May 2009 calendaring

[chanaleh]

FYI, there are production photos from The Winter's Tale here (from coraline) and here (from hotpoint). NOTE: may be considered spoilerish if you have not yet seen the production and plan to!


FRI 5/1
May Day
6:30pm call, 8pm show: The Winter's Tale! The house is small; reserve your tickets now!
[Also, 6:30pm 7:30pm tremontstshul services, potluck dinner and shiur]
11:15pm T@F's Beltane rites Kilt & Corset Night (fancy-dress post-show outing)

SAT 5/2
9:30am shul
1pm? lunch chez muchabstracted
Also, 3:00 pm Improbable Research Cabaret, Central Square Theater, 450 Mass Ave, Cambridge. Featuring Marc Abrahams, Ig Nobel Prize winners Mahadevan (The physics of how sheets wrinkle), Lynn Halpern (why people dislike the sound of fingernails on a blackboard), and Deborah J. Anderson (Is Coca-Cola an effective spermicide?), Michael Ricca performing songs from the Ig Nobel Operas, the Performing Scientists from Harvard and MIT, and other bits and pieces. Part of the Cambridge Science Festival. Adults: $35. Students: $20. To reserve tickets, email kcf@centralsquaretheater.org. [I'm not going to make it to this, but I thought you should all know about it!]
6:30pm call, 8pm show: The Winter's Tale CLOSE AND STRIKE! The house is small; reserve your tickets now!

SUN 5/3
9:30am call (gah!) for 10am-12n work meeting (incl. brunch)
12n M birthday party! gah!
2pm matinee of mitgsp's Iolanthe with c1
7pm Menschen

MON 5/4
7:30pm dance class
8pm tremontstshul ExComm meeting

TUE 5/5
7:30pm Spring Awakening with justom, heliopsis and gilana!

WED 5/6
7-8:30pm City Of Cambridge Holocaust Commemoration at tremontstshul
Shabbat dinner shopping

THU 5/7
7-9pm tremontstshul 20s&30s Planning Meeting
Shabbat dinner prep

FRI 5/8
8am-1pm Maimo grandparents day [major work event]
6:30pm shul
8pm Shabbat dinner chez us

SAT 5/9
9:30am shul
8pm Apollinaire Theatre Company's Men of Tortuga: "In an undisclosed location, three men scheme with a weapons specialist to eliminate the opposition in Jason Wells' dark comedy of negotiation, conspiracy and assassination. Tom Avery, Jeff Kling and Kit Maxwell are three power-brokers who will stop at nothing to wreck an historic meeting with an elite political enemy. But when Maxwell takes a young idealist [the lovely and talented justom] under his wing, his long-dormant conscience begins to reawaken. The cabal is forced to concoct even more outlandish scenarios of annihilation and ponder whether their ends justify their means." Runs April 17-May 17, Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00, with Sunday matinees at 3:00 on May 10 & 17. Location: Chelsea Theatre Works, 189 Winnisimmet St., Chelsea. $18 in advance, $20 at the door (student rush tickets $15, one hour before each performance with valid ID). NOTE: J and I are driving and can take 2 or conceivably 3 passengers... Also, spoiler alert: Watch the video trailer!

SUN 5/10
Mother's Day
5pm Honorable Menschen opens for Techiya! (3:30 call, 4:30 sound check)

MON 5/11
Happy 11th birthday, Eva (it's her golden birthday)!
**New POSTAGE RATES take effect**
BBQ shopping
7:30pm dance class? tremontstshul Board Mtg

TUE 5/12
Lag B'Omer
6:30-8pm tremontstshul Lag B'Omer BBQ (5:30pm setup)

WED 5/13
BBQ rain date

THU 5/14

FRI 5/15
6am (!) fly to CA
[6:30pm shul]

SAT 5/16
[9:30am shul]
[6pm The Restacking!]

SUN 5/17
[10:30am TBS annual meeting, at which kalessin will be duly elected president of the congregation -- !!]
[7pm Menschen]

MON 5/18

TUE 5/19
7:30am home from CA
7pm Maimo board mtg CANCELLED!

WED 5/20
7-9pm auditions for theatreatfirst's Festival@First 6

THU 5/21
[possible F@F6 callbacks]
9pm yahrzeit minyan

FRI 5/22
Begin Memorial Day weekend
6:30pm shul
7-10pm MIT's Julius Schwartz Lecture featuring J. Michael Straczynski, creator of Babylon 5. Location: 10-250. Tickets ($10) available at Hub Comics in Somerville, Comicopia at Kenmore, or
http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=182729

SAT 5/23
9:30am shul
2pm matinee of ASP's Much Ado with justom

SUN 5/24
1pm Jess & Ryan's wedding!

MON 5/25
Memorial Day
BBQ chez barumonkey
~3pm the TigerParents arrive in Boston
~4pm? BBQ chez ablock
7pm Menschen

TUE 5/26
[F@F6 first readthrough]
Ausblick to press

WED 5/27
~6:30pm tremontstshul ExComm mtg/Ausblick mailing party
help prep for tremontstshul Tikkun Leil Shavuot?

THU 5/28
drive down for Princeton Reunions! (J's 10th)
Erev Shavuot
9:30 pm tremontstshul Tikkun Leil Shavuot: dairy dinner and study session (both free of charge!)

FRI 5/29
Shavuot 1
[8pm Leonard Cohen at the Wang Center (doors at 7).]

SAT 5/30
Shavuot 2
[8pm Musica Sacra's In Music Is Such Art: Choral Music with Texts from Shakespeare. First Church in Cambridge, Congregational.]

SUN 5/31
drive back from Princeton
7pm Menschen: vocal workshop with Cantor Charles Osborne