Good morning, all! I was heading into the office this morning, but my lower back muscles are so stressed I can hardly move. I guess it will be a quiet day writing editoral guidelines at the dear old computer,
DR Jose, the finish of JOURNEY'S END met with total silence. when the curtain rose on the cast in front of the enormous list of war dead, no one did anything. As soon as the cast took off their helmets, half the audience stood and went crazy. It's such a powerful ending, you're naturally stunned, but the curtain falls on an indefinite moment. I'm sure a lot of audience were waiting for a scene to wrap up events.
Much as I like moments in ALL ABOUT US, a problem with the opening "Eat the Ice Cream" number is that it's essentially the same as the final and better Rialto number. Sabina needs something else at the beginning.
BK, I didn't ever know what were the Pulitzer nominees for play when SUNDAY IN THE PARK won. I never saw a bit of publicity on any of them, and I know that the sUNDAY IN THE PARK publicity people said nothing till it won. I don't know if Steve and Jim Lapine ever told anyone. I only told people about it after it won, and I really didn't start talking about it publicly until 2000 or so.