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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: Shaggy 2 Grote on October 17, 2007, 10:05:51 PM
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Open to page 27 of the latest issue (October 22) and look underneath the big Rachel Domm drawing of the opera singer. Not Minimum Wage, but the thing below that.
Is it totally pathetic and ludicrous of me to be beaming about this? Yes. Not to mention pretty unseemly. But Filthy Laurie, now you have to come. If you have anything less than a great time I will reimburse you for the price of a p*ong tasting. With mascarpone. It's also here (http://"http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/theatre/2007/10/22/071022goth_GOAT_theatre), but that's much less exciting. Not that this would be even remotely exciting to anyone but me and maybe my mom.
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Congratulations!
Any tickets left?
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The première of a drama by Jason Grote, a take on Scheherazade’s tales, exploring Israel-Palestine politics and the West’s influence on them. Ethan McSweeny directs the Page 73 production. Previews begin Oct. 22. (Nagelberg Theatre at Baruch Performing Arts Center, 55 Lexington Ave. 212-352-3101.)
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/theatre/2007/10/22/071022goth_GOAT_theatre
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Yep! Thanks for posting it. I swear this wasn't a ploy to get you to do that, I just remember you saying you had a subscription and I was dying to tell somebody. Tickets are actually selling pretty well for a new play by a relative nonentity in a busy theater season but there are still tickets available for most of the run. There's a FOT discount code* you can use on 1001nyc.com, P31001, for $17 tickets (it's usually $25/35). And if any students with ID wanna see it, it's $10 with the code STU1001.
*Actually just a regular discount code but no FOT should have to pay full price! For anything!
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That's awesome, congratulations and good luck!
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Thanks, Crimestick!
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When does the tour start? The one thing I hate about this forum (the only thing) is that I get reminded every day how lame it can be to live in Minneapolis.
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I'm coming on the 23rd! Yay you!!!!!
See you on Sunday! WOW, being in NYC really makes me want to use tons of exclamation maRKS!!!!!!!!! ALSO, I AM NOT USED TO USING LAPTOP KEYBOARDS!!!!!!!!!
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When does the tour start? The one thing I hate about this forum (the only thing) is that I get reminded every day how lame it can be to live in Minneapolis.
Hey, Minneapolis has some pretty good stuff in it! You have that band that sounds like a cross between Gene Vincent and a book on tape and actually some cool theater. My friend Deb Stein, who I am trying to convert to FOTdom, is in residency out there at the Playwrights' Center.
The Guthrie (the big toilet-bowl-shaped regional theater) passed on the play, but "want to see what I do next," or something like that. Maybe it'll come to the Walker Art Center someday...
I'm coming on the 23rd! Yay you!!!!!
See you on Sunday! WOW, being in NYC really makes me want to use tons of exclamation maRKS!!!!!!!!! ALSO, I AM NOT USED TO USING LAPTOP KEYBOARDS!!!!!!!!!
Thanks, Laurie! I'll be there that night!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Are you here now? I hope you're having a good time.
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Yes, I'm here now! I saw Stephen Colbert (along with John Hodgman in the row behind me, and Brian Grazer whilst waiting in line) and America's Radio Sweetheart Jesse Thorn on Tuesday. After, I saw the truly outrageous Britta Phillips and her foxy husband Dean Wareham, along with the Rosebuds and also Voxtrot. I saw Todd Barry in the audience, and he is wee. Yesterday, I saw Thurston Moore at the Apple Store. At night, I went to UCB and saw Ben Karlin interviewed. My king Dave Hill opened, and he was very, very funny. And this morning, I saw Vampire Weekend!!!! It was at Other Music, and they provided free coffee, bagels, and muffins for people waiting in line. Very nice! I saw Austin from Project Runway pass by while on line. He was wearing a lovely pink lip gloss. I love him. TONIGHT: I see His Name Is Alive and St. Vincent, yay!!!!!!!!!
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Britta Phillips is in my top 10 most beautiful women over 40, easy. I don't have a top 10 most beautiful women overall (too lazy to consider all 3.5 billion) but she might be in there, too.
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A celebrity-filled stay, Laurie! That Colbert happening sounds cool.
(When I was in NY last week I met Jon Glaser - one of the most surreal/awesome moments in a while.)
