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."