Not ranked as high as getting to shake Letterman's hand, but nonetheless something I've been trying to do for years by entering the lottery every August. Never had any luck.
Until this past Thursday, when I got home from my volunteer job and a check of my email revealed an invitation to attend the dress rehearsal of SNL. Yesterday. Now, what caused a major groan on my part is that that (Thursday) morning I had just gotten back from a one-day trip to NYC, which is something I do a couple of times a year when there's a particular Broadway show I want to see. [This time it was "The Band's Visit" which was followed by a talk back with the cast, including "Monk" (making this aside TV related); I also saw a matinee performance of "Once On This Island" (which included two cast members who had done well on TV reality show competitions]. But of course I couldn't pass up an opportunity I had been hoping for. So a friend and I took the Greyhound up and back again yesterday and this morning. Nothing like being sleep deprived twice within three days. It worked out just fine. An initial bad seat turned into a pretty good seat, and it was really quite fascinating to watch the production take place in incredibly limited floor space. Probably every square inch was used at some point in the show. The coordination among dozens of prop people was amazing. Nobody got bumped into or stepped on. At least not that I saw. What I will need to do is watch the actual show (which I DVRed) to find out what made the final cut, and what didn't. Since I believed that less than half the skits worked, I already know that a lot of bad stuff made the show. I am curious what didn't make it. I'm not a fan of musical guest Chris Stapleton, but it could have been much worse. (I think the worst musical guest this season was the woman with three letters in her name.) When we were leaving the studio, I thought of this group. Because the path we were shown out of the SNL space led directly into the NBC store, where it was assumed that we were eager to buy as much memorabilia as we could carry. I resisted. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
