Even though the CB's live 8 miles away from each other, they begin their days the exact same way. They jump out of bed and head straight for their front steps to grab The New York Times and go straight to the Arts & Leisure section. We expecially love it when they review a play we have already seen. This morning was a great day because they reviewed Cat on A Hot Tin Roof which the Culture Buddies saw last week. The NYT praised Anika Noni Rose's performance as Maggie as much as the CultureBuddies did in a previous post and agreed with us that she was the strongest part of the production. What a thrill to have the smarty-pants theatre reviewer from The NYT agree with the assessment of the Culture Buddies! This made us think of other things that thrill the CB's. Here are some of them:
- Opening The NYT and seeing a huge, full color add for a show that we have already seen or announcing an upcoming play that we already have tickets for.
- Seeing a play like In the Heights Off-Broadway on a hunch that it will be good, loving it, and then seeing it end up Broadway.
- Seeing an un-reviewed Broadway play like Spring Awakening early in previews, loving it and watching the play become a huge phenomenon.
- Seeing a show that is so wonderful that we leap to our feet at the end (usually along with everyone around us) for a standing ovation.
- Getting to a show and realizing that they have a magnet to add to our collection!!
- Not ever being accosted on the streets of New York by the guys selling tourist bus trips around the city because we look like native New Yorkers. Leslie especially loves it when someone asks her for directions, and she gives them a definitive answer whether she knows what she's talking about or not.
- Having a waiter who greets us with a kiss and asks, "What plays are you ladies seeing this time" whenever we stop by at his restaurant for breakfast.
- Striking up deep conversations about theatre with other native New Yorkers who are amazed (and embarrassed) by how many plays we've seen.
- Seeing Rude Awakening: Forbidden Broadway and getting every single joke because we have seen all the plays they're making fun of, even though we live in NH.
- Walking out of a show and having Casey and Ben waiting for us!
- Loving a performance so much that Ann MUST write one of her fawning notes to the actor. Recent recipients: Eve Best (Homecoming), Violet's understudy in August: Osage County, Jonathan Groff and John Gallagher, Jr. (Spring Awakening), Anika Noni Rose (Cat . . .).
Being moved to tears by performances and displays of talent (full disclosure: Leslie is the cry baby).
