The morning started with a nice snowfall, an inch or two fell between 7 and about 10:30. I was in midtown around 11 and they were clearing it fast up there for tonight’s Times Square madness. Here’s a few pictures shot downtown this morning around 9. I suspect anything else that falls today will be [...]
31Dec09
Snowy New Year’s Eve
30Dec09
Ragtime
This revival of Ragtime is a first for Will and I. It’s the first time we’ve seen a Broadway revival of a show that we also saw the original Broadway cast. Ragtime originally played the Ford Center for the Performing Arts (now known as the Hilton Theatre) from December 26, 1997 to January 16, 2000. [...]
27Dec09
A Little Night Music
What a sublime afternoon at the theatre. The revival of Stephen Sondheim/Hugh Wheeler musical A Little Night Music is about as perfect as a musical can get. This show, in its first revival since its 1973 premiere, has super star power casting with Catherine Zeta-Jones showing that her singing and dancing isn’t only for the [...]
26Dec09
My Blood Runs Cold
Jeff got me several Troy Donahue DVD’s from the Warner Archive Collection for Christmas. I’ve just finished watching My Blood Runs Cold(1965) and, while it’s not as campy as I’d have hoped, there’s still plenty to recommend it. Troy plays a drifterwho is convinced that Joey Heatherton is the reincarnation of his long-dead lover. The [...]
25Dec09
Nine
I’ve been back and forth over the past couple months between anticipating Nine and being scared of it. Now that I’ve seen it, I understand why I felt that way. The movie is simply okay with its big production numbers being the best thing going for it. The story is there, but its execution is [...]
25Dec09
Friday Geek Out: Top 10 of 2009
I enjoyed this so much last year, I decided to do a consolidated top 10 list again this year for the things the world that struck me as being the best of the year. 1) Will! He had the top spot last year and he does this year too (and wouldn’t it be wrong if [...]
