Two good ones for all you theater people out there: New York talks to Stephen Sondheim and Angela Lansbury about their collaborations over the years, while the New Yorker chats up Christopher Plummer, who says this about living in a hotel: "It's nice to have the bed done for you. That signals another day. The horror that happened yesterday is all over and forgotten. Clean sheets. You start life all over again." I can't wait until I'm old enough to say something like that with a sense of authority.
Monday, December 14, 2009
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Living in hotels is the very best thing imaginable, especially with no significant other anchored to your ass.
Used to live at the Gramercy Park hotel and smoke a lot of cheap pot that wafted out of the front door which had open vents in it.
Mike Burke, then Yankee president and very cool guy who lived there knocked on my door one day and asked me in the nicest way if I could "smoke better dope."
I'm going to take a stand and say that the Michael Ceveris/Patti LuPone remake of Sweeney Todd was far superior to the original.
My experience of the original is limited to the cast album, but I'll concur that the remake was simply spectacular. The cast's sheer concentration for 2+ hours was remarkable.
Must strongly disagree. Lansbury owns that role, and I found the actor/musician combo distracting in that show - it worked better for Company.