Happy St. Patrick's Day!!

Happy St. Patrick’s Day everyone out there in the vast hinterlands!!

No, Billi Pod will not journey out to watch the parade, which starts at 11:00am on 5th Avenue at 44th Street and moves North up 5th Avenue past St. Patrick’s Cathedral to 86th Street, ending around 4:30pm. Yep ... been there, done that.

Billi Pod’s report cards on yesterday’s entertainment doubleheader --

PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT last night gets an A+. Yes, it is campy and trashy but it is soooooooooo much fun and very well performed. It has high spirited energy, a sense of fun, dazzling costumes, wigs, and lighting, plus a story that, at its core, has likable characters, warmth, and a big heart. See it! It is bound to be a mega-hit.

At the very opposite end of the spectrum was THEODORE & CO, a major disappointment. A huge bore. Billi Pod left at intermission.

Tonight’s entertainment event is --

8:00==>MARIE AND BRUCE - “This comedy recounts the day that Marie finally resolves to tell her charming and impossibly positive husband Bruce that she's had enough.” (Off Broadway - discounted TDF ticket).

The role of Marie is played by Marisa Tomei, one of my favorite actors.

It is playing at a theater on my block so I will miss, hopefully, the St. Patrick’s Day faux-Irish bar crowds stumbling around, often puking on the sidewalks.

GO GATORS AND GO YANKEES!!

Billi Pod

“Don’t pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he’ll just kill you.”