Tuesday in the city was very busy for the girls. After the Janet Jackson concert at 7:00 a.m. the exhausted girls went out for breakfast and then fell back to sleep for a couple of hours before heading to Brooklyn for Macbeth. Janet was all over town pushing her brand new CD, but we felt pretty cutting edge because we had seen her so early on the day of the release. One of the strangest things about being at the JJ concert was that the girls were sitting in the middle of all these beauty pageant females- about 25 women from the age of 2 to about 35. They were wearing tiaras and their sashes! A new fact that we learned is that there are plexiglass carrying cases for tiaras! The Culture Buddies watched in amazement as the beauties took off their coats, unlocked their tiara cases and spruced up for the cameras. Why, oh why, were the Culture Buddies seated in the middle of the beauty queens??!! Another example of life in the greatest city on earth!
Macbeth was an amazing production held at BAM- Brooklyn's very cool theater and starred Patrick Stewart who rates very high on the Culture Buddies list. We really love actors who have great Hollywood careers and tons of money who perform on Broadway anyway. Thi
s season's true stars to us- are people like Kevin Kline, Jennifer Garner, Claire Danes, Laura Linney and Patrick Stewart. The production of Macbeth was unlike anything imaginable. It is a Cold War version of the play with all kinds of groovy technical special effects going on. I was buying into the whole Cold War/ Fascist production until the witches - who were dressed as nurses - began doing their lines in rap. A little over the top for me! The good news is that the entire Brooklyn run is sold out and moving to Broadway for an 8 week run in a few weeks. YEAH good theater and smart audiences!
Today for the Wednesday matinee the Culture Buddies are breaking up and seeing different shows. I'm seeing August for the second time because one of the main roles was played by an understudy when we saw it in January. I had smoozed an usher about the difference between the performance of the understudy- who was great in our opinion- but the usher said the difference was between night and day. So I'm going back. Leslie somewhere along the line missed seeing Lion King so she is going this afternoon. Tonight we are seeing Sunday in the Park with George. It got a great review and the girls are always up for a little Sondheim.
The girls - over several drinks late last night - decided that we would skip GMA this morning. Seems a little too touristy to stand behind a line and watch Diane and Robin and the weatherman while holding our Culture Buddies sign! Two days in the city and the girls are shunning tourist traps!!
Love to all!
Ann and Leslie a.k.a. The Culture Buddies!!
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
New York Theater Trip: February 27, 2008
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
NYC Theater Trip: February 26, 2008
So, we arrived in NYC yesterday around 4:00--not bad considering we left Nashua at 10:30. After a little nap, we grabbbed a bite and went to Forbidden Broadway's new production, Rude Awakeni
ng--a spoof of recent Broadway musicals. It's in a tiny theatre (seats about 100), and we were third row center. Over our shoulder who do we see but David Hyde Pierce, very cute and relaxed looking in khakis and a baseball cap. The show started with a hysterical send up of the opening number of Spring Awakening,and it didn't let up until two hours later after making fun of basically all the musicals we saw last year. We were laughing hysterically (and yes, I let out a few uncontrollable snorts) pretty much throughout the whole thing and felt very in-the-know since we got all the inside jokes, etc.
The funniest part was watching David Hyde Pierce as he was being lampooned on the stage for his role in both Spamalot and Curtains. He had to take his glasses off and wipe away tears from laughing so hard. Of course, we chatted him up a bit during intermission (keeping to our motto: "Acknowledge, but don't fawn.") and he is really nice. He stayed after the show to take pictures with the cast and hang out with them which clearly thrilled the four actors in the show. It was a great night--after taking Adam G. and his girlfriend, Katie out to dinner, we came back to the room and crashed.
Up early this morning to head over to the Good Morning America studio audience. We had a confirmation letter to get in, but once we got there (6:00AM) we were told that they had canceled the studio audience for the day. There were tons of people there in three separate lines waiting to get in to a live Janet Jackson concert that GMA had scheduled in the Marquis Theatre. We were, of course, bummed out and a little pissed off that we had gotten out of bed so early . . . after whining a bit (charmingly, of course) to a couple of the security guards, one of them offered to let us come back tomorrow, promising that he would personally see that we got in with no problem. Cool.
As we were heading out to grab some breakfast, a young woman saw our Culture Buddies sign (thank you, Sarah!) and asked if we had a confirmation for the studio audience. I showed it to her, and she told us we could go into the Janet Jackson concert instead. We figured what the hell, and she put us at what looked like the back of the line. After awhile, she came back around and put numbers on the hands of the people in our line and told us to turn around and start going in. So, after they let in some "VIPS", the Culture Buddies ended up being #11 and #12 to go into the theatre--unbelievable . . .
