My B!!

After work, on Wed Oct. 21, I met up with Trey, a friend from PCPA and we got standing room tickets for the 2009 best play, God of Carnage. I loved it. It reminded me so much of Life (x) 3 (a show I did at PCPA) by the same playwright, Yazmina Reza. It's a four person show, each of whom where well-diserveingly, nominated for a Tony. It's pretty short, an hour and a half, so it was easy to stand through. Not to mention there wasn't a boring part in the whole show. The last thing I was thinking about where my feet. Especially when Marcia Gay Harden pounced on James Gandolffini! Or when Hope Davis projectile vomited across the stage.

When Trey and I where leaving, we saw Jeff Daniels at the stage door, so we went to get autographs. I handed him my program and he said, “God of Carnage? Well, if I sign this, you have to come to the show. If you don't your teeth will fall out in the middle of the night.” I had no idea what he was talking about since I had just seen the show. Trey then informed me that we were at the Oleanna stage door, and that was actually Bill Pullman.

OOPS!! Wrong stage door! I did think it was strange that he beat us out, I figured he was a master at getting out of costume. I just hope he thinks I'm a tourist with limited English, which might be a good argument since I stared at him like he had three heads. Although, I wonder how the conversation would have gone if I had said, “What?! Your not Jeff Daniels??” I was pretty embarrassed, but hey, it makes for an entertaining story. Those kinds of incidents basically sum up my life.

 But the night doesn't stop there! Trey's roommate works for New World Stages and they just had their (re)opening of Avenue Q. For those of you who have been living in the real world (as opposed to the theatre world) Avenue Q is a musical that ran on Broadway for a few years, snatching a few Tonys on the way. It was set to close, but instead, it moved to Off-Broadway to extend it's run. Anyway, there was a party at the Glass House Tavern and Jana wanted to see if she could get us in. She pulled a few strings and dropped a few names, and voila! We're partying with the cast of Avenue Q and even Tom Kitt, the composer of Next to Normal was there! I had a couple drinks (courtesy New World Stages) and even ran into one of my bosses (who was very surprised/impressed to see me there) and a couple of clients. It was a memorable night, very worth the teasing that ensued the following day: "Not Amanda crashing the Avenue Q party!"