theatre, dance, music, singing, teaching, travel, reading, antiques, knitting, home design and decorating, bargain shopping, history, scrapbooking, good food and good wine, people watching, museums, interesting conversation, fireworks at disneyland, world culture, eastern religions, rainy days, coffee, arts education, speaking my mind, peace, autumn on the east coast, photography, dreams, laughing, ghost stories, collecting old sheet music, road trips, new things, mucha, degas, art nouveau, art deco
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Billy Joel, Bruce Springsteen, John Mayer, Eva Cassidy, Jason Robert Brown, Antigone Rising, U2, Martin Sexton, Dave Matthews Band, Indigo Girls, Jackson Browne, Norah Jones, Paula Cole, Mindy Smith, Shawn Colvin, Michael Buble, Ray LaMontagne, Elton John, Jonatha Brooke, Carole King, James Taylor, Alanis Morissette, Carly Simon, Aaron Copland, George Gershwin, Joni Mitchell, John Mellencamp, Jeff Buckley, Broadway musicals, Peter Gabriel, Tom Waits, Bette Midler, World Music, Motown
Glory, Band of Brothers, Singin' In The Rain, Lady and the Tramp, Tootsie, All That Jazz, Dead Poet Society, Almost Famous, Philadelphia, Kramer vs. Kramer, All the President's Men, Good Will Hunting, Enchanted, My Favorite Year, The Shawshank Redemption, Shopgirl, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Say Anything, Dreamgirls, Shakespeare in Love, When Harry Met Sally, Norma Rae, The Notebook, Waiting for Guffman, They Shoot Horses Don't They, Yankee Doodle Dandy, The Color Purple, The Rose, What's Love Got To Do With It, West Side Story, Notting Hill, The Mighty, Divine Madness, The Wizard of Oz, Arthur, Serendipity, The Princess Bride, Meet Me in St. Louis, A Few Good Men, Stage Beauty, Love Actually, Easter Parade, Miracle on 34th Street, Alice in Wonderland, Mary Poppins
Grey's Anatomy, Lost, So You Think You Can Dance, Alias, The Golden Girls, The West Wing, Mad About You, I Love Lucy, The Carol Burnett Show, Law and Order, Will and Grace, Laverne and Shirley, Sex and the City, Inside the Actors Studio, The Dog Whisperer, Project Runway, Animal Planet, A&E Biographies, Home Makeover/Design Shows, Antiques Roadshow, History Channel, Discovery Channel, PBS
The Alchemist, The Zahir, Eleven Minutes and anything else by Paulo Coelho, The Tao of Pooh, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, The Great Gatsby, Catcher in the Rye, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Harry Potter, Einstein's Dreams, The Art of Happiness by the Dalai Lama, Shopgirl, She's Come Undone, The Four Agreements, Interpreter of Maladies, The Celestine Prophecy, Night, oodles and oodles and oodles of biographies, Our Town (I know, it's a play, but whatever)
my mom, Alex H. Urban, my teachers who have inspired me, my friends, Agnes de Mille, Jack Cole, Jerome Robbins, Bob Fosse, Michael Bennett, Carol Burnett, Bette Midler, Lucille Ball, Judy Garland, Fannie Brice, Sophie Tucker, Chita Rivera, Martha Graham, Hal Prince, Gwen Verdon, Donna McKechnie, Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Vernon and Irene Castle, Ruth St. Denis, Ted Shawn, Albertina Rasch, George Balanchine, Liza Minnelli, Mia Michaels