I bought a new computer desk that I will have to assemble (Joy)
My Dear Wife is not a computer desk you have to assemble. There should be no confusion about this.
Peter Link’s The River is the worst musical I can recall. Religious texts, no structure, no dialogue, no story, no characters, an abstract set. Need I say more?
The River was worse, I felt, than my previous least favorite, The 1940s Radio Hour. Today, I’d probably find merit in it. But in those days, I was appalled by the idea that people thought they could build a musical out of pre-existing hit songs from an earlier decade. All narrative theatre is about story-telling. When you exclude songwriters from the process, your story-telling is bound to suffer. Looking at other DRs worst-ever choices, I see many where the songwriters were uninvolved or six feet under.
Finally met my musical director yesterday (he’d been M.D.-ing at the Muni) and found him charming, polite, on the quiet side, and my age. Hard to believe rehearsals are 12 days away. Glad to see they're underway on the now completely-cast Brain From Planet X.
