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I got a ticket to go see Eartha Kitt at Blues Alley tomorrow night! Eeeee! I really regretted not going when I saw that she came to town last year; so yay, regret begone!
I saw her live once before: when I was a teen my mom took me to see the musical Timbuktu!, a magnificent remake of Kismet with an all black cast--still my favorite musical experience ever. She played Lalume, and when she first walked on the stage and said simply, "I'm here," she brought down the house.
So Eartha Kitt has always been my ideal of what presence is all about. And Melba Moore played an absolutely adorable Marsinah. What sucks is that they apparently never made a recording of Timbuktu!, which I would dearly love--I keep searching to see if anything ever turns up--I just can't believe someone doesn't have a recording somewhere of it. It didn't get great reviews, but I thought it was terrific. And I may have been 15, but I was brought up on musicals, and my parents had taken me to see the original Hair on Broadway and Richard Kiley in The Man of La Mancha, so I knew something of what I speak.
Anyway, tomorrow night I'll get to see how being 79 Is Done. I'm gonna be prepared.
( More about being me, currently and onward )
And I don't say it often enough, but I couldn't do it without my flist. I'm no rugged individual, but my life has improved so much the last few years, and the friends I've made here and the old friends I can keep up with now on LJ have been a huge part of that. I still need to get in the habit of updating more often. Thanks for being here, all of you, my dear flist. <3
I saw her live once before: when I was a teen my mom took me to see the musical Timbuktu!, a magnificent remake of Kismet with an all black cast--still my favorite musical experience ever. She played Lalume, and when she first walked on the stage and said simply, "I'm here," she brought down the house.
So Eartha Kitt has always been my ideal of what presence is all about. And Melba Moore played an absolutely adorable Marsinah. What sucks is that they apparently never made a recording of Timbuktu!, which I would dearly love--I keep searching to see if anything ever turns up--I just can't believe someone doesn't have a recording somewhere of it. It didn't get great reviews, but I thought it was terrific. And I may have been 15, but I was brought up on musicals, and my parents had taken me to see the original Hair on Broadway and Richard Kiley in The Man of La Mancha, so I knew something of what I speak.
Anyway, tomorrow night I'll get to see how being 79 Is Done. I'm gonna be prepared.
( More about being me, currently and onward )
And I don't say it often enough, but I couldn't do it without my flist. I'm no rugged individual, but my life has improved so much the last few years, and the friends I've made here and the old friends I can keep up with now on LJ have been a huge part of that. I still need to get in the habit of updating more often. Thanks for being here, all of you, my dear flist. <3
