Workshop: Day 5 Editor Powerpoints
I heard from Zoe this morning. She got to Rome and wanted me to call her, but I never could get through. I wasn't sure whether or not to worry, but eventually I got news from Christine that they made it to the Vatican and the Sistine Chapel and everything.
We had some miscommunication about exactly what we were doing this morning at the workshop. Pete thought we were meeting in the big group all morning and I thought we were in our small groups all morning. We compromised and wound up working in our small groups from 9:30 -10:30. We did a journal topic on staff conflicts and then the rest of the time was spent hearing the editor Powerpoint presentations.
At 10:30 we all gathered and I went over the expectations of the theme packet, showed them what should be in the theme packet, gave them the assignment and then they started working. We got a little mixed up about when it should be due and realized that for the purposes of awards it had to be due tonight by 10 p.m.
Had lunch at Amirs. Chicken Hot Toasted roll or whatever it is called.
In the afternoon all the kids worked on their them packets. Many of them reverted to what they always do. It's disheartening to have them not really use what they have learned and go back to doing what they always do. Some began to do some pretty good stuff.
They were done by four. Talked with Zoe and she did get to the Sistine Chapel. They also climbed to the top of the dome at St. Peter's and saw Piazza Navona. When i spoke with her it was 11 and they were heading off to bed.
Crystal and I decided to see a show which would be my fifth. At TKTS we decided on 9 to 5 for $63.50. Then we went back to Hell's Kitched to look for a restaurant and I decided to take Crystal to Becco. This time I had the three pasta special for $22.95. On the way out I decided to buy a Lidia cookbook for Christine.
The show was at the Marquis and it was pretty bad.
Can this gaudy, empty musical really be part of the same Broadway season that gave us the minimally decorated, maximally effective “Exit the King,” “God of Carnage” and “Norman Conquests”? Those shows strip down to modest sets and, in many cases, small casts, the better to show off their considerable natural assets. But if ingenious austerity has replaced mindless opulence on main-stem stages, no one bothered to alert “9 to 5.” Dolly Parton and Patricia Resnick’s musical adaptation of the 1980 movie about three women’s revenge on their sexist boss piles on the flashy accessories like a prerecession hedge funder run amok at Barney’s. Staged by Joe Mantello, this show feels assembled by an emulous shopaholic who looked around at the tourist-drawing hits of the last decade and said: “I want some of that. And that. Ooh, and can I have that, too?” — Ben Brantley
Ben had it pretty close. It was crude and uninspiring a best. Though I did love seeing Allison Janney.
We we got back up to Columbia I stopped at Mortons for a Coke and thn I found my poster man. It was good to see him once again. Too bad he didn't have much.
When we got back to the room i down loaded all the tme packet stuff and when Pete got in early we all met in my room and graded. I think we were done by 12:30 ish.
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