Monday==>It is a kinda gray and overcast day on this Back To Work Monday here in The Big Apple, The Greatest City In The World. The temperature is 70ยบ @ 10:00am.
As most of you loyal and faithful readers and followers know, Monday is your favorite blogger’s errands and stuff day, so ... let’s get this posting started with Billi Pod’s report cards on yesterday’s excellent and highly dramatic entertainment doubleheader, starting with ...
BREAKFAST WITH MUGABE, Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe, severely depressed, seeks treatment from a white psychiatrist==>A-
The acting is excellent, especially Andrew Peric as Ezra Barnes, the white, but native-born Zimbabwean, psychiatrist.
The verbal bouts between Mugabe and the psychiatrist are totally involving and realistic.
I found the story line, in parts, to be kinda difficult to follow but that didn’t detract from the powerful messages regarding colonialism, racism, loyalty, principles and political power which are depicted persuasively and credibly.
The 90 minute, without intermission, running time gives a sense of urgency to the show.
It is playing at The Pershing Square Signature Center, one block West of my building, and runs through October 6th.
Billi Pod says==>see this show.
When the show was over I came back to PHC and had the usual fruit and cheese plate while alternating between the Little League Championship Game (ultimately won by Japan) and the Yankees/Rays game.
Then it was time to head down to the East Village for my second entertainment event ...
FETCH CLAY, MAKE MAN - “The improbable but true story about how Cassius Clay, the heavyweight boxing champion, forms an unlikely friendship with the controversial Hollywood star Stepin Fetchit==>A
The cast is outstanding, especially Ray Fisher in the role of the young Muhammad Ali and K. Todd Freeman in the role of the former Hollywood star Stepin Fetchit.
The story takes place in the tumultuous days leading up to the bout between Ali and Sonny Liston. Race, religion, suppression, fanaticism, family and perceptions are dramatically interwoven.
I question whether some of the things would have taken place in this time frame, but that is a minor quibble because the acting is the main feature. The staging is also excellent.
This show is directed by Tony Award winner Des McAnuff, is playing at the New York Theatre Workshop on East 4th Street in The East Village, has a running time of 2:30, with intermission, and runs through October 13th.
Billi Pod says==>you gotta see this show.
I have to admit that when I got back to the apartment I felt rather emotionally drained from seeing two such powerful dramas back-to-back.
Tonight’s entertainment event is gonna be of the lighter variety ...
8:00==>THE CHEATERS CLUB - An orgy of sex and violence set at a retreat for swingers in Savannah. A ghost story that creeps out of the shadows and Spanish moss to bring us face to face with the skeletons that are lurking in our closet and destroying our marital bliss.” (Off Broadway - complimentary ticket)
I will be seeing this show with my theater-buddies Dian Crystal aka My Lady and Marty Kosarik aka Whatever.
It has a large cast of 26 performers, highly unusual for an Off Broadway show.
The show is playing downtown at the Abrons Arts Center in the Lower Eastside, has a running time of 2:30, with an intermission, and runs through September 17th.
Moving on ...
Yesterday afternoon, down at that disgrace known as Tropicana Field, The Yankees avoided the sweep by defeating The Rays 3-2 in 11-innings on excellent base-running and a clutch sac fly.
Tonight @ 7:00pm The Yankees will start a 3-game series in Toronto against The Blue Jays. On the mound for The Bronx Bombers will be the struggling Phil Hughes (4-12) vs. the knuckleballer R.A. Dickey (9-12).
Derek Jeter will come off the DL for the third time this season and will probably/hopefully be in the starting lineup.
On this happy note, will post this and then begin working on my errands and chores stuff.
Yesterday’s Pedometer mileage==>4.08 miles (or, 8,916 steps)
Total mileage for the week==>23.33 miles (average 3.33 miles per day)
Total mileage since 7/1/13==>198.64 miles (average 3.61 miles per day)
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.”
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