"In the meanwhile..."

Well I knew the job was dangerous when I started. I am bad at keeping up on blogs and I knew I would be. But here is an update on what's been going on for the last two weeks.

I officially started my internship. I think writing about specifics of what I'm doing online is not allowed. So I will be brief. I am enjoying it a lot. Meeting a lot of new people and learning a lot of new things. It's neat to see what I do on a completely new level. It's so different from what I was expecting, too!

Usually when I get home from my internship I just want to go to bed. Which is a total waste of being in the city, and I'm trying to change that. Most of my fun happens on the weekends. I have been seeing a lot of shows on broadway. The student rush is amazing! I never thought I was going to be able to see as many shows as I have, but I am able to get into most of them for around $30 a pop. It's really difficult to say which one is my favorite because they are all so good.

I was extremely happy to get to see A Little Night Music with Catherine Zeta Jones and Angela Lansbury. I woke up super early to get tickets when the box office opened and when I finally got to the theater there was a long line of people already there! I was so nervous I wouldn't get a ticket. And when the guy finally opened the door is was completely unorganized and people cut and blah blah blah I wound up yelling at some old lady who was trying to steal my ticket. But alas, I got a ticket for the matinee.

Now in case you are not a broadway fanatic, A Little Night Music is a classic Stephen Sondheim musical. I have thought his music was amazing for a long time, even though I've never seen one of his shows. When I finally got in the theater and looked at my playbill, I was excited to find out that I knew some of the songs from the show! I get so giddy at musicals it's almost embarrassing! As soon as the curtain rose and the first note of the overture played, my eyes started welling up with tears because I was so excited. Let's just say the water flow didn't stop for the entire 3 hour performance. Again I've followed Sondheim's music for a while and finally getting to hear the lyrics in context with the story gave everything a whole new meaning. I LOVED IT!

Anyway, after the show I always try to go and get the celebrities autographs. However, I was at the matinee and most of them won't come out until after the evening performance. So I went back later to get Catherine Zeta Jones and Angela Lansbury's autograph. Unfortunately, Lansbury is old and doesn't come out for the autograph parade after any shows ever! But I was able to get Catherine Zeta Jones' so that's exciting!


So here are some of my playbills:

A Little Night Music - Catherine Zeta Jones


Promises, Promises - Kristen Chenoweth, Sean Hayes


A Behanding in Spokane - Christopher Walken, Sam Rockwell


God of Carnage - Lucy Liu, Jeff Daniels



...Another cool thing that I got to do was go to a Katie Perry album listening party. Unfortunately I don't have any photos to commemorate the occasion. Her new album coming out in a few months, Teenage Dream, (which she says she wanted to call 'Teenage Wet Dream') was pretty good. I haven't always been the biggest Katie Perry fanatic, but I enjoyed it. Lots of fun party dance songs on it! She was super nice as well, kind of vulgar at times (she's marrying Russell Brand, what do you expect?) but she was nice!

Today I went to the Brooklyn Bridge with my friend Zach (you know, the Letterman Scholar). We went to pier 17 and had lunch then walked across the bridge and took some pictures. It was so hot outside today. Sidenote: We have free HBO in the hotel where we are staying at and I just recently watched Kate and Leopold. So it was kinda neat to see "the erection" after watching the movie.