something marvelous has happened: i finally saw someone putting up posters at the subway stations! it was a fascinating process (but i didn't betray my childlike interest by talking to the guy about it - i'm sure it is all much less fascinating to him). my many months of curiousity are over!

on wednesday night we went to see a prodcution of frankenstein. it was tragic, and not only the story. it was a musical (not necessarily bad!) but it was the kind with very little dialogue and mostly singing. and the music itself? like a bad les miserables knock-off. the tragic part was that the cast was so obviously talented; it's very difficult to fend off bad material and misguided directing, though.

the good thing was that we recognized two of the actors from other things we have seen on broadway! mike loves playing the "in what movie have we seen this minor character actor before" game, so we were very pleased to be playing it with on-stage actors. frankenstein was played by a guy we saw in "the producers" and his creation was played by the guy we saw in "beauty and the beast." (and they were really good!) ahh... theater satisfaction in the supreme.

the play i'm stage managing is rolling on. i'm still not sure what the set will look like in the end, or where all these people are going to stand. or anything important like that. last night, the director said "which is when the scrim will..." and i said "whoa, we have a scrim??" so there are some bumps to get over... but we still have a month. that's enough, right?

oh dear.