Optimally different!

So, I'm thinking of trying to put together some mobs for local theater events soon.

First off, I've slacked on getting people together for Comedy of Errors, and plan to go on Weds (would also love to see Richard III, but I'm just not free any of the nights before the 19th when both shows close). Tix are $25 for people under 35! I'll probably buy by Tues noonish, so let me know asap if you want in!

edit: Tix have been bought for CoE, but if you use this link at GoldStar (many thanks to hahathor for pointing me there, btw! Great theater discounts!!), to buy tix, you will be seated with the rest of us (currently me, zapf, sandrylene, and hahathor).

Second, Theater@First is doing Equus. I haven't seen the show before, but I hear it's a feel-good story about a boy who wants a pony. Aaaanyway, my plan is to go see the 3pm matinee on Saturday before Midsummer.

Lemme know if anyone wants to go together.

Wow, the ART is doing a lot of new musicals in coming months!

Starting in December there's The Blue Flower, which looks neat, and I rather like this song.

After that there's "Death and the Powers", which looks to be the a very visually pretty, high tech opera. Conceptual overview here. Example song here (which is pretty, but doesn't grab me as much as some of the background stuff in the first video).

And after that there's Prometheus Bound. Adaptation of a greek tragedy with book by the guy who did Spring Awakening and music composed by Serj from System of a Down? SO MUCH YESPLZ.

Exciting stuff! Then in the non-musical vein they've got productions of Ajax, which looks neat, and a play about Buckminster Fuller.

If you're interested in in one or more of these, let me know and I'll try and remember to reference this post when I start organizing mobs (tix aren't available for any of these yet). For now, just getting it out there so's y'all know!

...have I mentioned that I love living here?

The inimitable hahathor will be starring in a dark comedy called "As Bees In Honey Drown" at the Arsenal center, right around the corner from BCOS. The only day I can make it is Friday, 8/20 at 8pm, which is, sadly, conflicting with PiCon (*sigh*-- as faerieboots observed earlier today, I expand to fill the free time).

Also! Next Friday, 8/13. Scott Friggin Pilgrim. I am THERE. Are you?

Y'all know the drill. If you want to go together, maybe do the food thing beforehand, lemme know and I'll re-ping people closer to the date.

On Friday at 7p I am going to go see The Greatest Comedia dell'Arte Troupe In The Entire World perform (free/donations-welcome) in Waltham. Will you be there?

The other day I got an email from rubicantoto informing me that an australian musical comedy trio called Tripod would be performing in this neck of the woods in late January. His description of them, "wrong-continent Moxy Fruvous", had me curious. The youtube playlist of their performances, to which he linked me, had me intrigued, and the following description from the event site has me excited:

Part Flight of the Conchords and part Tenacious D, this three man musical comedy group is legendary in its native Australia -- they regularly play the Sydney Opera House and other massive palaces of high art. In residency here for two weeks, this world premiere performance will be the world's first glimpse of their latest opus: a musical theater work of exquisite sophistication and hilarity that delves deep into the terrifying, tantalizing, geektastic world of D&D. North Adams may never be the same.



Like that, only staged, and with puppets? ...umm, Yespls!

Tix are $15 ($10 for students) and the show is on Sat Jan 30th at 8pm at the MA Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams. This is about 3 hrs away from Bostonish, so I'm thinking a day trip: check out the museum (another $15/$10, though), then catch the show, then drag ourselves home at zomgithurts o'clock am.

Who's up for it? Details and tix here. I can do the usual thing of buying tickets in a block for whoever is interested and then y'all can pay me back.

EDIT Craaaaaaap! This conflicts with the High Noon larp at Brandeis, for which I'm already signed up! Tempted to drop a game for once, but trying to track down alternate dates instead.... =:(

EDIT II For the first time ever I've dropped a larp I was signed up for to do something else. But I contacted their agent and confirmed that this is the only performance they're doing in the US

Argh. I've wanted to see this show for a while, but scheduling will be tight for me. I'm at Threads the first weekend it runs and RPI gaming weekend the second, but the closing performance is 8pm that Sunday, so... I should be able to make it.

Regardless, posting here for the edimification of others.

FB event here

Essential details:

820 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA
November 13, 14, 19, 20, 21 at 8pm
November 15 and 21 at 2pm