Getting Stuff

Another day, more money out the window, but very well spent. Yesterday I ordered my ticket for Shenandoah. I'll be going on June 21st, a Thursday night. I work close to there and since my companion isn't thrilled about it, that seemed to be the best way to do it. I upgraded to the dinner theatre option, for only $10 more I get a complete meal at their top restaurant, King's Wharf, at 6:00. Good deal. So, if any of you also happen to be there that night and you do dinner at King's Wharf and you see a big queen sitting there all by himself, feel free to come over and say hi, as long as you're cute. Those of you ugly readers, just keep reading, I really appreciate your support but we don't really need to mix socially. Then when I got home, the Time After Time/Dodsworth CD was waiting for me, and let me tell you, that is one of the best CD's I've heard in a long time. I didn't know it was a concert CD, I thought it was a concept album, but it really works. I love the movie Dodsworth and thought that Time After Time was a phenomenally stupid movie, but they both work well on the musical stage. Hopefully someday we'll get both of them in full productions on Broadway where they belong. Then, today when I got home, the Shenandoah tickets were in the mailbox. How's that for quick service? Now I just have to remember to take them with me. I also had the All That Jazz CD waiting for me. It looks like it contains just about everything from the movie except for the duet number with Ann Reinking and the girl who plays his daughter, which is too bad. It's a great song and Ann only has one other song in the whole movie (which is on the disc, so it wasn't a licensing or contract issue), but the real highlight for me is finally getting Roy Scheider and Ben Vereen's performance of Bye Bye Love, that will never get old. So, as is typical with half.com shipments, I got one right off the bat, had to wait just on the unreasonable side of the expected time frame for the bulk of the order, and now have one more to get, which probably won't come for another couple of weeks, if at all. I was kind of hoping to get Shenandoah first so that I could have time to really familiarize myself with it, but it's not to be. If I'm lucky though, I'll still get it before I see the show. Actually, it'll probably come on Tuesday, the day that I'll be getting Curtains and 110 in the Shade, that's the other pattern with half.com stuff. I never have time to really immerse myself and familiarize myself with what I get because fate somehow times it for me to just get everything at once. So anyways, starting tomorrow I'm going to try to start making daily Tony predictions, starting with the tech awards and moving up, with my predictions for the top awards next Friday. After last year it's kind of easy to be cynical and claim that I predict a sweep by Legally Blonde, but that would be too easy, and unrealistic. It's not in the same class as The Producers or Spamalot, and Tony voters know that. Also, the year after a major upset is usually fairly predictable, the voters want to make sure they don't spectacularly fuck up again and stick to the frontrunners. If Crash hadn't won Best Picture last year, it's a safe bet that Scorcese would not have won Best Director this year, but there's a good chance Peter O'Toole might have won Best Actor. So, keep reading and we'll all see how right I am.