Enough rehearsing
More good indoor climbing, but it is stop gap; hard to plan a day trip out to the crags.
Took our resident climbers out to see a performance of "A Streetcar Named Desire"; I'd only seen the more recent TV movie version with Alec Baldwin as Stanley Kowalski and Jessica Lange as Blanche DuBois. This local version was terrific, a long evening's journey into this disfunctional family's fraying. The actors playing Stella, Stanley and Blanche were wonderful; what a marathon of a play, long and intensely emotional, although funny spots appeared, even in the midst of Blanche's disintegration and what she calls Stanley's lack of evolution, letting thousands of years pass him by in human development. Bitchy magnolia.
Oh, I forgot, The Simpsons have a version of this drama, in musical form, called "Streetcar!" It is a hilarious send up of a small town theatrical effort, with Marge as Blanche and diddly old neighbor Ned Flanders as Stanley. Great songs.
Took our resident climbers out to see a performance of "A Streetcar Named Desire"; I'd only seen the more recent TV movie version with Alec Baldwin as Stanley Kowalski and Jessica Lange as Blanche DuBois. This local version was terrific, a long evening's journey into this disfunctional family's fraying. The actors playing Stella, Stanley and Blanche were wonderful; what a marathon of a play, long and intensely emotional, although funny spots appeared, even in the midst of Blanche's disintegration and what she calls Stanley's lack of evolution, letting thousands of years pass him by in human development. Bitchy magnolia.
Oh, I forgot, The Simpsons have a version of this drama, in musical form, called "Streetcar!" It is a hilarious send up of a small town theatrical effort, with Marge as Blanche and diddly old neighbor Ned Flanders as Stanley. Great songs.
posted by isabelita at 4:49 PM
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I have to see the Simpsons' version; sounds fantastic!
Is that the one where Ned's all buff & muscular? Hilarious.
The Simpsons did Streetcar? I can't believe I missed it. Now I'm going to have to search the internets to see if it's online anywhere.
Flanders is always buff! John Lovitz does the voice of the abusive director, too. Worth searching for.
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