This past Friday I attended Fashionably Late Fridays at Dazzling Lounge on the King West strip (shameless plug alert: click that link, read up on the event, and find yourself there on a Friday night!), and had a GREAT time! Not only was I surrounded by old friends, new friends (including a group of party-goers who felt no way about moving tables and creating an impromptu Soul Train line), good food, cheap drinks, and AMAZING music (shout out to DJ Kold Fusion), but I got to meet AND party with two Black actors that have given me LIFE in nearly every performance I've seen them in: Robin Givens and Clifton Powell. If you don't know who I'm talking about, Google was created so you could be smart. Use it. Anyways, Robin and Clifton came through, ate and partied with us at Dazzling, and it was almost surreal seeing Jacqueline Broyer (from Boomerang) and Pinky (from the Friday flicks) live and in colour. Robin was MUCH shorter in person than she seems on screen, and Clifton was just how I imagined him - funny and charming. Thanks to him, my homegirl and I got to check out Church Girl, the play that they were both starring in this weekend.
Aside from some technical issues with lighting and sound, the show was incredible. The story was solid, the singing was powerful, and the house was packed! Toronto definitely represented on Saturday night at the Sony Centre for Performing Arts - which leads me to believe that we need more variety in events geared towards Black adults here in the city, but that's another post for another day. All in all, we had a great weekend - hitting the dance flo' at Fashionably Late and then being entertained, Black thespian-style at Church Girl! Just goes to show, you never know who you'll meet and where they'll take you...
