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June 22, 2004

Broadway on ‘Live’

Members of the Avenue Q cast were on Live with Regis and Kelly yesterday morning as part of a “Broadway Week” segment. They sang “I Wish I Could Go Back to College” (otherwise fine, but the opening applause drowned out the vamp, so Stephanie D’Abruzzo missed her cue; she quickly recovered, truncating the second line of the song). And John Tartaglia and Stephanie came back on later with puppet versions of Regis and Kelly. Rick Lyon was Gelman. (And I’d be remiss were I to leave out Jennifer Barnhart.) Very cute. Puppet Kelly to the real Kelly: “Hey, aren’t you Faith Ford?”

Other shows featured this week are Wonderful Town, Little Shop of Horrors, Caroline, or Change, and Bombay Dreams.

Waiting for ‘My Life’

Bill Clinton’s book My Life is out today, and most reviewers think it’s a big rambling yawn. (Could someone have at least jazzed up the title?) What a shame. Not exactly One Hundred Years of Solitude, I guess. I’ll judge for myself. I ordered my copy online yesterday, and it should arrive in a couple of days.

[Update (23 June): Slate reads My Life so you don’t have to (“The Condensed Bill Clinton” via kottke.org).]