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Tours
1991 September - Les Mis, Auditorium
1993 June - Miss Saigon, Auditorium
1994 March - Phantom of the Opera, Auditorium
1997 March - Grease, Shubert (i have the playbill, but i have no recollection of this)
1997 December - Rent, Shubert Theatre
1998 November - Chicago, Shubert Theatre
1999 March - Ragtime, Ford Center
1999 September - Rent, Shubert Theatre
2004 December - George Gershwin, Alone, Royal George

Previews:
2004 December - Spamalot, Shubert Theatre
2013 April - Big Fish, Oriental

Missing:
Young Frankenstein, tour
Addams Family (2009), preview

Other places, national tours:
1998 December - Evita, Aronoff Center, Cincinnati (Raul Esparza as Che)
1999 May - Rent, Taft Theatre, Cincinnati
1999 July - Rent, Golden Gate Theatre, San Francisco
1999 December - Cabaret, Curren Theatre, San Francisco (Norbert Leo Butz as Emcee)

Musicals:
1987 August - Big River, Eugene O'Neill Theater
1990 August - Jerome Robbins Broadway, Imperial Theater
1992 July - The Secret Garden, St James Theatre
1992 July - Guys and Dolls, Martin Beck Theater
1997 August - Rent, Nederlander Theater
1997 August - Jekyll and Hyde, Plymouth Theatre
1997 August - Titanic, Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
1998 April - Scarlet Pimpernel, Minskoff Theatre
1998 April - Les Miserables, Imperial Theatre
1999 May 29 - Les Miserables, Imperial Theatre
1999 May - Scarlet Pimpernel, Minskoff Theatre
1999 May - It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues, Lincoln Center Theater
1999 May - Miss Saigon, The Broadway Theatre (Lea Salonga, Will Chase, Billy Porter)
2000 May - The Wild Party, Virginia Theater
2000 May - Annie Get Your Gun, Marquis Theater
2003 February - Flower Drum Song, Virginia Theatre
2004 March - Wicked, Gershwin Theatre
2004 May 29 - Assassins, Studio 54
2004 June - Avenue Q, Golden Theater

2009 May - Lion King, Minskoff Theatre

2012 July 5 - Book of Mormon, Eugene O'Neill Theatre
2012 November - Bring It On, St James Theatre
2012 November - Evita, Marquis Theatre
2013 December - Annie, Palace Theatre
2013 March - Kinky Boots, Al Hirschfeld Theatre
2013 June 7 - Pippin, The Music Box
2013 June 8 - Cinderella, The Broadway Theatre
2013 August 4 - Pippin
2013 August 16 - Once
2013 August 17 - Kinky Boots

2014 April - Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill, Circle in the Square
2014 June - Cabaret - Studio 54
2014 July - Violet, American Airlines Theatre
2014 August - If/Then, Richard Rodgers Theatre
2014 August - Hedwig & the Angry Inch (Andrew Rannells), Belasco Theatre
2014 October - On The Town, Lyric Theatre
2014 November - Les Mis, Imperial Theatre

2015 Feb 9 - Matilda, Shubert Theatre
2015 Feb 9 - Hedwig (John Cameron Mitchell), Belasco Theatre
2015 March - Fun Home
2015 April - On the 20th Century, American Airlines Theatre
2015 April - Living on Love, Longacre Theatre
2015 May 1 - The Visit, Lyceum Theatre
2015 May 2 - Something Rotten, St. James Theatre
2015 May 10 - Hedwig (Darren Criss), Belasco Theatre
2015 Sept 4 - Fun Home, Circle in the Square
2015 Sept 12 - King and I, Lincoln Center Theatre
2015 Sept 12 - Hamilton, Richard Rodgers Theatre
2015 Sept 20 - Spring Awakening, Brooks Atkinson Theatre
Allegiance, Longacre Theatre

2016 Jan 3 - Hamilton, Richard Rodgers Theatre
2016 Mar 25 - Shuffle Along, Music Box Theatre
2016 Apr 2 - She Loves Me, Studio 54
2016 Apr 3 - Disaster!, Nederlander Theatre
2016 Apr 15 - American Psycho, Schoenfeld Theatre
2016 Apr 16 - Bright Star, Cort Theatre
2016 April - Hamilto>, Richard Rodgers Theatre
2016 May 8 - Tuck Everlasting, Broadhurt Theatre
2016 May 21 - Color Purple
2016 May 21 - Waitress, Brooks Atkinson Theatre
2016 July - Paramour
2016 July - An American in Paris
2016 July - Fiddler on the Roof, Broadway Theatre
2016 July - Waitress, Brooks Atkinson Theatre

Things I know are missing:
Starlight Express, Gershwin Theatre
Jekyll and Hyde (2002 ish)
Beauty and the Beast (2003), Lunt-Fontanne Theatre

I'm guessing those are in other boxes. I will have to go and locate them at some point.

