Joblessness

I need a job.
Bad.
Luckily for me, the economy is booming and I work in a profession where everyone is always gainfully employed and everyone's got money out the ass. Also, ALL the Broadway shows are staying open and no theatres are laying off boatloads of employees, so I'm the only one looking for a job.
Oh wait.
Currently working for 16 hours/week in exchange for housing solves one of my problems, but my limited bank account is gonna run out soon, and there's not even prospects on the job front.
AAAARGH!!!!
SOMEONE HIRE ME!!!

First Insomnia of the New Year

I cannot sleep. Woohoo. Sleep is still out of whack because of New Year's.
Kristen and I were both feeling under the weather (my cold, her ankle) and it was bitter cold, and a variety of other reasons led us to do a relaxing evening in. We couldn't, however, pass up "Shakespearean Who's On First" at Morristown's First Night. Starring the comic perfection that is Jay Liebowitz and the equally incomparable James Michael Reilly, and written by Jay, Jason King Jones and Mr. David Foubert, it reimagines Abbot and Costello's classic routine as Shakespearean vaudeville and other fun with Elizabethan baseball in a 20-30 minute routine. After watching the hilarity and wishing Jay a happy new year, we headed back to my place for movies and champagne.

Took Kristen to Newark at 5am for her flight back to Utah, then slept til the afternoon. My schedule is all wonky.
Now I can't sleep.
This needs to stop.

Movies I've seen in the past few days I recommend: Hancock, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Shoot 'Em Up (fuckin' dig it!), Futurama: Bender's Big Score
Movies I've see in the past few days I'm glad I only spent $1 on: Balls of Fury (funny, but not worth more than a Redbox rental at MOST)
Movies I've seen in the past few days that I thoroughly enjoyed and would recommend to most people: Miami Vice (It's exactly what I hoped for except for Colin Farell. I like him usually, but wasn't a big fan of him as Crockett, and the seduction was rather sudden, but otherwise a quality flick.

How many Secretaries of State have you met?

Yesterday, I had the honor of meeting Colin Powell. As mentioned, his daughter, Linda (a talented actress and wonderful person to be around in her own right) is Hermione in "The Winter's Tale". He and his wife came to see the show yesterday afternoon, and after the show, he came into the green room to meet the cast. After he greeted all the men, Linda introduced Megan, Rebecca and I to him, and he shook our hands and congratulated us on the show. After meeting the cast and crew, he was trying to figure out how to get back to the highway, and Linda asked my advice on the matter, and I got to give the former Secretary of State driving directions. Bitchin'.

More "Winter's Tale" reviews

Independent Press
The Princeton Packet
Home News Tribune
TalkinBroadway.com
the NY Times review has been sent to staff, but it has not been posted on the internet yet, when it is, I'll post the link here. Some of the actors may read my blog, and so I don't want to post the review here in case they read it accidentally.

UPDATE:
The NY Times Review is now online. Note the cute blonde :)

"Please take care, there's a bear, and the play..."

"...is a crazy Tale of Winter" (with apologies to Simon, but not so much to Garfunkel)

Preview article from the front page of Playbill.com last Friday (note the cute blonde in the pic at the bottom:))
The reviews are also in from:
Curtain Up, Wall Street Journal, Newark Star-Ledger, and the Daily Record
They're all good, because the show is. Great cast, great performances, great set, great lighting, great bear. Ending my tenure here on a high note is good, because there's been so many lows this season. I highly recommend you come out to the show. Mom, Dad and Elissa (and her bf) will be in town for Friday's show. Can't wait :)

Heroes / LOST Crossover?

The latest "Heroes" has Sylar stranded on a beach somewhere, after being teleported there by Hiro. My silly fan boy theory is thus:
He has been teleported to The Island around the time of the crash. He will find the cockpit, and seeing the pilot (portrayed by Greg Grunberg) he will mistake him for Matt Parkman (also portrayed by Greg Grunberg) and kill him in an attempt to take his powers.
So it's not "The Monster" that kills the pilot, it's Sylar, who is, in his own way, a monster. Now Sylar is on the Island, fucking with people.
That's my wacky fanboy theory. Ta-da.

Hooray invited dress!

So my reason for lack of posts for the last ever has been load-in/Thanksgiving/tech.
Today is invited dress for "The Winter's Tale" and tonight is first preview. Spirits are high and the mood is comfortable. The cast is a wonderful and friendly bunch and there has been very little drama and things have gone smoothly. At least until the turntable issues last night that prevented the invited dress being run last night. Those problems were fixed by production staff (Scenic/Props, Production, Chuck, Karla, and Ruggaber, the designer) quite efficiently.
I must now go to my place back left, but I will post actual posts more often now that tech is wrapping up.