i am finally home after my tour of the east coast, i still can't believe the last 2 weeks, it was so so so wonderful to see everyone, and everyone was just so generous with their various, couches, beds, towels, homes etc. and seeing everyone settling into new jobs, new apartments etc. was very inspiring/motivating (i sent out approx. a ZILLION job applications today), it is a little weird to be home, but barrett came over and brought me a carved pumpkin today so perhaps things are turning around!
wednesday night i went with my mom to see the touring production of "The Drowsy Chaperone", a show i had actually seen in NYC a year and a half ago, and that i had somewhat forgotten about, or at least forgotten how much i just LOVE it. its about a man who loves his 1920s musicals, particularly his favorite show, "the drowsy chaperone", which embodies basically every musical cliche there is, and then he proceeds to play the record and describe it and then it comes to life in his apartment. the fantastic part about the show is his commentary throughout the whole thing, like "ugh, i just hate this scene" or "the melody is beautiful, but try and ignore the lyrics"....the whole show starts out, when the lights go down and you're waiting for the overture, and you just hear him saying how whenever he's in the theater he utters a little prayer before the show "please god let it be good....and not too long, and PLEASE don't let the actors come into the audience, i didn't pay $100 to have them break the 4th wall", he them says how wonderful it must have been in the 30s when you could sit down and wonder "what does cole porter or gershwin have in store for me tonight? now it's just 'elton john, must we continue this charade?"
sorry, i do realize i'm rambling about a random show which most of you don't care about, but i will end this post with a segue to a more current musical....in the drowsy chaperone the man comments, a bit sadly, that "in musicals everything always works out. in the real world nothing ever works out, and the only people which burst into song are the hopelessly deranged" while i don't necessarily agree, i do think that perhaps in the case of the following clip it does apply...this movie looks like (at least according to the trailer) possibly the most ridiculous thing ever, mainly because NO ONE in the cast seems to acknowledge that what they are doing is in fact RIDICULOUS. i particularly like the part where the basketball game pauses for a dramatic ballad....also the fact that it is described as "the musical experience of a generation" good god.
(i'm clearly going to see this tonight, although NOT as d assumed earlier by my sad lonesome self, but rather with a friend from high school.....whom i may or may not have told we were seeing something else, and then given her the times for HSM....)
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I am SO glad you posted lengthily about the drowsy chaperone because i too had forgotten some of the specific reasons why it was so PERFECT when we saw it. HIs comment about life vs muscials sounds like it could have come out of my mouth and that is why i wanted to reach into that play and steal that wonderful sassy little man.
as for hsm, its remarkable how patient this"friend" of yours (coughBARRETTcough) is...i mean it takes a seriously dedicated soul to sit through that much fist pumping and heart clutching.
it was NOT barrett, please i would not let barrett ruin hsm for me.
also, the movie did NOT dissapoint, i recommend you all seeing it
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