Archive for March, 2009

SPRING IS HERE

OK I HOPE YOU EAST COASTERS ARE EXPERIENCING SOME HEAT ABOUT NOW..OR AT LEAST THE HINT OF SPRING. TIM AND HARRISON ARE OUT LEARNING TO RIDE HIS BIKE SANS TRAINING WHEELS, AND USE HIS SCOOTER. WHEN I GOT HOME TODAY, HE SAID , CAN I MAKE YOU SOME EGGS, OR PANCAKES, OR SOUP?? HE’S SO FUNNY RECENTLY.. HE’S LEARNING TO DO SO MANY NEW THINGS, THAT HE’S FULL OF CONFIDENCE.

TIM HAS BEEN S’ICK ON AND OFF, SO IV’E BEEN HOLDING DOWN THE FORT. AND ONE DAY HE WANTED TO SKATEBOARD, CUZ A CHARACTER IN LEGO ISLAND DOES. WELL I PUT HIS HELMET ON, AND WE WENT IN OUR DRIVEWAY…HE’S NEVER DONE THIS, AND I HELD HIS ARM /HAND SO TIGHTLY THAT EACH TIME HE ALMOST FELL , I PRACTICALLY TOOK HIS ARM OUT OF THE SOCKET. ONE TIME HE SAID’WHEW IT’S GOOD I WAS HOLDING ONTO YOU THAT TIME HUH”

HE’S TRYING ALL KINDS OF NEW THINGS, EVEN DBLE KNOTTING HIS “SHOES, AND FULL OF CONFIDENCE. WHEN I GOT HOME FROM LIBRARY TODAY , HE RAN DOWN THE STAIRS, AND SAID CAN I FIX YOU PANCAKES, OR EGGS, HOW BOUT SOUP? LOL

HE CRACKS US UP CONSTANTLY.. HE HAD HIS SPRING SING.. AND HE GOT TO GO UP TO THE MIC AND SAY ‘THANKYOU FOR COMING AND THERE ARE SNACKS OVER THERE” AND ON THE LAST SONG HE WAS BOBBING UP AND DOWN. THE ONLY CHILD DOING THIS, SMILING AT ME..HE LATER THAT DAY ASKED ME” MOM, DID I MAKE YOU SMILE WHEN I DID THAT?’ AND I SAID ‘YES” BUT WHAT DID MISS MARIA SAY?” HE SAID’AT NAP TIME SHE TOLD ME NOT TO JUMP ANY MORE DURING CONCERTS, BUT I WASN’T JUMPING, I WAS GOING UP ON MY TOES…BUT MOM, DID THAT MAKE YOU SMILE…WAS I ADORABLE? ”

OH BOY, ANOTHER ACTOR IN THE FAMILY? ANYWAY..I GOTTA RUN AND COOK GREEN EGGS AND HAM/BACON FOR THE BOYS..

HEY NICE ARTICLE ON THE JERSEY GIRLS …HEATHER, SARA AND BRIGET AND KATIE/ CHECK IT OUT…XO ME

HOWARD AND JODY HAVE COMPLAINED

HOWARD AND MY SISTER JODY HAVE NOTICED I HAVEN’T WRITTEN IN AWHILE.NOTHING TERRIBLY NEW JUST KEEPING SO BUSY. HARRISON HAD HIS 2ND TBALL GAME AND HE WAS GOOD. THEY ARE THE BLUE JAYS AND THEY PLAYED THE DODGERS AND THE OPPONENTS ASS. COACH I RECOGNIZED AS AN ACTOR FROM DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES. I ONLY KNOW THIS , CUZ MARCIA CROSS AND I GRADUATED JULLIARD ,HER, AND NYU GRAD , ME , THE SAME TIME . AND WE ACTUALLY MET AT THE LEAGUE AUDITIONS. SHE WAS LOVELY THAN AND EVEN PRETTIER NOW. AND I REMEMBER THE STORY LINE, BECAUSE ROGER BART, WHO I DID BIG RIVER WITH YEARS AGO, I BELIEVE POISONED HER HUSBAND. THUS THE CONNECTION.

