Up Early to Prepare, Teaching, Ticket Hunt, In the Heights
Woke up at 5ish and have been working on today's sessions. I purposefully left the final prep until now and it all had come together at least well enough to be good.
I felt good enough about it all to go to Camille's, but I just had a pecan muffin.
Morning Session: 9-11:30
Name Game-20 minutes
Journal-ten minutes
Creating the ladder-30 minutes
Intro to Design with updated keynote. 40 minutes
Step by step Design-homecoming. 30 minutes
Very little work time was left to finish layout one.
Breakout Session: 1-1:45
Design Quest. Had about 32. They were a good group but really pretty dead. A session after lunch really needs to be more interactive or something.
Afternoon Session: 9-11:30
Layout workshop. Pasted up first layout with construction paper. Did sticky note voting. Barely finished by 3:30.
Layouts and post-it judging
The breakouts have definitely had an effect on my curriculum. I am one full segment behind in what I normally teach. By this time they are usually actually writing a story and we just finished the first design. What we needed to do was actually teach in the evening sessions for one night. We needed at least two more hours of teaching time.
Ticket hunt to TKTS and Times Square
Crystal wanted to see another show so even though I was pooped we decided to go down to TKTS at the break and see what we could get. We didn't get there until between 4:15 and 4:30 and there wasn'r much up on the board. Also for whatever reason quite a few shows start at 7 on Tuesday nights. There really were only two we were mildly interested in. Mary Poppins and Thurgood with Lawrence Fishburne. I sort of wanted to see Thurgood, but Crystal thought she was too tired for a one man show. With the decision made we went up to get the tickets and they only had a single. So we went and talked to the guy at the board and found out it only runs 90 minutes so we decided to go for Thurgood after all only to find out they only had a single for that. The guy said they might have more tickets in ten minutes but when we checked back they said they wouldn't have any more. So apparently we might get SHUT OUT! On a lark we decided to walk over to the Richard Rogers Theater to see if there might be a chance to get tickets to the 2008 Tony Winning Best Musical In the Heights. Amazingly they had two tickets, although they were supposedly obstructed view, we went for it at about $113 a pop. Amen. What a great God thing. We headed back by about 4:45 and were up to Columbia by 5:05. Exhausted and ready to teach at 5:30 in the party space.
Evening Session: 5:30-7:30
We took roll and did a very quick thing on the play and interviewing and even had thm generate some questions for the Legally Blonde press conference tomorrow. Then we spent the rest of the time doing critiques and discussing themes. We left about 7:25 and made it to the theater with about five minutes to spare.
Dinner!
In the Heights at the Richard Rogers Theater
First seen Off Broadway last year, In the Heights moves uptown with its considerable assets confidently in place: a tuneful score enlivened by the dancing rhythms of salsa and Latin pop, sounds that are an ear-tickling novelty on Broadway; zesty choreography by Andy Blankenbuehler that seems to put invisible wings on the young cast’s neon-colored sneakers; and a stage amply stocked with appealing actors who season their performances with generous doses of sugar and spice. Its fundamental deficiencies are also along for the ride, unfortunately. In the Heights consists of a series of vignettes that form a vivid but somewhat airbrushed mural of urban life. Directed by Thomas Kail, it is basically a salsa-flavored soap opera, and if there is an equivalent of schmaltz in Spanish, this musical is happily swimming in it. – Charles Isherwood New York Times.
I was quite disappointed that the show's creator Lin-Manuel Miranda what not there. Someone said his throat was a little sore. But it still was a lot of fun. Even though our seats were on the side they weren't that bad, actually had some interesting angles on the audience and the actors together. I slept a tiny bit at the beginning of the second act but I bounced back quickly.
After the show we went to Europa Cafe for a quick bite and were back to Columbia by 11:30. I made a brief search for my poster guy without any luck.
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