Barb’s Burblings

It was a weekend of culture for me–My Fair Lady on Saturday, Bernadette Peters on Sunday. The Peters review is from the Saturday performance, but basically applies to the performance yesterday; and I cannot believe that she’s 58. Holy crap. Anyway, both shows were awesome. I honestly never really got My Fair Lady, though I certainly enjoyed the music. Why in the world would Eliza go back to him? But wow, Sally Murphy and Andrew Long just knocked it out of the park. I wound up with a bit of a crush on Higgins. They were flirty. She was funny. And naturally, Will Gartshore, who played Freddy Eynsford-Hill (and, um, John Wilkes Booth in Assassins earlier this year), was also awesome. But I managed to resist grabbing him and asking him to sing some Sondheim for me. Also distracting was the fact that I check out the blog of one of the actors every now and then; but I managed to stop myself from grabbing him and chatting about his blog. And, um, Assassins (he was the Balladeer/Lee Harvey Oswald).
Anyway, lots of culture. Good times!