West Side Story opened on Broadway 50 years ago and there was a special on NPR tonight in its honor. Which of course reminded me of a thread back in the day on nocturne_alley when seamus_f and turpinol (RIP) cast West Side Story using their classmates. Enjoy.

Thanks to sistermagpie, I saw Alan Tudyk in Prelude to a Kiss last night. He was quite good, though I'm not the hugest fan of this play. His character, Peter, spends most of it being frustrated, and that just makes me frustrated. However, he spent nearly the entire first act and some of the second sans shirt. I'm very sure that in preparation for spending ( Read more... )

So.

Pinter.

Fancy that.

In other news, paper is finally done and sent. Also I may have finally delurked in CSI which means I'll should start reviewing now like a good girl.

So I saw Rent for the third time, and the first time since 1997. I saw it once with the original cast in 1996, rather early in the run, and then once with most of the original cast except Mimi and maybe Benny and Maureen though I can't remember. I've never seen it with any of the famous types in it, though I had forgotten that of course none of ( Read more... )