A Portrait of the Artist in the Archives

[tealin]

Another brilliant day full of primary documents

... and abstract chat

... and teatime treats

... so I've been like this for the last 22 hours or so:



And tonight, thirteen years after being introduced to it, I'm going to see the Snarkiest Musical Ever, so the euphoria will probably continue.

I hope this doesn't mean I'm coming down with another cold.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Oh I hope you enjoyed the musical! i saw it a couple years ago at ACT and would love to see it again. When John Hinckley was released, my first thought was "Wonder if he will see Assassins now?"
--Melissa

[tealin]

It was fabulous! I've known the songs off by heart for years now, which is always a dangerous condition in which to see something, but the staging of what I knew was excellent and it was so so good at last to see all the 'connecty bits' I didn't know. (And Emma Goldman is in it! I had no idea!) I'm more convinced than ever that it gets to the rotten seam in America's heart – watching it, I kept wondering when it was going to be banned. We've switched from presidential assassinations to school shootings now but they come from the same place, and nine years before Columbine, Sondheim still saw the roots of it clearly. I wonder what he makes of the current situation.

If John Hinckley came to see this production, he was pretty sympathetically portrayed, I think!