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LAWRENCE PROPERTIES UPDATEUPDATE RESIDENTIAL MANAGERS SINCE 1925 • NEWSLETTER • WINTER 2002 SENIOR MANAGEMENT Keeping Your Creativity Alive EXECUTIVE (Or, just because you’re 9-to-5 doesn’t mean you can’t follow your dream) BARBARA BERRISFORD The Pursuit of Harmony nce upon a time when you were small online each Fall in cooperation with Yahoo. and the world seemed so large, they Benefitting The Actors’ Fund, the oldest nation- pinched your cheek and asked, “What do al social service organization for folks in the O entertainment industry, The Auction of 1,000 you want to be when you grow up?” In those moments of youth when everything is possible, Stars has in the past included such items as you told them you would be the world’s greatest walk-on roles in Phantom of the Opera and astronaut or musician or a race car driver or a Cabaret. There also have been TV walk-ons for Broadway star, and in the magic of your child’s Will and Grace and Frasier. For more info, log universe there seemed no reason why not. on to www.actorsfund.org and click But why not was waiting around the bend, and The Auction of 1,000 Stars icon. soon enough nine-to-five became your reality For the love of dance, here’s an out- and your dream of creative self-expression got standing chance to find out what really put on a shelf. goes into creating the magic of a ballet Photo by Bob Newey Well, have we got news for you. Just while performing a grande plie with the Lawrence Properties Senior because you’re running the race doesn’t creme de la creme. The New York City Management Executive Barbara mean the grind has to grind down your Ballet Educational Department offers Berrisford literally came of age with dreams. Here’s how to make them real. Ballet Fundamentals, a unique half-day New York’s residential management I’ve always wanted to be in show course where students, designers, choreogra- industry. Born and raised in Queens, business, darling ... If you’ve mas- phers, musicians and other members of the she graduated New York University tered the art of smiling at inane clients American Ballet give you an overview of the with a degree in political science. She and loopy relatives, you’re Oscar-worthy entire ballet process and lead you in simple didn’t know where her studies would already. But just in case, how about work- ballet movements. For more information and take her, but she knew she liked working ing with a professional theater group. The to enroll, call the New York City Ballet with people. Killing Kompany is a troupe of profes- Education Department at (212) 870-5636. It was the early 80s and Barbara sional Broadway, television, and film The hep cat in you will jump and jive for the responded to an ad for an entry-level actors who write and perform original groovy chance to learn what it’s like to gig at clerk in a real estate rental management mystery plays at dinner theaters from a real jazz club. Play at open jam sessions firm. Soon after she moved to one of the coast to coast. They’ve been inter- courtesy of the Smoke Jazz Club (jam ses- largest property management firms in viewed on CNN, MSG Networks, and else- sions every Monday night at 2751 Broadway the city as an assistant on-site manager. where, and they’re willing to sell you an actual and 106th Street; (212) 864-6662; “When I first became a property man- role. You’ll rehearse with the actors, learn the www.smokejazz.com), and Cleopatra’s Needle ager, I managed a portfolio of buildings art of interactive theater, and appear in a dinner (open jams on various nights at 2485 Broadway in Queens,” says Barbara. “That was a at 92nd Street; (212) 769-6969, www.cleopa- theater setting. (Participating will also let you good experience because I learned a lot The Killing Kompany trasneedleny. com). Or if Cabaret is your do good since donates a about physical and mechanical infra- portion of their ticket sales to the Children’s Aid thing, the 92nd Street Y offers Y Cabaret, a by- Society and various other philanthropies.) Find audition-only course to learn how to rehearse structure. I was also negotiating new out more by calling 1-888-SHOOT-EM, or log and deliver theatrical songs in staged solos and contracts for my properties. The work on to www.killingkompany.com. small ensembles. The course ends with a public was different every day, and that’s what Speaking of doing good while you strut your performance. To learn more, phone (212) 415- made it satisfying. Opportunities came stuff on stage, here’s a great way to fulfill your 5580. and I moved on.” dream of a Broadway part. The Auction of Never to be outdone