GREAT night. Got out of class at 5:30, saw that Tim Young was going to be on tonight, hesitated - then saw he would be on as HENRY, and immediately left for the Booth. Won a front row seat, saw a bunch of old rush friends, loved the show a lot (Tim ♥♥♥ it's becoming a problem for me), stage doored. Now Meghann is the only understudy I haven't seen! And I had a fantastic time.

Godspeed,
Mary

Tonight was N2N #7, and my first time in the front row in ages so that made me super happy. Jessica Phillips was on - beautiful voice, but I missed the crazy. I severely underestimated KDM's capacity to creep on his character's mother, A+, I really thought they might make out.

That's all I got.

THIS IS SO EXCELLENT



I LOVE EVERYONE IN THIS VIDEO (EXCEPT CONSTANTINE WTF)

N2N #6 last night. Box seats are good, I cried, Louis is inexplicably sexy, the usual. And Aaron totally cranked up the creeper. He was all gazing into Alice's eyes and grinning at weird parts of I'm Alive. It was a lot of fun.

Okay, this is one of my favorite This American Life stories ever. Go here, click "Full Episode," and skip to two minutes in. I couldn't help laughing out loud even though I was in public. I keep thinking of it and cracking up.

ETA Here's a clip of just the voicemail if you don't have enough faith in me to listen to the whole story. Olololol I've already played it back like six times.

My friend Ana wrote this poem for class and you all need to read it right now.

Time Lord

I tell you I love you
But you never reply,
You just turn and gaze into space
As if we were on the beach of Dårlig Ulv Stranden.
But I don’t mind at all,
I just love you more.
Your colored converse shoes,
Your blue suit and brown coat,
And your sonic tools define you.
Not even Torchwood can compare.

You travel a lot
And every time I see you go
I wish I were in that blue police box with you.
But Time And Relative Dimensions In Space
Keep us apart.
The things you see, the things you do
I can only dream of.
Every season I fear you’ll change.
I know it is inevitable
But for now, I’ll enjoy you while it lasts.

My friends don’t understand.
Most call me crazy.
That I couldn’t possibly love someone like you,
Someone so old, someone so impossible,
And alien too.
A destroyer of worlds.
The oncoming storm.
A lonely angel.
But I don’t mind all that,
That’s why I love you.

True, you have a companion,
You’ve had more than one.
But they don’t know about me
And, sadly, neither do you.
Then you did what I feared
You disappeared.
It won’t be the same without you.
But this is what I get
For being obsessed with Dr. Who.

1. I am obsessed with this week's episode of Parks and Recreation. I've watched it three times. I don't know, it's just the funniest thing I've seen in ages.

2. Thursday night was N2N #5. Michael was on for the doctors. He was alright - I'm attached to Louis. In retrospect, though, I quite liked Michael's Dan.

What else...I'm not liking Ken's Aaron's haircut. And uh, Bobby Spencer is the cutest ever.

Godspeed,
Mary

1. I am seriously considering writing an epic thesis on television and the perpetuation of women's self-repression. Lolwut.

2. The next time you watch an obscure French documentary, do me a favor and check to see if I'm in the background.

3. I'm going to a group therapy "mini-course" for three weeks. The first session had three people. Fantastic.

4. Ancient Greek porn is creepy.

5. Lately I sleep so much over the weekends that it feels like I lose control over my life. If I schedule any obligation I can't even stop myself from missing it. It sucks.

6. So in the 1700s, it was believed that if a woman didn't have sex for a while, her uterus would get "hungry" and start wandering around the body, making her hysterical. SCIENCE.

7. That's all I got.

Godspeed,
Mary

Friends cut. I'm sorry, but I just don't have as much time to devote to LJ right now.

ETA LOL it's ZEfron's birthday.

Something random I love about New York? How many delis and deli-like places have cats. Seriously you're just going to buy a bagel and all the sudden it's like OMG KITTY and your day has gotten ten times better.

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Tonight's Office.

1. Tim Young was on for Gabe tonight and he was fantastic. It was cool to see a different take on Gabe; it shed new light on the character. The only sad thing was he was less Mommy obsessed. I didn't even get incest vibes during I Dreamed a Dance! What is that about.

2. I have spent a lot of time thinking about the relationship between Alice Ripley crazy and Diana Goodman crazy. My conclusion: Alice Ripley is crazy, but also enough of an awesome actress to suppress her own crazy and instead portray Diana's, while accessing her original crazy so she can be consistently brilliant and terrified, hilarious and hopeless.

3. Bobby Spencer made eye contact with me. I opened my mouth to say "You were great tonight!" What came out was "YOU ARE SO ADORABLE BASICALLY I LOVE YOU." Here's hoping he doesn't remember me the next time I stage door.

4. This show is INCREDIBLE.

I'm thinking about becoming a Classics major - haven't even declared yet, I'm just thinking about it - and already, this is how much mythology I'm reading every day: The other night, I dreamed Juno wouldn't let me get Next to Normal tickets. I probably told her Aaron Tveit is more beautiful than she, or something.

OFF TO READ HESIOD'S "THEOGONY" FOR THE SECOND TIME IN A WEEK WOOOO

Godspeed,
Mary

My latest delight is Next to Normal in Twitter form. Mainly because this is what happens when you take out all lines but Gabe's:

[7am] GABE – it’s just another day feeling I’ll live forever. What’s mom up to?
[8am] GABE – snapshot: Mom making lunch. How many mothers do it on the floor? Love that crazy lady.
[5pm] GABE – Shhh...Mom’s asleep.
[8pm] GABE – loves nights like tonight w/ the whole fam around the TV. My sister Natalie’s upstairs. She can stay there.
[9am] GABE – Mom’s been bustling recently. Go mom! :-)
[4pm] GABE – pretending he doesn’t see mom baking his cake... ;-)
[5pm] GABE – is :( about mom going to new doctor. Boo Dad. When will he give it up?
[11am] GABE – isn’t going anywhere. Staying with mom. She’s the only one who gets me.

And those are just excerpts! IDK YOU GUYS I SENSE A THEME.

Wait, two more things:

1. While Dr. Fine was talking, Alice turned and whispered to the front row, "He's so cute!"

2. Bobby broke the music box? I mean it SPLINTERED, I grabbed one of the shards but forgot to bring it home. Is he supposed to break it? I don't think he did on the bootleg I've seen.

I have never had so much fun while also CRYING MY EYES OUT OMG.

That is seriously all I have to say.

Dr. Madden is so hot!

Godspeed,
Mary

I rushed Next to Normal this morning! It was miserable at times but in general sooo much fun. I woke up at 3:30 and got there at 4:30 (as the drunk guy on the platform said, "THE 1 NEVER COMES"). It was pretty surreal, seeing Broadway so lit up and yet quiet. I was first in line and remarkabletimes got there about ten minutes later. ("Hey, I know you from the internet!") By 5:30 there were four of us. I found out it's actually better to be like 3rd in line because then you get center seats, so next time I'll come a bit later.

It rained the whole time and was pretty damn cold; after three hours or so it was rough. But we all started feeling better once the sun rose and a theater employee got there. All the people in line were so cool, and that definitely made it a better experience.

And now I'm going to the show tonight omg.

Godspeed,
Mary

P.S. NO ONE was rushing A Steady Rain, wtf? Three people showed up at nine and were the first there, lucky bastards.