Carrie Lives On!!!!!

Well, we haven't had one of these in quite a while. The Times They Are A Changin' and High Fidelty both closed after about 2 weeks, but Glory Days has now closed after one performance. I guess I can scratch that off my list of shows to see next month. I'd say its impact on the Tony Awards is going to be nil. I'm surprised since it was a huge hit at its world premiere engagement in Arlington, but then, Carrie was a big hit in London before coming to New York. Hopefully at some point we'll get a cast recording, if Kelly could get one then every failed show deserves to have one, although we're still waiting on that Carrie recording. Still, even though it took 12 years, we did get Anna Karenina, and it was worth the wait, that one's really growing on me the more I listen to it. It's very Maury Yeston-sounding. Maybe we'll get an all pop-star recording of GBoys in 10 years or so. The cast and creators are going to be on Seth Rudetsky's Chatterbox on Sirius tonight, since my companion got Sirius for his birthday, maybe I'll try to steal it and check it out to see what they have to say.

Also, in my haste to wrap up Tuesday's post since my client showed up as I was typing, I do have to again reiterate that Les Miz was so fabulous, I wish I could have spent more time discussing what all I really liked about it, but just didn't have the time or energy to do so. Take your Mom on Sunday, it'll be her best Mother's Day ever, as well as your last chance to see the show. I'm looking forward to what they'll do with The Full Monty this summer. We're all going back for that one. Lastly, Cheyenne Jackson has signed on to do Encores' summer production of Damn Yankees, which will definitely be worth seeing. I might try to postpone the June trip until July since it'll be next to impossible to go both months. Curtis Holbrook will be playing Sonny in Xanadu while he's out, and that would actually be worth going back to see as well. So, now I think we're really caught up. Tony nominations are Tuesday, see you then.