I just received these wonderful photos from the Momix show Botanica. I blogged the other day about the show but didn’t have nice photos to share. Now I do!
Photos by Max Pucciariello
Ahhhhh, thank you Moses, this blog needed some beauty.
Last night we went to see the play God Of Carnage, starring James Gandolfini, Hope Davis, Marcia Gay Harden and Jeff Daniels. It was so great. I laughed until I cried, seriously, but I’m one of those people who can’t really laugh without crying. If you’re in the NYC area and looking for a good show, go! We went backstage to visit with Mr. Gandolfini after the show. Such a sweet guy. I loved him in this show.
Then, we met our friends Alice Hoffman and her husband Tom Martin for dinner. Best selling author ( and one of my new favorite people) Alice has a new book coming out on June 2nd called The Story Sisters. It’s not in stores yet, but I’ve already got mine, thanks to Alice, and will be curling up with it tonight.
Those pictures are breathtaking – would love to see the show. I clicked on the Alice Hoffman link and read about the new book… sounds fantastic!
Ann
Beautiful pics, I too clicked on the link for your friend. Maybe a Sunday drive to Newton? The last pic is my favorite. It’s a good night to curl up with a good book, it’s cool,rainy, and just blah here.
I love Alice Hoffman!!!! The Probable Future and Blackbird House, two of my favorites! Have you read them?
No, but I will, thanks!
These photos are fantastick!!!!!!!!!I may have to see this one.
I know………I just ended that word with a “k” didn’t I.
Boy–you and Denis have been hitting the culture circuit heavy this week, haven’t you?? Do you feel more energetic and forward-looking after spending time around artists and their creative works? That’s how time spent in this manner affects me, but I also begin to feel as if my life has been wasted creativity-wise. Except for my son, Jack, who is my constant gift to the world he inhabits.
Thanks for the recommendation of Alice Hoffman’s books. Periodically, I mean to check our (pathetic) local county library, but its catalog of books is painfully thin. I will check their website to see what books of hers they have on the shelves.
I, too, can experience that confusing emotional state wherein you are laughing along like a normal person, then suddenly the emotion of the moment hits you and immediately tears are rolling down your face. It’s the overwhelming combination of joy and emotional connection to the moment. It’s primal. And I also believe some of the underlying feeling is a fear that I will either never feel such a connection to anything ever again and sadness that I will never produce anything which such an primal response.
I’m happy you enjoyed “Botantica” and “God of Carnage”. Denis was most surely thrilled to spend time with James Gandolfini. I remember him praising Gandolfini numerous time in interviews.
Now I will check Alice Hoffman’s website before heading off to sleep. Lucky you, getting an advance copy of her new book!! It’s good to be the Queen, eh?? I enjoy ending my days with reading and/or posting to your blog, Ann.
“Except for my son, Jack, who is my constant gift to the world he inhabits.”
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Hi Ann!
Good to hear you are out and about and watching theater plays in the City. I am glad that James Gandolfini is doing other work. After The Sopranos, it was kind of difficult to remove him from the role, wasn’t it?. And that was one rough, and perhaps too close to mafiosi reality role. And he did a great job on it. I remember watching it with my youngest son whenever he traveled my way (he was in Eastern Europe, South America, Canada, Germany, Ireland, Switzerland on and off since he left his job in Chicago working in the stock market)(for some 6 years). And that was our connection: a nice meal and watching that series on DVD’s. Imagine that!.
It is amazing the great amount of stimulae you get in one month alone, from Mark to Lulu to Coco, to the City, to your libros, to your blog and our comments, amazing. And your husband, or rather, ‘him’. Enjoy….
I love what Elizabeth wrote about her son, Jack. Beautiful.
Ann, your comments on the last post CRACKED me up!!! Thexc vvvvvvvvvvvvvvv (that was my kitty cat crossing the keyboard, thought about deleting, but she was determined to add her kitty’ness to your blog)
The bullet ridden mailbox, your response to girls excited to see your husband in their celebrity sighting, and what else?? There was another, but my brain is once again over-loaded from another day at the hospital w/ my mom. She should be out tomorrow, fingers crossed.
Everyone’s stories and comments make me smile and laugh. Being a tv makeup artist, I have had my share of celebrity sightings, but there are a couple I really doubt I would be able to work on, due to sheer giddiness if I encountered them! lol!
I am another one that laughs until I cry. Always.
The pictures are stunning! We are coming to NYC in October, if they are still performing we’ll go! It will be my first time to NYC! Can’t wait!
Anymore on the Blog Skyping on “Outtakes”?
Gorgeous photos! I wish it wasn’t the end of the show’s run in NY, I’d love to see it. It looks beautiful.
I haven’t been able to reread Outtakes yet, or get to An Innocent, & still have the other books mentioned here, not to mention the book list I already had! I’m going to have to quit my job(from where I’m now reading this blog hehehe) to be able to do all this reading!
I just saw Jeff Daniels on The Colbert Report, or was it The Daily Show? I watch both & get their guests mixed up. I swore he said that Gods of Carnage was kind of a downer. What a great cast.
Great, now more books to read!
I love to laugh till I cry, & my stomach & sides hurt. There’s nothing better for you than that.
Courtney, I also have the kitty trying to add to the conversation problem @ home. I actually have a wooden cutting board velcroed to my laptop keyboard so that I can keep the lid up when I walk away from it. Otherwise they love to walk on it or sleep on it because it’s so warm. hehehe
I’ll second the q about skype progress. I’ll have to go & buy a headset, so will need a little advance notice!
The pictures are just beautiful! The colors are quite stunning. We were just in NYC in April and saw “West Side Story.” It was really quite good, and given that it was spoken in English and Spanish really lent it an air of authenticity, much different then the movie version. We’re trying to plan when we’ll get to NYC again, but I know we are booked to go over Thanksgiving for the Macy’s parade. I’m taking a literature class this semester so I am up to my ears in Hemingway, so don’t have much free time to read what I want, but will keep the new Alice Hoffman book in mind for the future. Going to Vegas tomorrow to visit the oldest and his family and see their new home-talk to everyone next week-have a great weekend! Thank you Ann for sharing your adventures with us!
Wish we had those kind of productions in the San Antonio area….We do have Broadway plays that come here, but it is the traveling road crews, therefore we rarely get the GREAT actors with them.
WICKED is coming next month.
Sandy – thats ok. I am a New Yorker but I took 10 years out and moved to Texas and Texas is one of the best places in the world!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! New York cannot replicate the food, the culture and the great people that live there. Even though I am back home in NY – I miss Tejas very much.
Beautiful pics!!!! Esp like the last one that resembles a whales tail…..
I just passed the theater God of Carnage is at. I love Jeff Daniels, it’s getting great reviews. I’m going for campy tomorrow by seeing Rock of Ages. It’ll be like I’m 15 again!
Wish you’d crash Book Expo! It was pretty busy today. Highlight for me was Julie Andrews, very cool! I’m looking forward to reading Joshua Ferris’ new book tonight.
I love, love, love Alice Hoffman! She is truly one of my favorite authors.