I didn't blog at all today (more on why in a minute), but it's not that there was much to blog about today. The Preznit's blah blah blah was nothing new, if you've seen any speech, presser, or tantrum in the last 18 months, you could mouth along with him. 'We're staying, and you can't make me not stay! Nyah! Nyah!' The rest of the news was mostly lack of news... nothing new from anyone and no real response to Boehner's moronitude!
The reason I didn't blog wasn't lack of material, but absence. I hauled my butt up to LA and the bf and I went to Hollywood to see the LA production of Wicked at the Pantages. I've loved the music since I saw the production number of Defying Gravity on the Tonys. When it was announced it would open in LA, tickets were immediately acquired and tonight was the result!!
I went with an open mind, knowing that it would be different without Kristen and Edina, but not knowing if it would have the same impact. Well, let me tell ya..... IT DID! Eden Espinoza, in the Elphaba role (the future Wicked Witch of the West, for the uninitiated) was great! She's gotten great reviews and deserves every one of them. She milks the verdigris victimhood of Elfi for all it's worth and blows the doors off in her (multiple) show-stoppers.
Megan Hilty as Galinda is also excellent. She's not Kristen (who is?!?!?!) but more than acceptable as a replacement. She's trying a little to hard on the 'kittenish' aspects of the young Galinda, but goddam!, she can sing. The rest of the cast is superb too, with the ever marvelous Carol Kane (a surprise, since I had NO idea she was in the cast) as Madame Morrible being the superbest! It's a word, look it up (I just scribbled it in the dictionary!)
Anyway, if you're within shouting distance of LA, run, do not walk, to the computer, and plunk down the (gulp) $100-ish bucks for a ticket. It's worth every penny. And the drinks in the bar are good too, if HIDEOUSLY overpriced (you listening, Niedermayer Org?)
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