Last night Jose said:
"The Drama Bookshop - if the reading does happen there - is walking distance from The Muse - just two blocks down. Maybe three. But it's definitely walking distance"Not to be pedantic, but it's actually 6 blocks and if you count the half block (since Danise is on 46th Street, closer to 6th Avenue than 7th Avenue) walk to the main avenue and then the half block walk across 40th Street (DBS is in the middle of the block on 40th Street between 7th and 8th Avenues), it's seven blocks. That's still absolutely walking distance as any New Yorker will tell you, although there are those types who will jump in a cab to travel 7 blocks. I won't go into the issue that at 42nd Street Broadway and 7th Avenue split and veer off and what was 7th Avenue is now Broadway and what was Broadway is now 7th Avenue, which if you're walking down 7th Avenue adds another block to your walk because of the just noted change in street names/numbers. That information is too confusing for the morning and it's easier to show a person in person as they are walking across the street and down the town (I'm feeling Gertrude Steinish again). Anyway, suffice it to say, it's very easy to get to Drama Book Shop if the reading happens. The actual address of the book emporium is 250 West 40th St, New York, 10018 - (212) 944-0595. And that, Dear Readers, ends your lesson on New York City geography
I must move on to the Karfunkel Family Foundation. I think Karfunkel is a funnier word than Poppycock.
Karfunkel. But I shouldn't do that because I don't want to make fun of some family name. What if they should do a "google" and come across this here site only to see that I said their name sounds funny! They might hunt me down and throw me off the top of the Empire State Building.
DR Larry, I think that Kern album you mention (the Kern Revisited Volume 4) is the one on which my friend David Gebel appears. I think you arranged his number as well,
Nice to Be Near. I could be wrong, though.
I'm listening to
Composer of the Week on BBC Radio 3 right now and I don't know what I will listen to as the day goes along.
Next week will be a busy week for me. Starting on Tuesday, February 8th I will be going to the Theatre 5 times within the week. I'm seeing
Picon Pie on Tuesday. It's a musical about the life of Molly Picon. I'm seeing a new off-Broadway play called
McReele on Wednesday. It's part of my Roundabout subscription series. I'm seeing
Dame Edna on Thursday. It's a birthday present from my two theatre buddies. I'm seeing
The Musical of Musicals - The Musical on Saturday afternoon. It's just re-opened Off-Broadway at the new Dodger Stages facility. On Saturday evening I'm seeing the new
Christopher Shinn play about a woman obsessed by the death of
Kurt Cobain. Then on February 17th I'm seeing
Shockheaded Peter, the British musical based on a 19th Century children's story and finally on February 22nd, I'm seeing the revival of
La Cage aux Folles. Wow, I'm exhausted just typing it all out.
Now, on to the Karfunkel Family.
