The Addammmmmsss Family

kind of sucks.  I mean, the performances are GREAT!  The set is wonderfully beautiful!

The dancing and singing are GREAT!  The songs are terribly acceptable.  They are not bad but they are certainly not good.  And isn't that kind of the nightmare scenario?  That you are mamby-pamby?

I went with Amy and Andy---it was our xmas gift to each other.  First, we had sushi. Then, we had theatre.  How sophisticated, no?

But man, we tried to laugh along with the rest of America...but just could not do it.

I think 4 LOVE stories is too much.

I think this prop they use for 20 seconds costs twice the expense of any of our musicals.

And, I think if you have the innocent character coming from Ohio, you are reaching.  I mean, for real?  We get it---America believes that Ohio is the quintessential state to set movies, sitcoms and if you need a real innocent, make them from the Buckeye State.  

I would LOVE to re-write this show.  To take out the gigantic plot device at the end of Act one.  

To let the characters be instead of having Nathan Lane humping a newel post (spoiler!).

Instead, we have this show.

This reviewer does not recommend this show.

Off to make Buckeyes!  Because I'm from OHIO!

Happy Happy Happy

oh my toes are cold, my coffee is in my pooh mug and I am freshly showered.  I am sitting in my little sun room, and Andy is reading off all the travel deals he is finding ($799 for London for 6 nights!  $549 for Florence) and I am happy in my little house.

It's Thursday, I'm not working, and prospects look as dim as the 4:30 darkness in December.

But I am happy.

Today I go to have  lunch with ladies that were my first friends in Chicago.  One I even knew when I was an intern here in 1993.  1993!  So, we'll have lunch and then I think I'm off to the movies.

Or maybe writing.

Or reading my book.

Or working on my brain puzzles.

Who knows?

Tonight is a party of sorts and then another one, too.

Saturday my brother Paul and two of the little ladies come to pick me up for Christmas in Ohio. One of the gals already has her bag packed.  I can't wait to go downtown or walk around Andersonville with them and then watch a holiday movie on my couch.

I am happy happy happy.

Next up: Find a job!  Get an agent!  Write some more! Produce a show!  Purge my books!  Find true love!  Exercise more!  Move to London!

But mostly, go get my toes warm...and with that I say goodbye.