Intellectuals
Met up with Susan BW for a lovely McDonald's dinner before the show. We sat and chatted and caught up on each other's lives. Then, who should coincidentally walk in but Booth! He came and sat with us for about a half an hour, as he had some time to kill before he was supposed to take over someone's shift somewhere. Then he got a call that she made it on time, so he didn't have to be there at all, so he basically came in just to see me and Susan. He's auditioning for a Moliere soon. Also, his cabaret got a good review! (he's down near the bottom of the page). Thinking I should pass on my "I Hate Musicals" song from Lights of the City to him- it could work in his cabaret with very few lyrical adjustments. He hopes to be at Susan Rankus' birthday party this weekend. Susan BW has been thinking about getting out of the cater-waiter thing and trying some temping. She was worried that she didn't have enough skills, but we assured her that skills are often unnecessary. Booth and I traded war stories of our worst temp jobs.
Then Susan and I walked over to the theater, where we ran into Stephanie outside, and Andrew a few minutes later. We went upstairs and saw David and Nick. Amy was there to see the show, too. We got our tickets, where some workshop woman was very rude to Susan.
The show was just delightful- hilarious, touching, and sweet. A farce with a sweet litte heart. Jess is brilliant, of course. Everyone else is delighful, too, especially one of the actresses who was in LOL, too, who is wonderfully chameleonic in this.
We sat in front of some people with press kits (Susan said one of them was an agency rep who she'd asked to come to The Wastes of Time and he didn't). We'd intended to laugh and clap, but the show was so good we didn't have to fake it.
The only blight on the peach was the technical issues- there were music and sound issues all through the play- in the first act (we heard later from David), the sound guy had used an old CD with the wrong sound cues on it (though David had told him to destroy it when he got the new one), and didn't test it first. In the second act he apparently somehow turned off the CD player, and then had serious issues with an important sound cue. Actor, alone on stage, did his best.
Saw Jess afterward, and he was thrilled that we all came, we were all congratulating each other on our Spotlight On Awards. The agency rep who was sitting in front of us decided that he had the perfect boyfriend for Jess, and got Jess' phone number in order to set them up. We later saw him on the phone excitedly giving the mystery man Jess' number. WEIRD.
Peter, who was to have been our singer in Messiah until he got a cruise ship gig, was there, newly back from the cruise- clearly he made the most of his opportunity to tan and work out A LOT. Boy has arms for days now.
Asked Stephanie if she knew Cute Boy Alex, since she went to college with Shawn, and she said the name sounded familiar, but she didn't know him; but that that wasn't particularly surprising because she was kind of anti-social in college. Stephanie loves me- I told her to get my number from Jess and to call me.
Jess wasn't sure if he was going back to his new place in Queens or staying uptown with Stephanie, so he said to go along without him. I ended up on the E, which Andrew and Susan both can take to get part of their way uptown.
Then Susan and I walked over to the theater, where we ran into Stephanie outside, and Andrew a few minutes later. We went upstairs and saw David and Nick. Amy was there to see the show, too. We got our tickets, where some workshop woman was very rude to Susan.
The show was just delightful- hilarious, touching, and sweet. A farce with a sweet litte heart. Jess is brilliant, of course. Everyone else is delighful, too, especially one of the actresses who was in LOL, too, who is wonderfully chameleonic in this.
We sat in front of some people with press kits (Susan said one of them was an agency rep who she'd asked to come to The Wastes of Time and he didn't). We'd intended to laugh and clap, but the show was so good we didn't have to fake it.
The only blight on the peach was the technical issues- there were music and sound issues all through the play- in the first act (we heard later from David), the sound guy had used an old CD with the wrong sound cues on it (though David had told him to destroy it when he got the new one), and didn't test it first. In the second act he apparently somehow turned off the CD player, and then had serious issues with an important sound cue. Actor, alone on stage, did his best.
Saw Jess afterward, and he was thrilled that we all came, we were all congratulating each other on our Spotlight On Awards. The agency rep who was sitting in front of us decided that he had the perfect boyfriend for Jess, and got Jess' phone number in order to set them up. We later saw him on the phone excitedly giving the mystery man Jess' number. WEIRD.
Peter, who was to have been our singer in Messiah until he got a cruise ship gig, was there, newly back from the cruise- clearly he made the most of his opportunity to tan and work out A LOT. Boy has arms for days now.
Asked Stephanie if she knew Cute Boy Alex, since she went to college with Shawn, and she said the name sounded familiar, but she didn't know him; but that that wasn't particularly surprising because she was kind of anti-social in college. Stephanie loves me- I told her to get my number from Jess and to call me.
Jess wasn't sure if he was going back to his new place in Queens or staying uptown with Stephanie, so he said to go along without him. I ended up on the E, which Andrew and Susan both can take to get part of their way uptown.