Living Legends

The Hollywood Intern has transformed into the New York Intern and is meeting all kinds of accomplished artists.  Last week, she was working in her capactity as an intern at the York during a reading of a new musical.  She met Tony Walton, a blue eyed Englishman who has a long history of designing sets and costumes on Broadway.  He is directing a new musical and they were doing a reading.  So she meets him one day, she sends him her headshot/resume the next day/she sings for him the third day and he cast her in his public reading of the musical!  Now that is wonderful.  She will rehearse with them a few times and do the public reading on the 16th right before she comes home for Christmas.  For those of us who are not in the loop for NY theatre, Tony designed the wedding dress for Julie Andrews first wedding, and was also the groom and later the father of their daughter.   Another person reading for this play is the actor Sean Palmer who is on Broadway right now as Prince Eric in the Littlest Mermaid. 

So that was last week.  Last night, she worked a Gala at the York and met a few more extremely talented artists, authors, song writers, actors.  They were giving an award to George S. Irving, a character actor with a long history.   Besides meeting George, she met the following OMGs:

Jim Dale-Won a Tony for Barnum but we all would know him better by the Grammys that he has won reading the Harry Potter books.  He also wrote the theme for Georgie Girl.  Britt’s kind of multi-talented guy

Jay Sanders-another working actor with a long resume who is currently working on the latest Mel Gibson film, Edge of Darkness

Tom Jones-no need for introduction, just throw panties, sold over 100 million records, oh yeah, knighted by the Queen

Sheldon Harnick-lyricist for Fiddler on the Roof

Joseph Stein-librettist-wrote the books for Fiddler on the Roof, Zorba, and Rags. Wrote for Sid Caesar, Debbie Reynolds

So, my little girl, wearing my vintage red wool dress coat and newly acquired Wal-mart scarf and gloves, has been meeting living legends in New York.   She has found her internship at the York different, much different, than her internship at New Line Cinema.   She is soooooo much more at home with the artistic side versus the money side of the entertainment biz.

P.S.  she keeps getting compliments on the hand me down red coat.  Classic never goes out of style.  Or to paraphrase Mo Mo, Grace Kelly beats “Lindsay Lovelace”  or whatever her name is.  lol