Today I had a make-up date with the guy I stood up yesterday, Henry teh 8.
In a moment of fashion insanity, I did NOT wear my Boleyn necklace to the Henry VIII exhibit at the British Library. What was I thinking? To make matters worse, I was wearing my Cleves ring. Sure, Henry had Anne [...]
My gorgeous mother, BarbaraB, took me to see Patti Lupone in the musical Gypsy this week. I’d seen the play last March, but after a ceiling vent fell on an audience member, I couldn’t really focus on Patti’s big finale. I wanted to experience an accident-free performance before the play closes on January 11.
I wore [...]
Reading gorgeous blogger Miss Karen’s I’m Not Anti-Social, Just Short-Sighted blog has caused the Officer Krupke song from West Side Story to become permanently lodged in my head. I sing it to myself every time I read her blog.
A clip from the movie version of West Side StoryMiss Karen’s line comes at 4:35
Damn you, Miss [...]
Madame Rose, Eva Peron … Kathie Lee Gifford? Yes, Kathie Lee, the preternaturally perky talk-show host, is, like those other ambitious ladies, the subject of her very own musical. She Can’t Believe She Said That! (subtitled The Rise and Fall and Fall and Rise of Kathie Lee Gifford nee Epstein) is the highlariously demented brain [...]
Greetings from sunny London. Look what the rain did to my carefully straightened hair!
Wearing:McQueen jacketDorothy Perkins t-shirt (the black and white version of this)Acne JeansPrada bagNewsprint umbrella from Rain or ShineMy own skull ring
We arrived yesterday morning and spent most of the day napping, despite my good intentions of fighting jet lag by staying active. [...]
Continue reading about London, Day 1: Standing in the English Rain
My gorgeous friend (and jewelry-selling assistant) Shawn Love has written, produced and directed a play! “Raw Love” had its first staged reading tonight. Guess who her costume designer is? Keep guessing till you say “Wendy Brandes.” That is the correct answer.
Shawn during rehearsal. “Um, yeah, I don’t see that line in the script.”
Shawn during rehearsal. [...]
I was thrilled to bits to see that my girl Patti LuPone is getting rave reviews for her portrayal of Mama Rose in the Broadway revival of Gypsy. Some critics are going so far as to say that this is the best Gypsy ever. Ooh, the people on the Bernadette Peters fan forum are going [...]
After attacking us with a ceiling vent on Monday, the Broadway revival of Gypsy continues to menace musical-theater lovers. Luckily, Patti LuPone is around to clean up. Maybe the theater has a poltergeist? Do NOT go into the light, Patti LuPone!
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Eric Idle, the author of the Monty Python musical Spamalot, recently changed the show’s lyrics to take out a reference to Britney Spears. “Because we don’t laugh at sad people,” he explained.
Now, for accuracy’s sake, he might want to change the lines about the joys of musical theater sung by Spamalot’s timid Sir Robin: “You [...]
