I am, actually, still alive!

[brigdh]

Wow, I haven't made a non-poetry post since Sunday. But it's not my fault! I've been very, very busy. And now it all seems like too much to make into a post, heh.

While I'm sure stories of the endless talks I've had to go to recently or of running around to fill out forms would be terribly fascinating, I think I'll spare you. I did, however, manage to go to a Broadway show for the first time on Tuesday (only because people invited me, though I suppose eventually I would have gotten around to it myself). We went to see Coram Boy, which was amazingly excellent. It's set in England in the 18th century, and is about... well, lots of things, really. Music and orphans and angels and family and obligations and secrets; the plot revolves mostly around two boys (played by women dressed as boys!) studying to be musicians and the problem of unwanted babies in that time period. It's based on a YA novel I haven't read, but it was much darker than I expected.

The staging was also excellent. It was a mostly bare set, with only things like tables and chairs carried on and off by the actors as needed; everything else was conveyed through the choreography of the people on stage, which sounds strange but worked so very well. Despite that, it felt like a very big, intense production; there were often multiple things going on the stage at once, and a choir that came out during suitably dramatic moments.

Anyway. It was excellent! You should go, if you're around.

Comments

[rm.livejournal.com]

OMG, I didn't know it was your first show.

I'm going to try to go on Tuesday.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Well, first on Broadway. Obviously I've been to a lot in Ohio, and I was at a little one in Greenwich Village a few months ago.

Do! I really think you'll like it.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah, but still. My first Broadway show was when I was five! I saw Camelot with Richard Harris, which pretty much means I win at life.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Dude, that is too awesome. Do you even remember it? I don't remember much from when I was five.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Vividly. More than most things. Have you ever heard the cast recording? There's a moment, at the end where Arthur yells after a young page --"Run, boy, run!" in this long round holler, because this is the boy who will tell people what Camelot once was. He is, at the end of all thngs, everything. It still gives me chills whenever I listen to it.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Oh, that sounds lovely. No wonder it was memorable. I haven't heard the cast recording, or seen the movie either, actually. I really should, sometime. I like the King Arthur story.

Also, why are you online? Not that I mind! But I just passed on commenting on your cable's-out post, figuring that you wouldn't get it until much later.

[rm.livejournal.com]

at boss's house checking his email as I normally I do for him via phone. so leaching as I work.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha. Awesome! I approve of such a use of other people's computers.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Re: King Arthut -- I can fix that.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

I did see the one that came out just a year or two ago- the "realistic" one with the Romans. But I haven't seen the musical one.

[rm.livejournal.com]

oh the musical one is dreadful! I can upload the CD for you some time.

I love the "realistic" KA -- eventhough it's pretty awful.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Heh.

I remember being totally amused by Keira Knightly as the barbarian warrior princess.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Word.
Although amused is perhaps not the (only) word I would use.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha.

Um. Yeah.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Okay, now I run away home. see you tomorrow.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Bye!