Baaaaaby....

[charliesmum]

My niece has a name. Evangeline Jane. She is beautiful, naturally.

I'm fairly certain I had other interesting things with which to regal you all, but I can't remember what it is.

Oh, I know...Did I mention I am going to New York this Sunday to see Patrick Stewart in Macbeth? 'Cause I am! I am very excited. Patrick Stewart! As Macbeth! Can it get better?

Well, Patrick Stewart as Claudius and David Tennant as Hamlet would be pretty fraking awesome, but I don't think that is going to happen any time soon. Sigh.

So. Yay for Macbeth. I said we ought to stand by the stage door and hand Patrick Stewart a poster for OUR play. Just for fun.

I am excited for the next Doctor Who. Agatha Christie. I remember reading somewhere that she actually tried to have her husband killed by framing him for her own murder, but I don't know if that's true, or an urban legend.

Yes, I'm rambling now. I'm tired. the downstairs neighbors had some sort of flaming row at 3am and woke me up. It was scary. Downside of not having a house.

Anyway...have a nice weekend everyone.

Comments

[katje0711.livejournal.com]

I'm so jealous! When are you going to see Macbeth? You should totally meet Patrick Stewart!

Congrats on your new niece!

[slammerkinbabe.livejournal.com]

Wait, you're going to see Macbeth on Broadway?!

OMG, I am SO JEALOUS, you DON'T EVEN KNOW.

Oh my God. I want more than anything ever in the history of the world to take a Chinatown bus down to NY and meet you. And I can't -- we're broke and my brother's graduation party is Sunday -- and I want to cry!

I am going to try to pick myself up out of the depths of despair /Anne Shirley, so I will note that Evangeline Jane is a truly lovely name.

[chavvah.livejournal.com]

OMG I AM SO JEALOUS.

When I found out Patrick Stewart was in MacBeth I nearly died. I wish I could go! If you don't stand by the stage door to meet him, I will never forgive you. Make it so!

[chavvah.livejournal.com]

Uh, you missed the part about PATRICK FREAKIN' STEWART.

[slammerkinbabe.livejournal.com]

Also, YOU HAVE TO STAGEDOOR. And YES, give him a flyer for your show. Make a wry crack about it as you do it so he won't think you are going to be expectant about his showing up. But that's funny, and gthen you can do all your performances with that exciting sense of "Patrick Stewart MIGHT be in the audience RIGHT NOW!"

Also, PLEASE tell me how Macbeth is. Seriously, that's amazing -- Stewart and the woman playing Lady Macbeth both have Tony noms and it's just a stunning theatrical experience, obvs., and I would KILL to be going with you...

[slammerkinbabe.livejournal.com]

You missed the part about I'm not a Star Trek fan and the only thing I know Patrick Stewart from is when he played Frasier's would-be gay lover in the final season of Frasier. :) I'm sure he's great, but I have no natural squee-response to him.

[chavvah.livejournal.com]

I just think it would be awesome to see a Shakespearean actor of his caliber in a Shakespearean play. The Star Trek connection is just kind of the icing on the cake. ;)

[charliesmum.livejournal.com]

Hee...Make it so...I'm gonna try, but my friends are less fangirly than I, so I don't know.

[slammerkinbabe.livejournal.com]

I guess now would be the time to admit that I'm dumb enough that I didn't really know he was any more of a Shakespearean actor than is Kelsey Grammer, except I thought he was better at it. I had thought he was someone who made his name on Star Trek and then got to do some Shakespeare because he had a big, crowd-drawing name, and turned out to be good at it. I don't know much about him, obviously.

[charliesmum.livejournal.com]

We'll meet someday. Really Boston isn't THAT far from Jersey. I'm going to get there soon. Meanwhile, I just hope you feel better.

And I am still looking forward to finding out how to be a lesbian. :)

[chavvah.livejournal.com]

Do it! When I went to see Geraint Wyn Davies in My Fair Lady, the person I was with really didn't want to go to the stage door afterwards, so I went on my own, and I am so happy I did. He was super nice (and I think relieved that I didn't mention Forever Knight--I was the only one!).

[charliesmum.livejournal.com]

Here's me answering to everything...He actually started out with the RSC (Royal Shakespeare Company) way back when. He was in Dune, too, with Sting, and I remember wondering if they talked at all since Patrick Stewart and Sting's ex-wife were in the RSC at the same time.

Okay, that just sounded strange, didn't it...

[charliesmum.livejournal.com]

OMG Geraint Wyn Davies! I love him! Fantastic actor. And FK was awesome. Oh, I just looked at your icon...drooooool...

