Broadway Down The Street!

One of my new friends is someone really special who lives and breathes Broadway musicals. And he should. It is his job. He has starred in them, he has produced them, he has directed them and has worked with everyone who is anyone in the process. (Edit: Celebrity names removed to protect anonymity. lol) But one of the coolest things about him is that he happens to be an obsessive collector of all shows, from Broadway to benefits, as well.


Most musicals are not released on DVD. Obviously. You couldn't go to Blockbuster and pick up a copy of Wicked. So what this brilliant man has done is snuck a camera into almost every show since the 1970's and shot from excellent seats the most amazing quality and well edited bootlegs you've ever seen in your life. I'm talking stuff dating back to Liza Minnelli and Chita Rivera in The Rink. Hell, he even has a copy of when Stockard Channing took over the role!

And he never sells them! He never lends them out. Never puts clips online. Nothing.

But he hosts screenings at his place. And he has transformed his entire living room into a theater with a huge screen and a projector with a great sound system.

I went over last night to watch the new musical Grey Gardens and clips of Liza from when she did Victor/Victoria -- I'm telling you, it is like I was flown to New York for the evening and had an all access pass to any theater I wanted from any era. It was fucking incredible. I was so sucked into the show with the big screen and everything, it felt like I was on 42nd Street. And with the zoom lens, the videos are better quality than if you'd seen them in the theater. Not to mention the fact that everything right down to the way the living room/theater was constructed was the kind of thing I have dreamt of building since I was like five! He even had popcorn buckets. (And four different kinds of popcorn, thank you very much!) Come on, I thought I was the only person who uses popcorn buckets.

Needless to say, I was on cloud nine and can't wait to go back and see more this weekend.

The man... has... EVERYTHING!