so much to say, so little time

Posted by beth on April 21, 2008

I want to tell you about:

• Spamalot
• the crock-pot cook-off
• movie night (Eat/Say Anything)
• the fact that there are 2 weeks left in the semester
• the fact that there are 2 weeks left until the WALK!
• the miraculous new skin-clearing trick I learned

But I only have time for a little bit, so I’ll start wherever I please and go from there.

Spamalot was…AMAZING. There were parts of it where the dialogue had been taken directly from the movie, and while those parts are absolutely funny, I was too familiar with them to find them as laugh-out-loud funny as the rest of the audience did. However, they added in all this other stuff that was freaking hilarious. I called Whitney at intermission to tell her she needed to see it because there is a song called “The Song That Goes Like This.” It’s about how in every show, there’s a song like that one where it’s all slow and romantic, and then it gets really intense, and the people sing ridiculously and uncomfortably close to each other’s faces. It sounds like something Whitney and I would write for our epic, forthcoming show, “Just Now.”

So I’d just finished telling her how she should see the show when intermission ended, the play resumed, and believe it or not, there’s a song (and I am not making this up) about how you can never succeed on Broadway without any Jews. Seriously. So I called her back after the show to say that I was pretty sure we actually wrote the play and have somehow now forgotten about it. I mean really. Jews. The whole time they were singing that song, I was just sitting there trying to convince myself that it was actually really happening, and I wasn’t just imagining it. And at the end of the song, when the giant Star of David descended from the ceiling all glorious and lit-up with a thousand lights, I almost swallowed my tongue.

It was in-freakin-credible.

More blogging later. If I have time after planning some lessons, I’ll come back and tell you about the cook-off, but until then… Find your grail. Find your grail (or male).