April 2009 calendaring (no fooling!)

[chanaleh]

I pulled the March page off the calendar at home this morning and went, "Aaaaaahhh! April is already full!"

WT (throughout) is of course theatreatfirst's production of The Winter's Tale, opening Thursday, April 23.

WED 4/1
NO WT!
6pm dinner chez mearah & edashevs

THU 4/2
Taxes filed, OMG
NO WT! (for me, anyway)
9pm Monsters vs. Aliens in IMAX (Reading) with J, muchabstracted, lyriendel & towk (anyone else wanna go??)

FRI 4/3
6:30pm shul

SAT 4/4
9:30am shul: Parshat Tzav
2pm Milk & Cookies Matinee of HRG&SP's Gondoliers. Runs Thurs 4/2 through Sat 4/11 (plus a "hackinee" on Sunday 4/12).
ETA: 7pm Bad Habit Productions' All in the Timing, at the Somerville Theatre. :-} Blini, blini, bonanza blini!

SUN 4/5
10am-3pm Pesach cleaning (sigh!)
4pm Hankus Netsky Presents The Music of Morris Hollender: "On Sunday, April 5, 2009, Temple Beth Israel in Waltham will host the New England Conservatory of Music Jewish Music Ensemble and guests from the Boston area musical community in a special musical tribute to Morris Hollender, our long-time baal t'file and baal kore. The program ... will feature a musical repertoire that Hankus collected from Mr. Hollender under the auspices of the Discovery Project of the National Yiddish Book Center, a cultural rescue project that seeks not only to recover Jewish cultural treasures, but to bring them to life through public programs, exhibits, publications, and internet access." Requested donation just $10 ($5 students).
7pm Menschen rehearsal (Brookline)

MON 4/6
7-10pm WT Rehearsal (fix-it)

TUE 4/7
7-10pm WT Rehearsal (fix-it)

WED 4/8
7am Birkat HaChama (the Blessing of the Sun on its return to its presumed position at its creation, once every 28 years) and siyyum
11:41am Deadline to burn chametz
work 9-1(ish)
3:05pm fly to VA for 1st seder (arr. 4:45pm)

THU 4/9
2nd seder

FRI 4/10
dinner with lonebear, giraffeaholic and the very cute and smiley senora_gem!

SAT 4/11
12:10pm fly back to Boston (arr. 1:35pm)
7pm "family dinner" chez ablock

SUN 4/12
Easter Sunday
brunch with justom
5pm 7pm "third seder" chez jon_libby

MON 4/13
VACATION!
11am pick up J from Logan
7-10pm WT rehearsal (full run)

TUE 4/14
VACATION!
Laundry, groceries, puttering around
7-10pm WT rehearsal (run Act II)
Also, 5-8pm Arlington Friends of the Drama's Fuddruckers fundraiser (doubly useless to me due to Pesach and rehearsal, but hey).

WED 4/15
VACATION!
9am shul: Pesach 7
~1pm lunch with chaiya
7pm "family dinner" redux, chez ablock

THU 4/16
VACATION!
9am shul: Pesach 8
7-10pm WT rehearsal (full run)
8:30pm: tremontstshul Chametzfest

FRI 4/17
6:30pm shul
8pm family Shabbat dinner at our house
Also, 8pm opening night of Apollinaire Theatre Company's Men of Tortuga, featuring the scintillating justom. Runs April 17-May 17, Fri/Sat 8pm, with 3pm Sunday matinees May 10 & 17 only. Location: Chelsea Theatre Works, 189 Winnisimmet St., Chelsea. $18 in advance, $20 at the door (student rush tix $15, one hour before each performance with valid ID). Unfortunately, I'm apparently not going to get to this until May, after WT is over, but you should all know about it in the meantime. :-)

SAT 4/18
9:30am shul: Parshat Shemini
WT light load-in
8pm Di Gantse Velt iz a Teater: An Evening of Yiddish Theatre, featuring la_vie_en_rosie and friends! "An evening of scenes from famous Yiddish plays, performed in the original Yiddish with English supertitles. The show consists of six scenes of approximately ten-fifteen minutes each that reflect the breadth and diversity of the Yiddish theatrical tradition. These scenes cover the history of the modern Yiddish theatre, from its 19th century inception to the avant-garde plays and productions of the 1920's. These six scenes are interwoven with the monologues of the Jester, who provides historical and literary background for each of the plays." Also Sunday, April 19, 2009 at 2:00 PM. Venue: Leverett Old Library, Mill St, Cambridge, MA. $8 regular admission; $5 students/seniors. Tickets through the Harvard Box Office.
Thereafter: dpolicar's b'day party

