Ahem, anyhow...
What is your current obsession/s?Currently/for several years: Stephen Sondheim and all his works. Oh my goodness. I adore him.
What is the most interesting thing that you will do today?
Write 1500 words on the appropriation of A Midsummer Night's Dream from play to modern opera. You wondered why I was posting, and now you know.
What's for dinner?
Lasagne and greek salad. Om nom nom.
What would you eat for your last meal?I'd start with my dad's pumpkin soup with sour cream, follow it with a main of cheese and spinach tortellini with peas and pesto cream (with nice white wine) and a desert of Roman's lemon pudding with lots of cream and fruit, and a big glass of the lemon, lime, and gin drink that my dear friend Naomi has perfected. The fact that I was about to die would make the massive amounts of cream and cheese in that meal less worrying to me.
What's the last thing you bought?
What is the most interesting thing that you will do today?
Write 1500 words on the appropriation of A Midsummer Night's Dream from play to modern opera. You wondered why I was posting, and now you know.
What's for dinner?
Lasagne and greek salad. Om nom nom.
What would you eat for your last meal?I'd start with my dad's pumpkin soup with sour cream, follow it with a main of cheese and spinach tortellini with peas and pesto cream (with nice white wine) and a desert of Roman's lemon pudding with lots of cream and fruit, and a big glass of the lemon, lime, and gin drink that my dear friend Naomi has perfected. The fact that I was about to die would make the massive amounts of cream and cheese in that meal less worrying to me.
What's the last thing you bought?
A yellow iced smiley-face cookie for my darling lovelorn Patrick.
What are you listening to right now?Sweeney Todd, Broadway Revival recording. The Johanna Quartet. Oh my goodness. Love.
If you could have a house totally paid for, fully furnished anywhere in the world, where would you like it to be?
I'd have the Tardis, so I could go between elegant but homely terraces and apartments in Sydney (where I live... I'm very lucky), Melbourne, London, Vienna, Paris, and New York.
If you could go anywhere in the world for the next hour, where would you go?
New York, to catch a Broadway matinee of a new musical.
Which language would you like to learn?Welsh, I must learn Welsh before I die.
What's your favourite quote, for now?
Oh me oh my. Too many to think of. I'm a big libretto-quoter, rather than a person-quoter. This is my favourite piece of poetry, from Sondheim's (der) Sunday in the Park With George.
I'd have the Tardis, so I could go between elegant but homely terraces and apartments in Sydney (where I live... I'm very lucky), Melbourne, London, Vienna, Paris, and New York.
If you could go anywhere in the world for the next hour, where would you go?
New York, to catch a Broadway matinee of a new musical.
Which language would you like to learn?Welsh, I must learn Welsh before I die.
What's your favourite quote, for now?
Oh me oh my. Too many to think of. I'm a big libretto-quoter, rather than a person-quoter. This is my favourite piece of poetry, from Sondheim's (der) Sunday in the Park With George.
And when the woman that you wanted goes,You can say to yourself, "Well, I give what I give."
But the women who won't wait for you knowsThat, however you l
But the women who won't wait for you knowsThat, however you l
ive,
There's a part of you always standing by,
Mapping out the sky,Finishing a hat...
Starting on a hat..
Finishing a hat...
Look, I made a hat...Where there never was a hat...
There's a part of you always standing by,
Mapping out the sky,Finishing a hat...
Starting on a hat..
Finishing a hat...
Look, I made a hat...Where there never was a hat...
What is you favourite colour?
It changes from hour to hour. Right now it's dark, burnished orange. Tomorrow it might be teal, or Sweeney-red, or forest green...
What is your favourite piece of clothing from your own wardrobe?I love my long, mint-green and white vintage dress I found at Rozelle markets right now. I do generally love long dresses. They hide my physical shortcomings and make me feel floaty and faerie-ish.
What is your dream job?
West-End producer.
What is your favourite fabric?
Naomi just gave me a beautiful grey silk scarf. So silk, today.
If you had $100 what would you spend it on?A nice dinner date with my darling boy.
Describe your personal style.
Heh. What a question. Anything that makes me look tall. Subtle vintage, lots of colour, but not a big mash of too many colours. I like to power-dress but rarely actually do it.
What are you going to do after this?
Aforementioned 1,500 words. And possibly go for a run.
What are your favourite films?Y Tu Mama Tambien, Akira, The Queen, Frost/Nixon, Up (so good, go see it), Four Weddings and a Funeral, The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Favourite fruit?
Strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, and cherries. Anything red.
What inspires you?
Very good music, and very good theatre. People. Traffic stopping for ambulances.
Your favourite books?Good Omens - Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
What is your favourite fabric?
Naomi just gave me a beautiful grey silk scarf. So silk, today.
If you had $100 what would you spend it on?A nice dinner date with my darling boy.
Describe your personal style.
Heh. What a question. Anything that makes me look tall. Subtle vintage, lots of colour, but not a big mash of too many colours. I like to power-dress but rarely actually do it.
What are you going to do after this?
Aforementioned 1,500 words. And possibly go for a run.
What are your favourite films?Y Tu Mama Tambien, Akira, The Queen, Frost/Nixon, Up (so good, go see it), Four Weddings and a Funeral, The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Favourite fruit?
Strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, and cherries. Anything red.
What inspires you?
Very good music, and very good theatre. People. Traffic stopping for ambulances.
Your favourite books?Good Omens - Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
The Harry Potter Series - J.K. Rowling
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Do you collect anything?
Owl things. Clothes that don't fit. Dust, according to my mother.
What are you currently reading?
The libretto of Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream
Go to your book shelf, take down the first book with a red spine you see, turn to page 26 and type out the first line.
"... what I thought, I am sure it would move you. Forgive me, and believe that I cannot help telling you this, I live". - Love Letters, compiled by Antonia Fraser
Do you collect anything?
Owl things. Clothes that don't fit. Dust, according to my mother.
What are you currently reading?
The libretto of Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream
Go to your book shelf, take down the first book with a red spine you see, turn to page 26 and type out the first line.
"... what I thought, I am sure it would move you. Forgive me, and believe that I cannot help telling you this, I live". - Love Letters, compiled by Antonia Fraser
What makes you follow a blog?
Shiny pictures or a good sense of humour.
What society would you most like to join?
Musical Theatre Society? I'm the president of one.
What is one thing you did as a child that you miss doing now?
Climbing trees!
If you could travel back in time and live in a certain period when would it be?
New York, 1957, to witness the birth of modern musical theatre with West Side Story.
Alexander and I in rehearsal.
2 comments:
Thank you very much for the smiley cookie. It made my day. :-) xx
http://through-composed.blogspot.com/2009/10/shiny-happy-people-holding-hands.html
That's a photo of you and I :).
xo
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