Musicals and Museums
Hello all.
Well it's been a good week here in New York if a little strange. The World Conference for Religions for Peace starts next week in Japan so both the USA and International offices are running around like crazy people making sure everything is ready for the conference and making sure other projects can be left alone for a while. A few people had already left on Friday and more will be gone by Monday. Starting Wednesday there will be four people at the most in the offices when there are normally a good 20 people running around. All of us will be interns so it will be an interesting week without direct leadership since Bud will be in Japan which is 13 hours ahead.
It'll be an interesting week.
So Thursday night I saw Sweeny Todd which is a very disturbing yet good musical. Yeah for student rush ticket prices. Much cheaper. The set was very minimal, and the actors did a really good job placing the scenes. One interesting thing they did was have the actors be the orchestra as well. There were 10 actors and they played instruments, usually when they weren't part of the scene, but sometimes when they were part of it. It was a cool concept but I'd like to see the musical again with a more conventional set-up to see if the instruments took anything away from the show. I liked it, the music was good as should be expected with Sondheim and the actors (Patti LuPone and Michael Cerveris) were spectacular.
I was going to try for tickets to Mother Courage which Meryl Streep stars in today, but the line was too long. The tickets are free, you just need to stand in line. No problem I thought, I got there a little after 9am, they don't start handing out the tickets until 1pm, but that wasn't good enough. I'll try again tomorrow and get there earlier. (that means I will definitely need to take a nap or Monday will not be fun(
Instead I read in the park for an hour and then went to the Museum of Modern Art. I was there for about 4 hours which you would think means I'm a huge fan of modern art but that isn't the case. Some of it I did really like, Van Gogh, Cezanne, Monet, the photographs, the architecture, and most of the sculptures, but I'm really not into the paintings the fit into the one solid color with four vertical lines on it category.
I just plain don't "get" those works and I'd rather pay for something aesthetically pleasing or thought provoking rather than a work that just confuses me. I was pleasantly surprised with one work in that category that had an audio description with it. It told you how to stare at certain sections and then you can see other colors behind the solid areas. That was cool.
I did like the museum overall and I did see the only Calder I've ever heard of that wasn't that orangy-red color he always uses. Probably since it was an abstract black widow spider. Anyway I should go since I'm planning on going to bed early (yes, it's a sad Saturday night). I think I'm getting up at 6 and I need to keep myself from throwing the alarm across the room or just plain turning it off and going back to sleep.
Well it's been a good week here in New York if a little strange. The World Conference for Religions for Peace starts next week in Japan so both the USA and International offices are running around like crazy people making sure everything is ready for the conference and making sure other projects can be left alone for a while. A few people had already left on Friday and more will be gone by Monday. Starting Wednesday there will be four people at the most in the offices when there are normally a good 20 people running around. All of us will be interns so it will be an interesting week without direct leadership since Bud will be in Japan which is 13 hours ahead.
It'll be an interesting week.
So Thursday night I saw Sweeny Todd which is a very disturbing yet good musical. Yeah for student rush ticket prices. Much cheaper. The set was very minimal, and the actors did a really good job placing the scenes. One interesting thing they did was have the actors be the orchestra as well. There were 10 actors and they played instruments, usually when they weren't part of the scene, but sometimes when they were part of it. It was a cool concept but I'd like to see the musical again with a more conventional set-up to see if the instruments took anything away from the show. I liked it, the music was good as should be expected with Sondheim and the actors (Patti LuPone and Michael Cerveris) were spectacular.
I was going to try for tickets to Mother Courage which Meryl Streep stars in today, but the line was too long. The tickets are free, you just need to stand in line. No problem I thought, I got there a little after 9am, they don't start handing out the tickets until 1pm, but that wasn't good enough. I'll try again tomorrow and get there earlier. (that means I will definitely need to take a nap or Monday will not be fun(
Instead I read in the park for an hour and then went to the Museum of Modern Art. I was there for about 4 hours which you would think means I'm a huge fan of modern art but that isn't the case. Some of it I did really like, Van Gogh, Cezanne, Monet, the photographs, the architecture, and most of the sculptures, but I'm really not into the paintings the fit into the one solid color with four vertical lines on it category.
I just plain don't "get" those works and I'd rather pay for something aesthetically pleasing or thought provoking rather than a work that just confuses me. I was pleasantly surprised with one work in that category that had an audio description with it. It told you how to stare at certain sections and then you can see other colors behind the solid areas. That was cool.
I did like the museum overall and I did see the only Calder I've ever heard of that wasn't that orangy-red color he always uses. Probably since it was an abstract black widow spider. Anyway I should go since I'm planning on going to bed early (yes, it's a sad Saturday night). I think I'm getting up at 6 and I need to keep myself from throwing the alarm across the room or just plain turning it off and going back to sleep.
posted by Anne @ 5:37 PM
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