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Oh, the Thurston Moore thing was an in-store show. His bassist is named BLOOD HAMMER. His rhythym guitarist was Chris Brokaw, who is awesome.
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That sounds awesome, Laurie. I've always wanted to see Austin Scarlett. Someone I know - my wife maybe? - said she say Jay McCarroll walking around being Jay. I was envious.
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That sounds awesome, Laurie. I've always wanted to see Austin Scarlett. Someone I know - my wife maybe? - said she say Jay McCarroll walking around being Jay. I was envious.
it's weird. the only "celebrities" I've ever seen in nyc are people from project runway. I've seen like 10 of them
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That sounds awesome, Laurie. I've always wanted to see Austin Scarlett. Someone I know - my wife maybe? - said she say Jay McCarroll walking around being Jay. I was envious.
it's weird. the only "celebrities" I've ever seen in nyc are people from project runway. I've seen like 10 of them
the entire time i was living in nyc i only ran into two celebrities--once i saw willam dafoe walking in the west village, and i rang rose mcgowan out at the girl props store. otherwise nothing. laurie's list is impressive.
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I once saw Cynthia Nixon on a crosstown bus, sans makeup, clutching a Zagat guide.
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Celebs encountered in NYC:
King Buzzo
Diane Keaton
Sandy Duncan
Mario Batali
Roscoe Orman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe_Orman)
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The celebs I spotted last week were all comedy related for some reason.
Glaser
Fred Armisen
Aziz Anzari
AP Mike
Also I happened to stumble upon the latest Improv Everywhere (http://www.improveverywhere.com/2007/10/17/no-shirts/) prank. I thought it was a photo shoot.
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I forgot to mention: I saw Peter of Peter, Bjorn, and John at Other Music during the Vampire Weekend performance. GOOD TIMES.
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I saw Tom Wolfe at tonight's showing of Tom Stoppard's Rock 'n' Roll. He sat four rows ahead of me, and he left after intermission.
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Wow, good bit of gossip. Though I don't know if Tom Wolfe counts as a celebrity sighting, because he's so ubiquitous.
Evidently you stayed, though. What did you think of the show?
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Eh, it was okay. The acting was outstanding, but the script could have used a solid edit or three. Is Stoppard so big that he doesn't have anyone give his scripts a once over? He should have put the hammer back where it belonged, with a sickle, because he used it over and over again to hammer home the same goddamn points. After three hours, it got pretty tiresome.
Also, I don't know if I would consider Tom Wolfe a reliable arbiter of taste. Did you read his last book? The one all about his daughter's sex life at college? Awful.
I'll probably read his next book, as it's all about Miami, but... Eh. I'm not so hot about Tom Wolfe.
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Eh, it was okay. The acting was outstanding, but the script could have used a solid edit or three. Is Stoppard so big that he doesn't have anyone give his scripts a once over?
That just about hits the nail on the head. It's a totally perverse system where all of these famous farty guys no longer have to try, while all of the young playwrights (like all my friends and me) have to jump one ridiculous hurdle after another. Whine, whine.
I think Stoppard's kinda overrated, though I like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (which he wrote like forty-five years ago). One of our actresses, the lovely Mia Barron (at whom I gawking right now in fact) was just in Coast of Utopia, and now I regret not seeing it, because she is really fucking funny. We're in tech right now. It's like watching sausage being made, except that the sausage is being made from your kid. Thank god the theater has wi-fi. I still stand by my pledge, Laurie, but I also gotta warn you that you'll be seeing it on the second preview, so while our cast will still be awesome it won't be up to full speed. So basically what I'm trying to say is pee first because there isn't an intermission and by Friday we'll have shaved a good 10 minutes off but I can't make any promises for Tuesday.
Also, I don't know if I would consider Tom Wolfe a reliable arbiter of taste. Did you read his last book? The one all about his daughter's sex life at college? Awful.
I know, totally embarrassing. I could give an unfair book review to that book just based on the chapter titles. I really like some of his early stuff but god knows what possessed him to start writing fiction. Probably the same dementia that made him a Bush supporter.
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I think I Am Charlotte Simmons could have been really good if it were 200-300 pages shorter. It didn't resemble any college experience I ever had but it was interesting nonetheless. But, every chapter led off with the same characters having the same thoughts and it made the book really monotonous. In between the self-aware cliches there actually was a story and it wasn't bad. It wasn't great, but it wasn't terrible either.