I know you are just dying to know whether I am reading Oprah's next book club selection. Well, it's still 3 hours before the show airs here, but I knew the Internets would "spoil" the surprise before the show.
Winfrey chooses Sidney Poitier memoir
Bleh! I am sure Poitier's memoir is very good... but it's just not something that I see myself running out to get and curl up with at night. The book club announcement proved one of my favorite adages... the anticipation of the event is often greater than the event itself. One thing I like about the O's book club is that you do feel part of this communal experience. So onward with my own reading list! And I am sure it's just a coincidence that Poitier is going to be interviewed (by Jamie Foxx) on Oprah's Oscar-ish primetime special.
But onto, the main subject of this post... we're going to be quite the busy theater-goers... 3 shows between tomorrow night and February 17th... yikes!
We have season tix to the Broadway series and this year they offered 3 "bonus" shows... just in case shelling out the $$$ for 5-6 shows just was not enough. These extra shows are often returning engagements or something that might not appeal to the usual demographic (in our locale that would be middle-aged women who drag their husbands to the shows). Often we'll pick up an extra show, but this time I coerced tricked drugged Todd was happy to go to all three... 2 of the extras are during this time period and sandwiching a regular season ticket show.
What's nice about the bonus shows is that we are often able to purchase tix before they go on sale to the non-season ticket holders... and also that we are able to go on a Saturday night. Our season tickets are on Friday night... and in a true sign that we are getting old... it has been really difficult lately to get excited to go anywhere on a Friday night... now granted we always eat out on Friday nights, but that does not require much of a attention span.
Stay tuned... I am sure the shows will be future blog material, especially since [gasp!] I have felt a bit of an "idea drought" of late... ok, a few hints.. the first is a celebrity one-man show, the second one we haven't seen but it should bee good, and the third is one of our all-time favorites (which we will be seeing for a 3rd time).
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