The reality of doing

Acting is effin hard!
Whoever says differently either never tried it or have the faintest clue about the meaning of difficulty....

Although NYC is the best place in the world to practice public solitude,
it does not even get close to standing in front of people you may or may not know but you know are staring at you waiting for you to perform.

I have just finished with Meisner Tech I class & it ended with a "bang"....
I thought this would get easier with time, but it's the other way around.
Even our "mellow" teacher doesn't cut anyone any slacks ):
Should she?!

Is acting all about taking criticism in and yet continuing to do your thing?!
According to Sandy Meisner it is "living truthfully under imaginary circumstances".

Isn't that the meaning of our entire being?

Life itself is actually a set of "imaginary circumstances"...
Therefore, life is acting? Acting is Life?

Serendipity

It is soooo important to find the perfect dessert location in a certain reasonable radios from your apartment...
Today I have found mine (;

Just another night out

Since dinner and a show are my 2 ultimate favorite extra-curricular activities,
it is no surprise that in spite of my exhaustion I have chosen to spend yet another night on Broadway.........
I finally got to see A Little Night Music.

Catherine Zeta Jones stood us up, but her understudy was phenomenal!!!
Jayne Paterson gave a wonderful performance: her voice is beautiful and the way she froze on stage left us gaping with amazement....

And, of course, there was Angela Lansbury.
At 85 years old, this woman is extroardinarly funny (:
She doesn't quite sing like Mrs. Pot here, but is a valuable add to the show.

Overall, this mainstream musical is definitely a fun one to watch (though a bit too long) ---> add it somewhere around the middle of the shows-to-see-on-broadway list.

Yours truely,
your faithful broadway critic.

Summing up years of watching shows all over the world

Top 3 musicals ever:
Miss Saigon
Wicked
Next to Normal

Top 3 plays ever:
Red
All My Sons
Waiting for Godot

3 worst musicals ever:
Cats
Rent
The Phantom of the Opera

3 worst plays ever:
Speed-the-Plow (David Mamet)
Race (David Mamet)
Oleanna

Top concerts ever:
Leonard Cohen - MSG
Susan Vega - Cinerama (TLV)

Worst concert ever:
Norah Jones at the MSG

Silence is most accurate

Who would have imagined that a play about a modern painter would inspire me more than I have been in a really long time?!
I just got back from seeing Alfred Molina perform live on Broadway and it was so totally worth it!!!!!!!!

I've been aspiring to see all of the plays & musicals on Broadway..
So during this past week I've seen three of them, which makes it 13 out of the currently running 35 On-Broadway. There's still a long way to go, but I'm enjoying the ride (:

I must admit that not all of them are actually worth a while...


By now, I've seen 2 of David Mamet's plays and it led me to the inevitable conclusion: I do NOT like his writing!
His plays are recycled into the same sarcastic successful bussinessman trashing everyone in front if him & acheiving nothing in this process.
You may laugh a bit during the show, you may like the cast, but when you leave the theater, you will ask "why?" - why did I waste my time & money on THIS??
I think I'll have to skip his next Broadway play (so maybe not ALL the shows on Broadway).



In order to make up for that awful waste of time, money & energy, I went to see Christopher walken (:
A behanding in Spokane is an intelligent play (unlike Mamet's wanna be play). There was actually a point!
The cast was unbelievable - so worth waiting an hour & a half at 8:30 Saturday morning to get discounted tickets!



But the cherry on top was Red.
Still in previews, this incredible play written by John Logan (who I wasn't familiar with before & gonna make sure to remember the name) is a WOW!



Let the black devour the Red & go to see the show when in nyc.
http://redonbroadway.com/multimedia/

The winds of change

Spring is at the door & the winds of change are blowing....

Must move out of this tiny apartment now!
So many new projects are on-hold for some space....

Back to work; back to reality for a while...
Don't worry, it's not for long (the reality part that is).

A raging blizzard over the east coast

Hello all,

I'm back!
Since I'm stuck in Cleveland, Ohio & on hold with continental.....
My flight from Denver, Colorado to Newark, New Jersey was diverted due to extreme weather conditions.
The airline representative came on board and handed us discount for hotels and left!
This coupon has the number to check for hotel vacancy & continental's number to book a different flight out of this god forsaken hole!!!
Of course I'vd been on hold with continental forever since all their flights got diverted to some place on the globe );
I guess London is no longer an option.
When will I be able to go to NYC???

Signed,
Your frustrated & confused blogger.