Show Must Go On

We’ve got our planning underway for a bit of a quick theater jaunt in the fall. London and New York are the easy targets and mid-October is the earliest and most reasonable $$ flight wise to go.

I mean a guy can’t live on only sports forever, there is a UK adaption of Falsettos and they’ve turned that old sci-fi flick Solaris into a stage drama. Additionally, they are making the show: There’s something about Jamie, into a film. It might be time to finally catch it live.

In NYC we will work the TKTS booth to get reasonable seats to shows. Tootsie is definitely on my list. My friend Joel will also be there. It should be great fun.

I’ll also visit my mom on the trip. It’s been a year. It’s time. And Garry gets to see his sister, who lives on the upper east side. I will insist to take the 2nd Avenue line (subway). I like taking it to commemorate all those folks who lived their entire life in the city, having been told they’re going to do it one day and then it was: on again, off again. There are city people, that didn’t live long enough to see it happen (like my dad).

It almost makes you want to turn into a Rhinoceros and trample city hall but enough about Ionesco and may ACT (American Conservatory Theater) never walk down that path again. As a young man who was impressed with the playwright, I had never seen a live production of his work…until Thursday. It was the wrong venue.

The backdrop was a curtain painted like where they were in the particular scene. Anytime an actor passed through it, it swayed and you couldn’t help but pay attention to that. The actors on stage were decent but they each were in their own little show. Did they know they were onstage with each other? Maybe, they were mesmerized by that curtain, which was bigger than any rhino.

With ACT, we will try once in a blue moon. We had a subscription at SF Playhouse but didn’t renew because there wasn’t enough to interest us, in the new season. Locally, we got a subscription with New Conservatory Theater. Their list of shows for 2019/2020 looks good.