WE ARE PRESENTLY TRAPPED IN OUR HOUSE BECAUSE THE PASADENA MARATHON IS GOING ON AND WE CAN’T LEAVE OUR HOUSES AND TAKE THE ROADS TILL THE LAST OF THE RUNNERS CLEARS OUR STREET FOR THE FINAL MILE OF THE RACE.. IT’S KINDA COOL TO GO OUTSIDE AND CHEER THEM ON, AND GLANCE OUT MY WINDOW, BUT IT’S ALSO BITTERSWEET BECAUSE I USED TO HEAD TO CENTRAL PARK TO CHEER THEM ON IN NY. AND OPENING NIGHT OF JERSEY BOYS WAS THE SAME DAY AS THE MARATHON…AND TIM AND I HEADED OVER THERE IN THE DAY…TO APPEASE MY NERVES, AND THAN OVER TO GET MY NAILS DONE. WHICH I’VE ONLY DONE 3 TIMES IN MY LIFE. I’M VERY LOW MAINTENANCE THAT WAY..

WELL THIS WEEK I GET TO LUNCH WITH AMY NESWALD, OUR JBOYS HAIR SPVS AND WRITER NOW HERE IN LA, AND TIM SULKA , THE CO COMPANY MGR OF JERSEY BOYS IN NY.. HE’S VISITING AND LOVES PASADENA, AND ME..LOL .. HE’S  A GOOD MAN , AND HE TOO IS A GREAT WRITER. IN FACT AMY AND HE ARE WORKING ON A PROJECT.

ALSO MY DEAR FRIENDS JERRY SAVIOLA AND HIS WIFE MARY ARE IN TOWN FOR THE BASEBALL WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS , SO I’M TO GET TOGETHER WITH THEM TOO, AS THEY WANT TO CATCH UP AND MEET HARRISON.

JERRY IS AN INSPIRATION AND HAS OPENED SO MANY DOOR S FOR ME IN MY CAREER… I ADORE HIM AND HIS WIFE. OK.. GOTTA FIGURE OUT LEGO ISLAND FOR HARRISON??? LOVE AND KISSES , ME

PS THESE ARE JUST PHOTOS I CAME UPON OF OUR WEDDING IN AUGUST 2003, HARRISON AT 3, AND SOMETHING ELSE ??

15 minutes till Tim and Harrison come home from Tball

I picked up Harrison today and he came out with whiskers, and a huge red and white painted hat, and told me they had green eggs and ham, and it’s Dr Seuss bday today!! He looked adorable and I need TIm to down load that photo, send it to Dale and he’ll put it up..ADORABLE!!.

ANYWAY yesterday I drove with Amy Neswald (remember check out her site amyneswald.com) to La Jolla playhouse where the great Jenny Case got us house seats. Driving up there and arriving on the campus, I almost wept, and still today thinking about yesterday I tear up. Gorgeous La Jolla, where Jersey Boys and all those wonderful memories began.

As we entered the theatre, after our salad bar feast from Whole Foods, suddenly thru the glass doors comes RICK ELICE.  I melted, I cried, his smile and eyes, and soul caught me off guard..and I squeezed him till it hurt. Even writing this I tear up…I just love this guy. He’s so gifted, funny, brilliant, kind and amazing. How rare a writer of his status and now fame, has stayed down to earth and approachable and lovable and vulnerable.

Anyway PETER AND THE STARCATCHERS you must catch by March 8th…before Broadway hopefully. It is moving, beautiful, funny , relevant , honest and the staging and direction by another sweetheart, Roger Rees, is impeccable and again, brilliant.

It reminded me of seeing Roger in the RSC’s Nickolaus Nickleby ( I know I spelled that wrong)..It just goes to prove, you don’t need helicopters, and fancy scenery and automation but human beings, actors, creating the scene. Amazing.

It was so nice seeing Celiea Keenan Bolger on stage. She was so wonderful and honest and funny and fierce…and all the boys…wonderful.. I cant say enough. I had never read Dave Barry’s book but now I want to… You investigate the rest. but Rick and Roger have an even brighter future ahead of them..

It amazes me how they can dream and produce so much simultaneously.. I thought making dinner, and doing homework at the same time were difficult.

Amy and I had a great time. And her ideas about this new project are so cool. She is so prolific as a writer too. anyway , they’re coming home. I have to put my other hat on..and it’s not Harrison’s CAT IN THE HAT

PS HE WANTED ME TO MAKE GREEN EGGS FOR DINNER…