In My Life and All Things Broadway
Oct. 3rd, 2005 09:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ceebeegeeHas anyone gotten one of these CDs? I got one in the mail a few weeks ago--I will admit, I love the cover art, with all those surreal lemons and those two people embracing with the absolute whitest skin ever seen--but the music is completely unmemorable, I mean I do not remember one song from it.* And the tag line makes me cringe: "When was the last time you fell in love with a musical?" Oh, BARF. That is so unoriginal. The website is somewhat unintentionally funny--so much of their promotional copy can be interpreted rather differently than they intended. "The most anticipated original musical to hit Broadway this fall!" Yeah, in that vultures-awaiting-the-feast way, if you check out the chat boards. "A project that is completely original!" Carrie was original too.
*Which is not the case with the CD sampler I received for The Color Purple--there was at least one good song on that. And I was only half-listening to it. I've heard good things about that project--I've never read the book or seen the movie; I guess if I'm going to see it, I should. I wonder if Their Eyes Were Watching God would make a good opera--you could do it in the vernacular, like Porgie and Bess.
Very sad news--McHale's is closing. My favorite cheap-ass place in Midtown, where I hung out with many cast members from Annie Get Your Gun and saw several celebrities (most recently Eric Stoltz last summer--TWICE in a week, I guess he loved the place too). Great cheap-ass food there, really good nachos and burgers. I hung out there with Chuck Elliott, went there with Jason and Paula and Duncan and Alex and Maurice. A very memorable scene from the movie Sleepers was filmed there, which was great location casting, as the movie is purported to be a Hell's Kitchen fable. Not only is the food great (and cheap), the architecture is KICK ASS--those Art Deco rounded corners and glass bricks, with lettering etched into the glass advertising "the Gaeties." Man, I love that place. What a bummer.
*Which is not the case with the CD sampler I received for The Color Purple--there was at least one good song on that. And I was only half-listening to it. I've heard good things about that project--I've never read the book or seen the movie; I guess if I'm going to see it, I should. I wonder if Their Eyes Were Watching God would make a good opera--you could do it in the vernacular, like Porgie and Bess.
Very sad news--McHale's is closing. My favorite cheap-ass place in Midtown, where I hung out with many cast members from Annie Get Your Gun and saw several celebrities (most recently Eric Stoltz last summer--TWICE in a week, I guess he loved the place too). Great cheap-ass food there, really good nachos and burgers. I hung out there with Chuck Elliott, went there with Jason and Paula and Duncan and Alex and Maurice. A very memorable scene from the movie Sleepers was filmed there, which was great location casting, as the movie is purported to be a Hell's Kitchen fable. Not only is the food great (and cheap), the architecture is KICK ASS--those Art Deco rounded corners and glass bricks, with lettering etched into the glass advertising "the Gaeties." Man, I love that place. What a bummer.
