Good morning, all! I don't know if it's all the meds, the season change, mourning, anxiety, but I feel I need every other day resting. This week I am out every night, and this old whore is tired.
I saw Encores! FACE THE MUSIC, which has a very peculiar book; it's points on the connection between entertainment and politics is still relevant, as are its comments on poverty, the depression, police corruption, and the whoredom of show business. Unfortunately, I don't think the book ties it all sufficiently together, but it's full of very funny moments and very funny lines. Of course how much is Moss Hart's original and David Ives' "adaptation" is questionable since Encores! falls down on the scholastic side of things. There are four interpolations including a song from BK's UNSUNG IRVING BERLIN, "How Can I Change My Luck," and all four are well performed.
The cast was good, and it's about time Judy Kaye was in an Encores! production. She was wonderful, as was our old friend Lee Wilkof. Walter Bobbie, once again, is so wonderful that I wish he'd do more performance and less direction. The three of them are very funny.
Today, another rounmd at the NYPL; today, Rossini and the new Broude edition of Gilbert & Sullivan. Tonight, Manhattan School of Music one-act Puccini operas FIANNI SCHICCHI and IL TABARRO.
TOD: My greatest win ever, hands down, was the Pulitzer Prize for SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE. In 1965, I won the Oxfortd English Dictionary in the Miami University Bookstore Award for research writing. Oh, I won $50 once on the NY State Lottery.