Plays
2012 - Peter and the Starcatcher, Brooks Atkinson Theatre
2013 - Macbeth, Barrymore Theatre
2014 November - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Barrymore Theatre
2015 May 2 - Hand to God, Booth Theatre
2016 March 4 - Noises Off, American Airlines Theatre
2016 May - The Crucible

Off-Broadway
2012 Nov 24 - Bare, New World Stages
2016 Mar 27 - Dear Evan Hansen, Second Stage Theatre
2016 June - Hadestown

Operas at the Met
2005 Feb 12 - La Boheme
2012 Nov 23 - Aida
2013 Jan 9 - Il Trovatore
2013 Mar 30 - Otello
2013 Apr 6 - La Traviata

Misc Other Thing
2016 July - Chicago, Takaruzaka company from Japan, Koch Theatre, Lincoln Center

Missing: The Little Prince

Concerts
2013 February - Ragtime in Concert
2016 Feb 21 - Secret Garden, Lincoln Center

Pre-Transfer in Chicago
Young Frankenstein
2009 December - The Addams Family, Oriental Theatre
2013 April - Big Fish, Oriental Theatre
Spamalot

I spent yet another weekend travelling to NYC - that's three of the last four. It is amazing to have that city this close to me.

This time, we went because

lunatopaz (who hasn't posted to lj in years) came to visit us and we decided we should go and see a show. We spent most of Saturday wandering around NJ -- farmers market, then Princeton. We headed into the city and did a drive by on Ippudo, but at 4:40, the line was already 30 or so people long, and I wasn't in the mood for standing outside for too long. So, we drove to Pommes Frites instead and grabbed delicious fries and dipping sauces. We then headed toward the Theater District and ended up eating at Smyrna, a Turkish place. It was fine, reasonably priced, but nothing overly memorable. We had hummus, falafel, baba ganouj, labneh, some eggplant salad thing, and a spinach/tomato sauce/rice dish, all with delicious Turkish bread.

The main event was going to see Peter and the Starcatcher, which meant adding a new theater (the Brooks Atkinson) to the list of venues I've visited. Thanks to playbill.com, the seats were reasonably priced, and the views were great - center of the second mezzanine, but that was really just the sixth row up in the mezz. In general, I liked the show. It was well paced, the humor was great, the staging was well done. There were places where I was a little sad that they were injecting so much of current popular culture into the script. it's harder to escape into a show when it keeps reminding you of things in the current day. The solitary female actor among quite a few males felt unbalanced, though it wasn't so far off from the portrayal in the book. Plus, I liked the way that the book treated the story quite a lot better, but there would've been no way to stage the book well as it was written. But, overall, I'm glad that I saw it, and I'm looking forward to reading the rest of the book series.

Yesterday we were in near constant motion, so today I look forward to sitting on the couch. Tim is making tomato sauce, and he made baked apple pancake for breakfast. There is lots of leftover cornbread that I'll use as a base for my dinner, along with some italian sausage and the tomato sauce. I suppose I should do some planning for the rest of the week soon, too.

I changed my closet from summer clothes to winter-ish this weekend. All of the linen is replaced by cashmere. The weather has responded in turn and it's only supposed to be in the sixties today, which means a whole new host of wardrobe choices to consider. The new shorter hair also dries quickly, which means less being chilly after getting out of the shower.

This weekend was packed, especially considering my upset stomach that I had to nurse throughout. I slowly built it up to eating normal food, and didn't die after having Indian buffet on Sunday, so I guess I'm cured for the time being. I wish I didn't have to go back to the germ capsule that is my office -- it seems like everyone has been out sick for at least a day in the past week or so, and I know we'll just keep passing it around all semester.

Saturday there was Scrabble, with a very different group than I usually hang out with, which was fun. It was a good mix, and we played a round robin tournament for fun (and cash prizes). I was a game up on the field at the end, but lost two in a row to come in second. Our grouping of six might have finished in the same order that we were seeded in the field, based on ratings. At the least, 1-3 seeded placed 1-3, respectively. The Scrabble was fun, but the food was even more memorable, and the Sox won for a change.

Sunday we picked up the meat CSA (spare ribs, bacon ends, hot italian sausage, ham, ground beef...), brought it home and threw it in the freezer (less the spare ribs, which I'll braise this week), and then headed back out to Copley. We had free tickets to see a local production of Zanna, Don't! - a show that bills itself as the Gay High School Musical. It was a lot of fun, and I particularly enjoyed the adorable hipster/DJ character. I've been humming the songs ever since. I got some more yarn and roving dyed yesterday evening, had golden fennel pasta and onion foccacia for dinner, and stayed up too late watching the Sox lose.

And now, coffee and half an hour of Scrabble flashcards. I screwed up one of my databases and had to start from scratch, which means an extra 1500 cards on top of what I already had to do. Luckily, I have the flight to St. Louis on Thursday to catch up.

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