Between Pills and Spiders

So this past week I went to eat thai... I love thai food,  I usually get either pad thai or sweet and sour beef with sticky rice.

The thing with Thai food is that you can get a big meal for a low price and you end up killing hunger, plus takes care of your pocket money, which is somewhat essential when living in such an expensive city as New York City has turned out to be.

And even if this isn't relevant for this post I wanted to mention it.

Anyhow, afterwards I saw Distracted with Cynthia Nixon... O.k to start I have to say that I didn't know what to expect about it, cos seeing a t.v star on broadway can be either dazzling or disappointing.

Too much expectations, and talk of the town in your ears, you simply get one side of the coin leaving no space for middle ground.

The show was pretty good I must say, It's the story about a modern mom trying to cope with her sons ADD and how nowadays children get drugs almost as if it where candy.

Have to say that I love the playwright's point of view on this one, and a with this show you simply can't get bored or distracted.

That kid in the show amazes me... he must be no older than 13 and has a full broadway career ahead of him with all ready enough credits to shut me up. I'll admit I'm a tad jealous, and YES I know it is ridiculous to be jealous of a teen...if he is one... but come! show business is a tough business and he's all ready making his way into it... good for him tough, he clearly works hard.

Go see it if you can.

In other subject.

I just wanted to Know what's going on the Bway right know....Spiderman the musical!!! you gotta be kidding me.

Didn't Bono have a career? or he just want's to kill U2?

All right I give up... I thought Legally Blonde and Shrek the musical would be Broadway's doom, and both I enjoy, even own the soundtracks, but being honest they are no classics or ground-breaking show, they are feel good/ nice tune shows... in my personal opinion.

But can you imagine a guy in tights pretending to be a spider fighting crime?! Do you even want to imagine it?

Let's see what happens with this..."show".

Some Previews...

Well, this past week I saw 2 shows!! which hasn't happen in such a long time.

On wednesday I saw Distracted with Cynthia Nixon.

And this weekend I saw Finian's Rainbow at City Center Encores! with Jim Norton and Cheyenne Jackson.

Both I liked a lot.

Hope I'm able to write more about them in some spare time that I may find between going to school to rehearse my scene, baking cupcakes and cookies for the second year showcase and doing laundry...

Music For Fonda.

33 Variations.

33 Variations is the new Broadway Play starring Jane Fonda at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre.

Directed and Written by Moisés Kaufman.

One lazy saturday afternoon walking 'round the theatre district I decided to just hope into the nearest theatre to me and see something.

I was at the Hershey's store located in 49 street and the O'Neill was the closest theatre.

Jane Fonda in a serious play called 33 Variations was playing at the moment  (still is).

I had no idea what it was about, who else was in it or anything about it, but the chance to see "Barbarella" live was tempting.

Being 20 to 2, I had to rush into the box office and see if the had any student tickets available, otherwise I would have had to let it go.

To my surprise they did have some left, and they weren't partial view or the last row of the theatre. They where in the center of the first row in the Mezzanine... I was amazed.

Seated, waiting for the show to start a peek trough my Playbill and saw that Colin Hanks was also in it along a well know cast of stage actors.

The Show Started, the scenery, although somewhat simple, work really nice to my taste. 

33 Variation is a show about a musicologist trying to find an answer to Beethoven's obsession with Diabelli's waltz. (I like waltzes, but a piece of music i triple meter generally in slow tempo ain't always my favorite thing, I'm more of a "canon" gal)

Anyhow... she goes all the way to Europe to find out and in her journey we see the story take place between the now she's living in and Beethoven's present (as she read his journal).

Thin action between the two main characters was one of my favorite things in the show, which to my personal opinion really favored how the story developed at the moment.

I would love to go on about it but maybe I should wait cause the show is still playing and I do not want to ruin it for someone who might go see it.

I can say that the thing I liked the most was the little things I learned from the story and to see beauty in simplicity and learn to listen. Also that "that thing" we fear the most may be the same thing that cripple us to go on, either one we go trough it or once we learn to fear no more, we can a) go on with our life and b) realize that it wasn't so bad... we humans tend to agonize so very much.

Although I somewhat believe that Mr Collins isn't ready to take broadway by the horns, you could clearly see his lack of stage experience, it was also gratifying to see Susan Kellermann, a Meisner trained actress who's work in this show I liked a lot but also studying Meisner technique myself (that's what I learn in school nowadays), seeing her work and think of what I  see in school day in and day out was magical.

Overall I really enjoy the show and would recommend it.

Lots of luv and good night

LIO∏