Friday Five

Warning: It's Tony's week, so there's a very good chance that everything I like this week, will in fact be Broadway-related.  Just give me this week, and I'll promise to go back to having other non-geeky (probably not.) interests next week!

1. This interview with the cast of Falsettos and Jenn Colella made my week.  I love all of these people and I just want to be their friends.  I'll join them for dinner the next time, if they need a 6th.  Though, I have this pesky habit of being starstruck, so it would be a quiet dinner for me I'm sure...

2. Oops, I forgot about this, and hey look at that!  Not Broadway : )  Anyway, I don't usually watch John Oliver, but as a British citizen, I wanted to see what he had to say in light of the attack in London last weekend.  His response was beautiful and perfect - just excuse a little of the language.  He said, what many of the Brits were feeling about the sometimes insulting American press coverage of the attack.

3. Now, back to Broadway : )  I may be gushing but the theater community as a whole this week has made me smile bigger than many things have.  They all seem to support each other so much.  My favorite thing has been the Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress and the writers have all gone out to dinner with each other.  Each category has had a meal together to celebrate their nominations.  Now seriously, can you ever imagine Oscar or Emmy nominees doing that?  It's really beautiful the support and love this community has for each other.  It makes my heart happy - and since most of the news of today is full of awful things by our administration, my heart could really use a smile!

4. Thanks to BroadwayWorld my Broadway buddy and I were able to find a place to watch the Tony's in the city on Sunday while eating yummy food and drinking.  They provided an all inclusive list of all of the places in the city that were doing viewing parties, and luckily one still had seats available.  Woohoo!  Watching them alone on my sofa is pretty great, but watching them with other Broadway lovers should be pretty fund too!

5. I finally, finally, finally figured out the hows and whys of Instagram Story.  It's only taken me months and months.  Apparently I just touch a little picture, and up a "story" pops.  This is fabulous because Broadway people seem to love this feature, as evidenced by all of the Instagram story takeovers I've watched in the last week.  It's awesome.  Thanks to ridiculous advances in social media - which I usually whine about - Tony week has gotten so much more fun!