December 2010
13 posts
Sorry Spiderman →
I think it’s perfectly fair for someone to come in and offer a review of a show that’s been in previews, if the previews are charging full price for theater tickets. The purpose of a preview period, of the what used to be the purpose, was to charge less for a product that may not be completely stage ready, it offers a chance for theater lovers to be a part of the creative process of a...
100
Oh man this is my 100th post, I better make it count.
Let’s write about Christmas, or the Holiday Season, it’s times like this that I’m glad that I work in an office and not a retail store. I think that if I had to work retail job in NYC during the Holidays I would probably end up hurting someone worse that the aerial equipment of Spider-Man.
I remember when I was going to...
The Beginning of the End for Off-Broadway →
Sad that the tricks to lure audiences to Broadway shows have trickled down to Off-Broadway houses. Due to a $250,000 decrease in funding from foundations and grants, and the high costs of producing shows Off-Broadway, The Cherry Lane theater is selling it’s building on Commerce Street, and the Executive Director is stepping down.
This doesn’t surprise me, with tickets to some...
Obsessed
As part of my job I get to upload pictures from the schools in our network to our social media networks. Today I came across this picture. It was from a mock interview day at one of our schools, and the interviewer is more interested in what’s inside the cup than with what the girl he’s interviewing has to say. I picture him saying “COFFEE” like a zombie might say...
Holiday Post
As a comment on the holidays and a recent picture that I saw, let’s discuss things that scare me.
1. Snakes
I have always been freaked out by snakes. I remember my kindergarten teacher’s son had snakes and one day he brought them into my class to show us, uh not cool! Everyone but me and this girl were standing on the outskirts of the circle that we were forced to form. My teacher...
Improv
Performance spaces are like pants, sometimes you just have to get rid of them if they get too worn out. As much as I love performing at The Creek in LIC, I think that Dumpster Tequila’s time there is quickly approaching its end. I think with the changes that DT is going through in order to move us to the next level, we need to kind of push ourselves and move to a space within the confines of...
Coffee
It’s an understatement to say that I like coffee, I love coffee, hot, iced, room temperature it doesn’t matter. And the fact that my new job has unlimited free coffee is the best prize of all. At my last place of employment, we were asked to pay per cup of coffee we had. To that I say, be gone! It wasn’t our decision that you decided to get a coffee maker that used pods which...
Another one bites the dust
I am not really surprised that The Scottsboro Boys and Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson are closing. These shows were trying to break free from the traditional model set forth in the past 15 years of having either recognizable titles(Legally Blonde, Shrek, Hairspray), song catalogs (Mamma Mia!), or celebrities (think Catherine Zeta-Jones in A Little Night Music) in order to be successful. Seeing as...
