"This is how it works, you're young until you're not. You love until you don't, you try until you can't. You laugh until you cry, you cry until you laugh. And everyone must breathe, until their dying breath." ~regina spektor

So. Young Frankenstein? Sucked. And I was so excited about it, too. The funny thing is that most audience members paid such exorbitant amounts of money for tickets that they seemed to be trying to convince themselves that it was worth all of that money by laughing and clapping as much as possible. I only paid $25 (for the best seat in the house; dead center, front row orchestra) and would have been very pissed if I had wasted more money than that. It just wasn't that funny. Most of the "jokes" were vulgar and pointless. Roger Bart, the star, seemed to be phoning in his performance; he seemed completely disinterested. Sutton Foster, Megan Mullally, Christopher Fitzgerald, and Andrea Martin seemed to be at least doing their best with the material (although poor Megan Mullally had to suffer through wearing the most awful costume in Act 1). The music was uninspired and unoriginal. Nic and I spent the whole subway ride home mocking the lyrics by singing bits of the songs, most of which seemed to be mostly made up of one line repeating over and over. The show wasn't the worst Broadway show I've seen (cough*LittleWomen*cough), but it definitely wasn't the best.

Tonight I went to an advance screening of the movie Dan in Real Life, which was fabulous. It was sweet and simple and moving and funny. Steve Carell proves that he's a very talented dramatic actor as well as a comedic one. Alison Pill, an awesome stage actor (currently starring in Mauritius on Broadway; go see it if you can), is great as his oldest daughter, but the middle daughter steals the show. She's hilarious. Dane Cook is freakin' hot. Norbert Leo Butz, another Broadway star, gets the chance to show off his vocal chops by singing a side-splitting duet with Dane Cook. I haven't laughed that hard in a long, long time. Another great, hilarious moment: Steve Carell dancing with Emily Blunt. So go see the movie when it opens.