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us she had a pop twang in her voice that doesn t quite work for a musical written and set in 1971 and referencing song styles from the decades before that also she has a very unflattering costume it s this bright blue dress with a fur wrap around the shoulders and a slit up the leg that makes her look the shape of a slice of pizza standing on its pointy end even if i loved her performance i think i would have been turned off by her bio in the playbill i swear this is what it says read more posted by mollie at 1 20 pm no comments tuesday september 6 2011 yours taste buds will sore our go to pizza place is called luigi s it s close and fairly consistent and a good compromise for our respective expectations when it comes to pizza you can t get a good old forge style tray around here anyway i did not know until i looked at the menu just now that this establishment is officially called luigi s gourmet grill the pizza is tasty enough but gourmet might be raising expectations a bit too high grill too come to think of it i m pretty sure they use ovens perhaps that s why online it is also known as luigi s gourmet pizza or just luigi s pizza anyway i am looking at the menu because i want to share with you some text that appears on it just beneath the restaurant name and above the stock image of a gondola luigi s goes in whole hog on the italian clip art on its menu pizza boxes awning etc despite the fact that as far as i can tell every single person who works there is hispanic i know you will find this sample of found poetry as mesmerizing as i do walk up enjoy your favorite foods prepaired as the day arrives we use only the finest ingredients yours taste buds will sore bring you back time after time we will be happy to assist you the other thing i love about luigi s is that there is a sign printed on 8 5 by 11 paper and posted on the wall in several places in the small eat in area urging customers not to loiter too long except it doesn t simply say that it begins here at luigi s we are all family which is about as far from describing reality as is calling the place a gourmet grill and it goes on at great length about how one should be thoughtful and make room for other patrons family members there s something a little deranged about it and i always wonder whether it was actually posted by the management or as i suspect especially given the complex english syntax typed up laminated and posted by a nosy patron who is perhaps the only person in the world who likes to hang out there luigi s come for the decent pizza stay for the perplexing signage posted by mollie at 2 19 pm no comments thursday august 11 2011 krup you previously on restricted view we noted with approval that stephen sondheim does not like it when someone levels a negative judgment against a work of theatre that he or she has not seen when john lahr did so with sweeney todd according to the account in finishing the hat sondheim complained to the editor and then wrote lahr himself a letter saying that although it was his privilege to give a show both barrels of his contempt i thought he ought to see it first maybe that stephen sondheim ought to have a talk with the stephen sondheim who wrote this crankypants letter to the new york times unloading both barrels of his contempt in the direction of the new broadway bound production of porgy and bess and everyone connected with it all women incidentally based on what he read about it in sunday s arts section because that seems like something the stephen sondheim who complained to john lahr might think twice about doing for what it s worth i read patrick healy s piece on the new porgy and bess with interest and without forming a strong opinion i know and love the score or at least the score s highlights but i haven t seen the show and can t evaluate the judgments of diane paulus et al one way or the other they certainly sounded plausible to me perhaps they re totally wrongheaded but if so the proof will be in the pudding and i m curious to see how it turns out sondheim seems to have been set off by the perceived disrespect for dubose heyward the letter reminded me that ira gershwin wasn t all that great is one of the tiresomely repetitive motifs in finishing the hat and he may have a point there but he went on from there at great length in many surprising directions for one thing i m pretty sure i ve heard him say things about the shortcomings of opera in general that line up closely with what paulus et al said in healy s story making his touchiness here seem odd there s also the fact that he has been sanguine even defensive about revisionary takes on his own work that seemed to me much more obviously misguided than what the porgy team is undertaking at art and then there s the fact that attacking fellow artists in such personal terms without letting their work stand on its feet first is as they say in french kind of a dick move what s the bitchiest part of the letter tough call but i think it s this which left me wondering what did audra mcdonald ever do to you audra mcdonald says that bess is often more of a plot device than a full blooded character often meaning sometimes she s full blooded and other times not she s always full blooded when she s acted full bloodedly as she was by among others clamma dale and leontyne price ms mcdonald goes on to say the opera has the makings of a great love story that i think we re bringing to life wow who d have thought there was a love story hiding in porgy and bess that just needed a group of visionaries to bring it out who d have thought there was a tetchy letter writing crank hiding in stephen sondheim that just needed an article about a bunch of women experimenting with porgy and bess to bring it out posted by mollie at 5 27 pm no comments monday august 1 2011 safe at home with our beautiful prize since celia s baby was born she had a new sense of her mental solidity and wisdom it seemed clear that where there was a baby things were right enough and that error in general was a mere lack of that central poising force george eliot middlemarch so the happy ending we have a son his name is martin george he was not quite as enormous as predicted and he s wonderful posted by mollie at 11 48 am 3 comments wednesday july 20 2011 in a little while just a little while a couple years ago i bought a journal from ex libris anonymous as a gift for a friend who was expecting the good people at e l a make journals out of discarded old books leaving a few key pages of the original inside along with the blank paper the book i bought was mother and baby care in pictures by louise zabriskie rn a sort of proto what to expect when you re expecting published in 1935 this edition was from the 40s i spent some time browsing before i wrapped it up for my pregnant friend and it was so terrific i found myself wishing they d left more pages intact although this review of the book from 1935 suggests that i should be grateful to have missed