Forward...into the past!

Weird start to the day. When a friend posts that she found, ..."A weird new kink I've never seen/heard of before today. Possibly NSFW," and I go and read (it's just weird/adult, not eye-melting) and then follow all of the text-links...amazing.

Then I find a bug at the bottom of my jello bowl. As I've been working with amber rough, this is oddly coincidental-- it's like a foodie-version of real amber-with-encased-bug. But jigglier. Must make new jello.

Last night I finally got to see, "Follies." This musical has been on my Broadway bucketlist for ages both because it's Sondheim and I've heard such intriguing descriptions of the show. The story is simple: a theater is being torn down and they are having a reunion of the Weismann Follies girls (based after the Ziegfeld Follies). Now, in ordinarily talented hands this would have been a sentimental, bordering-on-maudlin show about reunions and old times and etc. As usual, Sondheim manages to mix in madness, a spectacular nervous breakdown and raw emotions in a variety of characters you like even though they only have a single song or piece in the show. All of this takes place in a creepy set that keeps reminding you that whatever the situation or happy tone of a song, death and decay await. The staging was just as stunning, with that same underlying creepiness. And there are ghosts everywhere.

I cannot recommend enough that you should see this show if it comes through your town: it's rarely performed (a cast of over 40, plus a full orchestra and elaborate sets) and you will see what a stand-out creator can do to stretch the boundaries of a medium such as "musical theater". I am SO GLAD I was able to see this!

Weird start to the day. When a friend posts that she found, ..."A weird new kink I've never seen/heard of before today. Possibly NSFW," and I go and read (it's just weird/adult, not eye-melting) and then follow all of the text-links...amazing.

Then I find a bug at the bottom of my jello bowl. As I've been working with amber rough, this is oddly coincidental-- it's like a foodie-version of real amber-with-encased-bug. But jigglier. Must make new jello.

Last night I finally got to see, "Follies." This musical has been on my Broadway bucketlist for ages both because it's Sondheim and I've heard such intriguing descriptions of the show. The story is simple: a theater is being torn down and they are having a reunion of the Weismann Follies girls (based after the Ziegfeld Follies). Now, in ordinarily talented hands this would have been a sentimental, bordering-on-maudlin show about reunions and old times and etc. As usual, Sondheim manages to mix in madness, a spectacular nervous breakdown and raw emotions in a variety of characters you like even though they only have a single song or piece in the show. All of this takes place in a creepy set that keeps reminding you that whatever the situation or happy tone of a song, death and decay await. The staging was just as stunning, with that same underlying creepiness. And there are ghosts everywhere.

I cannot recommend enough that you should see this show if it comes through your town: it's rarely performed (a cast of over 40, plus a full orchestra and elaborate sets) and you will see what a stand-out creator can do to stretch the boundaries of a medium such as "musical theater". I am SO GLAD I was able to see this!