Thursday, January 14, 2010

Next to Normal

Great day today, started off pretty normal, my new good friend Anne Wentworth and myself went around Times Square looking at rush tickets for something to watch. We made the first play attempt at my most anticipated show, Next to Normal. After we decided to attempt that, I came back to the apartment to move to our new one across the hall. It was pretty much done by the cleaning staff by the time we got back which was awesome. Handed out sandwiches. Then I went to pick up Ms. Wentworth at the Drama Book Store, where we went and got tickets to Next to Normal! Thats right people out in blog world, crazy right? I titled it Next to Normal because I went to it? What? Yes, Anne and I went to Next to Normal. Shortly after being seated, I turned around, and there was Michael Greif, the director of Next to Normal, and Rent for both broadway openings. I turned back to my seat with tears in my eyes, I was so amazed to see him. I heard him talking to some other patrons, saying that he was waiting for someone. I heard Luke Perry, so that got me pretty jazzed up...unfortunately, it wasn't Luke Perry, but it was one of Michael's friends from a past show, he was one of the main producers of the hit musical Rent. He's no Luke Perry, but still pretty cool. The show started, amazing, I'm glad that Kim introduced the show to me earlier in the year, or I would have never even looked in the general direction of the show. Afterwards, I was jacked to get some autographs, I started starstruck, and couldn't bring myself to say really anything. Until the man who plays Gabe came up to me, and I just started to poke fun at his costumes onstage. He had a good attitude, and went along with it. Great day, it will be in my memory for as long as I can, and looking forward to another great one tomorrow

1 comment:

  1. This is such a fun post! I am so jealous that you saw Michael Greif. Why didn't you get his autography. He would have loved it; no one ever recognizes the director. Be aggressive Jon.

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