{"id":11211,"date":"2014-04-10T22:12:16","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T02:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=11211"},"modified":"2014-04-10T22:12:16","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T02:12:16","slug":"willkommen-bienvenue-welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=11211","title":{"rendered":"Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Third time really is the charm.<\/p>\n

After unexpected snowfall in January, then unexpected illness last week, I finally went to see a Broadway musical last night.<\/p>\n

I actually don’t go to the theater all that<\/i> often, despite this being the third attempt in almost as many months — and the second in less than a week — but my parents had for whatever reason purchased tickets to see Cabaret<\/i>, starring Alan Cumming and Michelle Williams. So they trekked into the city and I met them a couple of blocks from my office for dinner.<\/p>\n

My father still isn’t always feeling well, so he unfortunately opted to head home before the show, walking over with us to the theater but then taking the subway and train back. It’s a shame, too, since he was feeling better not long after — I called him at intermission — and the show was really very good.<\/p>\n

I had only a passing familiarity with the show, and then only with Joel Grey’s lead performance in the original. Cumming’s quite different in the role, less elfin and more dirty, and the musical definitely has a very risque edge. But Cumming and Williams were both terrific, as was all of the supporting cast, and I had a great time.<\/p>\n

The rest of the week — is it really<\/i> Thursday already? How<\/i>? — has passed by very busily at work. I do a little bit of writing every day, even if yesterday proved the exception, and I watch a large amount of The Good Wife<\/i> on streaming video. (Cumming’s in that, too, as it happens, but playing a very different character.) A night out at the theater notwithstanding, I lead a rather boring life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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