Sunday – June 3rd

Supposed to rain this afternoon.

I slept in till 8:30 today. Clean up the room, copy the latest play to my memory stick and head up to Broadway to see if Staples will be open to print it out (for some reason, I can only effectively edit one of my plays when I have it printed out. I doesn’t work well on the computer screen.) They don’t open till 22 and it is just after ten but they have closed off over a dozen blocks on Broadway for a street fair. They have everything but sun glasses, t shirts and food pretty much cover it.

I walk to the south end of the fair and walk north stopping from time to time. Buy a pair of sunglasses for $6 and a watch for $5. I offer the guy $10 for both and he takes it. Hank calls and we agree to meet at the Boat House in Central Park at noon so I hit Staples at 11 when they open and print out the play. I walk to the boat house – a half hour at a good pace. Work on my script for a half hour till Hank gets there. They have a waiting list an hour and a half long so we get a cab to Times square to get tickets. (Hank is big on cabs I’m big on walking.) We decide to see Company a 1970 Sondheim musical in revival.

It was good but all of Sondheim’s musical’s are incredibly difficult musical pieces. In my limited knowledge of any musical, this one is one of the worst to stage. This particular revival has the actors acting, singing and playing all the instruments. I reminds me of Radio Gals which I saw at Taproot in Seattle years ago where the actors acted, sang and played the instruments. I have the script if anyone thinks we could cast it on Orcas.

Company was all right and the male lead (Raul Esparza) is up for a Tony but there is no real plot – just a series of vignettes. One highlight for me was a young actress with no real credentials: Heather Laws. In my opinion she stole the show.

It was raining but not hard (just harder than it rains on Orcas) so I beat feet to the Subway, back to my room to drop off my notebook and other things I didn’t want to get wet. Then up the street to get dinner.

You know what’s expensive in New York? – Besides everything, I mean – Liquor. A draft beer is $6 to $7, wine is $8 to $10 and a whiskey is $9 to $11.

Came out from dinner and it is raining – hard. I walk as fast as I can back to the hotel but am soaked when I get there.

I’m really getting excited about Lincoln Center tomorrow. Hope I can sleep.