-
Recent Posts
Categories
Archives
-
Recent Posts
Categories
Archives
-
Recent Posts
Categories
- Alcorn McBride (28)
- Family (230)
- Lifestyle (367)
- Animals (2)
- Cooking (86)
- Dining (251)
- Theme Parks (17)
- Wine (121)
- Technology (16)
- The Arts (83)
- Art & Sculpture (6)
- Books and Writing (13)
- Music (33)
- Photography (5)
- Theatre (29)
- Travel (436)
- Africa (1)
- Morocco (1)
- Asia (9)
- Caribbean (12)
- Aruba (1)
- Grand Cayman (2)
- Puerto Rico (1)
- St. Thomas (3)
- Central America (5)
- Belize (1)
- Costa Rica (2)
- Mexico (3)
- Panama Canal (3)
- Europe (54)
- Austria (1)
- Denmark (1)
- England (20)
- London (8)
- Estonia (1)
- Finland (1)
- France (13)
- Paris (7)
- Germany (3)
- Greece (4)
- Greenland (6)
- Hungary (1)
- Iceland (3)
- Ireland (7)
- Italy (7)
- Monaco (2)
- Norway (1)
- Poland (1)
- Portugal (2)
- Russia (1)
- Scotland (1)
- Slovakia (1)
- Spain (5)
- Barcelona (2)
- Sweden (1)
- Switzerland (1)
- Turkey (3)
- North America (306)
- Canada (6)
- United States (301)
- Alaska (1)
- Arkansas (1)
- California (17)
- Central Coast (1)
- Death Valley (1)
- Los Angeles (8)
- San Diego (1)
- San Francisco (4)
- Sequoia (1)
- Three Rivers (1)
- Yosemite (3)
- DC (1)
- Florida (85)
- Hawaii (1)
- Illinois (130)
- Midwest (13)
- New England (3)
- New York (21)
- The South (12)
- Charleston (2)
- Georgia (1)
- New Orleans (3)
- Savannah (1)
- Tennessee (1)
- West Virginia (1)
- Wiliamsburg (2)
- The West (27)
- Arizona (2)
- Bryce (1)
- Colorado (2)
- Grand Canyon (2)
- Idaho (1)
- Las Vegas (13)
- Montana (1)
- Nebraska (1)
- New Mexico (2)
- Oregon (1)
- South Dakota (1)
- Utah (1)
- Washington State (1)
- Wyoming (1)
- Yellowstone (1)
- WashingtonDC (2)
- Oceania (29)
- Australia (16)
- New Zealand (14)
- South America (3)
- Africa (1)
- Uncategorized (3)
Archives
Category Archives: Theatre
Hamilton
It’s a good show, not a phenomenal one. Of course nothing could live up to the hype. It’s great that it’s bringing new people in to see musical theatre (as long as they’re rich enough to spend a ridiculous amount … Continue reading
Posted in Theatre
Comments Off on Hamilton
War Paint at the Goodman Theatre
Last night Dani and I saw War Paint at the Goodman Theatre. It’s an excellent show starring Patti LuPone and Christine Ebersole about the rivalry between Helena Rubenstein and Elizabeth Arden. It opened in Chicago a couple of months ago, … Continue reading
Waitress
This anniversary trip to New York City features a lot of fine dining, but it started because of Waitress, a new musical based on the movie, and with a score by Sara Bareilles. Dani asked for tickets for Christmas, and … Continue reading
MoneyShot!
