I saw Gypsy on Broadway today!
OK I think I myself was completely warped by playing “Dainty June” in a UM Summer Stock production of Gypsy. My New York stage clown friends frequently try to get me to stop being “ON” in front of an audience and I realize now there was some feeling of sucess in playing that cartoon vaudeville child that still worked at RBBCC and that I still cling to in some clown situations. I went to Clown College there was something about it that worked better than anything else I had ever done…
I’m not “Dainty June” anymore, I’m “Mama Rose” now!
Even last night at Clownlab, an exercise and I started doing a spot-on imitation of Sally Anne Howes as the “Music Box Doll” in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang–and I just stopped for no reason–it was just an improv game. We were just supposed to be action figures–whatever that meant–I started out as “Wonder Woman”. Whatever the exercise was meant to be it became a send up of ’70’s toys and movies. It wasn’t like I was auditioning for a play a someone else…
Something about not having permission to be…
This performing thing is complicated…
No wonder my child is not interested…
Patty LuPone was incredible today
Also
Boyd Gaines, who is married to someone I went to high school with, is absolutely charming
I was wondering who the hyper-energetic-girl-I-knew/mare-at-the-starting-gate, has turned into to be married to such a charming man It must be worth a drink or a coffee to find out.
I am aware of their plays. I wanted to see Contact at Lincoln Center, but I had a baby and there was that 9/11 event that constricted movement and enthusiasm. My friend was in The Country Girl and Coram Boy both of which closed before I got around to seening them. I really meant to seee Twelve Angry Men and really really regretted not seeing it after I had to spend two months of my life as a juror on a Brooklyn murder trial.
I have had no contact with her since we first were moving to New York and my sister got her sister to give her e-mail to me and we corresponded about strollers appropriate to the city.
Tonight,
A dinner at Tratoria Spagetto in Greenwich Village between the church and the fountain. I love the “Lady and the Tramp” eating spagettiI aesthetic of the place.
The husband’s former co-worker who moved back to India and lives in Bangalore, his wife and daughter. We have much hope for their classes to exchange letters–“Wow you live in a totally different country, but you have the Disney Channel too!!!! OMG” Also the husbands former boss and socially ept wife–when will we organize joint vacations??? There are posibilities…
I lost or had stolen my cell phone today, had to pay for a new one to keep myself and my life in the same place, a future essay I owe this blog about the evils of sharecropping in cyper-space…
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