metroman17

Favorite Broadway Show: Ever: Sweeney Todd Now: Avenue Q.
Favorite Off-Broadway Show: Forbidden Broadway
Favorite Stage Actress: Christine Baranski, Stephanie D'Abruzzo, Sutton Foster
Favorite Stage Actor: Brian Stokes Mitchell, Norbert Leo Butz, Marc Kudish
Best Broadway "Pair": Rod and Nicky
Best Casting: 12 Angry Men
Person: Best casting person? Jim Carnahan
Worst Casting: Tamayra Gray in Bombay Dreams
What Show Has The Best Ensemble: 12 Angry Men
What Show Has The Best Dancers: I hear La Cage is pretty amazing. Any men that can't dance in heels get my vote!
Number Of Broadway Shows You Have Seen: Sooo many

Broadway Tours You Have Seen: Les Mis, Rent, 42nd Street, Full Monty, Hairspray
Broadway Show You Have Seen The Most: Les Mis (3 times)
Broadway Show You Liked The Least: Secret Garden (but I was 12 and ignorant)
Shows You Wish You Could Have Seen Before They Closed: Nine
Shows You Plan To See Once They Open: Spamalot, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Show Currently Playing That You Haven't Seen But Want To: La Cage, Forbidden Broadway SVU

Have You Seen A Show In Its Previews: Yes
What Show Shouldn't Have Closed: Assassins
What Show Shouldn't Have Opened: BKLYN
What Show Should Be Revived: Sweeney Todd!
Favorite Broadway Song: Ballad of Booth
Favorite Broadway Scene: Final sequence from Sweeney Todd
Favorite Costumes: hmmmm...tough one
Do You Prefer Musicals or Plays: Musicals
Largest Broadway Theatre You've Been In: Gershwin
Smallest Broadway Theatre You've Been In: Not really sure...I think the Golden

Best Seats You've Had: I have had lots of good seats but fifth row for 12 Angry Men for free is always a plus!
Worst Seats You've Had: Balcony at the St. James for Secret Garden
Best Experience In The Theatre: Company and Sweeney Todd at the Kennedy Center
Worst Experience In The Theatre: Tour of 42nd Street
How Do You Feel About Understudies: Haven't seen one I really hated, so I all for them getting a chance
Alfred or Harvey: Harvey...a gay Tevye is better than a Goyish Tevye ;)
Idina or Shoshana: Only saw Idina so I am biased

Donna Murphy or Brooke Shields: saw neither but hated Donna in The King and I
What Is Your Dream Role: Seymour in Little Shop (I am a nerd)
If You Could Work With Any Broadway Actress/Actor You Would Choose: Sherie Rene Scott, she is hot and talented!

Should Avenue Q Have Won Best Musical: Yes
Did Christine Love The Phantom: Ugh, who cares
Is Elphaba Wicked: Hmmmm...In the language of New England "She is wicked cool"
What Is Your Favorite Lyric From A Musical: "Everythings different, nothings changed. Only maybe slightly rearranged"
What Is Your Favorite Dialogue: Tough one...i think i will pass

Have You Ever Been Brought To Tears By A Performance: Hell yeah!
What Moment Will You Never Forget: Seating Sondheim at the Pacific Overtures opening night party

A game

[01] Reply with your name and I will write something about you
[02] I will then tell what song[s] remind me of you.
[03] Next, I will tell you who you remind me of, celebrity/animated or otherwise.
[04] Last, i will try to name a single word that best describes you.
[05] Put this in your journal

I will only take the time to actually do this once I see it in your journal :)

I have decided that I need to have fun! I need to throw all my shyness and inhibitions out the window for a little bit and really enjoy life! I am 25 dammit...it is about time! What do you think? :)

Current Mood: bouncy
Current Music: Aerosmith's "Shut up and Dance"

So, when I started writing this journal I thought I would easily be able to post anything on my mind because I am a pretty open person, but last night I was stumped. I was laying up in bed and for the first time in a few weeks my thoughts were pretty clear. I finally understood why I was feeling a certain way that had been bothering me. However, I am not sure if I have the courage to post that all on here. So for now, if you do want to know, just ask me personally and I am sure I will be more than willing to share and maybe in the future I will post it here. So feel free to ask....

Cheers!

