first blog in...

a couple of days---and what days they have been! Three days at Friends, including two in which I worked practically the whole day. On Wednesday two different schedules, but I felt very active---on all three days I also had sessions---so after that it was coming home and simply falling asleep very quickly. Yesterday, the snow day---no problem with that, but unfortunately the snow stopped a plane from taking off, the very plane that was supposed to carry the man I was supposed to sub for today. He remained, and I waited by the phone this morning, hoping that it would bring some work. It didn't, and there was a brief scare that Monday would not happen either. But it will, and I will be back there on Monday---really only one day missed.Still, a little frazzled by all these events---I am still, as you say, in motion.
  What about the weekend. Ah, would love to  see I Puritani at the Met tonight, and there are tons of seats available. What a pleasure to bask in Bellini's warm (but not too penetrating) music. But it won't happen, at least not tonight, because cityboy has made another choice---the daughter of Geraldine Page, Angelica Torn, has created a one woman show as a tribute to her mother. I grew up with Geraldine Page; I remember her great performances in Sweet Bird of Youth and Strange Interlude--so I felt this was something that I must see. Better to see it now, as it seems that seventeen friends of mine have theater projects happening in the next two or three weeks. Also, it is always fun to go to Dixon Place---since they do mostly downtown theater projects, I most  always meet someone that I know there, but since the saga of Miss Page brings back a different era, I wonder if there will be a different group of people there tonight---maybe some elderly people, some old Actors Studio veterans who knew and worked with Miss Page will be there to pay tribute to her. Well, we will see.
 Saturday will see the middle school show at Friends, and then off to Signature to see Everybody, the Brandon Jennings-Jacobs play. Really looking forward to that one. Sunday may try to go to Brick on Metropolitan and see Enterprise, which my friend Brian Parks has written. Then off to South Fourth for some (hopefully) good conversation.
  Interesting review of Big River, the musical adaptation of Huck Finn, that is playing at Encores. First the critic praises it,  then in her last three paragraphs she faults it for marginalizing the black characters and emphasizing the white ones. She is very critical of this--the Times reviews are rarely political in tone; I wonder what (if any) the ramifications will be of this. The critic writes regularly for the Times-----in a way, her review is a put down of the Times critic who loved it and shoved it into its fame--Frank Rich. It will be interesting to see what happens.
  So between now and my trip to Dixon Place have much time to kill. What to do---have some reading to catch up on, but where? Anyway, all will be revealed tomorrow....