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Bobbi Boland

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“Bobbie Boland,” a Broadway play starring Farrah Fawcett, has closed in previews. Apparently it’s been 10 years since a Broadway show closed before its opening night. Wow. Cool.

I stopped by the TKTS booth in Times Square on Saturday evening, but there was nothing worth seeing. I’m pretty sure “Bobbi Boland” was one of the options listed, though. Now I kind of wish I’d seen it, just so I could have a Playbill. Then again, who knew.

Oh, well. I’ll always have “Carrie,” “Nick & Nora,” and “What’s Wrong With This Picture?”

Guess I’d better get a ticket for “Taboo.”

Wicked Yoga

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I went to my first yoga class this morning. I’ve needed it — I’ve needed to relax, and I’ve needed to get more in touch with my body.

I was the only male in the room. The instructor and the other 9 attendees were all female.

I contorted my body into unfamiliar, difficult poses. I became aware of muscles I didn’t even know I had. The instructor would walk around the room, and she kept having to adjust my body because I was getting many of the poses wrong. She’d say to the class, soothingly, “Now go back into the blah blah position,” and I’d forgotten what position that was, so she’d come by again and readjust my body. But this was all okay.

At one point she told me that I’m pretty flexible for a guy. (Ahem.)

“What do you do?” she said.

“I’m a lawyer,” I said.

“I mean, what do you do physically?”

Oh.

“Nothing, really,” I said.

The class ended with each of us lying on our backs with bolster pillows underneath us. Calming meditation music played on a stereo. One by one, the instructor placed a blanket over each of us.

It was heaven. I’m definitely going back.

Then in the afternoon I saw “Wicked,” which I’d been looking forward to for a while. And it was terrific. A little long, and it gets a bit amorphous in Act II, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. Can’t wait to buy the cast album when it comes out. I’ve loved Idina Menzel and her voice ever since I first listened to “Rent,” and Kristen Chenoweth — well, she’s Broadway gold. I couldn’t stop thinking of Elle Woods while watching her, though.

And I smiled a big smile, of course, when the Tin Man appeared.

NJ Gay Marriage

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Forgot to mention this, but if you hadn’t already heard, New Jersey’s gay marriage case was dismissed by a trial court on Wednesday. That’s not so bad, however. This case was never going to be resolved at the trial-court level. Indeed, according to this press release from Lambda Legal:

“More than anything, this ruling propels us forward to higher courts where both sides have always known it will be decided. Today’s ruling speeds the clock up toward the day lesbian and gay couples in New Jersey can seek the protections they need for their families from the state’s high court.”

We’ll see. The New Jersey Supreme Court is one of the nation’s more liberal high courts, and it was this court that ruled that James Dale should be allowed to be part of the Boy Scouts (a decision that was reversed by the U.S. Supreme Court, of course). Then again, the Massachusetts high court is also one of the nation’s more liberal high courts, yet it’s been procrastinating on issuing a decision in the Massachusetts gay marriage case for almost four months now.

So who knows what’ll happen. Exciting stuff, regardless.