Good morning, all! I slept very late this morning, for the first time in around a month. I hope you're all having a happy holiday. I'm reading the posts and thinking that - as a lapsed WASP - Easter was my least favorite holiday in the calendar, but my mother used to prepare the most wonderful Easter dinner: ham, scalloped potatoes, several vegetables, deviled eggs (natch!), and my memory on dessert is vague: I believe she used to bake an Angel Food with some fluffy marshmallowy frosting and grated coconut on top, maybe decorated with jelly beans, but this is all 25 years ago or more now.
DR Jennifer, I thought you'd gone to Boston to see a stage production of ROCKY HORROR! I think the last time I threw toast at the screen was 1978. They still do that nonsense?
NYC bookstores: I had thought about The Drama Book Shop, which was my home away from home between 1979 and 1996, but my memories are not as kind as I wish they could be. However, the space on 40th Street, to which I've never been, does offer lots of readings, and the store has stocked an occasional theatre-related novel in the past. My memory is that the novels were kept in the American Theatre History/Criticism section. I had thought about Applause as well; I'd been invited to a party for Ted Chapin's book on FOLLIES there. I could stop in and inquire about a Kritzer Event.
Barnes and Noble offers the Kritzer books on their website, but I don't know if any of the stores in New York stock the novels. I do know the store across from me on Broadway does not, but I ordered the first two books through them. So much B&N business seems dictated by publisher reps, and I suspect no one's pushing the Kritzer novels to the B&N buyers for stocking (now if BK won a Pulitzer, they would be stocked!).
My reasons for suggesting Footlights were based on Dear Friend BK's recording credits, my affection for the store, and my belief that most of the people who might attend a reading would be show music collectors. Selfishly speaking, since I'm out of town most of June and July, May seems too early to prepare the event, but early September might be just right (said the Baby Bear).