I spent yesterday in and around Times Square. I enjoy getting off the subway and walking past Birdland to the Producer’s Club for a few hours of studio time with some clowns. It makes me feel as if I am part of it all no matter how low the level at which I do my work. I am still doing it. In the diner afterwards we talked and I was reminded of the book Art and Fear and the object is just to keep doing the work. If you produce a lot of work then it follows that some of it will be very good. Conversly if you produce little or nothing the chances of proucing good work must be slim to none.
Waiting to meet the husband and kid at Toys R Us Times Square (when my kid was a toddler she thought Toys R Us WAS Times Sqare– and if you asked her what part of New York she liked best she could be counted on to say Times Square) I saw the toys for the new Pixar movie. I’m in love with WallE and Eve. I know I’m going to start crying from the opening credits and cry through the whole movie. But, I digress.
Took the Kid to New Victory to see IJK physical perfomers from France. A tight show. Gotta love the geometry and juggling. I aspire to a tight show that can play the New Vic and the international children’s festivals like the one in Seattle. It seems realistic now. An old friend (actually the director of the show my husband and I were working on when we met) is now among other things the Producing Director for the Seattle International Children’s Festival.
We ran into Pre-K classmates from our PS 3 days at the theatre. That family is now at the Neighborhood School in the East Village.