Wednesday, July 23, 2008
THE VAGABOND JOURNAL
TRIP TO WEST POINT, NEBRASKA
JULY 2008 – PART EIGHT
I attended the dress rehearsal of "North of West Point" on Wednesday night. I attended the opening on Thursday night and the 2:00 p.m. performance on Friday, which John Burkhart, the author of the melodrama, also attended. I missed the Saturday night performance and the extra added performance at noon on Sunday, but attended the final performance Sunday night. That's a total of four shows, all of them slightly different, all of them great fun. It's terrific to see actors and audience – capacity crowds all – have such a good time.
The city auditorium is a grand venue for community theater, and that great old lady of a building ought to be preserved as a historic treasure and homefield for West Point's thespians. But she needs some work. I hope West Point will see to it.
Joni Mitchell said "You don't know what you've got til it's gone." Let's hope that's not the case in West Point.
To be continued....
TRIP TO WEST POINT, NEBRASKA
JULY 2008 – PART EIGHT
I attended the dress rehearsal of "North of West Point" on Wednesday night. I attended the opening on Thursday night and the 2:00 p.m. performance on Friday, which John Burkhart, the author of the melodrama, also attended. I missed the Saturday night performance and the extra added performance at noon on Sunday, but attended the final performance Sunday night. That's a total of four shows, all of them slightly different, all of them great fun. It's terrific to see actors and audience – capacity crowds all – have such a good time.
The city auditorium is a grand venue for community theater, and that great old lady of a building ought to be preserved as a historic treasure and homefield for West Point's thespians. But she needs some work. I hope West Point will see to it.
Joni Mitchell said "You don't know what you've got til it's gone." Let's hope that's not the case in West Point.
To be continued....
