WIN

I have figured out the correct configuration of cables to copy from the cable box to the VCR.  Hurrah!  Will now tape the Tonys for my dad, which is what I promised to do in the first place.  Will also save down the South Pacific concert from Carnegie Hall.  Yay.

watching the tonys as they copy to the VCR

I tell you what, ever since the damn thing was new, the opening number of The Lion King has just made me cry with the genius of it.  The music is fabulous, of course, but you know, it's really the giraffes that get me.  All the other puppets after that just make it impossible for me pull myself together, but the giraffes are what fall me apart in the first place.

mamma mia

Okay, I admit, I have been skeptical about the Meryl Streep/Pierce Brosnan Mamma Mia film since I heard about it.  Recall that I came home from the show's national tour six years ago (omg) in raptures not because the show was so good, but because it was so much better than I'd had any reason to expect.  So I'm, like, hmm, I don't know how I feel about this trend of making movies of musicals and filling them full of famous people slumming.  Maybe that's not a fair attitude, but that's my reaction, there it is.

But I've now seen the trailer enough times to say Hang On, are the other two women, the mother's friends, is that Julie Walters and Christine Baranski?  SOLD!

And then I feel shame.  But, you know, it's not like I wasn't going to see the thing anyway.  It's just that now I'll be a little less frustrated by it, but a little more annoyed with myself for being less frustrated.  Ah, well, what are you going to do.

also, has any show been revived more times?

You know, it's interesting, if you play Mama Rose in Gypsy on Broadway, if history is anything to go by (which of course it isn't, but bear with me), the odds are pretty good that you will win a Tony.  I mean, right?  There have been two women who have not won the Tony for playing Mama Rose.  Can anyone name them, please?