Broadway Binge

Dennis posted about his Broadway Binge Week, and I was all jealous. Then I looked at my recent collection of Playbills...

I'm doing ok. But I do want to step things up before the Tonys. Next up - rush tickets for Bullets Over Broadway with Dennis, ticket lottery for Hedwig with Ashley, and rush tickets for A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder with either Dan or just possibly just myself (does no one else want to see this? It's apparently great). And if it kills me, THIS IS THE SUMMER that I win the ticket lottery for The Book of Mormon. Between 200-500 people show up for it every day and they only give out 20 tickets, so the odds are slim. But I figure if I pop by every time it's raining (the theater is three blocks from my office, and fewer people enter in the rain), I have to win at some point, right? RIGHT???

Times I've Cried Watching TV

In no particular order.

• When Angel has to turn back into a vampire in that Angel crossover episode and he and Buffy can no longer frolic in the sun and eat ice cream (1997).
• ALSO, when Buffy DIED (2001). Jesus CHRIST. "She Saved The World A Lot," indeed.
• When the creepy kid goes off with the humanoid zombies in season one of The Returned, and Julie, the seemingly-frumpy-yet-secretly-hot nurse, goes with him because she is the essence of nobility (2013). 
• Season 6 finale, Mad Men, when Don shows his kids the dilapidated whorehouse he grew up in (2013). A small ocean.
• The "Deserts" episode of Planet Earth where the adolescent elephant gets separated from the herd and wanders off to his death (2007). Even in reruns: HYSTERICS.
• When Sherry Stringfield's character left ER in season 3 and shouted "I love you!" to Dr. Green as her train pulled away but HE COULDN'T HEAR HER (1996). As an eighth grader I took this failure to seize the day very hard.
• Leo's funeral on The West Wing (2006), obviously. 
• The O.C. season one finale (2004), because I have a soul.
• "Jurassic Bark" (1998), the Futurama episode where Fry finds the fossilized remains of his old dog, learns that the dog lived for a dozen years after he traveled into the future, and assumes that Seymour must have found a new owner and happily lived out his days. Except then we see that Seymour patiently waited for Fry to return for the rest of his goddamn life. This one is particularly bad because I watched it at work and people were all like, "are you ok?" 

Watch only if you're feeling emotionally stable.

• Randomly, the series finale of Family Ties (1989), but I can't remember what actually happened.