Snowy Saturday

The day dawned clear and chilly then the predicted snow arrived late morning and continued throughout the day.
Sitting up in our aerie that is our apartment we were able to watch as buildings and streets were beginning to have a smattering of snow then later more and more snow. It wasn't a huge amount or really even a lot but enough to cover car roofs and to block our view downtown and up town giving a feeling of disconnection from all around us.
I spent that day drifting from one thing to the next although I did manage to get the Christmas tree down earlyish without too much mess of pine needles in the apartment. The corridor leading to the trash room is another matter but then they vacuum there regularly so the pine needles will disappear as if by magic. The red ribbon and bow are gone from the front door and the magnetic figures are back on the door much to everyone's amusement.
As it is Saturday it is pizza night. We only established this concept last week! Rather than head out and spend heaps of money on a meal out we are making our own pizzas. My contirbution to it all is to talk to Sue while she constructs the pizzas using the non stick trays I brought back from Australia. We know they must be in shops somewhere here but be blowed if we could find them so just as easy for me to bring them back given that I was going to be at home over Christmas.
Our meal plans have gone very well and we had mentioned the pizza idea to a friend and she said she'd love to come along! So last night before Anne and I went to the theatre Ann S arrived and Sue was busy in the kitchen whipping up our tea of delicious pizzas made from really fresh ingredients. It was really relaxed and we sat around chatting until Anne and I had to dash off to Studio 54 on 54th St to see Pal Joey, part of the Roundabout Theatre Season.
I didn't know the story of Pal Joey at all, the plot description says Set in Chicago in the late 1930s, PAL JOEY is the story of Joey Evans, a brash, scheming song and dance man with dreams of owning his own nightclub. Joey abandons his wholesome girlfriend Linda English, to charm a rich, married older woman, Vera Simpson, in the hope that she’ll set him up in business.
Vera Simpson is played by Stockard Channing whose performance was fabulous. She looked and sounded fantastic and really commanded the stage. Her rendition of Bewitched bothered and bewildered was stunning.
Martha Plimpton played Gladys Bumps and is wonderful- I always enjoy her performances and have been lucky to catch her in a few things.
I'm ashamed to say I knew none of the rest of the cast but the show worked really well and I thoroughly enjoyed the "return of Rogers and Hart's famous cad"!