Saturday, February 20, 2010

Close encounters of the actor kind

Mike and I saw Sweeney Todd at the Signature tonight--it was fantastic. But that's not the story here. After the show, we were walking back to my car and ran into a guy who looked very familiar to me. "Hey," I thought, "it's the guy who played Sweeney [Edward Gero]!" Now, logic would say that this would be pretty impressive, because the play had ended fairly recently. But then, I've also seen some actors get changed and get out very quickly, so it didn't raise too much of a flag. So after making eye contact, I approached and said how much we enjoyed the show. He was like, "Oh, were you in the audience?" and I said that yes, we were, and what a great show, etc. Then he made a comment about it being a true story and I realized what had happened.

He wasn't Edward Gero. He was Andrew Long, who was in I Am My Own Wife, also at the Signature.

Fortunately, I immediately realized this, and said that whoops, I was mistaken, but I had seen him in My Fair Lady, which I just loved. Then I went on to compliment that performance in more detail, and somehow managed to keep my babbling to a minimum.

He, happily, was very, very nice and didn't seem to think I was a complete idiot. Of course, he is a professional actor--and a good one. So that doesn't really mean anything. I did feel like an idiot, though. (Mike says that I didn't come across too insanely, but I was completely flustered.)

Anyway, on a somewhat unrelated note, I'm Facebook friends with one of the actors in Sweeney. I met him on a tour of the Les Mis set at the Signature back in 2008, and we haven't had any contact since then...but I kind of want to write him a note, like, "Hey, awesome job!" But that seems weird. I'm Facebook friends with another local theater actor, and I struggle with that with him, too. It was particularly odd that when I logged on to Facebook just now, the Sweeney actor was also listed as active. I guess I know what he does after the show.

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

They say it's your anniversary...

Today is the 46th anniversary of the Beatles appearing on the Ed Sullivan Show...



so I decided to commemorate by playing the Ed Sullivan Chapter of Beatles Rock Band!



Except I played drums. On medium. But I got 20/20 stars, so WOO! Also, when I play drums on early Beatles, I shake my head like Ringo (see top video). Whee!

Tomorrow I may try and do the entire story in a 24-hour period and beat that challenge. This is what happens when you're entering your sixth day of being snowed in.

Not a week that's only Mondays

Of course I watch Glee. And am totally in love with Matthew Morrison. Who, naturally, I fanned on Facebook. I get a little swoony when iTunes decides to play "It Takes Two" from Hairspray, and I've spent some time on YouTube trying to find clips with him in that. Luckily, he posted one himself!



It's just nice to see a clip that isn't "You Can't Stop the Beat." Not that I don't love Beat. I do. It makes me happy every time I listen to it AND every time we practice our tap routine to it. But I just like to see other bits of the show.

And also? This works so much better than the movie version of this song. I prefer Link and Tracy actually singing this to each other. And, you know, totally making out at the end. Yay!