Thursday, August 03, 2006
PRY----ow----d!!!
.....yes....PRY-----OW-----D!!!!!! In other words: PROUD!!! PROUD!!!PROUD!!!
There was wonderful Alex Tonetta on that HISTORY BOYS stage last night, not only holding his own, but giving lie to the notion that American actors are not trained on a level with British ones! It seemed as though he was an original company member, and in terms of schoolboy behavior, speech, accent, character specifics and contribution to ensemble, he was wonderful....and he was playing the one of his FIVE understudy roles that is the rather chubby, blond character boy, and he still managed to pull it off in his brunette ,not chubby ,normal persona! In other words : HE DID THE PLAY! and he did it damned well!
Add to that the fact that HISTORY BOYS is intriguing, well-written, thoughtful, provocative and smart as hell, and that Alan Bennett is a wonderful playwright all around, and you get an evening that is worth the money, for a change, and one that put Peter and me in a much better frame of mind than the one we walked in with!
The Broadhurst Theater was packed with audience members who walked in hot and numbed by their New York day and walked out cool and provoked to aliveness by a swell and sexily intellectual play of ideas and words worth listening to!
BRAVO ALEX! AND BRAVO ALAN BENNETT! AND BRAVO HISTORY BOYS!
Meanwhile, thank you Jenks! For suggesting i write for Conde-Nast! Nothing would give me more pleasure than to sit in a cool office like the one I am currently sitting in (in our apartment), and write and write and write and actually get paid for doing so! And maybe one day i will be able to! BUT, for now, I still function under the notion that my writing cannot possibly be interesting to more than a handful of people,(the primary one of those people being ME!). But thank you for the appreciated comment.
I must journey downtown in a few hours, in this totally horrible heat, to audition for a National Network TV spot for some medicine or other, and may have to take some medicine or other as a result of going to the audition!
It's too damned hot! But I promised my wonderful agents at Abrams that I would go and so I will,heat or no.
Much much much towrite about San Fran still....well...maybe a little morsel or two from the journal before signing off:
from 7/29/06...."Pelicans have become my new favorite bird...(and then I attempted a little sketch of one aloft...luckily not translatable here...) Such dignified grace - such gently righteous discipline and purpose in their flight. The Pelican seems a likeable bird! One that would be upright and honest in all his dealings with you..."
...and from the same entry: "And I have continued to let my sweet admiration for the clean and quaint seagull grow...such Navy startling whiteness, such starch! Yet so slicingly graceful and confident, as if they know they own the rocks they perch on and the sky they grace. I have come to love birds...and watching them is a meditation. At Sea Ranch it has become easy to clearly see that
birds are the descendants of the great pre-historic dinosaur families! Some current sea birds look positively primeval in their flight, predatory and rather eerie to watch. I certainly got their family tree more clearly by seeing them search for food!
And we fly so high above them now. How have we earned this?"
Going back to Sea Ranch is imperative...and soon.
There was wonderful Alex Tonetta on that HISTORY BOYS stage last night, not only holding his own, but giving lie to the notion that American actors are not trained on a level with British ones! It seemed as though he was an original company member, and in terms of schoolboy behavior, speech, accent, character specifics and contribution to ensemble, he was wonderful....and he was playing the one of his FIVE understudy roles that is the rather chubby, blond character boy, and he still managed to pull it off in his brunette ,not chubby ,normal persona! In other words : HE DID THE PLAY! and he did it damned well!
Add to that the fact that HISTORY BOYS is intriguing, well-written, thoughtful, provocative and smart as hell, and that Alan Bennett is a wonderful playwright all around, and you get an evening that is worth the money, for a change, and one that put Peter and me in a much better frame of mind than the one we walked in with!
The Broadhurst Theater was packed with audience members who walked in hot and numbed by their New York day and walked out cool and provoked to aliveness by a swell and sexily intellectual play of ideas and words worth listening to!
BRAVO ALEX! AND BRAVO ALAN BENNETT! AND BRAVO HISTORY BOYS!
Meanwhile, thank you Jenks! For suggesting i write for Conde-Nast! Nothing would give me more pleasure than to sit in a cool office like the one I am currently sitting in (in our apartment), and write and write and write and actually get paid for doing so! And maybe one day i will be able to! BUT, for now, I still function under the notion that my writing cannot possibly be interesting to more than a handful of people,(the primary one of those people being ME!). But thank you for the appreciated comment.
I must journey downtown in a few hours, in this totally horrible heat, to audition for a National Network TV spot for some medicine or other, and may have to take some medicine or other as a result of going to the audition!
It's too damned hot! But I promised my wonderful agents at Abrams that I would go and so I will,heat or no.
Much much much towrite about San Fran still....well...maybe a little morsel or two from the journal before signing off:
from 7/29/06...."Pelicans have become my new favorite bird...(and then I attempted a little sketch of one aloft...luckily not translatable here...) Such dignified grace - such gently righteous discipline and purpose in their flight. The Pelican seems a likeable bird! One that would be upright and honest in all his dealings with you..."
...and from the same entry: "And I have continued to let my sweet admiration for the clean and quaint seagull grow...such Navy startling whiteness, such starch! Yet so slicingly graceful and confident, as if they know they own the rocks they perch on and the sky they grace. I have come to love birds...and watching them is a meditation. At Sea Ranch it has become easy to clearly see that
birds are the descendants of the great pre-historic dinosaur families! Some current sea birds look positively primeval in their flight, predatory and rather eerie to watch. I certainly got their family tree more clearly by seeing them search for food!
And we fly so high above them now. How have we earned this?"
Going back to Sea Ranch is imperative...and soon.
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