Current Mood: indescribable

Well it is yet another dreary Monday at work. Things are not too slow because we have a playreading tonight but well I am pretty proficient at things, so most of the work was done last week. Now I am just sitting around waiting for cancellations, additions or anything else that might come up.

The weekend was pretty good. Friday night I was so wiped out from the long week that I just stayed at home, watched some TV and slept 11 hours, which was quite nice. Saturday I went to dinner with my family and then drove into the city for Kristen's birthday party. That was lots of fun. It was at a country part in lower Manhattan. Truly white-trash because of the decor and prices but the clientele was pretty mainstream Manhattan. I left the party around 1 and arrive home close to two...only took that long because I was stuck in traffic because of a horrific accident on the Van Wyke...scary site! Yesterday was a typical Sunday...ran some errands, watched football, chatted online for a while with a cool new friend I made and hung out with my brother on his last day home before heading back to school for the semester today.

And that brings me to now. Obviously there is not much to do at work since I am writing this here. I am actually starting to miss the more hectic stressful days of last month. At least it made work go by fast and I didn't just have to sit around with my thoughts, which lately I should admit have been running in 1000 different directions and making me very confused. Sometimes I just want to turn my brain off for a while and not think about things, but well that is pretty much impossible so all I can do is just hope, life, love and the pursuit of happiness is sorted out soon.

Cheers!

Current Mood: groggy
Current Music: Blue Monday by Huey Lewis and the News

Well I am about to head out to Kristen's birthday in the city. Should be a fun night. A bunch of theater people at a country white trash bar! Fun times! This weekend so far has been pretty good. Stayed in last night because the week wiped me out and I was feeling a little sick. So I slept 11 hours and now feel much better. Looking forward to tonight and getting this week over so it can be Friday. Gee I really shouldn't look forward to something this much but I just can't help it. Oh well....I am off. I will update again tomorrow

Current Mood: refreshed

Had the worst night's sleep ever last night. Was good and tried to go to bed at 11:00pm, did not fall asleep until 1am. Woke up at 5am didn't get back to sleep until 6am. So many thoughts running through the head............. So, confused.......

Current Mood: pessimistic

Before I got into a little philosophical venture I wanted to make a quick plea. I am sure you all are being inindated with requests for donations for the tsunami victims. I understand that most people reading this are not wealthy and often live off of what they earn or even don't have a salary at all, but please try to find it in your heart to donate anything, big or small to help the millions of people who have been affected by this tragedy. Try to put yourself in their shoes and just imagine the helpless feeling. It really makes you realize how lucky we all are. I donated part of my paycheck this week and it is truly a special feeling.


Ok, well that out of the way, here is what I have to say today. So I was sitting on the train yesterday evening thinking about what it is like to commute. Everyday, twice a day, I take the train to and from the city. I sit in a confined space with hundreds of people sharing the same experience, at the same time. I look at the faces, the expressions, contemplating the thoughts running through everyone's head. It is interesting because I have so much company yet at the same time am all alone. I don't talk to anyone on the train, unless I see an occasional person I recognize from the neighborhood, but even then it is a wave and a "hello, how are you?" Most people on the train are in the exact same situation. It is actually a pretty amazing feeling to be around so many people but also have a sense of lonlieness in the rustle and bustle of the world. I am always sort of jealous of the few groups of commuters who know eachother and sit on the train everyday chatting about their lives, family, work, etc. But then again, I do enjoy those 80 minutes a day where I can sit, listen to my ipod and flood my mind with random thoughts (such as the one I am writing here). Well that is what I was thinking yesterday....the overall oxy-moron of a train commute, being with so many people in such a small closed space yet at the same time being all alone. Hope that makes some sense.


Anyways, on to real things....Work today was pretty good. Another routine day but lunch was nice, having the normal fun conversations with the added bonus of Chelsea being back. Now I am tired and ready for some good TV (West Wing and Law & Order). Night all :)

Current Mood: grateful
Current Music: Another Hundred People from Sondheim's "Company"

