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The Parable of the Sower
The thrill of being at Lincoln center
On a balmy summer night
To catch a new opera
Octavia L Butler’s Parable of the Sower
The thrill of live music
Gorgeously sung and played
The power of a carefully positioned light
The power of bodies in space
The power of storytelling
The power of a narrator who can speak to the audience and comment on the action within and outside the literal and figurative walls
And bring the play
Written thirty years ago and set next year
To the immediacy of today
Post apocalyptic America
And still we sing.
On a balmy summer night
To catch a new opera
Octavia L Butler’s Parable of the Sower
The thrill of live music
Gorgeously sung and played
The power of a carefully positioned light
The power of bodies in space
The power of storytelling
The power of a narrator who can speak to the audience and comment on the action within and outside the literal and figurative walls
And bring the play
Written thirty years ago and set next year
To the immediacy of today
Post apocalyptic America
And still we sing.
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Usher Shift
A chance meeting
With a person
Who helped me feel I’m on the right path
And doing the thing
With a person
Who helped me feel I’m on the right path
And doing the thing
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Here Lies Love
What would Abuela and Abuelo think of their nieta
Watching a musical about Imelda Marcos
In New York
Not history for them, but lived events
Turned into a dance party
With flashing lights and a disco ball
And sparkling costumes
And a DJ narrating events
What was it like to watch the paradise they had grown up in
Fall to pieces
(Part of why they left)
What would they think of me leaving Sydney
What would they think of New York?
I wish I could ask them.
Watching a musical about Imelda Marcos
In New York
Not history for them, but lived events
Turned into a dance party
With flashing lights and a disco ball
And sparkling costumes
And a DJ narrating events
What was it like to watch the paradise they had grown up in
Fall to pieces
(Part of why they left)
What would they think of me leaving Sydney
What would they think of New York?
I wish I could ask them.
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The joy of conversation
With like-minded theatre nerds.
With like-minded theatre nerds.
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Aim for the Moon
A small step forward
In my business
That will hopefully mean
Leaps and bounds
In my business
That will hopefully mean
Leaps and bounds
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50 Years of the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive
I spent nearly two deliriously happy hours
Perusing the exhibit
At the New York Public Library
I didn’t quite see all of it
All the carefully crafted footage
From thousands of performances
Steve Martin and Robin Williams in Waiting for Godot!
Donna Murphy in The King and I!
Audra McDonald in 110 in the Shade!
A Chorus Line!
Sondheim!
What a visionary Betty Corwin was,
What a legacy she left behind and
How lucky we are to have this record.
Perusing the exhibit
At the New York Public Library
I didn’t quite see all of it
All the carefully crafted footage
From thousands of performances
Steve Martin and Robin Williams in Waiting for Godot!
Donna Murphy in The King and I!
Audra McDonald in 110 in the Shade!
A Chorus Line!
Sondheim!
What a visionary Betty Corwin was,
What a legacy she left behind and
How lucky we are to have this record.
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music and art.
watching sean hayes play rhapsody in blue
I was inspired and moved
an extraordinary play about a difficult man
earlier in the week
I was witness to
james t. lane telling his story
a difficult journey for an extraordinary man
the stories of music and art
finding beauty in the pain
reckoning with life upon this coil
how we fathom our existence
this difficult extraordinary thing.
music and art
music and art.
I was inspired and moved
an extraordinary play about a difficult man
earlier in the week
I was witness to
james t. lane telling his story
a difficult journey for an extraordinary man
the stories of music and art
finding beauty in the pain
reckoning with life upon this coil
how we fathom our existence
this difficult extraordinary thing.
music and art
music and art.
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new york city
tonight I met people
who have traveled from cities and towns
across the united states
and from across united kingdom
and beyond
to make a home (even if temporarily)
in new york city
to make art
on page, on stage, on hair
this is a place that thrives on diversity
a place that literally sings and dances
a place that embraces the different
the weird
the exciting
a place that pulsates with creativity
(and giant rats)
this vibrant difficult wonderful city
and as I went from place to place
with my friend from another world
another lifetime
and navigated the subways
downtown, uptown, across town
I thought about the me from that other world
that other lifetime
that other place
look at us
look at what we’re doing
isn’t it extraordinary?!
who have traveled from cities and towns
across the united states
and from across united kingdom
and beyond
to make a home (even if temporarily)
in new york city
to make art
on page, on stage, on hair
this is a place that thrives on diversity
a place that literally sings and dances
a place that embraces the different
the weird
the exciting
a place that pulsates with creativity
(and giant rats)
this vibrant difficult wonderful city
and as I went from place to place
with my friend from another world
another lifetime
and navigated the subways
downtown, uptown, across town
I thought about the me from that other world
that other lifetime
that other place
look at us
look at what we’re doing
isn’t it extraordinary?!
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The cast of Railroad
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Old and New
I got to be in the room
For a reading of a new musical
About Chinese and Irish immigrants building
The American railroad
And I knew two of the actors
And several people in the room!
And then I had coffee with an old friend
Who I’ve known since we were both in single digits
And what a joy it all was!
For a reading of a new musical
About Chinese and Irish immigrants building
The American railroad
And I knew two of the actors
And several people in the room!
And then I had coffee with an old friend
Who I’ve known since we were both in single digits
And what a joy it all was!
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On Broadway
Imagine getting to work two Broadway shows in one day
Imagine getting to see audience members experience their first Broadway show
Sometimes even their first live show
The thrill they get when they walk into the room
The excitement
The pure joy
The way it uplifts and
Inspires.
Imagine getting to see audience members experience their first Broadway show
Sometimes even their first live show
The thrill they get when they walk into the room
The excitement
The pure joy
The way it uplifts and
Inspires.