Hope you all are enjoying a beautiful day. It seems that The Big Apple has been drenched with rain for the last month, but today the sun is finally out, and it's actually warm enough to wear shorts and shortsleeve shirts. I just finished doint something called a 29hour reading of something called Wallenberg, the musical. It's a musical about a Swedish man named Raoul Wallenberg who saved over 100,000 Jews during the war, and then disappeared into Russia never to be seen or heard from again. Some of the cast members dubbed the show "the Jewish Les Miz". It has beautiful music and a great story and the 29 hour reading was to try to interest backers in financing a production of this musical. As you might guess this is a very tough time to raise money for a theatre production. We'll see. I'm still keeping my fingers crossed that Emma, the musical will wind up on Broadway before I'm too old to play Mr. Woodhouse.
Bruce and I are getting ready to travel tomorrow to North Carolina where I will get to meet his new grandson for the first time. We'll be down there for 4 days before returning first to Easton MD and then back to NYC a week from Monday. Jeff if you are reading this we had thought we might try to stop in again and see you, but don't think we can do it this time, but if we see an opportunity we'll give you a call..that is unless you are vistiting the kids.
I'm looking forward to someone posting the reunion pictures. Can't wait to see everyone. And Renee your talking about taking the Greyhound to NO brought back many memories of getting on that bus before dawn to get to NO for either my mother or father's doctor visits. But they would always let me go to one of those big movie houses like the Sanger on Canal Street. Remember the Sanger with the stars on the ceiling? Many years later the Sanger became a roadshow house for touring Broadway shows, and I had the thrill of returning there with Porgy and Bess. It was amazing to walk around back stage in the house of this theatre that had seemed so magical to me as a child. And speaking of magical....do you all remember Morrison's Cafeteria in NO that was designed to look like an outdoor Spainish Courtyard? We always ate there whenever we went to NO. More memories another time. Post those reunion pics!
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Richert, the Saenger is finally reopening for the first time since Katrina. Hope they have sloped the orchestra seating more. I suffered through the Phantom and Le Mis behind basktball player types and learned to love the mezzanine. When did you come to NO for Porgy and Bess. I love that play. Remember how we used to listen to that sountrack when we were in school? Rosemary
Oh,my...do I remember the Saenger.
When I was little (7 or 8) my Aunt Christina took me to N.O. & I remember walking into the Saenger and being in awe of all the statues.
When I was a teenager and got my first pair of contact lens (1960), my Uncle Duncan would take me to N.O.
and we would go to Morrison's to eat.
He always drove so slow...never over 45...so you can imagaine, the trip took all day.
Richert, we did get together the time you were in NO for Porgy & Bess. I'm not sure if we went out to eat but I do remember bringing you to see my house. It was a small yellow double on N.Olympia. This was probably around 1976. I owned that house for almost 30 years & had to sell if after Katrina.
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