pages 68 71 imagine giving people detailed information on what the labor and delivery process involves that might fly with your younger generation but no old family doctor would stand for it parents to be should be either zonked on drugs or barred from the hospital entirely the way god intended i had a feeling i d find this book helpful someday so i scanned a few illustrations for future reference and now that my own pregnancy is nearly at an end and by that i mean the baby is arriving tomorrow let s take a moment to see how i ve done read more posted by mollie at 9 04 am 2 comments saturday june 18 2011 funny enough it was the reviews that convinced me i needed to see born yesterday on broadway my initial reaction was something like eh there s a movie and the movie has judy holliday and i m very happy with that thanks but reviews like michael feingold s made it sound like something much more exciting than a run of the mill revival of a reliable old comedy was happening at the cort and you know i love feingold so i went and i m sorry to say it was pretty much what i would have expected if i hadn t read any of those reviews fine entertaining enough but not especially good i should say that jim belushi was out last night and perhaps that threw everyone else s game off more than i could detect but his understudy bill christ was just fine and the problems i had with the production wouldn t have been fixed by a stronger presence in that one role basically i didn t see the snappy and sensitive direction feingold saw what i saw was much more in line with what i ve come to expect from doug hughes after a man for all seasons and inherit the wind if you want to make an old play feel fresh i don t think hughes is your man in this case there was a void where much of the emotional content should have been read more posted by mollie at 11 27 am no comments monday june 13 2011 tony memories so little attention was i paying in the run up to the tonys last night that i didn t even know the show had moved from radio city to the beacon until it began from where i sit the move was an upgrade the broadcast actually seemed professionally produced as befits a show that pays tribute to live theatre the performers seemed able to hear the orchestra what a difference that makes in terms of professionalism and general skill the opening it s not just for gays anymore number was the best i ve seen maybe ever on the other hand well here s what i said last year i just don t think the motto of the tonys should be broadway it s not so bad alas so much for what i think some other thoughts as i watched read more posted by mollie at 8 41 pm no comments sunday june 12 2011 oh is that on tonight i can t think of a year when i ve been less excited about the tony awards than i am now i have been a bit distracted from paying attention to the broadway scene this winter and spring so that accounts for some of my lack of enthusiasm but even when i have made it to the theatre i seem to have seen all the wrong shows at least if the tony nominating committee is to be trusted and you know i m not certain that they are in past years i ve managed to see at least a couple of shows that gave me something to be excited about i may have seen only one of the nominated leading actor in a play performances but if i could feel good about that nomination i had a reason to cheer this year even the shows and performances i have seen aren t inspiring me to root for anyone special here is the official list of nominees for example i saw arcadia which i thought was quite good it has a big cast with several very strong performances in general i thought the british cast members were stronger than the americans and if i were to recommend individual actors for tony nominations billy crudup would probably be the last name on my list and billy crudup was the only member of that cast to be nominated hooray i also saw that championship season which went completely unacknowledged by the nominators not even a best revival of a play nod ouch i didn t think it was great but it wasn t an embarrassment either and i m surprised it was so completely snubbed maybe the american theatre wing took my griping too much to heart last year i complained about the celebrity worship on display at the tonys catherine zeta jones winning an award immediately after her completely horrifying live performance of send in the clowns was a low point in a conversation on facebook i griped next year they re going to skip the plays altogether and just hand out tonys to any movie star they can get to show up and then do a tribute to glee because why the hell not i have been proven wrong to look at the list of nominees you would never know that such stars of film and teevee as daniel radcliffe kiefer sutherland chris noth dan lauria ben stiller chris rock and robin williams all had major roles and positive reviews on broadway this year i guess that s progress of course there s still the chance very high that the broadcast will make the most of any famous faces it can find and i wouldn t rule out a random tribute to glee but when it comes to the actual nominations i m wondering whether the committee leaned a little too hard in the opposite direction speaking of robin williams last night i saw bengal tiger at the baghdad zoo his performance didn t blow me away but it was solid and disciplined and a nomination wouldn t have been a mistake in my opinion i m glad one other actor arian moayed did get nominated even if he s really more of a leading than a featured performer in that play but why on earth wasn t the play itself nominated no love for rajiv joseph there s extra room in the best play category i didn t see any of the shows that actually were nominated so i can t say whether it s better than any or all of them but it s certainly good enough to get recognized it s better than say god of carnage and when we have a new notable american play running on broadway why be stingy with the recognition i think the main reason i m so grumpy about what did and did not get recognized despite my failure to see many of the favorites is that one show i did manage to see is sister act and it was terrible so bad i scrapped my plans to review it because what s the point it s not even bad in an interesting way it s just why is this show so insulting to my intelligence bad yet somehow the nominating committee found room for sister act in nearly every category set aside for musicals i will grant them a best score nomination some of those 1970s r b pastiche numbers are pretty amusing but best book is an outrage and honestly the whole thing should have been overlooked in embarrassed silence i just hope it doesn t actually win anything so was it an off year for broadway or just for the tony powers that be or was it just an off year for me i m not sure but i do know i m barely motivated to tune in tonight i still will of course and there s always the hope that the broadcast will be 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