Last night, I attended my first Rosh Hashanah service in over fifteen years. It was one of those “Beginner” services for Jewish adults who have little to no religious training. One of the members of the congregation has a tradition of opening his home to anyone who doesn’t have a place to go for the Holiday meal. After some coercion from a few ( Read more... )

This is the second night this week I've woken up at 2AM and not been able to get back to sleep (it's now 4:30). Me no likee.

So I just watched Center Stage on YouTube. It's a guilty pleasure movie. God, the acting sucks, but the dancing is so wonderful, and Peter Gallagher, Donna Murphy, Priscilla Lopez and Debra Monk are in it. The Musical Theatre ( Read more... )

I keep listening to my class from Sunday on my iPod. Specifically, I keep listening to the same few seconds of it.

Quite apropos for the weather (torrential), I worked on a song from an Off-Broadway show called The Flood, about the floods in Missouri in 1992. The song is called "It's Amazing the Things that Float", and it's sung by a woman who is ( Read more... )

One of my friends just got her first HUGE HUGE GIG!

She's going to be a swing in a VERY popular "revival" of a musical currently running on the Broadway (Think escaped convicts, think revolutionary students, think obsessed cops. Ring any bells?).

She's one of the good people that things like this should happen to, and I am incredibly happy for her.

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