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...Because I had a ticket to the theatre!
I went and saw a lovely production of "A Man of No Importance." I had a few friends in it, and I know the music a little bit. It was wonderful - and I cried only once. The play takes place in Dublin in probably the fifties or sixties (Rock is the wave of the future). Our hero is the conductor on a bus, but is very into literature and theatre. He's got a little group of friends who put on plays with him at the local Catholic church hall. He lives with his sister, and is fairly sheltered, idolizing literary figures, and Oscar Wilde is his Hero.
We open and he spies a young woman on the bus who he sees as Princess Salome - and decides that is the next play they are going to do. Through the show we find a man who has lived most of his life in his own head. It is a voyage of self-discovery - he realizes that it really is okay to be different. The song his sister sings in the second act slayed me - she is begging him to tell her why, when she has loved him her whole life, he couldn't confide in her - and she doesn't know him at all (she's just discovered that he is gay - well we've known for a while - but the poor man is so deeply in the closet, he doesn't even acknowledge it). The end of the song - after he's run out of the room, is her telling him that he has to know, no matter what, she loves him anyway.
And while they lose the church hall for their production (Salome being vulgar - the bishop bans them), and the Princess Salome girl moves away, his friends are determined to go on with their little troupe - perhaps in another church basement they know of. And while you get the idea he will never be completely comfortable with his sexuality, he likes his life, and he loves his friends - and they in turn think he is a good man - even if he is a "poufter."
Well done, all the way around. And they were certainly the hardest working cast! The set was ingenious - an empty box, but the various "sets" folded out from the walls - there were four different fold out sets - the confessional, Alfie and Lily's apartment, the neighborhood bar, and the butcher shop Lily's significant other owns. Every other space is created with chairs in the wide opens space when all the other sets are closed. Even the bus! Really clever and creative. And the song "The Streets of Dublin" - likely the most well known of the songs in the show - was really amazing.
So anyway, that is why I missed Show tonight. I shall have to download the episode and watch it this weekend.
I went and saw a lovely production of "A Man of No Importance." I had a few friends in it, and I know the music a little bit. It was wonderful - and I cried only once. The play takes place in Dublin in probably the fifties or sixties (Rock is the wave of the future). Our hero is the conductor on a bus, but is very into literature and theatre. He's got a little group of friends who put on plays with him at the local Catholic church hall. He lives with his sister, and is fairly sheltered, idolizing literary figures, and Oscar Wilde is his Hero.
We open and he spies a young woman on the bus who he sees as Princess Salome - and decides that is the next play they are going to do. Through the show we find a man who has lived most of his life in his own head. It is a voyage of self-discovery - he realizes that it really is okay to be different. The song his sister sings in the second act slayed me - she is begging him to tell her why, when she has loved him her whole life, he couldn't confide in her - and she doesn't know him at all (she's just discovered that he is gay - well we've known for a while - but the poor man is so deeply in the closet, he doesn't even acknowledge it). The end of the song - after he's run out of the room, is her telling him that he has to know, no matter what, she loves him anyway.
And while they lose the church hall for their production (Salome being vulgar - the bishop bans them), and the Princess Salome girl moves away, his friends are determined to go on with their little troupe - perhaps in another church basement they know of. And while you get the idea he will never be completely comfortable with his sexuality, he likes his life, and he loves his friends - and they in turn think he is a good man - even if he is a "poufter."
Well done, all the way around. And they were certainly the hardest working cast! The set was ingenious - an empty box, but the various "sets" folded out from the walls - there were four different fold out sets - the confessional, Alfie and Lily's apartment, the neighborhood bar, and the butcher shop Lily's significant other owns. Every other space is created with chairs in the wide opens space when all the other sets are closed. Even the bus! Really clever and creative. And the song "The Streets of Dublin" - likely the most well known of the songs in the show - was really amazing.
So anyway, that is why I missed Show tonight. I shall have to download the episode and watch it this weekend.
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