Tara

After 7 years of waiting, I finally got to see RENT live! I've seen both the 2005 movie and the 2008 DVD, RENT Filmed Live On Broadway, but nothing compares to live theater, especially with Anthony Rapp and Adam Pascal themselves, who originated the roles of Mark and Roger back in 1996.

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So, I just got through watching this show, and it was absolutely precious. Kristi was MCing and her little girl was there, and Scott was MCing too and his little boy Aidan was there - apparently their kids were born 2 weeks apart. Scott looks a little sick, still. I don't know what's up with his health since the whole benign brain tumor thing, but he looks a little puffy, like he's on steroids. :( Loved the little blurb with his son, though:

Scott: Do you want to tell them your favorite horse?
Aidan: No.
Scott: Do you want to tell them different kinds of horses?
Aidan: No.
Scott: Do you want to say no?
Aidan: Yeah.

So cute! And Aidan looks freakishly similar to what Scott looked like as a child.

Then, there was Jozef Sabovcik and his kids, Blade, who's big now, and Jozef, who looked to be about 2 and not very impressed with anything.

Kurt's programs were adorable. His son, Gabriel, has his eyes.

Jeni Meno and Todd Sand did a program to the Wiggles for their little red-headed baby, Jack. It was so cute.

But really, the show was all about Ekaterina Gordeeva and Ilia Kulik, and Daria (who is now 13!) and little 4-year-old Elizaveta (Liza). Katia and Ilia did awesome singles programs - Liza stole the spotlight, though! During Ilia's number, he was doing some variation of the Robot, and the camera cut to Dasha and Liza - and Dasha was grooving away and Liza was on her lap doing the Robot! It was the funniest thing I've ever seen! So cute!

Then, Daria and Katia skated together. It was awesome! Daria has improved so much since the Mother's Day Special in 2003. There's always something special about seeing Katia skate pairs, but with Daria, it's almost magical - like seeing Gordeeva & Grinkov again. Especially since Dasha looks so much like Sergei... It was really beautiful. And then, at the end, there was Liza... She jumped right off the lap of the person who was holding her, and started clapping with her hands above her head - "Woo! Woooooo!" the whole time, too! It was adorable! She looks exactly like Ilia, too, so it's kind of weird to see her and Dasha together - both feminine clones of their fathers. Kind of cool...

It was a really cute show. Can't wait til next week for the Hilton Figure Skating and Gymnastics special. (On NBC January 15th at 4/3c.) All my favorite things in one show...

7:30 a.m. and I'm all ready for the day. That hasn't happened for awhile. Work starts at 8. Will also be going to the bank and going shopping for the essentials today - the LOST Season 1 DVD, the new Casting Crowns CD, and more Ice Java syrup.

So You Think You Can Dance and a LOST rerun is on tonight. Wednesdays are my TV days.

Gakked from bluegarnet

A child in charge of `6 babies'


By Ellen Barry Tribune Newspapers: Los Angeles Times
Tue Sep 6, 9:40 AM ET


In the chaos that was Causeway Boulevard, this group of refugees stood out: a 6-year-old boy walking down the road, holding a 5-month-old, surrounded by five toddlers who followed him around as if he were their leader.

They were holding hands. Three of the children were about 2, and one was wearing only diapers. A 3-year-old girl, who wore colorful barrettes on the ends of her braids, had her 14-month-old brother in tow. The 6-year-old spoke for all of them, and he told rescuers his name was Deamonte Love.

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I don't care if you're a fan or not. The concert sarahsun7 went to, she talked about the "wee girl"--about the age of Brian's son, Baylee--the Backstreet Boys invited up onstage to sing Drowning to, but I really had no. idea. what an amazing story little Evie has, and that the song Drowning literally saved her life.

Go to erilyn's most-recent entry for footage of the story, and Brian and Nick visiting Evie.

I still haven't stopped crying. How amazing. I really needed something this uplifting, and you can't get more uplifting than this.

Stolen from maybethistime

1. Go to http://musicoutfitters.com.
2. Enter the year you graduated from high school* in the search function and get the list of 100 most popular songs of that year
3. Bold the songs you like, strike through the ones you hate and underline your favorite. Do nothing to the ones you don't remember (or don't care about).

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It's so good to hear from him. Still in such good spirits, regardless of the situation... He and his family have relocated to Dallas, but his father George Sr. is still in New Orleans on dialysis. :( Read more here: http://gospelflava.com/diariesgeorgehuff/

Oh man. Watching Larry King Live and seeing his "buddy" Clay Aiken talking about the similarities between the hurricane area and Indonesia...and how when he visited Indonesia in March, there was such a hopeful spirit there, and he hopes the same will be true here.

And then, Larry went to commercial. He's all, "And here's a little song by Clay Aiken." And it's a clip of I Will Carry You set to a montage of images of all the sad, depressed, defeated people after the hurricane. I cried. I hope it becomes available online.

List 6 of your favorite songs of the moment in your own LJ and then tag 6 others to do the same.

1. Annie Lennox - Into The West
2. Hilary Duff - So Yesterday
3. Diana DeGarmo - All I Never Wanted
4. Backstreet Boys - I Still
5. Backstreet Boys - Siberia
6. RENT - Another Day

Tagging pricelessone, katshakespeare, goneplatinum, clarinut, seeksasylum, songbirds