June 28, 2012Sierra sang in Ken Davenport’s 10 Minute Play Competition, as part of Keni Fine and David Gross’ 10-minute musical “Imaginary Lovers”. More information about the announcement of the competition can be found at Ken Davenport’s The Producer’s Perspective Blog.
I’m excited to say that I’ve been invited to be one of the 2012 MetroStar Challenge contestants! More information and crossed fingers to come, but for now please mark **Monday, July 16th** on your calendars – that’s when I sing one song as an “audition” to pass into the weekly challenge portion (July 30th – August 20th). And AUDIENCE VOTES COUNT – so please come on the 16th and all other future nights to cheer me on. Remember, the winner of this challenge at the end gets their own solo show at the Metropolitan Room, fully produced and recorded live
In the past few years, I noticed each Summer solstice there occurs a Yoga day in Times Square – I think I read about it in one of the first TimeOut New Yorks I bought. I found this year I was able to participate on Wednesday, June 20th. It was a great afternoon, hot but in the shade, in the middle of Times Square (I was in the 42nd St-43rd St block). I discovered, as I did the “founders flow” all-level exercise, that even the noise of the traffic, sirens, tourist chatter, and other obnoxious sounds faded into the background
This past Saturday, the 16th, I was invited by one of the Producers of Broadway’s Godspell to come see the show before it closed. I must admit, I felt guilty for not having seen it yet, as one of my friends from the original Los Angeles production of bare, Wallace Smith (he played Matt, I understudied Nadia and was in the ensemble), has been portraying Judas for the past 9 months! He’s also known for Broadway’s American Idiot, The Lion King, and Hair. He is a powerful performer with an incredible amount of grace, humor and vocal savvy. It was
A friend of mine, after reading my blog entries of all the Broadway shows I saw this past month, challenged me to take a look at these shows and self-cast myself in them. I took an honest look and came up with these conclusions: The Best Man: In a few years more, I’d love to play Mrs. Sue-Ellen Gamadge (Angela Lansbury’s part) Clybourne Park: I’d love to do Betsy/Lindsey, the part who is pregnant thru the show. I’d love the challenge of being deaf on stage, and to have such a fiery attitude in the second act. Nice Work if
I watched the Tony Awards last Sunday night at a friend’s place on West 73rd. Nothing like getting off of the 1 train at 72nd, climbing up the stairs, and walking into a well-dressed crowd of attendees and seat-fillers, plus passers-bys taking pictures at the red carpet. I enjoyed the Tonys in general (was annoyed of the absence of the In Memoriam clip and Bernadette Peters’ acceptance speech missing from the broadcast. Certainly the Tonys have become a giant commercial (and rightly so) for Broadway (and now, apparently, cruise ship shows) and I thought they showcased some great options now
On Thursday June 7th, in order to complete the TWO WEEKS OF DECADENCE with the in-laws, my husband and I met them at Chez Napoleon, a favorite restaurant of theirs which we had no objections to eating at for their last evening in New York. Chez Napoleon is a family-run, authentic French restaurant on West 50th Street with delicately made and served dishes that taste wonderful. Definitely order a flavored soufflé when you order the rest of your meal, since it takes an hour to make and they cannot in any circumstance hurry the process along. In addition to a
In addition to being a singer/actress/director/puppeteer, I’m also a geek, which comes to mean in my mind a passion for knowing HOW stuff works (hey, I like How Stuff Works!). I’m a huge fan of the American Museum of Natural History. I am a proud member and I love all the programs and exhibits (both new and old) the museum curates. Thus, when a once-in-a-lifetime occurrence like the Transit of Venus happens, I wanted to be in the midst of fellow passionate geeks and kids (who I consider naturally-born geeks – it seems we typically lose our eagerness to learn
Sunday, June 3rd, was all about gluttony. Three feasts were had, two for the taste buds and one for…well…the 12 year old in all (or some) of us. We all started out with a celebration at the famous Waldorf-Astoria Peacock room, where one can purchase eating and gorging rights to their infamous Sunday buffet. We were celebrating both my husband’s birthday and my mother-in-law’s birthday, plus the 50th anniversary of our friend’s wedding. So, it was a good meal to be had in a “throw caution to the wind” sort of way. However, I stuck to mostly fish and veggies,
Saturday the 2nd we were still getting over a chocolate hangover from the Sardi’s dessert the night before, but my husband and I were excited to meet up with the in-laws and friends for lunch at Maison, and then to see “Evita” on Broadway! Maison is a French bistro-breakfast-lunch restaurant which invokes “the coastal flavors of Brittany“…whatever that means. The food is delicious (I had the Eggs Normandy: eggs benedict with lox), and the little beignets (basically little doughnut holes in a traditional French style) were hard to resist (I had half of one…good girl!). The only issue was that