Of Tony Awards and Dreams

Okay, so I started this post back on Thursday and worked on it and worked on it. I have no time in my life! Sorry it's taken so long. I didn't mean to go AWOL.

So I woke up Thursday morning at 5:30 am, as usual, and my LEFT eye this time what all messed up. Red, light sensitive... all of it. :-P So I spent the whole day seeing through my right eye. It was annoying and probably a little unsafe driving... Lack of depth perception an all. But April and I cranked out 151 ladders and I wore through my first pair of work gloves. I've also lost weight and I can tell I'm building muscle! YAY!

I finally finally got better from the flu-thing I had starting last-last Saturday night. I started having problems retaining water Sunday night which lasted through yesterday. I am really tired of drinking water. It's such a pain to have to drink MORE water just because you know your body isn't absorbing it. I think the record was Monday, when I drank two and a half of those 32 oz. Nalgene bottles, full of water in the 9.5 hours I was at work. Life was not fun.

Everyone ended up being busy last week Sunday night, so I watched the Tony Awards by myself, texting both Rachels throughout the show. It's not the same seeing the shows on TV as it is live. It's kind of disappointing.

Here's the results:

BEST MUSICAL

Curtains

Grey Gardens

Mary Poppins

Spring Awakening

BEST PLAY

Frost/Nixon

The Coast of Utopia

The Little Dog Laughed

Radio Golf

BEST REVIVAL OF A PLAY

Inherit the Wind

Journey's End

Talk Radio

Translations

BEST REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL

110 in the Shade

A Chorus Line

Company

The Apple Tree

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A LEADING ACTOR IN A PLAY

Boyd Gaines, Journey's End

Frank Langella, Frost/Nixon

Brian F. O'Byrne, The Coast of Utopia

Christopher Plummer, Inherit the Wind

Liev Schreiber, Talk Radio

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A LEADING ACTRESS IN A PLAY

Eve Best, A Moon for the Misbegotten

Swoosie Kurtz, Heartbreak House

Angela Lansbury, Deuce

Vanessa Redgrave, The Year of Magical Thinking

Julie White, The Little Dog Laughed

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A LEADING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL

Michael Cerveris, LoveMusik

Raúl Esparza, Company

Jonathan Groff, Spring Awakening

Gavin Lee, Mary Poppins

David Hyde Pierce, Curtains

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A LEADING ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL

Laura Bell Bundy, Legally Blonde

Christine Ebersole, Grey Gardens

Audra McDonald, 110 in the Shade

Debra Monk, Curtains

Donna Murphy, LoveMusik

BEST BOOK OF A MUSICAL

Rupert Holmes and Peter Stone, Curtains

Doug Wright, Grey Gardens

Heather Hach, Legally Blonde

Steven Sater, Spring Awakening

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE (MUSIC AND/OR LYRICS) WRITTEN FOR THE THEATER

Music: John Kander, Lyrics: Fred Ebb, John Kander and Rupert Holmes, Curtains

Music: Scott Frankel, Lyrics: Michael Korie, Grey Gardens

Music & Lyrics: Laurence O'Keefe and Nell Benjamin, Legally Blonde

Music: Duncan Sheik, Lyrics: Steven Sater, Spring Awakening

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A FEATURED ACTOR IN A PLAY

Anthony Chisholm, Radio Golf

Billy Crudup, The Coast of Utopia

Ethan Hawke, The Coast of Utopia

John Earl Jelks, Radio Golf

Stark Sands, Journey's End

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A FEATURED ACTRESS IN A PLAY

Jennifer Ehle, The Coast of Utopia

Xanthe Elbrick, Coram Boy

Dana Ivey, Butley

Jan Maxwell, Coram Boy

Martha Plimpton, The Coast of Utopia

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A FEATURED ACTOR IN A MUSICAL

Brooks Ashmanskas, Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me

Christian Borle, Legally Blonde

John Cullum, 110 in the Shade

John Gallagher, Jr., Spring Awakening

David Pittu, LoveMusik

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A FEATURED ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL

Charlotte d'Amboise, A Chorus Line

Rebecca Luker, Mary Poppins

Orfeh, Legally Blonde

Mary Louise Wilson, Grey Gardens

Karen Ziemba, Curtains

BEST DIRECTION OF A PLAY

Michael Grandage, Frost/Nixon

David Grindley, Journey's End

Jack O'Brien, The Coast of Utopia

Melly Still, Coram Boy

BEST DIRECTION OF A MUSICAL

John Doyle, Company

Scott Ellis, Curtains

Michael Greif, Grey Gardens

Michael Mayer, Spring Awakening

BEST CHOREOGRAPHY

Rob Ashford, Curtains

Matthew Bourne and Stephen Mear, Mary Poppins

Bill T. Jones, Spring Awakening

Jerry Mitchell, Legally Blonde

BEST ORCHESTRATIONS

Bruce Coughlin, Grey Gardens

Duncan Sheik, Spring Awakening

Jonathan Tunick, LoveMusik

Jonathan Tunick, 110 in the Shade

BEST SCENIC DESIGN OF A PLAY

Bob Crowley and Scott Pask, The Coast of Utopia

Jonathan Fensom, Journey's End

David Gallo, Radio Golf

Ti Green and Melly Still, Coram Boy

BEST SCENIC DESIGN OF A MUSICAL

Bob Crowley, Mary Poppins

Christine Jones, Spring Awakening

Anna Louizos, High Fidelity

Allen Moyer, Grey Gardens

BEST COSTUME DESIGN OF A PLAY

Ti Green and Melly Still, Coram Boy

Jane Greenwood, Heartbreak House

Santo Loquasto, Inherit the Wind

Catherine Zuber, The Coast of Utopia

BEST COSTUME DESIGN OF A MUSICAL

Gregg Barnes, Legally Blonde

Bob Crowley, Mary Poppins

Susan Hilferty, Spring Awakening

William Ivey Long, Grey Gardens

BEST LIGHTING DESIGN OF A PLAY

Paul Constable, Coram Boy

Brian MacDevitt, Inherit the Wind

Brian MacDevitt, Kenneth Posner and Natasha Katz, The Coast of Utopia

Jason Taylor, Journey's End

BEST LIGHTING DESIGN OF A MUSICAL

Kevin Adams, Spring Awakening

Christopher Akerlind, 110 in the Shade

Howard Harrison, Mary Poppins

Peter Kaczorowski, Grey Gardens

BEST SPECIAL THEATRICAL EVENT

Kiki and Herb: Alive on Broadway

Jay Johnson: The Two and Only!

