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Here are the results of my ticket buying spree for my upcoming London trip.

I now own tickets for:

Hamlet (at the Royal Shakespeare Co. in Stratford-Upon-Avon)
Sweeney Todd (the new 9 cast member version)
When Harry Met Sally (I think Molly Ringwald is starring, egads!)
The Old Masters (directed by Harold Pinter)
Old Times (written by Harold Pinter)
Bat Boy the Musical (because I suck and didn't see it in New York)
and an art exhibition - Edward Hopper at the Tate Modern.

Yay. It (sort of) doesn't suck to be me!

I also intend to have the hotel concierge get me a ticket for "Anything Goes" starring none other than John Barrowman (no good tix on Ticketmaster). I saw "Anything Goes" once before - at the Beaumont, with good ole Patti LuPone.

I also saw Miss Patti in "Sweeney" at the Lincoln Center concert version.
I have seen "Sweeney many other times as well; it's the only show on the list I've seen before (aside from "Hamlet," which I've seen a lot, now that I think about it.)

I've seen "Sweeney" at a community theatre production in Ohio
In a college production in Texas (well, does being in it count?)
At a community theatre in Houston
At the Lincoln Center Concert
At the Kennedy Center, the BSM and Christine Baranski version
At the New York City Opera, in a rather crappy rehash of the original production.

I've seen "Hamlet" in college (and was also the set painter),
In a production I crewed at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival
At NYSW with Liev Schrieber
And probably a few other times, too.

OK, maybe it does suck to be me.

Posted by Jon at August 5, 2004 11:47 PM | TrackBack