I’m seeing next to normal next week.* No biggie. It *only* won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2010. Do you know the last time that happened? 1996. Know the musical? Maybe you’ve heard of it…RENT. Even better? The same director – Michael Greif – was responsible for both. Perhaps now you can start to [...]
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Or, what not to do if you want a so-called blogger to write about your show. Or, how not to act as an audience member. Or, how not to act as The Cat in the Hat. Or, my “review” of PMT’s “Seussical The Musical”. So Avi and I saw a show on Friday, as you [...]
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Wow. We had a blast! SHREK THE MUSICAL (normally I would italicize or quotation mark-ify, but come on! it’s about an ogre! it needs all caps) is great fun. To recap, I did a little contest thingey on ye olde blog, giving away four tickets to opening night courtesy of The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, who [...]
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Congratulations to commenter #13 Natalie Steinberg! See you at SHREK THE MUSICAL on Tuesday, March 15 at 7:30pm!
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I am super excited about this. The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust wants to send one of you – well actually, you and three friends or family members – to see SHREK THE MUSICAL on March 15! I’ve heard great things about the show – and you know my stance on kids seeing live theater (a clue: [...]
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We tried to go to Burgatory Bar a couple weeks ago. The wait (on a Friday night) was close to two hours, so we passed. The hostess that evening suggested we try a weekend afternoon before 5pm, so on Saturday we stopped by after Avi’s soccer game. She was right: we walked right in (mostly) [...]
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I saw the School of Drama‘s production of “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” last night. It’s open through this weekend, so there is still time for you to get tickets. And you should. It’s hilarious and sweet and very William Finn (which I believe is a great thing since “Falsettos” is probably my [...]
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We went out for brunch on Sunday morning. Like out. To a restaurant. It was delightful. And we walked! From our house!! Clearly I am so excited by this potential that I’m speaking writing in clipped non-sentences. But I do long for a more walkable neighborhood, even though we have vastly more accessible by foot [...]
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In the next month, I’m seeing more live theater than when I worked full time for a theater company. And though I know a number of people who worked on the shows of course, I am also pleased (really?!) to say that I had no hand in any of them myself. I’m totally stoked to [...]
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I was going to write about scallops tonight, but I can write about scallops any time. Today, I got to go on a tour of the steam tunnels underneath campus. I won’t get into why, except to say that it was a totally legitimate, officially sanctioned tour put together by one of the alumni volunteers [...]
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