Long story short, we had great seats, and we got to see Janet Jackson, her band, and her dancers perform three numbers. And we get to go back tomorrow morning if we want to! We're crashing now and will head to Brooklyn this afternoon. We're seeing Patrick Stewart in a very well-reviewed production of Macbeth tonight at the Brooklyn Academy of Music Theatre.
More later! Love from NYC,
Leslie and Ann (a.k.a. The Culture Buddies)
ng--a spoof of recent Broadway musicals. It's in a tiny theatre (seats about 100), and we were third row center. Over our shoulder who do we see but David Hyde Pierce, very cute and relaxed looking in khakis and a baseball cap. The show started with a hysterical send up of the opening number of Spring Awakening,and it didn't let up until two hours later after making fun of basically all the musicals we saw last year. We were laughing hysterically (and yes, I let out a few uncontrollable snorts) pretty much throughout the whole thing and felt very in-the-know since we got all the inside jokes, etc. The funniest part was watching David Hyde Pierce as he was being lampooned on the stage for his role in both Spamalot and Curtains. He had to take his glasses off and wipe away tears from laughing so hard. Of course, we chatted him up a bit during intermission (keeping to our motto: "Acknowledge, but don't fawn.") and he is really nice. He stayed after the show to take pictures with the cast and hang out with them which clearly thrilled the four actors in the show. It was a great night--after taking Adam G. and his girlfriend, Katie out to dinner, we came back to the room and crashed.
Up early this morning to head over to the Good Morning America studio audience. We had a confirmation letter to get in, but once we got there (6:00AM) we were told that they had canceled the studio audience for the day. There were tons of people there in three separate lines waiting to get in to a live Janet Jackson concert that GMA had scheduled in the Marquis Theatre. We were, of course, bummed out and a little pissed off that we had gotten out of bed so early . . . after whining a bit (charmingly, of course) to a couple of the security guards, one of them offered to let us come back tomorrow, promising that he would personally see that we got in with no problem. Cool.
As we were heading out to grab some breakfast, a young woman saw our Culture Buddies sign (thank you, Sarah!) and asked if we had a confirmation for the studio audience. I showed it to her, and she told us we could go into the Janet Jackson concert instead. We figured what the hell, and she put us at what looked like the back of the line. After awhile, she came back around and put numbers on the hands of the people in our line and told us to turn around and start going in. So, after they let in some "VIPS", the Culture Buddies ended up being #11 and #12 to go into the theatre--unbelievable . . .
Long story short, we had great seats, and we got to see Janet Jackson, her band, and her dancers perform three numbers. And we get to go back tomorrow morning if we want to! We're crashing now and will head to Brooklyn this afternoon. We're seeing Patrick Stewart in a very well-reviewed production of Macbeth tonight at the Brooklyn Academy of Music Theatre.
More later! Love from NYC,
Leslie and Ann (a.k.a. The Culture Buddies)
Monday, February 25, 2008
Official Results--Culture Buddies 2008 Oscar Pool
OFFICIAL POOL
Winner!! Leslie 15 correct
Candy 14
Ann 12
Nanci 12
Kate 11
Lluvia 11
Sarah 10
Josefine 10
Melissa 9
Sharyn 6, winner of the first annual Boobie Prize (complete with falsies)
SATELLITE POOL
Winner!! Casey 17 (!) correct
Ben 13
Matthew 10
Josh 7
Tom 7
Best Costumes (from a secret satellite location sick ward)
Kate and Lluvia, Sweeney Todd and Mrs. Lovett
Other Outstanding Costumes:
- Ann as a very pregnant Juno
- Sharyn as a not so pregnant Juno
- Leslie as Javier's evil character in No Country . . . with a really bad wig that she burned trying to curl it into the perfect page boy
- Nanci as a beautifully moustached Josh Brolin from No Country . . .
- Sarah and Melissa as blissed out flower girls from Across the Universe
- Candy as her lovely self
Thanks to all who participated--for all you losers, there's always next year!
Winner!! Leslie 15 correct
Candy 14
Ann 12
Nanci 12
Kate 11
Lluvia 11
Sarah 10
Josefine 10
Melissa 9
Sharyn 6, winner of the first annual Boobie Prize (complete with falsies)
SATELLITE POOL
Winner!! Casey 17 (!) correct
Ben 13
Matthew 10
Josh 7
Tom 7
Best Costumes (from a secret satellite location sick ward)
Kate and Lluvia, Sweeney Todd and Mrs. Lovett
Other Outstanding Costumes:
- Ann as a very pregnant Juno
- Sharyn as a not so pregnant Juno
- Leslie as Javier's evil character in No Country . . . with a really bad wig that she burned trying to curl it into the perfect page boy
- Nanci as a beautifully moustached Josh Brolin from No Country . . .
- Sarah and Melissa as blissed out flower girls from Across the Universe
- Candy as her lovely self
Thanks to all who participated--for all you losers, there's always next year!
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