Hmmm...lets see. Today was a fair day. It started out being woken up by my mom calling to tell me that there was a water maine break at the East Rockaway LIRR station and that there was no service on the Long Beach branch (which I take). So I had to jump into the shower quickly to catch an earlier train from Lynbrook. I got to work around 9:40 so of course no one was around. Sat and surfed the internet until about 10:15 when most people showed up. The day overall was pretty slow. Not much going on at all at work now. I am really started to wish that I get a full time job there soon so at least I will have my own tasks to do rather than wait on other people to be overloaded and need help from me since things are pretty slow right now with three shows up and running smoothly. After work a bunch of us went out for 2 for 1 margarita night at a local restaurant. That was fun! I left a little earlier than I had wanted to because I am starting to feel sick and I wanted to make the 8:06 train back home. And now here I am all showered and feeling like a new person after a long day of work. I do wish it was next week. Then it could be only two days until my birthday party weekend and hanging out with Chelsea (speaking of whom, just got back into town after two weeks away) Friday night, and my exciting plans in January have truly started. Well I think that is all I have for now..not sure if what I wrote even was coherent. I am so tired. Gonna lie down and relax for a bit. Catch ya'll later!!!


p.s. Anyone who reads this and enjoys feel free to add me....I feel so unpopular on here ;)

Current Mood: optimistic

There are few things worse than having to come back from a long weekend on a super gloomy rainy, slow day :(

Current Mood: bored

Well it is Sunday afternoon and I am semi-bored so I think this is probably the best time to start some writing on here. First the details of my weekend. Thursday I was able to leave work early as our department was dismissed around 3:30 so I met up with John and Sweeney (two Rochester friends) and John's friend Josh from home. I met them over by Macys because Sweeney wanted to look for a jacket (bad move!) The stores were so ridiculously crowded so we left. We then walked up to the American Airlines Theatre to see if there were any 12 Angry Men tickets available for that evening. No such luck so I decided to knock on the box office door to with Ted (the manager) a Happy New Year. He said he heard that I was looking for tickets for friends from out of town and told me not to worry that he would set aside 3 student rush tickets for them for Saturday afternoon. I can't tell you how good that felt to have that favor done for me. It shows that all my hard work and diligence at the internship is really starting to payoff with respect from other people throughout the company. After that we walked to TKTS and bought tickets for Modern Orthodox that night. Ate dinner, and then saw the show. The show was quite excellent. Very funny and certainly extra humorous for me, a Jew who could relate to the whole internet Jewish dating experience. I highly reccommend the show for anyone, Jewish or not, especially if you are a fan of Jason Biggs because he is fantastic!

On to New Years. Went into the city to Angela's apartment. It was a lot of fun, very low-key as I like it. By 11 most people were pretty drunk and Angela got sick. So, that sort of dampened the mood of the party and some of us decided to head out pretty much right after midnight. Michelle, Travis, Mike Axler (Rochester people, again) all went down to Julia Lazarus's apartment (my boss Julia and her husband have an awesome loft in Chelsea and were out of town for the weekend so they allowed me to crash there New Years night). We all were pretty much asleep by 2. Yet another overrated New Years Eve, though still much better than staying home and doing nothing!


And now it is 2005! 2004 was definitely an interesting year....finishing up my thesis, finally leaving Rochester, searching for jobs the whole summer, starting my internship at Roundabout. Not to mention to endless numbers of bad jdates and some successes and failures in the area of romance. I think 2005 should be a more steady, consistent year. At least so far I know I have a set internship until the spring (which hopefully will turn into a job before too long). I am off of jdate for the time being, as my dating life has taken a particular positive turn in the past two months. So right now I am just enjoying life. Looking forward to an exciting January! Between my birthday party, seeing Avenue Q and Kristen Chenoworth I know it is going to be a good month and not just because all these events involve spending time with a certain person ;)

And finally for those ever-fun New Years resolutions. I never try to go particularly overboard with resolutions because I know the fewer I have the more likely I actually keep them. So here are my resolutions for this years:

1)excercise more
2)try to eat a bit healthier
3)more reading, less TV
4)most important: be patient. enjoy each moment as it passes, rather than strictly looking forward to the future and things developing a certain way. I am still young and there is plenty of time for the future planning later. Now it is time to just have fun and enjoy another year!!!!!

Well that is all I think I have to say for today. Which is ok, because I do at this point only have two friends on here :) Gotta start working on that!

Current Mood: contemplative

Well I have given in. I decided that my life is semi-exciting and good enough to share with...well whoever else wants to read about it. So I am starting out my livejournal...slowly but surely. For right now this is pretty much just a test but I am sure I will update more this weekend, after I recover from festivities tonight! Happy New Years :)