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

[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.