Current mood:

bouncy

Inherit the Wind
So I saw Inherit the Wind yesterday afternoon, and it was crazy! The crowd was mostly older folks (the woman sitting two seats from me was singing along with the gospel/bluegrass songs from 1925 as if she remembered them from the actual trial - plus she was probably on the other side of the debate, but that's another story). Despite being by far the youngest person in the crowd except for my brother, it was a great experience. First of all, the Lyceum theater is gorgeous. Second, we were sitting in the front row, so at one point we were literally four to five feet away from Brian Dennehy and Christopher Plummer. It was so intense! Those two actors have enough gravitas for a small nation. At one point, the two of them are questioning a 13-year-old boy on the stand in the play, and I was so jealous of that kid. Can you imagine at such an age to get to work with Broadway royalty? Wow. Just wow.

Also, recognized Sherman Howard from the Shakespeare Theater as random townsperson with no lines. Gotta love how if you're a big deal top-of-the-line actor in a professional theater like the Shakespeare theater, you're still low man on the totem pole on Broadway. There's the ziggurat for you.

~M. :-)