Well, dear readers, it’s the start of our second week of Brain performances (four left) and, in fact, I will be on my way back to LA after our final performance one week from today. It’s really hard to believe I’ve been here since August 22, so fast has the time flown. I’ve had a great time working with this cast, I’ve eaten some amazing meals, and, despite the NYMF travails, it’s mostly been a very positive experience. I am looking forward to coming home and then it’s diving right into the fundraiser show, for which there is much work to be done. Speaking of work to be done, yesterday I did no work whatsoever. I didn’t sleep in really, but I just spent a lazy day in the apartment not doing much of anything but answering a few e-mails. At four, I joined Mr. David Wechter at the restaurant where we were going to sup. Miss Adriana Patti was going to meet us there after some matinee. Well, upon my arrival Mr. Wechter informed me that they’d told him they didn’t open until five. I found that very annoying, but we took a walk and killed time until five, at which point we went back and were told that while the bar area was open, they weren’t seating until five-thirty. I told them goodbye, and we convened at Ted’s Monterey Steak House where we were joined by dear reader Jose. What a terrific restauarant and what a wonderful meal. I had a rib-eye, a salad, we all shared some onion rings, and for my side dishes I had cole slaw and parmesan creamed spinach, which was out of this world. Mr. Wechter had decided that we should see Mary Poppins, so off we went after dinner.
Last night, I saw a musical entitled Mary Poppins. To get the annoying bits out of the way immediately, both my friend Rebecca Luker and star Gavin Lee were out – on a Saturday night. I gotta tell you. Mr. Lee’s understudy was very good, but Miss Luker’s was only adequate. Otherwise, I found the show very enjoyable, if a bit too long for its own good. One wishes it were funnier, but it’s great to hear those Sherman Brothers songs and the new songs are certainly written in their style. The choreography ranged from very good to very odd, but the direction was fluid and the sets by the great Bob Crowley were really amazing. I ran into a friend from LA, too, which shows you what a small world it is.
After the show, we went to the Times Square Brooklyn Diner, where Mr. Wechter had some of their trademark coconut cake. And that was my very nice Saturday.
Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because it’s late and I must get my beauty sleep.
Today I shall attempt to go to the Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS flea market in Shubert Alley. I’m told it’s madness to do so, but I’ve never been and I’ll brave the crowds to see what’s what.
After that, I’ll come home, do some work, and maybe have some supper somewhere interesting. And maybe I’ll try to find a DVD to watch.
These here notes are so perfunctory they’re perfunctory. They just sit there like so much fish, but I promise that tomorrow they will perk up and have personality and zip and zest and zing, not necessarily in that order.
I’m just sitting here like so much fish, the window open, a cool breeze wafting its way in and caressing me gently, like a perfumed woman. What am I, Art Lund all of a sudden?
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, sleep late, attend a flea market, perhaps even purchase a flea or three, sup, and then watch a motion picture on DVD or just flip around the various and sundried TV channels. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s free-for-all day, the day in which you dear readers get to make with the topics and we all get to post about them. So, let’s have loads of lovely topics and loads of lovely postings, whilst a gentle breeze caresses me like a perfumed woman.