Alexander Sage Oyen is a young composer of Broadway-style music. He first came to my attention when a few of Dani’s friends sang on his debut album, released shortly after his graduation for Dr. Phillips High School. Since then I’ve … Continue reading
Broadway Shows
This trip we fit in four shows: three new ones and one favorite. Newsies This Disney show is based upon a movie from the 90s that flopped but became a fan favorite. The Alan Menken score was resurrected and Harvey … Continue reading
The Phantom of Westminster Abbey and Clos Maggiore
Linda and I spent today on our own while our friends were off doing other stuff. We slept in and then found a nearby teeny tiny Japanese restaurant, Ichi-Ricki, for lunch. I’m glad the reviews I’d read warned me it … Continue reading
London
We’re off to London for a few days before heading out of Southampton on a twelve night wine cruise. This was Linda’s first experience with the airline beds that recline all the way, and they certainly make a difference; we … Continue reading
Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark gets a makeover
We just got back from Spider-Man. This is the second time we’ve seen a show before and after they fixed it (The Addams Family was the first). The original version was so bad it prompted me to write a review … Continue reading
Priscilla Queen of the Desert
Some Broadway shows have plots so convoluted that it requires advance study to follow them. This is a not a problem for Priscilla Queen of the Desert. The entire plot may be summarized as: three drag queens and a bus. … Continue reading
Spiderman: Turn Off the Suck
When we first planned this trip to New York, I asked Ron if there were any Broadway shows he wanted to see, and he mentioned Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark. Having heard how awful the show was, and that it … Continue reading
Protected: Dani Does Wicked
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
West Side Story
The touring production of West Side Story visited Orlando this week, and Linda and I saw it on our season ticket subscription to Broadway Across America. Of all the hundreds of musicals we’ve seen, it’s curious that neither of us … Continue reading
Rock of Ages more like Gravel
For a decade we held season tickets to the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, which hosted some of the best productions in the Southeast, but then they terminated their affiliation with Broadway Across America, and stopped getting the interesting touring … Continue reading
Winter Garden Noises Off
Tonight we had dinner at Thai Blossom in Winter Garden, a restaurant in the Edgewater Hotel around the corner from The Chef’s Table. The Thai food was mostly quite good, and the place was packed by the time we left. … Continue reading
Del Frisco’s 39 Steps
It’s been more than a couple of years since we’ve been to Del Frisco’s, and it was near the Shakespeare Center, so we decided to have an early dinner there on Friday. Since our last visit they’ve completed the seamless … Continue reading
Chez Josephine
After the always superb lunch at Jean Georges (perhaps my favorite restaurant in the world), we strolled down Broadway, which becomes a giant flea market closed to traffic on Saturdays. Then, in the evening, on the spur of the moment, … Continue reading
Michelangelo Hotel
When we saw The Addams Family in Chicago during its test run, the songs were good, but the show was pretty poor. So poor we couldn’t imagine how it made it to Broadway (admittedly we saw it when its star, … Continue reading
Not Quite Iceland
It looks like this is the closest we’re going to get to Iceland. Although we can’t really detect it on the ship, apparently there is a 35 knot wind blowing across the harbor entrance, which makes it impossible to dock. … Continue reading
Love Never Dies But This Tooth Did
For the past month I’ve had sinus headaches and jaw aches, but when I went to my dentist at Starbase Dental last week he couldn’t identify a particular tooth that was the problem. He prescribed antibiotics and told me to … Continue reading
Into The Woods
I was awakened by Linda informing me it was 11:30AM and we were about to miss our lunch reservation! A quick shower and short cab ride took us to Petrus, one of Gordon Ramsay’s restaurants, where we had a leisurely, … Continue reading
An Evening With Stephen Schwartz
I made orange rolls for breakfast, in my ongoing effort to clear out the fridge for vacation. Then for lunch we walked down to Addis Abeba and had a platter of mostly vegetarian offerings — very tasty. On the way … Continue reading
A Perfectly (Awful) Musical
We had a quiet day of reading. We went to Kansaku for lunch and had the salmon ceviche roll again. We also had a north shore blvd roll, which was rolled in soy paper rather then seaweed, something I never … Continue reading
Moto
We went to Chicago for lunch, a play and dinner. Lunch was at Petterino’s, in the heart of the theatre district. It’s a lot like Sardi’s, right down to the decor. After lunch we walked across the street to see … Continue reading
The Sins of Sor Juana
Dani and I went to see The Sins of Sor Juana at the Goodman Theatre. It’s a drama based upon the real life of a 17th century woman scholar and writer in Mexico. It was directed by the same person … Continue reading
You’re a Mediocre Musical, Charlie Brown
My diverticulosis has been acting up, this time on my left side, so I took it easy today. We walked up to the theatre to see a student production of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown. They did a good … Continue reading
All The World’s a Stage
Today was pretty quiet, working at home. I walked up to the Theatre and Interpretation Center to exchange some tickets because Dani wants to go to a drama in Chicago this weekend. On the way home I dodged a troop … Continue reading
Main Street
Dani and I walked down to Main Street, about a mile south, and explored. We found an impressive rock shop, Dave’s Down to Earth Rock Shop, that had what must be a multi-million dollar fossil collection / museum in the … Continue reading
Scotland & Ireland 2008
We scheduled this extended trip to the UK to coincide with Dani and her friends from Trinity Prep performing at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Dani departed ahead of us, on Tuesday, July 29th, with her school group. They spent a … Continue reading
New York 2005
Dani’s Broadway Journal Day 1, 7/9/05 Manhattan The day mercifully didn’t start out at the crack of dawn. We had an 11:35 direct flight to New York. The flight was rescheduled to 11:20 so we were a little worried about … Continue reading