The Streets of New York

Obviously a Times Square Mickey Mouse just got sick of it all and threw in his hands.

Washington Heights

And this was only a 15 minute bus ride from my flat. Wish I'd known before I played Horace Vandergelder in HELLO, DOLLY!

Small Screen, Smaller Part

Today I had one line on an episode of the CBS series ELEMENTARY. It's curious that the star's dressing room boasts the character's name rather than the actor's name, Jonny Lee Miller.

My contribution was so inconsequential that I probably won't even watch the episode. But I got to watch Lucy Liu and Rhys Ifans work with Mr. Miller and everyone was very nice.

One Night Only

Join us in May for...

HEARTBREAK HOUSE
Monday, May 12, 2014

At our new home, SYMPHONY SPACE!

All tickets available through the Symphony Space box office after May 1st!
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HEARTBREAK HOUSE •••  On the eve of World War I, Ellie Dunn, her father, and her fiancé are invited to one of Hesione Hushabye’s infamous dinner parties. Unfortunately, her fiancé is a scoundrel, her father’s a bumbling prig, and she’s actually in love with Hector, Hesione’s husband. This bold mix of farce and tragedy lampoons British society as it blithely sails forward into the inevitable war.

HEARTBREAK HOUSE
A Fantasia in the Russian manner on English Themes
Written by Bernard Shaw between 1913 and 1919

Act I: Captain Shotover’s Villa in Sussex—the Poop. Afternoon.
Act II: The Same. After Dinner.
Act III: The Garden, astern of the Poop. Night
The Players
Ellie Dunn … Ms. Amelia Pedlow
Nurse Guinnes … Ms. Charlotte Rae
Captain Shotover … Mr. Fritz Weaver
Lady Ariadne Utterword … Ms. Veanne Cox
Hesione Hushabye … Ms. Maryann Plunkett
Mazzini Dunn … Mr. Tony Sheldon
Hector Hushabye … Mr. Reg Rogers
Boss Mangan … Mr. Jeff McCarthy
Randall Utterword … Mr. Adam Feldman
The Burglar ... Mr. Robert Hock
Flute … Ms. Marina Staller-Stern
Narrator … Ms. Maggie Buchwald


We look foward to seeing you there!

Eggs at Rockerfeller Centre

 

Walking in NYC

East 42nd Street.

Jones Street, The Bowery

Macdougall Street

 

 

2nd Avenue, East Village

5th Avenue at 47th St. The jeweler's block. Note the diamond street lights

Beauty and the Beast

If you watch the above video you might fall completely in love with Mat Fraser and Julie Atlas Muz as I did this evening.

Their wonderful interpretation of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST completes a limited season tonight at the Henry Street Settlement, a gorgeous little theatre on the Lower East Side.

It took me forever to find in the pouring rain and I ended up on the other side of the river in Brooklyn TWICE trying to get there and return home but I'm so glad I persevered.

 Mat Fraser was a thalidomide baby so his arms and hands are stunted "seal flippers" as he calls them. Brilliantly, two other performers (Jonny Dixon and Jess Mabel Jones) play the Beast's arms in early scenes, occasionally and hilariously ending up on the wrong side and, hauntingly, remaining onstage like the Cheshire Cat's smile at the end of a scene after Fraser has left.

 Alternating with the fairy tale scenes, we hear the story of how Muz and Fraser met and fell in love, and see recreations of their famous burlesque acts. They are both naturally gifted performers, highly attractive, very funny and very sexy, so when their clothes come off...and stay off...halfway through the show it isn't at all confronting. The added bonus is, the other two eventually get their gear off as well!

 The play also contains the most hilarious erotic eating scene since the film of TOM JONES. Only a great deal more explicit.

If you hear of this production at a theatre near you, it is X-rated but great fun.

2014 Macy's Flower Show