Your DivaCardista just got calm enough to type after seeing the perfectly lovely Broadway show (at the Broadway Theatre) The Color Purple. And if you and all of your friends haven't, you simply must.
First of all, we -- DivaCardista and her 40 new best friends from The Hotchkiss School -- saw the matinee this past Sunday and what a time we had.
Then, the Lord blessed [through a friend of a friend who just happened to be the Director of The Color Purple] so that we were able to get a backstage tour after the show.
Now just how fabulous is that?
And, let me tell you: for this to be a fairly understudy-heavy performance,
those understudies held it down! They did the doggone thing! Bravo! Brava!
And that ensemble is simply too marvelous for words.
And how humble is Lou Myers?
Simply listed as Ol' Mister in the Playbill and "just" part of the Ensemble online, muli-talented, multi-lingual Lou Myers, the man whom DivaCardista has loved since he came in to the Huxtable household talking about his onion sandwich & then went on to fry up onions and tough love in A Different World, could have "demanded" more in terms of billing & "star treatment", but saw the big picture (I bet) and decided to get in where he fit in. So although Mr. Myers had just about a scene and a half altogether...BrotherMan took those three/four lines and two/three entrances and worked them, doyouhearme?
More can learn from he.
Onliest thing that I would change would be to put some elevators up in that mug! Bad enough that large groups have to wait six months or more to get tickets, which, actually, we are really happy about because it means all them superdupertalented on&off stage folk remain employed in the telling of an important series of stories first woven so beautifully by Mz. Alice Walker & re-rendered so truly by Mz. Marsha Norman,
but for those patrons who are neither decathelets nor in posession of crampons & grappling hooks, those staircases can be a bit much.
Yet, even with that having been said, especially since I can't get the score out of my head, even if you have to wait, even if you have to climb for a while, even if it cuts into your Starbucks budget a bit, just go.
Your soul will thank you.
Blessings,
DivaCardista
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Hey Dorcas! It's Wil Whalen. We went to the Theatre School together. We actually went to see the Flinstones movie together to give props to alum Elizabeth Perkins! I remember how amazing you were in the Ntozake Shange (sp?) choreopoem "For Colored Girls....." I still one of your black and white still shots on my wall. I live in Portland ME. Work as a graphic artist, DJ and music promoter. Life is awesome. I hope you're well!
wil!!! how R you?
how funny is it that you are in your picture, all muscled out in your vest...when the last conversation i remember us having is about how going shirtless (and wearing spandex) "is a PRIVILEGE and not a right". LOL! So glad you made it home from The War.
Check my website, blessedstarcards.com, as I am also a graphic/visual artist! (who knew?)
So glad to hear from you.
STAY WELL!!
oxoxo,
*dj*
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