Things we saw on the subway tonight
* Large, handsome African-American actor reciting obscure speech from Shakespeare's KING JOHN (very well! we all gave him money. He began boomingly: "Your graces pardoned..." and we thought it was going to be a sermon at first! So good.).
* Korean kid with orange striped hair doing loud, impressive, complicated tap dance routine on platform @ 42nd St.
* Woman with delicious hat (a "fascinator") but a rather sour expression
I impute all this to the presence of my visiting friend Nick, from Maine - clearly NYC was showing off for him! He is here to read some characters in Monday's actors' voice recording of the Swordspoint audiobook. It will be SO GOOD.
We went to see our friend Michael Schumacher dancing in a piece Peter Sellars is working on about the Vimalakirti Sutra at the Rubin Museum. Sellars spoke for almost an hour, and we were so close we coulda hugged him. Man, I love that guy. Beforehand the program director, the fabulous Tim McHenry, told some people behind us that they should present the performers with something after - I spun around and said, "Oh, *I* wanna give Michael the flowers!" Turned out they were ahermaherm The Rubins - as in the people who founded the museum. Fortunately she was perfectly lovely, turned out to be a big SF reader, so we swapped titles til the performance began - and she asked for my card.
Such is life - sometimes.
* Korean kid with orange striped hair doing loud, impressive, complicated tap dance routine on platform @ 42nd St.
* Woman with delicious hat (a "fascinator") but a rather sour expression
I impute all this to the presence of my visiting friend Nick, from Maine - clearly NYC was showing off for him! He is here to read some characters in Monday's actors' voice recording of the Swordspoint audiobook. It will be SO GOOD.
We went to see our friend Michael Schumacher dancing in a piece Peter Sellars is working on about the Vimalakirti Sutra at the Rubin Museum. Sellars spoke for almost an hour, and we were so close we coulda hugged him. Man, I love that guy. Beforehand the program director, the fabulous Tim McHenry, told some people behind us that they should present the performers with something after - I spun around and said, "Oh, *I* wanna give Michael the flowers!" Turned out they were ahermaherm The Rubins - as in the people who founded the museum. Fortunately she was perfectly lovely, turned out to be a big SF reader, so we swapped titles til the performance began - and she asked for my card.
Such is life - sometimes.