Chocolate Cake: Me Love It

Last weekend, the Steingold Sisters were reunited! It felt so good. Elyse met Annie in New York and we saw Hedda Gabler at the Roundabout with Mary-Louise Parker. We thought it was pretty awesome, yet it was dubbed "one of the worst revivals ever seen." Yikes, yeah it got horrible reviews. We still think, though, that MLP is in a league of her own. Anyone here watch Weeds? It's awesome. The other characters in Hedda did not seem to fit into the style that the rest of the play had chosen to take on. Maybe this was a directorial (ohh, snazzy word) choice, but it had us out of sorts. Again, might have been a directorial (one more time!) choice. We personally prefer Michael Cerveris in musicals, but then again we feel like we prefer most everyone in musicals. Come on James Earl Jones! Let's see you tap!

After the show we went to the Halal stand near Rockefeller Center...it's around 53rd and 6th. It always has a ridiculously long line and we assumed they either sold the best food ever or secretly were selling the best pot ever. Either way, we tried the food- Annie mistakenly thought the lamb was beef and proceeded to flip out when she found out she was wrong- and turns out it was just really freakin' good food. If y'all haven't had it already, we highly recommend it!

Then we went to Richmond, and while there, we saw Childrens Letters to God at Stage 1 so that we could support our adopted brother, R. Cooper Timberline (whom we still haven't been asked to babysit). The show was really cute- and really short, which is usually nice- and it was a fun and easy show to watch. All of the kids were so enthusiastic and they tackled some pretty complicated harmony that neither of us would have been able to do when we were eight (or, for Elyse, now that she is 18, see: "Forget About the Boy"... Ugh.). Some of it was a little silly, like why they were all friends and going to each other's birthday parties when their age ranges were between 5 and 16. Lame. We don't like singling kids out because we believe all children are the heart, soul, and bedrock of this civilization, so why do that? So we're not going to. But we do have to say that our adopted brother had us laughing everytime he said, "Dear God." Except it sounded more like, "Dear Gwod." Or was it more "Dear Ga-wud"? Either way, adorable.

All of the technical elements were great, from the lights to the costumes to the set. How did they get the ball to fall from the ceiling? So cool. Oh, and by the way...does anyone else see the resemblance between Britney Spears's "Anticipating" in her HBO concert? I mean makes sense, her concert and CLTG are in fact very similar.

Again, congratulations to the cast, crew, and patient parents who schlepped their kids back and forth to the theatre every night. YOU, parents, are the ones who deserve the Artie (Arty?) for Best Performance by a Supportive Parent in a Musical.

Yeah, this post is a little long-winded, cut us some slack. We're winding back up. Girls are back in town, girls are back in town, girls are back in tow-ow-ow-ow-own.