Morning Light
Dunkirk NY – I have come to like morning light better than any other kind of light. Having an 8AM class for the first time in my teaching career at Fredonia has awakened me to this experience. This morning was an unusually wonderful morning light for this time of year in western NY (I don’t know what season everyone else in the country is in, but once we get past Halloween here we call it “winter”). The greatest challenge of living here is that the amount of light during the winter months can be quite limited, making the quality low. But if you get a nice a high quality of morning light to start the day, it can be all good from there.
I am sure others will point to this article in the NY Times this morning on the closing of Brighton Beach Memoirs after only a one-week run. The article talks about the many possibilities as to why this happens, and in doing so makes an interesting, if not compelling case, as to why what I guess I would call “just plain theatre” is struggling so much. Mr. Simon himself has the money quote:
“I’m dumbfounded,” Mr. Simon, 82, who has won a Pulitzer and three Tony Awards, said in an interview. “After all these years, I still don’t get how Broadway works or what to make of our culture.”
It’s easy, Mr. Simon – in this culture, ya gotta have a gimmick. See Gypsy. -twl
