read: 2 Weeks in Livingston! Wear sweatpants! Apply for internships!
My Facebook feed is flooded with pictures of bikinied sorority sisters going shot for shot on exotic beaches with their bleary eyed boy toys in tow. Okay, so my break was a bit quieter than that. And maybe my best friends ditched me to go Euro-touring with the Vassar choirs. And maybe I had, like, all of the homework and summer internship applying to do. However, the unique thing about this break was that it was chock full of celebrity spottings. Actually. I saw more celebrities in a shorter time span than I ever have before. So in the midst of crafting ever so sophisticated cover letters and going to the MoMA for my Actor's Craft project and reading Waiting for Godot and just generally feeling/acting like a complete Vass-hole, I FELT A LITTLE BIT COOL, OK? So, for your reading pleasure, here's why:
1. My mom and I actually spent 4 lovely days in the Berkshires at Canyon Reach, exercising and spa-ing and portion control eating ourselves to death. It was all fun and games until we spotted Chris Noth. Hello, hello Mr. Big. The guy was following us everywhere! Do you know how hard it is to even attempt to look impressive in exercise clothes?
2. Upon return, I spent an amazing and LONG day in NYC with mah boiz Matt and Aaron from BAM! We waited in line for 8 plus hours for Book of Mormon standing-room-only tix. In the theater, we had a celebrity spotting, but we couldn't put our finger on exactly who the dude was. Naturally we decided to take a picture with him anyway. I checked my handy dandy IMDB app and looked up at my two fellow HIMYM fans in disbelief: it was Kyle McLachlan, The Captain! We couldn't get over it the whole train ride home.
3. We also stuck around at the stage door for a bit before catching our train, and I got to have a delightful conversation with Nikki M. James, Tony award-winning star of BoM and fellow LHS alum! We bonded over having both been in Notations. I was also completely nerdy and told her I saw her in Hello, Dolly when I was eight and I still remember how amazing she was. Swoon. Girl crush.
4. Joan Rivers performed at my temple, which was as interesting as it sounds. Although I wasn't completely pleased with all of her act's content, I had seen her documentary "A Piece of Work" beforehand, so I definitely had respect for how hard she works. At the dessert reception afterwards, I told her I loved what she said about theater in her film--how it's always "all about the acting." I told her I was a Drama major and she told me that, if I love it, I have to keep doing it. And be prepared to be rejected. Over and over again. It's a daunting prospect, but it was cool to hear coming from someone who has more than successfully overcome rejection.
5. I went to see a community theater production of The Last 5 Years and Jane Krakowski's mom, Barbara, was the artistic director! She introduced herself to my mom and me before the show and talked to me about "making it in the biz." She was really so sweet. And really looked scarily like Jane. It turns out she used to do the "acting thing" herself. I was seriously close to asking her to serenade me with Muffin Top.
So there you have it. My little spring break turned into a Lady Gaga status fame factory. And I even got some work done so that, hopefully, one day people will be able to spot me.
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