Today I woke up early and trudged through the rain through the streets of Harlem carrying 26 pounds of stuff with me to ship home (airlines charge wayyy too much for baggage overages these days). I then had my first (and probably last) Dunkin' Donut. Eh, not the greatest thing. The best part about it was that the menu had the calorie count written next to it, so I knew exactly how fat I was getting.
I decided to hop onto a subway and go to Times Square to catch another taping of the Sirius XM "Live on Broadway" show, because I read that Tony Vincent (an awesome Christian musical theatre performer/rock star whom I have been OBSESSED with since he was in the Jesus Christ Superstar revival and video about ten years ago- Judas in the show, Simon in the video. I receive email updates from him every now and then, that's how legit my fan-dom is). http://www.ankegroener.de/anke1/Bilder/tony_vincent4.jpg He was on the show promoting "American Idiot" but my favorite part of the interview was when he went on a rant about how there need to be more shows with no intermissions, because the intermission kills the atmosphere and if people can sit through movies without an intermission, they can probably sit through shows. OMG - anyone who knows me well has heard the EXACT SAME RANT from me at least once a week for the past few years. It was awesome. You can hear Tony Vincent saying my words in the replays of this show all week.
Before the show started, though, I made friends with a musical theatre student from Chi-town, and I got him to volunteer to be on the Showtune Showdown. It was awesome to have someone to root for, although I was no help when we both blanked on the name "Nikki Blonsky." Oh well. After the show, I talked him into coming to the "A Little Night Music" matinee with me starring Bernadette Peters and Elaine Stritch. Um... maybe this shouldn't be spread, but there was a man whose job it was to shout Elaine Stritch's lines and lyrics to her from offstage when she forgot them. It happened at least five times. Painful. Peters looks like she's thirty years old from the mezzanine, it almost doesn't work for the character. The show was as good as "A Little Night Music" could be, the actors, especially the ensemble, were fantastic. A lot of really beautiful voices. It struck me as rather sad how ensembles are only comprised of understudies these days- every ensemble member in this show looked like the identical twin of one of the principals. there were moments where it was even confusing.
After the matinee, I ran home and picked up my "past dated" tickets to "Lend Me A Tenor" to use them at tonight's evening performance. Finally. I'm really glad I was able to finally make it to this show, I felt so awful about losing the opportunity last week.
Dinner at Community on the Upper West Side, worked on my lines for tomorrow's shoot a little, met my friend Kim who just flew in briefly at the Hotel Roosevelt and then left her there with her new Aussie friend from the airport shuttle. She's staying with me, I expect to hear her (and her luggage) come in around 4am.
Tomorrow is my last real day here, and I'm going to be in production all day. Eh, that's showbiz, kid. Just don't quit your day job.
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