Sunday 07/09/2023
At 10 I warmed up the auditorium so Edie Eddy (yes, real name) could rehearse for her Sunday at Home talk next week. She went on a cruise from Norway through the islands above Scotland. The cruise line had a photographer along on all the day trips, and gave passengers a DVD, 40 minutes of video of their activities. She is going to talk over it and narrate her trip. She practiced a bit. It’ll be ok, I guess.
At 1:30 seven of us gathered at the usual spot. “At the coke machine” is the meeting point for car-pooling to either basketball or the theater. In this case, we were going to see Falsettos at the Pear. This is a musical from the 80s, with a theme of love in the time of the AIDS crisis. Remember that? How for a decade, there was a quiet slaughter of many young creative gay people? Now AIDS is survivable, but in the 80s or 90s it was a death sentence. This play was a Broadway hit in that era.
The play is all music, no spoken lines. The actors were almost all excellent, well all had excellent voices. Three or four were really good at acting, too, reacting and conveying emotion with body and gesture. It was a bit long for my taste, but not a wasted day.
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