Good, We Weren't Hallucinating...

Do you agree? Scary looking.

Where Did We Go?

Ahhh! We're so bad at sticking to things! And by things we mean this blog. And diets. But we're feeling creative now and we felt like writing blogs that anyone who likes theatre will enjoy. Or not get it but read anyway because they're related to us. 

Right now the two of us are in New York because Annie is temping at BAM for a few weeks and Elyse doesn't have anything else to do. We're trying to see as many nominated shows as possible before the Tony's because we want to have an educated opinion on who wins as opposed to in the old days when we really wanted A Class Act to win because we apparently LOVED the song they performed on the Tony's? He looks like a combination of every boy in Sunday School with us. And what's the deal with pre-Lady-of-the-Lake Sara Ramirez? Anyway, last night our mom took us to see Hair so we have some thoughts about it! Let the bulletshine in.

•  Okay so first off, our seats were in the third row so we could kind of see backstage and 5 minutes before the show started, Elyse looks in the wings and goes, "Is that Adam Lambert? That's Adam Lambert. That's totally Adam Lambert. Look, it's Adam Lambert." And lo and behold, a couple seconds later Adam Lambert strolls into the theatre from the side door and sits a couple rows behind us! He looks scary in person. It was cool because every cast member of Hair pumped up their performance so much for the idol  in the audience.
• Everyone knows that Hair is the show where they get naked. Well, they got naked all right. But it was so unnecessary! They chose the most unassuming song in which to get naked. And Will Swenson (Berger), who was INCREDIBLE in the show apparently had an inferiority complex during the naked scene... he was hiding. And so was his -
• Mom had some hilarious one-liners. When they all got naked, she leaned over and whispered, "Hmm. The whole time I thought one of the actors was a girl. He's not." And then when Gavin Creel was trying to find ways to get out of getting drafted, she said, "Once the officers see that he's slightly cross-eyed he'll get out of duty." 
• Sasha Allen played Dionne. As in the "How Shall I See You Through My Tears" girl from Camp (once again, if you haven't seen this movie yet, you HAVE to). Apparently she's the one to go to if you need to open a show with a girl staring at you wearing a lot of lip gloss. Seriously, when she was standing at the point of the triangle before "Aquarius", we thought it would pan out to her wearing a tie-dyed tube top and a prepubescent Robin DeJesus would walk up to her with his shirt off.

The show was awesome and we're totally rooting for it for Best Revival. But we kind of think West Side Story is going to get it because of the whole bilingual thing. We'll see. When it gets closer to the big day we'll have our picks for the winners and maybe we'll do a contest to see who can get the most amount of guesses correct. Or something. Or we could have a Guess How Early Elyse Will Start Crying During The Tony's contest. 

Glad you're here reading this, you loyal friend, you! We promise we're not gone. Sorry you kept coming to the page to see "LUGUBRIOUS." 

"LUGUBRIOUS."

We sisters are together at last! Together forever! We're tying a knot that can only be severed when one sister promises to call the other one back because the other has big news and then the other sister "forgets" to because she has "light strike." Anyway, sorry these blog posts are so sporadic (again, thank you Cher Horowitz... and again, thank you makers of Clueless for making her last name so obviously Jewish). But we plan on making them much more frequent because there seems to be a lot we want to talk about. For now, let's rock out with our bullets out!

• Did you think we'd go without talking about the Tony nominations? Well here they are, in case you haven't seen them yet. We're a little ashamed because we haven't seen a lot of the musicals that have been nominated for a lot (like Billy Elliott, which we had the opportunity to go to but opted out because we weren't in the mood to cry all of the liquid out of our body). Um, Rock of Ages for Best Musical? Seriously? Even though we haven't seen it, that title makes us throw up in our mouths a little bit.
• We're so excited that Stockard Channing got nominated for Pal Joey. For some reason, she feels like the long-lost alcoholic aunt we never had. We're also excited that Hunter Bell got nominated for Best Book of a Musical for [Title of Show]- too bad it didn't get more nominations. Other than that, we don't have much to say other than obviously we can't wait to watch the awards and eat and drink "Angel HAIR Pasta," "Pal Cups o' Joe-y," "Next to Noodles," and "Guys and Dills..." Hm, apparently the rain stunts our puns. And apparently we will be having a lot of pasta on Tony night.
• This doesn't have to do with musicals or theatre but there's a website we found out about called Awkward Family Photos and it's so funny. There are only archives from April and May so it hasn't been around long but it's bound to get more and more hilarious. Go to it and read the captions. We want to send one of our family photos in and hopefully make it on the site. Here's our top contender so far. We're bound to find some that are even more awkward. Probably the best part of this photo is the cow holding yarn?
  
• As Mr. T. pointed out, theaters in Richmond are starting to announce their season. It's funny that there's talk about who will play who because it reminds us of high school. Obviously we wonder as well! What's on our minds right now is Spelling Bee at the Barksdale, because auditions for that are going on at the moment and it's just such a freakin' awesome and hilarious show. When we saw the show in New York we loved it and hoped that our friend Mike would get asked to be one of the spellers but he wasn't :( Oh well, Mike, maybe in Richmond.
• Anyway, who knows who will play who. It could go a lot of different ways. But out of the people we know, we know we're rooting for Drake the Butler to play William Barfee with an accent aigu. Seriously, we'd pay so much money (wow, maybe even $38!) to see him spell words out with his magic foot and have an allergic reaction to peanuts. It'd just be so great.

The one year anniversary of our blog is coming up kind of soon! ...........punch and pie.