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I seem incapable of posting in non-list form anymore, but here are some Super Badass Things that happened to me this weekend:
1) Traveled to NY! Actual mini-vacation! This is sort of the basic badass thing that underlies all the other badass things.
2) Saw Idina Menzel + Anthony Rapp + original Daniel-from-Once on This Island + Jason Lam a.k.a. the-best-part-of-Every Little Step + other awesome people in If/Then. Which I have...mixed feelings about, but all the cast were awesome and many of the songs were great and I think I really liked it on the whole. (There was one really unnecessarily biphobic moment that I'm still struggling with, but Anthony Rapp also played an amazing bisexual character and so...feelings. Mixed feelings.)
3) Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder! Hysterical adaptation of Kind Hearts and Coronets! My friend Megan is a co-producer! Super great!
4) Got to see said friend Megan for the first time in nearly a year, so that was nice.
5) Saw the new Caryl Churchill play, Love and Information, which was wonderful and just gave me so much to think and talk about.
6) Jerusalem artichokes.
7) Saw a sneak preview of a new Carmen adaptation supported by an astoundingly good Afro-Cuban jazz band playing at Birdland. The Carmen is...maybe one of the more beautiful people I've ever seen.
8) Also saw a sneak preview of the A.R.T.'s next musical. Not only is it coming together nicely, but I sat behind Anna Wintour and Georgina Chapman at the read through, which was kind of surreal. It was so hard to explain to my dad who they were.
9) And Sophie Okonedo totally sniped our table at a restaurant! And I barely even cared because I was so proud of my guest actor bingo skills in recognizing her and figuring out why she would be in town. (I definitely called that it would have something to do with Raisin in the Sun.) She is also super beautiful -- the only thing making me less than positive that it was her is that she legitimately looks 29-years-old, but is actually 45-ish.
10) Famous director friend keeps being ridiculously nice and vaguely offering me jobs that I can't take, and now I'm sending him an essay I wrote in undergrad on a book he's adapting, which...both super embarrassed and super proud? Because on the one hand, it's undergrad, and on the other, I was really proud of that essay and I think he will actually get a lot out of it and ahhhh. < / humblebrag >
ALSO I THINK HE AND I WEAR THE SAME PERFUME (when I wear perfume at all) but that's not really the kind of thing you can ask a man? Like you can't just say, "What's up, brah*? Is that pomegranate noir?"
* disclaimer: I have never called anyone "brah", least of all a gay man old enough to be my father and whom I may want one day to employ me
1) Traveled to NY! Actual mini-vacation! This is sort of the basic badass thing that underlies all the other badass things.
2) Saw Idina Menzel + Anthony Rapp + original Daniel-from-Once on This Island + Jason Lam a.k.a. the-best-part-of-Every Little Step + other awesome people in If/Then. Which I have...mixed feelings about, but all the cast were awesome and many of the songs were great and I think I really liked it on the whole. (There was one really unnecessarily biphobic moment that I'm still struggling with, but Anthony Rapp also played an amazing bisexual character and so...feelings. Mixed feelings.)
3) Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder! Hysterical adaptation of Kind Hearts and Coronets! My friend Megan is a co-producer! Super great!
4) Got to see said friend Megan for the first time in nearly a year, so that was nice.
5) Saw the new Caryl Churchill play, Love and Information, which was wonderful and just gave me so much to think and talk about.
6) Jerusalem artichokes.
7) Saw a sneak preview of a new Carmen adaptation supported by an astoundingly good Afro-Cuban jazz band playing at Birdland. The Carmen is...maybe one of the more beautiful people I've ever seen.
8) Also saw a sneak preview of the A.R.T.'s next musical. Not only is it coming together nicely, but I sat behind Anna Wintour and Georgina Chapman at the read through, which was kind of surreal. It was so hard to explain to my dad who they were.
9) And Sophie Okonedo totally sniped our table at a restaurant! And I barely even cared because I was so proud of my guest actor bingo skills in recognizing her and figuring out why she would be in town. (I definitely called that it would have something to do with Raisin in the Sun.) She is also super beautiful -- the only thing making me less than positive that it was her is that she legitimately looks 29-years-old, but is actually 45-ish.
10) Famous director friend keeps being ridiculously nice and vaguely offering me jobs that I can't take, and now I'm sending him an essay I wrote in undergrad on a book he's adapting, which...both super embarrassed and super proud? Because on the one hand, it's undergrad, and on the other, I was really proud of that essay and I think he will actually get a lot out of it and ahhhh. < / humblebrag >
ALSO I THINK HE AND I WEAR THE SAME PERFUME (when I wear perfume at all) but that's not really the kind of thing you can ask a man? Like you can't just say, "What's up, brah*? Is that pomegranate noir?"
* disclaimer: I have never called anyone "brah", least of all a gay man old enough to be my father and whom I may want one day to employ me