New York Minute
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First off
Living in New York... INCREDIBLE!!!
My classmates: awesome bundles of freakish talent, wit, and all-around wonderfulness.
The Year II'ers ("Cycle 16") threw us Year I'ers ("Cycle 17") a "Welcome to the City" BBQ
Cycle 17 Love
The Cycle 17 love is so excessive that we will use any opportunity to throw a party.
"First Rooftop Party" Party
Flying!
Shows we have gotten to see for free:
Avenue Q
Hairspray
And Amy and I befriended Lisa Howard (currently starring in Spelling Bee), who got us comps. After the show we got to play with the cast.
Amy, Lisa, and I after Spelling Bee
Barret Foa! (also in Spelling Bee and formerly "Princeton" in the last cast of Avenue Q on Broadway).
We decided to go to Gay Night at Six Flags Great Adventure...
...which meant we had to rent a car and drive into Jersey. Jersey smells like ass, and is just as ugly as you'd think.
Drunk and sweaty in the a.m.
We went to see Mother Courage and Her Children in Central Park starring
MERYL STREEP!!!!
AND KEVIN KLINE!!!!
THERE THEY WERE LIKE 30 FEET IN FRONT OF ME!
Too bad it rained. But they did it anyway!
Meryl Streep.
Doing Brecht.
In the rain.
LIVE!
No words can describe it.
Except for "cold." "Cold" could describe it.
Reconnecting with old friends
Playing with new ones
Musical Theater Composers/Performers + Alcohol + Piano = Perfection
Jamming at a little dive in the West Village.
The San Gennaro Festival in Little Italy.
And then there's Dante and me... swoonage
When we're out, we don't smile in pictures. We do Sexy Face. It's like Ebony & Ivory, but we're hotter than Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder.
On Monday I'm meeting Ahrens and Flaherty (the team that wrote Ragtime). I'm taking classes taught by Michael John LaChiusa (The Wild Party) and Bill Finn (Falsettos and Spelling Bee). My personal advisor is Mel Marvin, the composer of How the Grinch Stole Christmas, which opens on Broadway later this season. And in January, I am interning at the City Center Theater and I get to work on the new production of Sondheim's Follies.
Life is grand. I wake up every morning excited to be alive. I love getting to see Lindsay whenever I want. I love living around the corner from the theater district, and getting to bump into famous people on the street on a daily basis. I love being taught by the real movers and shakers of Broadway.
I also love procrastonating on a major project that's due on Tuesday. I've got a few days...
...time to go play!
First off
Living in New York... INCREDIBLE!!!
My classmates: awesome bundles of freakish talent, wit, and all-around wonderfulness.
The Year II'ers ("Cycle 16") threw us Year I'ers ("Cycle 17") a "Welcome to the City" BBQ
Cycle 17 Love
The Cycle 17 love is so excessive that we will use any opportunity to throw a party.
"First Rooftop Party" Party
Flying!
Shows we have gotten to see for free:
Avenue Q
Hairspray
And Amy and I befriended Lisa Howard (currently starring in Spelling Bee), who got us comps. After the show we got to play with the cast.
Amy, Lisa, and I after Spelling Bee
Barret Foa! (also in Spelling Bee and formerly "Princeton" in the last cast of Avenue Q on Broadway).
We decided to go to Gay Night at Six Flags Great Adventure...
...which meant we had to rent a car and drive into Jersey. Jersey smells like ass, and is just as ugly as you'd think.
Drunk and sweaty in the a.m.
We went to see Mother Courage and Her Children in Central Park starring
MERYL STREEP!!!!
AND KEVIN KLINE!!!!
THERE THEY WERE LIKE 30 FEET IN FRONT OF ME!
Too bad it rained. But they did it anyway!
Meryl Streep.
Doing Brecht.
In the rain.
LIVE!
No words can describe it.
Except for "cold." "Cold" could describe it.
Reconnecting with old friends
Playing with new ones
Musical Theater Composers/Performers + Alcohol + Piano = Perfection
Jamming at a little dive in the West Village.
The San Gennaro Festival in Little Italy.
And then there's Dante and me... swoonage
When we're out, we don't smile in pictures. We do Sexy Face. It's like Ebony & Ivory, but we're hotter than Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder.
On Monday I'm meeting Ahrens and Flaherty (the team that wrote Ragtime). I'm taking classes taught by Michael John LaChiusa (The Wild Party) and Bill Finn (Falsettos and Spelling Bee). My personal advisor is Mel Marvin, the composer of How the Grinch Stole Christmas, which opens on Broadway later this season. And in January, I am interning at the City Center Theater and I get to work on the new production of Sondheim's Follies.
Life is grand. I wake up every morning excited to be alive. I love getting to see Lindsay whenever I want. I love living around the corner from the theater district, and getting to bump into famous people on the street on a daily basis. I love being taught by the real movers and shakers of Broadway.
I also love procrastonating on a major project that's due on Tuesday. I've got a few days...
...time to go play!