Dodgers does it again

dodger theatricals annual christmas party at bryant grill rooftop

another amazing party for the Dodger Theatricals team. i love Dodgers. true they have never hired me to ACT, which would make me really love them, but from everything i have experienced in my time in new york, Dodgers is one the best theatre production groups out there.

there are many reasons why i love dodgers. dodgers gave me my first job in new york, my first job for broadway. this, and my general appreciation, is why i continue to assist when ever possible despite being over booked with every minute of my time these days.

naughty?

reason 2, Dodgers treats their staff--and not just their "names" --like real people. real people that are important to the process of creating art. it doesn't matter what your job is-- you are respected, you are treated fairly, you are considered part of the family that creates the work. true, Dodgers has a money making machine otherwise known as Jersey Boys raking it in all over the world. but even if they didn't, i don't for one second believe they would toss aside the people behind the scenes.

which exec could be singing bluegrass?

reason 3, Dodgers is run by Michael David who was once very good friends with my uncle. they still kind of look like twins. twins if one became a professional bluegrass musician, content touring the rest of his days and riding his bike, the other running a multi-million dollar international theatrical group. i love that.

babies love santa

reason 4, as a direct result of reason 2, the company staff continues to evolve as a family. wild parties are now often replaced by family affairs with babies, then toddlers. as is the case of the annual Xmas party. but that kind of makes the annual visit by the best looking santa a broadway team can come up with, all the more fun. what is santa with out a baby on his lap?

nice?

reason 5, of course has got to be that throwing parties with John Haber is a lot of fun. they are always the classiest, coolest, most fun despite the fact that really we are a bunch of completely un-fancy north carolinians. not to mention, put me in a room with Linda Wright and i have the thickest north cackalacky accent possible.

so there you have it. 5 reasons to love the Dodger group before ever even mentioning Mandy Patinkin in concert, The Secret Garden, Tommy!, Into the Woods, or even the upcoming Jesus Christ Super Star. And then there are the rabid fans of Jersey Boys--who, by the way, Dodgers spent a huge amount of money celebrating for the anniversary of the show.

what happens when your parents do broadway instead of community theatre...

bryant park at night and santa claus: the movie

we had a fabulous local for the Doger xmas party this year, the bryant park grill rooftop. much cooler than the obnoxiously decadent Tavern on the Green from years past.  it was wonderful to look out over the ice skaters and the tree. i was supposed to be helping Kate, the photographer, take pictures of Santa with everyone. i was not very diligent about it this year. sorry Kate! but they had a lovely nook for Santa to sit in and we rented him a very Santa-y chair and there wasn't a lot of room for me to help. i did help drink up the wine. :)

all in all, a very Christmas in New York evening.

this is one of my favorite xmas movies. ever. find it. love it.

ye gay ol' time!

time for holiday parties! tis the season for all my more fashionable friends to host fabulous parties!
the upside to living in new york, is all my fabulous friends!

and by the by, i object to the term fag-hag. :p

i like this lady's idea.

February 13, 1888. Mother of photographer Wallace G. Levison sitting in a special ice-skating chair as a young boy skates near her on the Prospect Park Skating Lake.

and above 

1942. Two US sailors skating on the ice rink at Rockefeller Center 

boone

how sad that the weekend is already over! i love the mountains. but even more than that i love going to Brooks' Mountain in boone, nc. i've been going for as long as i can remember, literally. first to the Register's cabin and then to our own cabin. slowly, all the cabins on Brooks' Mountain have been taken over by mother's friends.

it's a good plan. see in order to spend as much time as possible up there, first mother and john built a cabin, then stocked the liquor cabinet to smooth the edges, then they got a satellite to watch the basketball games, then wifi to do work, then put friends next door to drink with.


my younger siblings all got to have their 16th birthday parties at our cabin, with gasp a co-ed sleep over! my 16th birthday was spent in Saudi Arabia, so i suppose i can't complain. besides, i have many wonderful memories with friends at the cabin, including a couple of new years with all those people i would've invited to a sweet 16, but instead we were older and legal, though obviously not wiser.

that porch has seen many a debauchery, i'm sure. though, this was my first time to smoke a cigar on the porch!


this was also my first time at the cabin as an old auntie. but that's alright too. though it might not make me the best aunt when i bite off lyriella's little fingers and toes. (they were very delicious-- who could possibly resist?)

michelle and i with our babies.

uptown girl

attending soirees hosted by my friend michael always makes me feel very high class. his tony party was no exception. he really outdid himself, and though i did not win the fabulous gift basket (for the winner of the most correct ballot) i still had a fabulous time.

there were no huge surprises, but in case you missed it-- Neil Patrick Harris kept his hosting lowkey, until the final moment in which he sang a mostly improvised version of "tonight, tonight"