Good ingredients make a great cake*

Ingredients:
- Argentine images turned into reality and tested all around the world
- A crew that loves theatrical spectacles
- Climbers that chuckle in the face of fear
- 13 thrill seeking actors with way too much energy

Preheat:
8 hours of productive sleeping

Mix:
2 hours of organizing the apartment
45 minutes of hang time with Veronica at Sephora and Chipolte's
20 minutes of strategizing at the Genius Bar
20 minutes drooling over MacBook Air's
10 minutes of wolfing down a Fat Witch caramel brownie
1 hour of constructive criticism towards a better year
45 minutes of more constructive criticism for a better hour
45 minutes of laughter during a led but not followed warm-up
15 minutes of 80's dance music just before places

Bake for 1 hour in a black box with lights, sound, big sets, fun props, an astute crew and sick-ass performers.

Top it with:
1 dancing Cloud
1 spritely puppy named Capo
1 David Binder
1 Orlando Bloom
1 Neil Patrick Harris
1 dozen celebrity snowboarders still amped from the Burton expo in Union Square
300 anonymous smiling faces that voluntarily dance with you in the rain

Still high and wet from the performance, I made my way downstairs. An audience member and his friend asked me questions at the door of the women's dressing room, "Where is this from? Where is the cast from?" His friend said with an English accent, "...You made me feel like a kid again." Orlando Bloom told me this, and I couldn't help but swoon into the dressing room shortly after.

Chase it with a JD and Coke, a toast with friends, a picture with audience members and reminisce the moments with a very happy crew.

*The beauty of theater and the festivities around cake: it only happens once and isn't easily replicated. If you are there in the moment, savor it. There is an awesome feeling in knowing you are a fine ingredient of the most grandiose cake.

Fuerzabruta 8 PM performance on Thursday, February 7, 2008.

Corridor - Jason
Personas - Hallie, Mike, Rose and Jon
TV - Brooke and Josh
Cortinas - Gwyn and Marlyn
Moving Cortinas - Mike, Kapani, Josh and Hallie
Murga - Rose, Mike, Brooke, Josh and Kapani
Vela - Tamara and Freddy
Scenario Alto - Mike
Murga Finale - Gwyn, Mike, Rose, Jon, Josh, Freddy
DJ - Mike
Mylar - Brooke, Marlyn, Tamara, Kapani
Corridor Finale - Hallie, Jon and Jason