So...a bunch of random thoughts and such today...
The show I was directing in Darien, Book Of Days, ended as a rousing success...sure, we didn't get the crowds I was hoping for...but the show has apparently put The Darien Players back on the map. People are still talking about it three weeks later. I'm still getting reports from people connected to the show or people connected to people connected to the show that say its the best thing they ever saw The Players do or have heard it was the best thing they ever saw The Players do and wished they had seen it. Oh well. It was a great experience and hopefully the bar that we've raised we'll rise to meet all season long next season.
And then the TV season ended...
There were two season finales I was most looking forward to Lost and Smallville. The former was somewhat of a let down. Sure, we get the appropriate "cliffhanger"...but it was no different than the ones we get every other episode. Questions tend to get "answered" in a one step forward three steps back fashion and while that's fine for a regular episode where you know you've got more coming next week or the week after, it's not okay for a season finale...we need a bit more...but I'll let it go for now because it's such an amazing show.
As for Smallville, the season finale more than made up for the crappy stories we had to sit through all season. If I had known this is what they were leading up to all season I wouldn't have complained. Easily the best season finale of the season. Can't wait to see what happens next.
The Best Musical Tony Award going to Monty Python's Spamalot was just plain wrong. Having seen this as well as Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and watching the other two musicals nominated get most of the other awards (The Light in the Piazza and The Putnam County 25th Annual Spelling Bee) it was just wrong. But it'll bring people to shows and isn't that what award shows are really all about?
Now that we're seeing a cast fall into place for the big screen remake of The Poseidon Adventure is it as exciting as the small screen remake mini-series cast? Well...you be the judge...the big screen version won't hit until sometime late 2006, is directed by Wolfgang Peterson and stars (currently) Kurt Russel, Emmy Rossum, Richard Dreyfuss and Andre Braugher. The small screen version will air this fall and stars Adam Baldwin, Steve Guttenberg, Bryan Brown, Rutger Hauer, C. Thomas Howell and Peter Weller. While we don't know how the plot of the big screen version will be updated (but it is being written by Akiva Goldsman...one of the people responsible in my book for killing the Batman franchise), the small screen version sees the great ship Poseidon overturning due to a terrorist attack. Personally, I'd like to see both of these sink. The original is a GREAT fun movie and the only thing that actually comes close to capturing the fun of it is the musical version we saw in the summer of 2003 at the New York City Fringe Festival. But...being the masochist I am...I'll see 'em both anyway...it's one of my favorite movies.
So with the new version of Doctor Who burning up the ratings over in the U.K. when are we going to get to see it here in the colonies?? There's gotta be some network willing to pick it up? Or at least get it to us on DVD soon.
The house is slowly getting into shape before Malcolm's arrival. We've started putting things in order and reorganizing our possessions back to where they need to be (or getting rid of them in some fashion if they don't need to be). Our original contractor still has a few minor things to take care of (we still don't have a toilet in the master bathroom) and the new contractor is proceeding as best he can with the late start he got on the projects he was hired for. Malcolm's room will be finished by the end of the week. The main floor powder room is waiting to be tiled (a delay I take partial responsibility for and place the rest squarely on our original contractor and his taking so long). But the new contractor has agreed to set the toilet anyway if the tile's not in before family arrives.
Beyond that apparently this month is just one long waiting game. We're waiting for Tash's parents to arrive and we're waiting for Malcolm to decide he's ready to come out. According to the doctor, he's healthy and happy and he could be induced safely now...but we've all decided to wait until he's ready. Tash's doctor is going on vacation as of her due date and she stated that if Malcolm hasn't come out on his own by the time she gets back one week later, she's gonna induce Tash.
We've decided that if Tash is still pregnant on June 15 we're gonna hit an early matinee of Batman Begins just to get it out of the way.
The waiting (for Malcolm, not Batman) is driving me a bit batty.
One last note on the subject of names...what is it with celebrities giving their kids weird names? Apple? Crimefighter? Rocket? Are these people on drugs? Oh wait...yes...they are...it's called fame...We had the short disucssion of doing something like this and decided that if you want to prevent a lifetime of cruelty on the playground find something normal (not that the other kids won't come up with their own clever slants on a name anyway)...
That's all for today.
Be seeing you.
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