Girls, We Have Tickets To What Is The Summer's HOTTEST Theatrical Event!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                              I am so excited--and nervous--darlings, because I don't know how I am gong to get through the workday, over the prospect of seeing "Runaways" tonight, at ENCORES, City Center.

                               Now, did you see Ben Brantley's review in The Times this morning?????  Oh, sure he praised it--as he damn well better!!!!--and he gave clues that things like its opening and the song "Where Are Those People Who Did 'HAIR'?" have been retained--but how can someone who has not seen the original production, and was around to, as was I, possibly understand it?????????

                                 Audiences need to understand what this city was like in the Seventies.  How this show, first done at the Public Theater's now defunct cabaret, caused as much of a stir between uptown and downtown as a little thing Michael Bennett did downtown, just three years before,called "A Chorus Line."

                                  The Original Cast of "Runaways" was extraordinary, and this is where the current company has much to live up to--Trini Alvarado--oh, my God, "Lullaby From Baby To Baby!," Josie De Guzman--oh, my God, "No Lullabies For Luis,", Karen Evans--oh, my God, "To The Dead Of Family Wars," and those group numbers--"Where Do People Go?"  "Every Now And Then," "Sometimes," "Let Me Be A Kid," and "Lonesome Of The Road."  And how about folk like David Schechter, Anthony Imperato,  Diane Lane,--yes, Diane Lane!!!!!!!!--Evan Miranda, Bernie Allison--the show has so many moments and people to live up to in the eyes of those who understood it, when  experiencing it, initially, I hope this cast can do a decent rendering.

                                       I will you tell you all tomorrow. It may not be Josie, but it should be exciting!

                                         It is exciting enough to welcome "Runaways" back to the New York stage!