And, again, I did not watch the Emmys...
Instead I went to see The Musical in Mufti presentation of Zorba at The York Theatre. In short, a beautiful presentation of a beautiful show. This was the first of their fall series which happens to be devoted to shows with book by Joseph Stein, and it was a nice way to start the series.
The cast featured some of bk's "regulars" - Crista Moore (The Widow) and Emily Skinner (The Leader) - as well as Jeff McCarthy (Zorba) and Beth Fowler (Hortense).
Until tonight, I was only familiar with some of the music from the show via casual listens to the OCR and the material incorporated into And the World Goes Round. I was actually surprised at how touching some of the songs were - I loved "The Butterfly".
And since it was the closing performance, there were many see-lebrities in attendance: John Kander, Joseph Stein, Patrick Vaccariello, Peter Filichia, etc., etc, etc. It was great seeing Mr. Kander again, and he's back into "work" mode after taking three months off. -He said it was his first real vacation in years.