9 posts from September 2007
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Carousel is the very first musical I ever saw. I was a toddler and my parents took me to the revival at the New York State Theatre. I remember riding up and down escalator after escalator. I remember the death scene. Closing the circle, the revival of Carousel again at Lincoln Center was the last show I took my father to before the passed away.
This has got to be one of the most stomach clutching musical comedies to come along in recent memory. This show is tons of fun. The original lady of the lake featured in the video below is on Grey's Anatomy and she won the Tony Award for Featured Actress in a Musical.
Faith Hill, Tim McGraw's wife, encourages you to Breathe because her husband will leave you breathless.
Since I'm stuck in the 70's pop with the music that I mostly listen to, except for Broadway, I'm really not at all up to date with current artists. Much of what I hear that is "new" I first hear on television shows. This song by Coldplay was the final song on an episode of Cold Case. It was about a good guy who dies in his quest to save a young girl from a Russian prostitution ring. She steals money from him, runs away and ends up getting him killed. Years later when the murder is solved she learns that he died.
"When you try your best but you don't succeed
When you get what you want but not what you need
When you feel so tired but you can't sleep
Stuck in reverse
And the tears come streaming down your face
When you lose something you can't replace\
When you love someone but it goes to waste
Could it be worse?
Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you
And high up above or down below
When you're too in love to let it go
But if you never try you'll never know
Just what you're worth
Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you
Tears stream down your face
When you lose something you cannot replace
Tears stream down your face
And I
Tears stream down your face I promise you I will learn from
my mistakes
Tears stream down your face
And I"
Just saw this revival. Will write more at a later time.
Somebody had a lot of time on their hands. This is quite amusing and very cleverly edited. It has House's three underlings signing the parts of Sheila, Bebe and Maggie. Hysterical.
In an earlier post, I laud Monday night on NBC. I now must say goodbye to two shows which did not make it to their sophomore years. In fact, The Black Donnellys didn't even have all of its first season broadcast. Boo to NBC for taking both shows off the air but I am thankful I could watch the unbroadcast shows on NBC.com and of course, now own them on DVD.
Three winners:
Chuck, Heroes and The Journeyman are three winners on Monday night on NBC. The evening starts off with Chuck starring Zachary Levi who is funny, sweet, charming, funny and irresistibly sexy. [Note added on 3/29/08: Apparently Journeyman was a loser and will not be returning to the NBC lineup in the Fall. Due to the writer's strike, there will be no additonal new episodes of Chuck or Heroes until the Fall. I did read that there will be a 25-episode Heroes season next year to make up for some of the disruption this season. Bummer if you ask me.]
From last season is the indomitable series, Heroes. The intertwined plot lines are well written and well executed continually making you wonder what the connections among all the characters are or will be. Week to week you want to know what is going to happen next. Heroes is broadcast at 9 pm.
The last prime time show on Monday night is The Journeyman. Kevin McKidd, the star of this show, has deeply, soulful eyes which will just make you melt. Unfortunately, this show is weak in comparison to its lead-ins. Maybe it will get stronger as the season goes on and at least make it through its freshman season.
I just read the play Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire. It's an engulfing drama with the right amounts of comedy thrown in to make it not too maudlin. One of my favorite exchanges:
Izzy: ...."And she's a big lady. Real hefty. More chins than--what does Mom say?"
Becca: More Chins than a Chinese phone book."
About the changing nature of bereavement:
"I don't know. The weight of it, I guess. At some point it becomes bearable. It turns into something you can crawl out from under. And carry around--like a brick in your pocket. And you forget it every once in a while, but then you reach in for whatever reason and there it is: "Oh right. That." Which can be awful. Not all the time. Sometimes its kinda...Not that you like it exactly, but it's what you have instead of your son, so you don't want to let go of it either. So you carry it around."
I just keep thinking about the Sondheim lyric, "Sometimes people leave you...halfway through the woods...No one is alone." Although the grief from death can be very isolating, you have to move yourself to the point where you can carry it around like that brick. Otherwise, you become immobilized and your own life stands still which isn't the point. You have to keep moving forward. Move on.
"People make mistakes. Fathers. Mothers. Honor their mistakes. Everybody makes. One another's terrible mistakes."
