Ack! It's April!

[chanaleh]

Couple of notes on things immediately upcoming:

• My a cappella group, Honorable Menschen, is performing in a benefit concert at Temple Bnai Brith in Somerville this Saturday night, along with Tufts' Shir Appeal.
  
• Also, we went into the studio at WERS tonight to record a "live" feature for this week's Chagigah, the Jewish/Israeli music show on Sunday mornings. The show is 8-11am, but our feature should air sometime around 10am (tune in by 9:45ish to make sure). You can even listen online!
  
• I already bought a ticket to go see Bad Habit Productions' Book of Days (by the recently departed Lanford Wilson) on Thursday 4/7. You should come too! It's general admission at the YMCA Theatre in Central Square, 8pm.
  
• Leapfrog Press (founded, although no longer owned, by Marge Piercy & Ira Wood) is running a fiction contest (novella- or novel-length: 22k word minimum, no maximum) with a deadline of May 1. I am not going to get it together to enter this year, but some of you might.

And with that...

FRI 4/1
6:30pm shul
7:30-10:30pm 20s&30s Shabbat Dinner

SAT 4/2
9:30am shul (Richard & Vardit aufruf)
(2pm ncfo's Space Opera)
7pm call for...
8:00-9:30pm Menschen perform at Temple Bnai Brith, Somerville, to benefit RESPOND: Somerville's (anti-)domestic violence agency
(8:30pm-12:30am Inaugural Ball for the new president of brandeis)

SUN 4/3
~9:45am Honorable Menschen featured on WERS's Chagigah (listen online!)
2pm visit Zahava & Reed
(5pm Zig meeting, The Stack)
7pm Menschen

MON 4/4
(ExComm mtg)
7:30pm wedding chorus rehearsal (Arlington)
10:30pm Chinese food and amateur therapy with ablock

TUE 4/5
12n therapy
7:30pm Meat Faucet (Midwest Grill)
TAXES

WED 4/6
9am oil change appointment (Union Sq)
7pm dinner with vanguardcdk, Magoun Saloon
LAUNDRY

THU 4/7
6:15pm dinner with Xu, Cuchi Cuchi
8pm Bad Habit Productions' Book of Days. Closes April 10! YMCA Cambridge, 820 Mass Ave., Central Sq.

FRI 4/8
~2pm drive TO NYC
(6:30pm shul)

SAT 4/9
(9:30am shul)

SUN 4/10
[optional: 9:11 AM Morris & Essex #6917 from Penn Station (arr. 10:22), $11.50 each way]
10:30am choir call for
11:15am Richard & Vardit's wedding, Morristown, NJ
~5pm drive home

MON 4/11
(7pm Maimo Upper School play)
7:30pm tremontstshul board mtg

TUE 4/12
dinner with Barbara
TAXES FILED (VICTORY!)

WED 4/13
dinner with nacht_musik
boardgames chez MM
cooking and cleaning

THU 4/14
8-9am therapy
10am work meeting (Andrew's)
6:45pm p/u miraclaire & family
7pm sheva brachot hosted by mercurysparkle & kalessin
(7pm polyboston dinner, Cheesecake Factory)

FRI 4/15
TAX DAY (oy)
Registration deadline to perform in negass's 35th Anniversary Sing-Out G&S Marathon Weekend, June 11-12! Performing Arts Center, 51 Walden Street, Concord. Reg form is here.
6:30pm shul
dinner with jehanna, yay!

SAT 4/16
9:30am shul (Parshat Achrei Mot, leyn #5)
2pm mitgsp GenComm, MIT room 407
5pm BoltBus TO NYC

SUN 4/17
10am food shopping and cooking
~12pm lunch with jessruth: Cafe con Leche, 424 Amsterdam (80th/81st)
3-5pm hopefully see justom :-)

MON 4/18
10am BoltBus TO DC
Erev Pesach
1st seder chez lonebear, giraffeaholic & senora_gem!

TUE 4/19
Pesach 1
2nd seder (as above, but hosted I believe by leiacat)

WED 4/20
meet up with ladypsyche and/or NF?
5:30pm bus BACK TO NYC

THU 4/21
(roaming around NYC, mostly on my own)
12n Battery Park ferry for Statue of Liberty
6pm? dinner meetup
8pm concert: Defying Gravity: The Music of Stephen Schwartz, featuring special guest vocalists Ann Hampton Callaway, Kristin Chenoweth, Raúl Esparza, and Victor Garber (!). David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center, NYC.

FRI 4/22
(roaming around NYC, mostly on my own)
(where should I go to shul?)

SAT 4/23
(where should I go to shul?)
(someone want to have me over for Shabbat lunch? :-)
8pm Oresteia

SUN 4/24
Easter Sunday
justom's one actual free day half-day on my week-long visit :-)

MON 4/25
Pesach 7
9:30am shul?
7pm Brecht presentations
9pm dinner chez mbarr & crewgrrl

TUE 4/26
Happy b'day, Mom!
Pesach 8
9:30am shul?
3pm BoltBus BACK TO BOSTON
8:30-10pm Chametzfest at Sacco's/Flatbread

WED 4/27
7pm Menschen rehearsal, Newton
7pm karaoke night with moria923 at the Asgard (moved to May 11)
(7pm party chez MM)

THU 4/28
Shabbat dinner prep

FRI 4/29
6:30pm shul
8pm Singy Shabbat Dinner, MY HOUSE (guests include DD&MM; let me know if you want to come!)
(mitgsp's Yeomen of the Guard opens; April 29-May 7 in La Sala de Puerto Rico.)

SAT 4/30
9:45am meet DD in Porter Sq for...
10am-6pm Brown University G&S Sing-In
(9:30am shul: Itai's bar mitzvah)
(Somerville Open Studios, April 30-May 1)
(12n-5pm Shakespeare Parade, Festival and SLAM! in Harvard Sq.)
8pm theatreatfirst's The Bakery
maybe: 9pm Heroes @ TT's

Comments

NYC

[sanpaku.livejournal.com]

Have you been to Hadar yet?

Re: NYC

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

No! I do have a short list of recommendations, but that's definitely on it.

while in NYC

[cthulhia]

SLEEP NO MORE!!!!!

Re: while in NYC

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

That's a thought!

[moria923.livejournal.com]

Don't forget my karaoke night at Asgard on the 27th, to celebrate the Healing of the Broken Arm. We're going for dinner around seven and staying for karaoke. (It has to be Asgard, because that's where I fell down the steps and broke it!)

I'm trying to plan a trip to NYC to see the Stephen Schwartz opera, and if I go, it'll be the same week you're there!

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Duly noted on both counts! Let me know what you work out about Stephen Schwartz; that would be amazing, actually.

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

Steven Schwartz opera? Do tell.

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

"Stephen Schwartz's first opera, Seance on a Wet Afternoon, by will receive its New York City premiere as part of the 2010-2011 season of the New York City Opera, running April 19-May 1, 2011, directed by Scott Schwartz."

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

Wow. I'm going to have to go see that.

[pekmez.livejournal.com]

Thanks for helping publicize the TBB fundraiser and for singing in it. ;-)

[achinhibitor.livejournal.com]

Also, we went into the studio at WERS tonight to record a "live" feature for this week's Chagigah,

Meh, I was in Prague and missed it.

[trowa-barton.livejournal.com]

Wow, you're booked until May.
Impressive.

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Mostly, yeah, I'm afraid. :-} And half of May at this point as well!

[trowa-barton.livejournal.com]

Even more impressive. If you can pencil me in, I would appreciate it.