I saw it last night (first National Tour with Douglas Sills and Sara Gettelfinger) and it was lovely and much tighter than the Broadway production (that I saw with Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth). New songs in, old squid is now fried calamari. Missed a recorder (the Sandisk) so I have options with the HiMD and actually used the voice memo app-thingy ( Read more... )

Idina Menzel at Koerner Hall, Toronto, ON

Life of the Party

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What a wonderful evening it was. Although, technically I suppose that it was the furthest away I've seen Mr Sondheim on stage ( Read more... )

Sometime tomorrow I will be updating a post with the songlist from this evening and the audio from this evening.

Off the top of my head:

Overture to Gypsy (Symphonic)
Selections from Bizet
Prelude to Act 1, from Suite No. 1
Aragonaise, from Suite No. 1
Habanera, from Suite No. 2
Les Toreadors, from Suite No. 1Introduction and "All that Jazz" from ( Read more... )

So...

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He'll be here in less than two weeks, and it's at the Isabel Bader which is very conveniently reachable via public transit.

Easier (and cheaper) than trekking down to NYC to watch a performance. ;)

An Evening with Patti LuPone is something that should never be missed. Combine that with the possibility of Mandy Patinkin on the stage, and suddenly everyone might wonder if the stage is big enough for these two very big diva egos. :) Take comfort in the fact that the songs and the music fill the space so much that the almost Doyle-ian scenery ( ( Read more... )

"My wife takes pills and I drink. That's the bargain we've struck." -- One of the early lines we hear from Tracy Letts' August: Osage County.

It's on a short run here in the City, but well worth the time (3h20m) to see the production.

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Priscilla Queen of the Desert Will Strut to Broadway in Early 2011By Kenneth Jones ( Read more... )

Two photos that actually turned out. These were taken with a point-and-shoot... so the quality is a lot less desirable than either of the cameras of doom.

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