Tonight after work, I met up with Matt and went to see a reading of a new musical at the York Theatre Company. Since this is a show is the very earliest stages of development, I will refrain from extensive comment here.
It was called Heaven Knows and concerned an actress who goes into an audition for a musical and finds herself auditioning for God. It's sort of a combination of Joan of Arcadia and Defending Your Life. Book, Music, and Lyrics were by Charles Bloom, who also wrote the well-received Insomnia that was presented this past summer at the Midtown International Theatre Festival.
Oh, and there were cute boys in it.
It's always so interesting to see musicals at this point. You can never quite tell what they're going to be. And it's fun to try to guess. Matt and I adjourned afterward to Posh to hash it out.
Matt, like his boyfriend, is a great guy, and one of those friends that I just don't see often enough. I hadn't seen him in quite a while and it was nice to be able to catch up a bit.
On the way to the reading, I walked past the world famous St. Regis Hotel and there was a huge crowd of people in suits just milling about on the sidewalk blocking my way. In my best New York "get the fuck out of my way" voice, I said to no one in particular "Why are all these PEOPLE blocking the SIDEWALK?!" And then followed this up with a series of pointed "Excuse MEs" that I hope will send them back to wherever they came from telling their neighbours how rude New Yorkers are.
Don't get me wrong. I love tourists. I just need them to stay out of my way when I'm trying to get somewhere. It's a sidewalk, folks, leave some room for the pedestrians while you're standing around socializing.
Posted by Jere at December 10, 2004 02:34 AM | TrackBackIt's cute to think of you trying to be rude to people. Somehow I can't picture it.
Posted by: Tin Man at December 10, 2004 10:12 AMDammit. I was there, too. Where were you sitting?
Posted by: Seth Christenfeld at December 11, 2004 01:30 AMSeth, I'm sorry I didn't know or else we could have met up and you could have joined us for drinks afterward. Matt and I were seated in the second row, auditorium right, second and third seats in from the center aisle. I was in the third seat.
Posted by: Jere at December 11, 2004 12:43 PM