Everyone should put FINISHING THE HAT on their holiday lists. And the Peter Filichia book - I haven't read it yet, but heard good things from others on this board.
Carols for a Cure 12 Playbill 2009-10 Broadway Yearbook Laura Bell Bundy - I'll Be Home for Christmas Kate Baldwin and Georgia Stitt Alphabet City Cycle LP Spring Awakening cast album tickets to Kate Baldwin's Feb. 19th concert Finian's Rainbow buttons 9 to 5 cast album The Addams Family cast album
"I never think of the classic musicals as old-fashioned; I think of them as timeless."--Kate Baldwin
Would like the Sondheim book, Finishing the Hat. Some cast CDs (Next to Normal, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, La Cage Aux Folles). The DVD and CD of PBS's Broadway: The American Musical.
Plus, if someone would kindly get me the box set, Ella Fitzgerald: Twelve Nights in Hollywood, where Miss Ella sings a bunch o' standards, including many Broadway tunes, such as Anything Goes, But Not For Me, It's De-Lovely, The Lady Is A Tramp, My Heart Belongs To Daddy and Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered.
Coach Bob knew it all along: you've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed. You have to keep passing the open windows. (John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire)
You can have Gavin Creel. I'll take Charlie Williams.
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
CapnHook- has Charlie Williams become a name? I did a show with him a while back, and I had never heard of him. I know he's in the ensemble of Memphis, but has he been picked out of the crowd?
My boyfriend and I are taking a trip to the city as our Christmas presents to each other. We are seeing the final performance of Next to Normal as well as Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Time Stands Still and probably La Cage.
Just tickets and more tickets! Problem is---anyone that gives them to me has to buy two tickets and usually ends up going with me. (not everyone loves Bway--can you believe that?!)
Don't know if he still does, but Sondheim used to (as recently as the late 1990's) reply to letters written to him by fans/young actors/students.
I and a few people I know have his replies (we got them framed like the show geeks we are), which seem to be personally written and signed for real.
You should look up his agent's address (or whatever) online and send him a letter. The worst that could happen is that you never get a reply...but best case scenario, there's your autograph!