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violet_angel) wrote2009-06-13 06:42 pm
violet_angel) wrote2009-06-13 06:42 pm
I didn't mean to be away this long...
Sometimes things just happen. Like life. But I'm still here.
Biggest thing to report happened last Sunday!!
Yeah, so I just looked at the calendar. Oops. Big time fail! So...let's see what all has happened...
ALICE RIPLEY WON THE TONY!!!!! I am so happy for and proud of her!! She totally deserved it! The show won Score and Orchestrations as well. I wish the voters had had the balls to go against the "machine" and vote for a NEW (as in not 5 years old and at least the third mounting of it), ORIGINAL (as in not taken from a movie...specifically written by the guy who wrote the movie script and directed by the guy who directed the movie), AMERICAN (as in not imported from England or anywhere else) musical. But I can deal. ALICE WON THE TONY!!
I was with friends at a Tony Party, and I was shaking and crying ~ it was unreal. I figured I would be losing it when I was shaking when Tom and Brian beat Elton John (and the Billy Elliot juggernaut) for Best Score. And I figured right.
I was supposed to see the show on Tuesday, but Alice was out. So hello refund. Well, my preference was (and the house manager said it was possible) a straight exchange. But the box office guys thought they knew better. AARGH!! Thankfully a wonderful friend got me a ticket for Wednesday, so I WAS at Alice's first show after winning the Tony. The crowd was electric as were the performances, but not nearly what I'm sure it would have been had she been in on Tuesday. Still. YAY! Also the new Gabe (Kyle Dean Massey) is very good. I LOVED the sort of apprehensive mood that was present in "I Dreamed A Dance" with him...though I understand from Sharon it wasn't as much evident last night. Which...I guess that's an "if I ran the world" thing...I like it with Diana being a lot more apprehensive than the potentially squicky borderline romantic feel it usually has. Anyway...it definitely doesn't ruin my experience.
So that's the biggest news really to report right now. I'll get back to my thoughtful posts later.
Biggest thing to report happened last Sunday!!
Yeah, so I just looked at the calendar. Oops. Big time fail! So...let's see what all has happened...
ALICE RIPLEY WON THE TONY!!!!! I am so happy for and proud of her!! She totally deserved it! The show won Score and Orchestrations as well. I wish the voters had had the balls to go against the "machine" and vote for a NEW (as in not 5 years old and at least the third mounting of it), ORIGINAL (as in not taken from a movie...specifically written by the guy who wrote the movie script and directed by the guy who directed the movie), AMERICAN (as in not imported from England or anywhere else) musical. But I can deal. ALICE WON THE TONY!!
I was with friends at a Tony Party, and I was shaking and crying ~ it was unreal. I figured I would be losing it when I was shaking when Tom and Brian beat Elton John (and the Billy Elliot juggernaut) for Best Score. And I figured right.
I was supposed to see the show on Tuesday, but Alice was out. So hello refund. Well, my preference was (and the house manager said it was possible) a straight exchange. But the box office guys thought they knew better. AARGH!! Thankfully a wonderful friend got me a ticket for Wednesday, so I WAS at Alice's first show after winning the Tony. The crowd was electric as were the performances, but not nearly what I'm sure it would have been had she been in on Tuesday. Still. YAY! Also the new Gabe (Kyle Dean Massey) is very good. I LOVED the sort of apprehensive mood that was present in "I Dreamed A Dance" with him...though I understand from Sharon it wasn't as much evident last night. Which...I guess that's an "if I ran the world" thing...I like it with Diana being a lot more apprehensive than the potentially squicky borderline romantic feel it usually has. Anyway...it definitely doesn't ruin my experience.
So that's the biggest news really to report right now. I'll get back to my thoughtful posts later.