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Notes from Arden
Raw Returns: Emerging From our Bunkers
One thing remains certain: No assembly bill or virus can kill the theater. It will simply move into other spaces, like a song that orbits for a while and then returns in the future with echoes of the past. We can dream.
Featured Column
The Mad Russian and the Dane, Part 3: Interviewing Rudi
“When he came out everybody was yelling “Rudi, Rudi, Rudi!” As he passed me I said quietly, ‘Mr. Nureyev.’ He stopped and said ‘Yes?’ I don’t remember the details, but I assume I reminded him of who I was and asked him for an interview. I don’t recall if he agreed, or referred me to his manager, Chris Allen. But whatever happened, I was set up with an interview before the last Sunday matinee of his production of ‘The Nutcracker.'” — BY NEAL WEAVER
Got It Covered
“The reason for the get-together was both to make merry and to raise money to support Stage Raw. In the last few weeks of December, Stage Raw critic Myron Meisel generously stepped forward with an offer to match any tax-deductible donation up to $5,000. The site’s bean counters (I think there’s at least one bean who does the counting), reports that we reached the desired total of $10,000. ” — By PAUL BIRCHALL
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Around Town
The perquisites of privilege are so inescapably fulsome and intrinsically unfair, and so inadequately copped to, that it may just be impossible for such men to behave well enough in a world that favors us so reflexively to the detriment of the validity and opportunity of everyone else. Lee milks the hapless absurdity of this existential quandary both for derisive laughs and a scintilla of poignant pathos. — BY MYRON MEISEL