Archive for December, 2009
Snowy New Year’s Eve
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 [...]
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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. [...]
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A Little Night Music
Category: Theatre | tagged A Little Night Music, Angela Landsbury, Broadway, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Elizabeth Taylor, Grace Jones, Judi Dench, musical
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 [...]
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My Blood Runs Cold
Category: Movies | tagged Joey Heatherton, My Blood Runs Cold, Troy Donahue
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Friday Geek Out: Top 10 of 2009
Category: Books, Geek Out, Hockey, Life in General, Movies, TV, Theatre | tagged A Chorus Line, Big Gay Ice Cream Truck, biking, Bill Konigsberg, Carrie: The Musical, Farmville, Glee, Isabelle Rowan, Jenna Hilary Sinclair, Martin Wilson, Next to Normal, So You Think You Can Dance
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 he [...]
It’s Begining To Look A Lot Like Christmas
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Ready To Be “Carried Away”
Sure there are lots of great movies to see over the next couple of weeks—Nine, A Single Man,Sherlock Holmes, The Blind Side (it’s true, still haven’t seen that one), It’s Complicated, Did You Hear About the Morgans?, Invictus and I might get moved to see Avatar—but I’m already eager for May 2010.
I hope this is [...]
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Tigers Have Excellent Night; Wizards, Not So Much
On the night of the 2009 Blizzard, some very mixed hockey was played. Interestingly it was not only snowing outside, it was somehow snowing inside the building too. Snow flurries were falling on both rinks, which added a nice magical quality to things.
The first game of the night was the Wizards versus top team Thundercats. [...]
TV Dance-a-poolza, Week 13 (The End)
What a performance finale for So You Think You Can Dance Nine dances were performed as each of the dancers performed three times, meaning everyone danced with everyone else. I thought seven of those nine dances were fantastic, one of the nine was a clunker and another one was simply superb.
Here’s a run down of [...]
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