Post-New York Trip update
Well, this past weekend was the pitt trip to NYC. We stayed at a shity Holiday Inn in Hell's Kitchen on 57th between 9th and 10th. It was quirky to say the least. I had an east german spackling and painting the ceiling in the first room before we got the new one, the cleaning crew put a towel down to clean up Kelley's soaked carpet, the elevators shook like crazy, and Kevin had to kill a cockroach on his wall Saturday night. Yeah, "quirky"'ll do it. I didn't really get to go many of the places I wanted to go (ie. china town, little italy, peanut butter co.), but I did get to see good theatre which is really what matters.
The first show, after running after Kevin so we wouldn't get lost, trying to explain to some poor italian man that we don't know which train he should get on because we're not from New York, and eating some fantastic Indian food across the street in the villiage, was Red Light Winter by Adam Rapp.
Good show. Great set, amazing acting, and interesting story. About unrequited love and human relationships. But, I have to agree with the New York Times : "Mr. Rapp is a playwright of obvious promise and carefully honed gifts, and it's a hopeful sign that his writing continues to mature. Now he just needs to find something truly new or truly meaningful to say."
The next show, after the mueseum of art and the Darwin Exibit, was:
Oh my god. So, so good! I want to see it again. What I got out of it was that killing, for whatever reason, is pointless. I am not going to even try to explain the plot. All I'm going to say is most of the cast ends up dead because somebody killed poor Wee Thomas, who turns out never to have died in the first place. "That's Wee Thomas. . .""Then what the feck cat is this?!" So much blood. So, so much blood. I've got to atleast buy the script off amazon.
Last show was Sweeney Todd with Patti LuPone and Micheal Cervaris. It was very good, I wouldn't expect otherwise with those two. The entire cast was onstage the entire show because they were the orchestra. I enjoyed it, but I wasn't amazed with it. It is was what I expected, basically. I did like that Cervaris managed to make Sweeney a likable character. It's far to easy to make a character like that terrible and hated, its hard to make the audience care.
All in all, I liked Lieutenant of Inishmore the best. I'm going to go do all the things I didn't get to when I go back for spring break, so no big deal. I think when I go into Ricky's I'll pick up my wig for the strip club scene if we have my costume figured out by then.
The first show, after running after Kevin so we wouldn't get lost, trying to explain to some poor italian man that we don't know which train he should get on because we're not from New York, and eating some fantastic Indian food across the street in the villiage, was Red Light Winter by Adam Rapp.
Good show. Great set, amazing acting, and interesting story. About unrequited love and human relationships. But, I have to agree with the New York Times : "Mr. Rapp is a playwright of obvious promise and carefully honed gifts, and it's a hopeful sign that his writing continues to mature. Now he just needs to find something truly new or truly meaningful to say."
The next show, after the mueseum of art and the Darwin Exibit, was:
Oh my god. So, so good! I want to see it again. What I got out of it was that killing, for whatever reason, is pointless. I am not going to even try to explain the plot. All I'm going to say is most of the cast ends up dead because somebody killed poor Wee Thomas, who turns out never to have died in the first place. "That's Wee Thomas. . .""Then what the feck cat is this?!" So much blood. So, so much blood. I've got to atleast buy the script off amazon.
Last show was Sweeney Todd with Patti LuPone and Micheal Cervaris. It was very good, I wouldn't expect otherwise with those two. The entire cast was onstage the entire show because they were the orchestra. I enjoyed it, but I wasn't amazed with it. It is was what I expected, basically. I did like that Cervaris managed to make Sweeney a likable character. It's far to easy to make a character like that terrible and hated, its hard to make the audience care.
All in all, I liked Lieutenant of Inishmore the best. I'm going to go do all the things I didn't get to when I go back for spring break, so no big deal. I think when I go into Ricky's I'll pick up my wig for the strip club scene if we have my costume figured out by then.