If you’re in New Orleans, I have two suggestions for you this weekend:
1. See our new show, DIE! MOMMY! DIE!, dammit.
2. Also see Thrill me, playing its final weekend at the Marigny Theatre.
Now, I know what you’re thinking about that second one: a musical drama? A new musical drama? About Leopold and Loeb? Believe me, I know. I had the same concerns when I went last Sunday night. But honestly, by the time they started plotting Bobby Franks’ death, I was totally, 100% hooked. Loeb’s seduction of Franks is especially good, as was the subsequent unraveling of the duo’s Nietzschean plot. The production was simple and spare and intimate and engaging and inventive–exactly my kind of show. Maybe not the kind I tend to work on, but the kind I love to see in my off hours.
Yeah, I know the weather’s pretty, and sure, you ought to get outside a bit while the getting is good. But would it kill you to sit in a darkened room with a cocktail and enjoy some hot, thespian action? Sheesh.
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