Okay episode of MY NAME IS EARL....and glad to see he has recovered from his coma.
THE OFFICE had a rather disturbing - but still funny episode. Who knew Rye Bread was a tweaker? This could lead to all sorts of new developments.
As soon as they met Ryan in the club, my phone rang and it was Mr Ron Raines, who was responding to my phone call earlier about the Jerome Robbins exhibit at the NYPL. When I got off the phone, Ryan was trying to get some sleep so I missed everything.
Now to the important matter I forgot to bring up yesterday: the NYPL at Lincoln Center has two fascinating exhibits in their galleries right now: the large gallery is all Jerome Robbins: posters, photos, costumes, scene designs, great ephemera like Floria Laskey's leter detailing all the work he did on A FUNNY THING HAPPENED to a letter from a Russian Jew living in New Jersey (I think) telling him how much he'd been weeping since seeing his young life onstage in FIDDLER ON THE ROOF. There are five videos showing footage of the 1958 Ed Sullivan show original cast of WEST SIDE STORY, Mary Martin's PETER PAN and others, a vidoe of JEROME ROBBINS BROADWAY showing a rehearsal with Betty comden, Adolph Green, Nancy Walker and Chris alexander recreating "You Got Me" from ON THE TOWN, portions of his New York City Ballet choreography, another showing the great FANCY FREE. I didn't see any footage of my favorite City Ballet piece DANCES AT A GATHERING, which is both glorious and heartbreaking beyond belief that I cannot begn to describes its wonders, and footage from his failed BALLETS USA company.
There are also on display Trude Rittman's original copies of her music for "The small House of Uncle Thomas" and something, I think, for BILLION DOLLA BABY, and a ton of other wonderful pieces of memorabilia from photographs to contracts. Anyone coming into New York in the near futureshould try to catch it.
The other exhibit is on Songwriters and the Tonys.