Piazza Perks

So LCT threw a big New Year's party that our cast was invited to and I found myself, with my wife LeAnn, mingling in a beautiful apartment with everyone from Deborah Monk to Edward Albee. I remember reading A Zoo Story in 10th grade honors English and now here I am at a party with the great playwright! It was kind of surreal. Looking around at Bob Crowley, Diane Weist, Howard McGillin, etc; I remembered a night I spent a few years ago as part of the cast of Oklahoma on Bway...

I was understudying Curly at the time, and one Saturday night after the show, I found myself partying in our mens' ensemble dressing room with Antonio Banderas, Melanie Griffith, Chita Rivera, and the ladies of NINE. (Club 'O.K." as it was called was the brilliant brain child of my dear friends Harvey Evans and Steve Buntrock and is worthy of an entire entry:) Anyway, there I was with entertainment's elite and I remember thinking, "I'm so close...yet so far away."

I had that same feeling at the LCT party--only with Piazza, the 'close' is a big step 'closer'. Working with Adam Guettel, Bart Sher, LCT, Michael Berresse, Vicki, Chis Sarandon, Sarah, Patti, and the greatest cast on Bway...it doesn't get much more fun than this. ...Does it? :)