Movies of 2010 The Good The Bad and The Ugly

Please note: These are my opinions and my opinons alone..other people's opinions may differ. Feel free to share yours. It may fare for good discussion.
*Theatre Viewing **Home Viewing




Rating:


As


*Toy Story 3


*Dispicable Me


*Sex and The City 2

** Broadway The American Musical

** Every Little Step

**Season 1 of Glee on DVD

A-

*Tangled

**Dreamgirls

*Eat Pray Love

*Precious

B

*Couples Retreat

*Grown Ups

B+

*Burlusque

**The Music Man

**Autism The Musical

*Red

B-

**Shrek The Third
**Running With Scissiors

C

**Throughly Modern Millie

*Date Night

C+

*The Social Network
* Twilight Saga Eclipse Out of the movies in this series the first is the best. Overall the Harry Potter franchise of movies is more interesting to watch.

**The Ring

D

^*Black Swan I just saw this today and personally felt it was way over-hyped by the critics. It did not live up to hype at all. Aside from Natalie Portman's stellar performance which I hope she wins the Oscar for was a disturbing and overall horrible movie.

*Hot Tub Time Machine
**Speak

^Black Swan is on the cusp between C- and D

Top Rated Itunes Songs 2010

Top Rated Itunes Songs for 2010

*Recently downloaded or acquired in some other fashion ~ seasonal

*~1. We Need A Little Christmas Glee Christmas Album

2. Margaritaville Jimmy Buffett

3. Friends Ween

*~4 Merry Christmas Darling Glee Christmas Album

5. Fireflies Owl City

6. They Both Reached For The Gun Chicago Broadway Cast Recording

7. December 1963 OH What A Night Jersey Boys

8. Soon A Little Night Music Revival Recording

9. Send In The Clowns A Little Night Music Original Cast Recording

10. DO Re MI Sound of Music

11. Me and Bobby McGee Crystal Bowersox (American Idol Studio Version)

12. The Steps of St Patrick's Jason Levassuer

13. Birthday Malaise Raining Jane

14. Tango Maureen RENT

15 Seasons of Love Rent

16. Let It Be The Beatles

17,Aquarius HAIR Revival Cast Recording

18. Razzle Dazzle Chicago ( like the movie version and the Broadway Cast version equally)

19. Grace Rebecca Loebe

20. Walkin After Midnight Patsy Cline

Auditon Songs and Princess K.I,.M

So after much thought I have decided it would be more sensible to sing a song from Music Man for the audition I have a week from today for the PTA play. I must admit I am very nervous about my audition. This is my first audition for a musical I've had since I auditoned for Tge Apple Tree sophomore year at NEC. I still have sheet music for Somewhere That's Green fron Little Shop but I'm sure that will come in handy for something else sonewhere down the line.


Today was the second meeting to discuss the Princess K.I.M play. Right now we are still in th early early stages of writing the script and developing the character. Andrew is already starting to brainstorm ideas for songs and I can't wait to hear them the next time we meet. :) This all so exciting. I haven't been so excited about something like this since I assitant directed Bravery Soup at NLBP 3 years ago. More on this as things develop. We don't even know exact show dates yet.. maybe next fall maybe spring of 2012 SO very exciting. Something to look contiously foward to throughout the new year

Happy New Year everyone!

Broadwaysecret of the week

Wish this picture was a bit bigger. I would have to say that I agree with 110% with the person who posted this secret on broadwaysecrets. The fact that so many people are getting injured in the Spiderman cast does not exactly make for good publicity especially when injuries suffered are as bad as the ones that this poor guy suffered. He's from Portsmouth so I saw a story about him on WMUR the other day. I hope his has a speedy recovery. As far as the show goes I like the poster who posted the secret don't wish ill will on any actors to lose their jobs but if so many people in the cast are getting hurt then I think the show should be shut down. Last I heard they were upping the saftey precautions but I wonder how much good that will do now since so many people have already gotten hurt.

Breaking down the Glee Christmas Album

I have listened to the Glee Christmas Album extensively because they are always playing it in my department at work. Though the Christmas Season is almost over I felt it was worth anyway to review the album song by song

Track 1: We Need A Little Christmas A wonderful rendition of the song from the musical Mame. (Which I need to rent if I can find a movie version of it does anyone know if this exists)
Rating out of 10. 9
Track 2: Deck The Rooftop A very interesting mashup of Deck The House and Up on The Rooftop. Not sure if I am the biggest fan of it.
Rating out out of 10: 7.5
Track 3 : Merry Christmas Darling A wonderful rendition of the song by The Carpenters
Rating out of 10: 8
Track 4: Baby It's Cold Outside Chris Colfer and Darren Criss did an amazing cover of this song. I could play it over and over and not get sick of it.
Rating out of 10: 8.5
Track 5: The Most Wonderful Day of The Year The episode could have really done without what I felt was a lackluster performance of the song from the classic children's holiday special Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer
Rating 5
Track 6: Last Christmas A modern day rendition of Wham's holiday classic
Rating 6.5
Tracks 7 8,9,11 and 12 God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Oh Christmas Tree, Jingle Bells, Angels We Have Heard On High and Oh Holy Night Wonderful renditions of Christmas carols everyone is familiar with.
Rating for all 5 songs 10
Track 10 You're A Mean One Mr. Grinch Wasn't really a big fan about the whole Grinch aspcst of the episode or the version they did of this song
Rating 5.5

Overall grade for the whole Album B+

Merry Christmas Everyone!

If you could date any celebrity, who would it be?

Will Swenson from the revival cast of HAIR :)

Ask me anything

Top 10s of 2010

Time Magazine has a list of the top 10s in 2010 for movies, theatre, technology.books and music. I will share the list of movies and theatre. Feel free to share your top 10 lists as well.



Time's Top 10 Movies

*1. Toy Story 3 (also in my top 10)

2 Inside Job

3. Never Let Me Go

4.Life During War Time

5. The Social Network (This does not even make my top 10 list.. we'll get to that in a little bit)

6. Rabbit Hole

7. Wild Grass

8. Green Zone

9. Waiting For Superman

10. Four Lions



Time's Top 10 Theatre Shows of 2010

Don't have much of an opinion on any of these because I haven't seen any of them. If you have seen them feel free to weigh in with your opinions

1. When The Rain Drops Fall

2. Venice

3. The Little Foxes

4. La Cage Aux Folles

5. Women on The Verge of A Nervous Breakdown

6. A View From The Bridge

7. A True History of The Johnston Flood

8. Come Fly Away

9. Mistakes Were Made

10. The Scottsboro Boys

My Top 10 Movies of 2010

*Theatre Viewing **home viewing

*1. Toy Story 3

*2. Sex and The City 2

*3. Dispicable Me

*4. Precious

**5 Broadway The American Musical

**6. Every Little Step

*7. Tangled

*8 Red

*9. Eat Pray Love

**10. Autism The Musical



Other movies worth checking out

*Shrek The Third *Valentines Day *Dreamgirls *Running With Scissors

*Grownups *Burlusque

Movies you may want to avoid seeing (other people's opinions may differ)

*Speak * Hot Tub Time Machine *Twlight Saga Eclispe * The Social Network