| re: I'm sure you're right and I mourn their absence. | |
| Posted by: portenopete 06:59 pm EDT 07/14/24 | |
| In reply to: re: I'm sure you're right and I mourn their absence. - ryhog 04:28 pm EDT 07/14/24 | |
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| Thank you for your sympathy. I am imagining what you might be like as a funeral director. "Yes, Mrs. O'Herlihy, while I understand that you will be personally upset by the loss of your husband of fifty years, you must surely acknowledge that the strain his long illness put on you and your family both emotionally and financially will be largely alleviated by his demise. Look at it like that and you'll see the positive in the whole situation. Now, would you prefer the velvet lining or the silk lining?" Of course I kid. I don't really want people to agree or disagree with me. I'm simply venting and I can't afford therapy. I live in a pretty major theatre town that once had four daily paper critics plus three or four radio critics, several regional reviewers and a handful of freelancers whose reviews would pop up when the main gang was on vacation. Now, as I mentioned, we have one. There are a smattering of online reviewers but they seem to post irregularly and I don't see anyone in the community paying much attention to them. If seats are being filled then I suppose that is great, but increasingly I see theatres who've been around fifty, sixty years with shrinking seasons and websites that look like something my high school computer class might have generated in the 1980's. As to the increased vibrancy of regional theatre communities compared to the previous century, I can't really talk to that either way as my cross-country peregrinations have been too minimal to form any kind of theory, let alone an etiology. As someone who has consumed a LOT of Cole Escola's online work over the past four years, I am thrilled that what seemed like a chance-y proposition when I first heard about it last year has turned into a bona fide cause celebre. I still think there is a sizeable audience out there who haven't been obsessing over THE BARBARA COLLINS STORY or OUR HOME OUT WEST who might be swayed by a full page ad for OH, MARY! designed in a c1865 manner with scads of exclamation marks and stars. I am hoping it will run for a long while and will have many interesting replacements. It's a great time for a queer show to have a success with a lot of cross-over appeal. |
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