It’s always fun to read bad reviews of Broadway musicals. Here’s a bunch for Good Vibrations, which opened last night.
Oh: Twelve Angry Men, which I saw last night, is worth seeing for its entertaining plot and fine performances (many familiar faces in the cast), even if it’s dated and hokey at times.
Forget the Feburary doldrums. It’s a busy month for us here at the Tin Man.
Tonight I’m seeing Twelve Angry Men. My mom’s friend from high school is in it, so that’ll be a treat.
Tomorrow night, Matt and I are seeing a preview of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. The movie is one of the funniest I’ve ever seen, and I’m a little nervous about how the musical will turn out.
Next Thursday we’re seeing La Cage Aux Folles.
Next Friday we’re seeing Megan Mullally perform as part of the American Songbook series at the Allen Room at Jazz at Lincoln Center, overlooking Central Park. I can’t wait to see her.
Then next Saturday night, February 12, our chorus is performing at Town Hall (not to be confused with City Hall) as part of the Gay Valentine Music Celebration, a benefit for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.
And the following week we’re seeing a preview of Spamalot, which has the craziest website ever.
And that merely takes us just past the halfway point of February.
Sigh… I love New York.
(If you’re wondering how we can afford all this stuff: Matt’s a member of TDF, so we get most of our tickets for about $30 each.)
I hate automatic phone systems that require you to speak your choices instead of entering them with the keypad. I feel so stupid talking to a computer that’s pretending to be a real person.
Even worse, I discovered today that if you cough or loudly clear your throat while the computer is talking, it thinks you’re trying to say something it doesn’t understand, and it interrupts itself to tell you as such before going back to the beginning of whatever it was saying. If it’s a long cough or throat-clearing, you get stuck in a phone-tree whirlwind and wind up someplace completely unknown.
Do the people who designed these systems think we’re handless? I know there are disabled people out there, but I’d at least like to have the option of dialing instead of feeling like an idiot.