Good evening, all! I am home from my peregrinations to West End Avenue and to West 43rd Street.
Both events were wonderful: the Raines had the usual suspcts and a few new folk includinf a very nice gentleman from the Metropolitan Opera staff and lots of good food and gossip: I know who's replacing Bernadette Peters for the LA tour of FOLLIES, I've signed Simon Jones to play Lord Henry in ROBERTA, and we've dished the current run of Broadway shows. I saw Charlotte's best friend Amy Tesich, daughter of the late playwright Steve Tesich whose autobiographical BREAKING AWAY is one of my favorite films. amy is now living in Colorado and working as a personal chef, and I hope that she and Charlottw and I can get together before she heads west on Dec 28.
Then at 2:30 I headed down to West 43rd Street to meet DR FJL. Skip, our E&T DR Julie, their agent Pat and her daughter. The dinner was another work of art and the company was sterling. I had a wonderful time and returned home with mac 'n' cheese and a pork chop for tomorrow's lunch. Skip also sent me home with a few hand-turned chocolates, and on the basis of the ones I had, I would say the man's a master with chocolate as well.
Now that I am home, I can do the one thing I forgot to do this morning: open my cards and gifts I've received in the past several weeks. Who knows what i will find!