[chavvah.livejournal.com]

Not knowing about some random dude who was in X-Men definitely does not make you dumb. ;) I'm sorry if that was the impression I gave!

I think my knowledge of the careers of Shakespearean actors is a specialized bit of trivia brought on by (a) the fact that I've been a fan of Star Trek since I was ten, (b) the fact that I've been a fan of Shakespeare since I was fourteen, and (c) the fact that I minored in theatre during my undergrad. Oh and (d), my mum, who insists that everything English is better than everything else, ever. ;)

[slammerkinbabe.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm sorry I haven't made that post yet. I just haven't felt up to it in the last week. I was looking forward to it, too. But then there was that crazy flamewar on my journal, which made me hesitant to be sarcastic about *anything*, even a horrid faux-psychology book from the '60s, for fear someone would flame my ass off again. And then... well, you know the rest. I promise I will get better soon and inform you and everyone else what the proper way of becoming a lesbian is, according to Albert Reissner. :) Hint: being abused by your parents in childhood is really the best way, but if such is not possible, try to get a butch lesbian in good standing to ravish you violently, and once that's happened it is likely you will be caught in the quicksand of lesbianism (he uses this phrase, so I know it must be the proper scientific term) and unable to escape. A good way to find such a butch lesbian is to go to a lesbian bar in Greenwich Village. You can recognize them by the fact that they wear men's clothes, they have big hands and deep voices, and they swear a lot. If you wear a pretty, girly dress, they will be drawn to you as moths to a flame, and the ravishing will take care of itself.

It sounds like you may have some additional plans for this weekend's trip to New York! :) Clearly you should go to a gay bar in Greenwich Village, and then when I make my post about that part of the book, the description of the gay scene in Greenwich Village, you can offer personal anecdotes. Not that I doubt that it differs in ANY particular from Reissner's depiction, but it is always useful to have firsthand information. If you do not wish to be ravished, you can always just dress as a man, and then everyone will know you are not to be hit on. He recommends "quadruple-wide ties" and slicking your hair back with Brylcreem.

Oh, and one last note of caution: under no circumstances are you to wear Suspants. I do not know what they are. But they drive butch ravishers MAD.

[chavvah.livejournal.com]

He was super nice! Oh wait, I said that already. Well, it bears saying again.

Check it out! (He is very red, but he did just come off the stage, and it was sweltering that night. Also my dress is hideous. Sorry.)



Here are some much better pics from the show's program:

[slammerkinbabe.livejournal.com]

Seconding what chavvah says. I love stage dooring and when my companions don't want to stage-door, well, I'll see them back at the hotel later. The only exception is if it's late and no one I really care about is in the show. But someone like Patrick Stewart -- especially in a show where he's got a Tony nom? STAGE TO THE M'F-IN' DOOR.

[charliesmum.livejournal.com]

Not a REALLY hidious dress. Pretty color, anyway.

I hope he continues to be an active actor in Canada. He was so good. So was wossname, the guy who was La Croix.

[chavvah.livejournal.com]

Greenwich Village is a long way to go just to make use of the fact that I have a really lovely mum who would not care if I were gay.

Really, I feel undeserving of such a mum. I feel as though I should trade her temporarily to other folks for when people want to come out to a supportive parent.

[slammerkinbabe.livejournal.com]

Aww, I like the picture of you and him! You're right, the dress isn't great, but you pull it off shockingly well -- I wouldn't have thought "oh, that's a lousy dress" unless you'd mentioned it, because you wear it well.

[charliesmum.livejournal.com]

I don't know what Suspants are, but now I want to buy some.

So, my itinary will be:

Train to New York
Lunch
Play
Invite Patrick Stewart to our play, which I am sure he will be DELIGHTED to accept
Dinner
Get ravished by Butch Lesbians
Train Home

[slammerkinbabe.livejournal.com]

:) No, it wasn't you. My brain is prone to shouting mean things at me right now, but that's def. not your fault.

All of those things come together to ensure that you know lots about Shakespeare, but they also come together to ensure that you are AWESOME. :) Srsly.

[charliesmum.livejournal.com]

OMG Suspants! (http://www.lulusvintage.com/2007/01/vintage_girdle_.html)

[slammerkinbabe.livejournal.com]

:) It sounds like you are a fangirl, and fangirls, unless their fangirling is of the twelve-year-old's variety, are just about my favorite people in the whole entire world. :)

[slammerkinbabe.livejournal.com]

O. M. F. G.

That photo is SO GOING IN MY RECAP. OMG. I will note "Thanks to charliesmum for finding THIS AMAZING IMAGE", and INTO THE RECAP IT GOES. OMG, I should also find other images of other things referenced in the book! This will be the best recap EVAR