REGIONAL THEATER TONY AWARD

Alliance Theater, Atlanta

Yeah... Spring Awakening won everything it was nominated for, except for Best Actor in a Musical, which went to David Hyde Pierce. I was totally rooting for Raul Esparza, who really deserved it. I think I'm the only one who isn't happy with the Spring Awakening sweep. Bleh. It really frustrates me but there's very little I can do about it. :-P

Okay, so a happier topic!

DOCTOR WHO!

Last week's episode "Blink" was really neat! I wish the Doctor was actually in it more, but still... Delightfully creepy! I jumped a few times! I was very entertained! (By-the-way, Martha Jones has a myspace if any of you fans want to keep up. It's kind of cool!) I really liked the way this episode was told, very suspenseful! And it definitely played into my interest and slight fear of old houses, creepy basements and unreliable light sources.

THIS week's episode, was equally brilliant! It's good to see Capt'n Jack again! :-D The way he's changed makes me kind of sad... I don't want to spoil too much for other readers... But I did scream when The Master came and... created the clincher for the 2 parter... :-)

Have you ever had one of those dreams where they were so strong you can remember specific things about them. Not just what happened in the dream, but textures, pressure, smells, and voice inflections? I haven't had many... Vivid, crazy dreams yes, (Elephants to Target anyone?) but not often specific things....

Well I had one about Doctor Who. It started and continued absolutely brilliant, but ended on a bit of a Monty Python note. Aka "And now for something completely different." Slightly disappointing, but ah well. I can't have everything.

So this was my dream:

The 10th Doctor and I were being chased by the Weeping Angels. My mind had somehow combined his two suit stiles... He was wearing the same outfit, cut and everything, except that it wasn't the plain blue suit, or the brown pinstripe, in was a combination of the two: blue pinstripe. Same white sneakers though.

Anyway, instead of how the Weeping Angels kill you in the Blink episode, in my dream they turned you into one of them, if they touch you.

And we had just managed to loose them for a bit, but they were catching up. (And in my dream I don't really know where I was... Meaning a specific town.) (Oh, and Martha wasn't even there. Or Rose. Just me and the Doctor. Haha. I love my subconscious.) We had run through this random house that was empty (meaning no one was home at the time. The house was fully furnished and unlocked) and we were on the back deck, trying to catch our breaths while the Doctor tried to figure out a way to stop the Weeping Angels and save us.

He sat there for a very long time in the white plastic lawn chair. Kind of gangly. Leaning forward, elbows on knees, brows furrowed, staring intently straight ahead. He often ran his fingers through his hair, rubbed his eyes, nose and mouth, mumbled, and said random things aloud. I leaned against the house and tried to even my breathing. He quieted down and started to look through half-lidded eyes. I walked over and put my hand on his shoulder and asked what we were going to do. Looking up at me, he smiled the determined closed-lipped "I know what to do"-type smile. His jumped out of his seat. (which made the funny "bendy-plastic on wood scraping noise.) He had that fierce/intent look in his eyes. ("By the ancient rites of combat, I forbid you to scavenge here for the rest of Time. When you go back to the stars and tell others of this planet, when you tell them of its riches, its people, its potential — when you talk of the Earth, then make sure you tell them this. It. Is. Defended!" -kind of intense.) He grabbed my shoulders and held me there, saying

"I have idea. I don't know if it will--no, I'm pretty sure--...Anyway, I have this plan. BUT! You need to stay here. Stay here and I'll come back for you. I won't be long. Stay here. DON'T move! Don't make a sound-don't even breathe. And if you seem them, remember. Don't Blink. I'll be right back!"

I nodded and told him good luck and he thanked me and said he was going to need it. Then he gave my shoulders a squeeze and dashes back through the sliding glass doors, back into the house and was gone.

So I'm left there on the deck of this house, to wait. Scared out of my mind that the Weeping Angels are going to find me, or the Doctor and get us, but also really excited and terribly curious as to what the Doctor had in mind to stop them.

Then I hear this thud and bang, like a door swinging open, and I don't know if it's the Doctor still in the house or what.

By now my heart is beating like crazy and I'm keeping my eyes WIDE open. I peek through the door and I see Jenna from school with her mom in tow walking towards me. (It's not Jenna's house in my dream either. Just FYI.) Jenna sees me and calls out loudly to me and walks over and opens to door to visit. Meanwhile her mother (who for some reason was a Hippie. Don't as me why, I have no freaking clue. I've never even met Jenna's mother!) Goes over to the fridge and starts eating food out of random jars, being very loud opening the lids and all. Jenna is being her normal friendly conversational self and I'm there trying for the life of me to pantomime that she needs to be QUIET but to no avail.

And then I woke up in a bit of a panic because the Weeping Angels would probably about to find me.

See? I told you it started out awesome and then got weird. But still... *sigh* I had a dream about the Doctor and it was FANTASTIC! :-D

I have more, but this has been sitting here for a while so I'll end it here for now.