Lord Help the Sisters: "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.