THE AWAKE==>C

Saturday==>It is a beautiful Saturday morning here in The Big Apple, The Greatest City In The World, with azure blue skies, a nice breeze off The Hudson River and a temperature of 71º @ 11:00am.

We will get this posting started with Billi Pod’s report card on last night’s entertainment mess ...

THE AWAKE, about three strangers - a devoted son, an Eastern European actress and a Canadian man on the run - awake to discover they are connected by a mysterious corporation==>C

Folks, superb acting saves this totally indecipherable heavy drama, with way too much yelling and screaming, from getting a D-. Thank God it has a running time of only 90 minutes, without intermission.

When the show was finally over I asked the ladies seated on either side of me if they had any clue about what had just happened in front of us and they both just shook their heads and basically said they, too, were totally mystified.

As I posted yesterday, there was a “talk back” with the playwright Ken Urban, but no way was I gonna stick around for that.

Billi Pod says==>you are warned!!

Before the show I had done something a bit different ... I walked from PHC to the theater, walking East on 43rd Street to Madison Avenue and then North on Madison Avenue to 59th Street, a distance of 2.25 miles. I usually don’t like to walk long distances before a show because I don’t want to show up for the theater all sweaty and icky, but the weather was great so it wasn’t a problem. 

Since I had walked to the theater I opted to subway back once the show was over.

Moving on to today ...

This afternoon I will stay in to watch Little League World Series games at 12:30pm and 3:30pm and then for the evening will be an Off Broadway show at Playwrights Horizons, right next to my building ...

8:00==>MR. BURNS, A POST-ELECTRIC PLAY - “An imaginative dark comedy propels us forward nearly a century to follow a new civilization stumbling into its future after the cataclysm arrives and society crumbles. ‘The Simpsons’ become the touchstone in a world gone dark.” (Off Broadway - complimentary ticket)

Billi Pod’s inner critic tell him that this is gonna fall into the “loved-it/hated it” category because there is that dreaded "dark comedy" reference.

The show is in early previews, has a running time of 2:10, with an intermission, and runs through October 6th.

Oh ... and speaking of cataclysm ...

Last night down at that disgrace known as Tropicana Field the Yankees received a rude awakening as they lost 7-2 to the division-leading Rays. Our ace Hiroki Kuroda just didn’t have it.

Tonight @ 7:10pm it will be our former ace CC Sabathia (11-10) on the mound vs. David Price (7-5) for The Rays.

Folks, CC has to step up and return to his former leadership role if we have any chance of reaching the post-season. Jus' sayin' ...

Anyhoo ... HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND EVERYONE!!

Yesterday’s Pedometer mileage==>5.41 miles (or, 11,837 steps)

Total mileage since 7/1/13==>197.53 miles (average 3.66 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.”