Would that be Sia? Mark Jeffries Saints Spotlight Editor [email protected]
On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 5:15 PM, Melissa P <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
