack Kelly...
Tibby: Have you seen the movie? Spot Conlon was the only one that mattered. So hott.

Y'know, for a teenage boy.

Have I seen the movie? harumph ( Read more... )