musically, the Evening Move on she did, to a 20-acre, 450-unit 1,000 Stars is an annual fundraising event held Division of the world-renowned Juilliard garden apartment complex in Queens. School offers courses in both choral and orches- “The property was in foreclosure,” tral conducting. Drop that air baton and really Barbara recalls. “They had no money, find out what every motion means and how the boiler was on its last legs, every sin- tough a job conducting really is. For more gle roof leaked, there was almost no In this issue… information, call (212) 799-5000, extension staff, and what staff they had didn’t 273, or log on to www.juilliard.edu/evening know what they were doing. On Keeping Your Creativity Alive . 1 and click on “Performance Practice Courses.” December 31st, I lost a boiler in zero With all the juggling you do in your life, no degree weather. I spent that New Year’s Senior Management Executive doubt you’ve got what it takes to really juggle Day celebrating in the management Barbara Berrisford . 1 — balls and clubs, that is. The Carmine Street office because I finally got heat and hot Irregulars (a.k.a. New York City Jugglers) is an water up for the residents. Then I had to Ask Anton . 2 affiliate of the International Jugglers figure out how to pay for it all.” In the Association. They meet Thursdays from 7:30 to end, however, Barbara helped negotiate Such Interesting People . 3 10:00 PM in the West Village at the Carmine (Continued on page 2) (Continued on page 3) 1 Keeping Your Creativity Alive (continued from page 1) Recreation Center (2 Seventh Avenue South, one block north of Houston Street on the northwest Not a day goes by that corner at Clarkson Street; (212) 242-5228). Jugglers of all levels, including beginners, are wel- LawrenceAsk Properties Anton come. Be sure to wear rubber-soled shoes and comfortable clothing — they’ll show you what to doesn’t respond to our do. Your first visit is free, but then you’ll have to pay an annual membership fee to keep attend- residents with answers to ing. For more, click on to www.juggler.net/carmine. real-life, day-to-day For those who love the sound of their own voice, what could be better than a personal radio show? household operating WLUX-AM, a Deer Park, Long Island-based radio station, will sell you weekly 30 or 60 minute questions. Our Ask time segments in 13-week installments and show you how to create and host your very own radio Anton column is dedi- show. And yes, the show is actually broadcast. To find out how it all works, call Ms. Megale at cated to your most fre- quent inquiries. Doing (631) 243-5400, extension 206. the answering is our own I want to paint, I want to sculpt, I want to write ... Psychologists tell us that the highest level in-house expert, Director of human actualization is self-expression through art. If the inspiration to paint or sculpt abides of Operations Anton Photo by Bob Newey within your psyche, the Brooklyn Museum of Art (200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn; (718) 638- Cirulli. 5000; www.brooklynart.org) offers a catalogue of courses in painting, drawing, sculpture, and mixed media through its hands-on, professionally-instructed Gallery/Studio Program. Create something extraordinary and your work will be displayed in the museum. Similarly, Art Zone at Question: I have just installed the most gor- The Queens Museum (New York City Building, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens; (718) geous new maple floors in my apartment. 592-9700; www.queensmuse.org) provides professional guidance, materials, and interactive space Now I am told I must cover 80% of them with to make art in all media. Instruction is linked to the museum’s changing art exhibitions through- carpet. I love the look of the wood. Why do I out the year. have to cover them? If the written word is your milieu, you can hone your craft at The Writers Studio (8 Charles Street, Greenwich Village (212) 255-7075 www.writerstudio.com Anton responds: Maple floors are beautiful, ; ; ) a private, non-degree grant- ing writer’s school that provides intensive ongoing workshops in poetry and fiction, private tutori- but unfortunately it doesn’t matter whether als, and online courses in fiction and poetry for writers of every level, from beginners to advanced your floors are newly-installed maple or 50 to published. Once your words have found their voice, you can actually vocalize them at open year old linoleum — the rules are the same poetry mikes every Wednesday night at Nuyorican Poets Café (236 East 3rd Street between throughout all New York co-ops, condos, and Avenues B and C; (212) 505-8183; www.