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By: Clareified » Blog Archive » Thanks a lot, Life

Clareified » Blog Archive » Thanks a lot, Life — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 04:34:40 +0000

[...] I’ve seen the Drowsy Chaperone three times. I’ve written about it before, but basically, it’s a guy listening to a record of a musical and then the musical comes to life. A celebration of the imagination. Like the Nutcracker, but not boring. There’s this scene in the Drowsy Chaperone where the narrator is imagining the finale of the musical and the lights suddenly go out in his apartment. Moments later, his super is knocking on the door. “I need to reset your circuit box, it’ll just take a minute.” The narrator lets him in, and the super cluelessly walks past the airplane in the background and the three wedding ceremonies and the gangsters dressed as pastry chefs, straight to the back of the apartment. All the while the narrator is anxious to get back to the show. His show. But by the time the record comes back on – with a screech – after the power is reset, the narrator accepts that he has missed the moment. Life has ruined it. I’ve been drawn to the Drowsy Chaperone ever since I saw it last October. The idea that they managed to create a show about something in one guy’s head. Superb! (And yes, I loved Herman’s Head for the first two seasons too…) He gets his happy ending, of course, because as he says earlier “everything always works out in musicals, but in real life almost nothing ever works out.” And sure enough, the lights come up and there they are actors finishing up work for the night, asking for donations to some charity or another. And it’s over. Pesky life. But really, I suppose, it’s my own fantastical life that I miss. The days of world saving adventures on the Power Princess: A two speed, powder pink with plastic rainbow tassels (for firing lasers, a weave basket (for carrying victims), a bell (for opening the door the secret lair) and training wheels (for balancing our hero who really couldn’t ride a bike.) As much TV as I watched as a kid, I still spent hours on end writing stories and daydreaming. Eh, and truth be told, even after I was a kid. All during umm…law school, I would imagine my Perry Mason moments well into the night. Not so much anymore. Now my thoughts are all about whether that weird shifting bone thing in my left foot is going to travel through my blood stream and hit my heart. Or what I’ll do after the firm thing ends. Or whether that crippling pain is cancer or an ulcer. And well, I guess, I wonder why exactly we ever agree to trade dreams for worries. [...]

By: Dawn 2

Dawn 2 — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 15:42:51 +0000

Actually, just to clarify, I called Kaz, because I was concerned that I was going to get there exactly at noon, and not “early”, as promised.

Rubber ducky, you’re the one.
You make bathtime so much fun!
Rubber ducky, I’m so awfully fond of you.
(do do do do do do)
Rubber ducky, joy of joys
When I squeeze you, you make noise!
Rubber ducky, I’m so awfully fond of you!

By: pn

pn — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 19:27:40 +0000

aaawww, i loved that toast.

By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 15:57:10 +0000

Pearatty:

I fully support Dawn’s quest to turn her birth day into a birth season. My party celebrates the end of Dawn’s season.

Dawn:

You forgot half of my toast. It should be:

“To our New York girls whose skills we are ever in awe of.”

By: pearatty

pearatty — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 04:40:59 +0000

I am not calling Jake a liar — probably he was misled.

By: PN

PN — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 01:26:59 +0000

this post was awesome. it was better than cats. and dawn, how many times have you seen cats? how many, now?

By: Dawn Summers

Dawn Summers — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 19:36:47 +0000

Ya huh! Jake said so. Are you calling Jake a liar?

By: pearatty

pearatty — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 19:32:39 +0000

You are a very lucky girl to know people as nice as the Jakes. But your birthday season does not go to October.

By: Dawn Summers

Dawn Summers — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 09:07:03 +0000

Finally Yah. You know, I’ve got to show you how to start your own blog…then you can post about everything you do, right away!
And with that, let’s go with the glorious gift traffic! Traffic meeeee!

By: Ari

Ari — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 05:18:33 +0000

Ditto what Karol said. And you captured it perfectly. The Jakes are phenomenal, if only we could bottle them. Yet that would be wrong. And thanks to the both of you for your event choices. I had such great times, both nights.

By: Karol

Karol — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 04:05:26 +0000

Finally! What a great weekend! Thanks Mr. and Mrs. Jake!