Slow-ish Day in NYC

Well it was bound to happen sometime, but we had a pretty low key day today. After a number of early calls (ok, 10:45am is only early when you're on vacation, I know) we got to sleep in. And sleep in we did. If Alyson's phone hadn't bleated at noon we might still be in bed.

We had a rehearsal in the Wintergarden for our concert there tomorrow. The place is big, which is not normally a problem, but the ambient noise is crazy loud. Everyone was shouting pretty loud and the sound was suffering. Lynne gave us a great direction that I hope sticks. She asked us to sing at the volume that feels right in our body and not worry about the actual volume level. I'm sure she said it in a more eloquent way, but I hope we take it to heart. It's a neat trick to start feeling the power of your body when you sing. What does forte feel like. We could use that in our regular concerts. In any case, Dick told us that the noise sources should be off tomorrow (ac, escalators, etc). If that is the case I think the concert could be magical. That's what I'm planning on because, yes you guessed it. I believe in magic.

I had to get a few pics of our great room today, especially the 'bloggin' station which I currently inhabit. A's sitting right next to me using some strange antiquated communication form called email. Ha, that's so yk2.

The evening was great. We went to Avenue Q. Yes. I, Eric Freeman paid good money to voluntarily watch a mu... a mu ... a ... a ... playwithsinging. But that's not all. Wait for it. Yes, gentle readers. I enjoyed it! The clouds part, the heavens sing. God himself gets off his ass and makes the sign thousands of evangelists have waited for for millennia. Ok, he made the lights flash in a trailer park outside Topeka and nobody noticed but (literally) God damn it he did! I enjoyed a musical! Seriously the musical (I believe I've overcome my aversion to that word) was quite clever. But most importantly it didn't take itself too seriously. I would comment on some of the best songs and possibly best lines but I understand that some of Alyson's students might read this and the play was rather dirty. It will be hard to look at Bert and Ernie the same way again.

We finished with dinner at a Turkish place on 9th. It certainly paid to get away from Broadway. The food was good and not crazy expensive (I've had worse on both accounts since we got here). The company was great ambiance was, shall we say, interesting. As John put it, "the bathroom was incredibly fragrant." (or something to that affect). Best of all it had the motto that keeps 'em coming back for seconds.

All in all a good day. Tomorrow I think we're gonna try to hit the MOMA before the concert. I've been looking forward to that for ages. Expect a full report!

-Eric
As usual you can see all the pix (from my camera, A's are coming) here: Wintergar...

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