Re: Plays and working on a tree fort

Saw the Grey Gardens documentary.  Did they play it straight for the musical or did they find humor through the ladies eccentricities? 

I was fascinated with theater in the round when I was younger.  The sets didn't change thru anything technical, just black shirted crew who crouched in the aisles and ran onto the dark set between numbers.  Still wish I'd tried out for the crew, just to be around those shows.  Parents probably would have vetoed the hours (at the very least), but I still think about the magic of the "Music Fair" in Haddonfield NJ.

Having a tree fort sounds awesome.  Would have loved that when I was their age. 

 

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Sent: Friday, May 3, 2013 9:19:17 AM
Subject: Plays and working on a tree fort

When we returned from our Virginia trip, theater subscriptions converged to send us to 2 musicals and 1 ballet in 8 days.  It was a lot, and it was great to see Swan Lake, Jersey Boys, and Grey Gardens.  Grey Gardens, the musical, was about the somewhat to very eccentric aunt of Jacque Onassis.  It was a theater in the round in a smaller theater.  We were sitting in the front row, sometimes inches from the actors.  Liam really liked watching how they changed sets up out of the floor and worked with that sort of space.  Crispin is still singing songs.  Liam is getting old enough that we could have a conversation about the Kennedys.

That being said, after all this, it was nice to have some down time.  School was closed on Monday because of a problem with their well, so the boys and I worked on their tree fort.