I am going to try again

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I know I am getting behind on updates but three times now I have gotten dropped off the network after spending close to a half hour typing.  So I don’t trust this thing to let me finish and hit publish.  Going to give it another try and go back to Wednesday.

We ventured over to BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) to see Long Days Journey Into Night with Jeremy Irons (for those who are not theatre nerds think Scar in Lion King that’s Jeremy Irons) and Lesley Manville.  I wasn’t aware of her before but I sure am now.  We had actually seen this particular Eugene O’Neill play years ago in DC at the National Theatre with Jack Lemmon, Bethel Leslie, Kevin Spacey, and Peter Gallagher.   My brother had come to DC with his oldest daughter to visit us and I got tickets thinking they would be so excited.  Well Angie had just graduated high school had no idea who Jack Lemmon even was and found it boring.  However, I bet now she knows who Kevin Spacey is but I also bet she doesn’t realize she saw President Underwood when he was just starting his career.  Anyway I like O’Neill and I thought it was a good production.  Only the one set but it was beautiful.  I am sure Marc covered the performance so I will let it go with I liked it.

However, it’s the theatre I was most excited about.  When I walked in I thought what was this place...you get the feeling that it was an old subway station or bank or ballroom from the late 1800’s or early 1900’s that laid in ruin till someone decided to bring it back to life as a theater.  But I Googled it and that’s not the case, it seems it as built this way.  It was opened in 1904 with a production of The Wizard of Oz, converted into a movie house in 1942 and abandoned in 1968 and was vacant and crumbling for 20 years.  When it came back to life in the 1980’s they didn’t restore or refurbished they just cleaned it up and replaced seats.  You get thi feeling that you are living in a time when something apocalyptic has happened and you are involved in a social energy to bring back culture.  It’s wonderfully dark and old world feeling.  I loved it.

Definitely recommend the play and you have to see the theatre.

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