Archives for March 31, 2005

In light of Our Girl’s recent posting about Stephen Sondheim, I thought I should mention that I just got back from the opening-night performance of Lincoln Center’s American Songbook concert version of Sondheim’s Passion, starring Patti LuPone and Audra McDonald, which I’ll be reviewing in next Friday’s Wall Street Journal.

In addition to being a gala for the bejeweled rich, Wednesday’s performance doubled as a technical rehearsal for tonight’s live telecast of Passion on PBS’ Live at Lincoln Center. In New York City, Passion will air at eight o’clock on Channel 13, with a replay at noon Sunday. For more information, go here.

If you live in another city and want to know when and where Passion is airing, go here. (Got that, Girl?)

To purchase the original-cast CD of the 1994 Broadway production of Passion, go here.

Now, if you’ll be so kind as to excuse me, I’m off to another show….

“The army taught me some great lessons–to be prepared for catastrophe–to endure being bored–and to know that however fine [a] fellow I thought myself in my usual routine there were other situations alongside and many more in which I was inferior to men that I might have looked down upon had not experience taught me to look up.”

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., letter to Harold Laski (1926)

I’m hunkering down Terrylike over here under the onus of many deadlines, and flipping my blogging switch to the Off position. Oh, I may try to put up a couple of fortune cookies, but beyond that the pickings will be slim. Also, if you’ve emailed me recently, it will probably take me a day or two more to respond. Better late than never, right?

Right? Bueller? Anyone?

Ah well. In the meantime, please check out a brand-spanking-new literary group blog, The Valve, some of whose contributors grace the blogroll here. (A little Maud told us.)