SUN 4/19
1-5pm WT cue-to-cue
thereafter, Menschen playreading redux, chez desireearmfeldt

MON 4/20
6:30-11pm WT first full dress rehearsal

TUE 4/21
6:30-11pm WT final dress rehearsal

WED 4/22
7pm Maimo board mtg

THU 4/23
Shakespeare's yahrzeit ;-)
6:30pm call, 8pm show: Winter's Tale Opening Night! Unity Church of God, 6 William Street, Somerville. $12 Adults, $10 Seniors/Students. Reserve tickets now!

FRI 4/24
6:30pm call, 8pm show: Winter's Tale

SAT 4/25
9:30am shul: Parshat Tazria-Metsora; SSK bar mitzvah
6:30pm call, 8pm show: Winter's Tale

SUN 4/26
Happy birthday, Mom!
1:30pm call, 3pm show: Winter's Tale
7pm Menschen

Mon Apr 27
7-10pm WT rehearsal (line refresh) DANCE CLASS, finally!

Tue Apr 28
DARK (?!) <-- means no performance or rehearsal, what a novel concept
5:30-7pm Menschen soprano sectional (Brighton)

Wed Apr 29
6:30pm call, 8pm show: Winter's Tale

Thu Apr 30
6:30pm call, 8pm show: Winter's Tale
11:39pm pick up ablock from Logan :-)

Comments

[oneagain.livejournal.com]

I would have loved to go to see Monsters vs. Aliens with you on IMAX; I love 3-D animation so much that I *almost* don't care about the plot:) I have dance on Thursdays now, though:(

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

You are, as ever, so dynamic.

[navrins]

I was thinking "insane," but whatever...

[anotherjen.livejournal.com]

Don't forget that we have an appointment on Apr. 3 from 10-1!

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

... We do? You and I?

[anotherjen.livejournal.com]

Sorry, brain went chaiya. :-P

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Oh, whew. :-) Organizing/decrufting has been rather on my mind as a goal for this spring (and even for my couple days of Passover vacation), but I was PRETTY sure I hadn't actually made an appointment with you and then forgotten it!

[anotherjen.livejournal.com]

I actually have a lot of open time this coming week. Just sayin'.

[lonebear.livejournal.com]

and the potential friday eve gather.

[zenala.livejournal.com]

I didn't realize that HRGSP's show was opening already! (I assume that means they found a bass player, since otherwise I'd have gotten email from them...)

[debka-notion.livejournal.com]

Thanks for that- Mr. Hollender is someone I found very impressive, as an individual, and I'm thrilled that he's being acknowledged in this way. I would never have known about it otherwise- not that I can get there, but just knowing about it gave me a little boost.

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Yeah! I used to go to TBI fairly regularly when I lived in Waltham (after graduating from Brandeis), and it was Mr. Hollender who called me for my first aliyah, in 1996. :-) He's remarkable. Me, I was just glad to know he's still alive and well.

[gmpe.livejournal.com]

I passed along the Yiddish theater info to my mother-in-law, and she asked me to "keep these coming." Do you have a place you get/find such postings that I can send along to her so she can find out about them earlier before her calendar fills up? Hope it's a great month for you!

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Cool! I assume that by "such postings" you mean Yiddish specifically... but, honestly, no, I don't have a centralized source. I heard about this one initially because the director sent me (on behalf of tremontstshul) the audition notice, but then I didn't have the actual performance info until la_vie_en_rosie sent it around. There have in fact been a couple other Yiddish theater events in recent months, but again, when I find out about them it's kind of at random, or because they get publicized to TBS.

As far as more reliable resources, I would think the Workmen's Circle might circulate this kind of info?

[miraclaire.livejournal.com]

Yes, the Workmen's Circle does indeed distribute these kinds of notices! If you fill this (http://circleboston.org/about/contact.php) out you can get all sorts of announcements.

[hatam-soferet.livejournal.com]

Um...in between all of this, might you be able to email me into touch with Moshe or Liat?