Musician's strike on Broadway: Well, there's always "Take Me Out"

Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2003 18:36:01 GMT
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Excerpt from Washington Post reporter Peter Marks' article on the
musicians' strike in NYC:
"Betsy Brininger, a choral director from Baltimore ... and her friend,
Debbie Smith, a Baltimore music teacher ... made an impulse buy of
tickets to _Take Me Out_, one of the handful of straight plays running
on Broadway and thus unaffected by the strike. They knew little about
the play, including the fact that for a lot of it, the men portraying
the ballplayers stand naked in a dugout shower room."
"For *a lot* of" the play!? I don't think so, unless they've added
more shower scenes during the transition from the off-Broadway Public
Theatre to the Walter Kerr.
When I saw "Take Me Out" at the Public, the talk on the theater boards
was that the longest shower scene in the off-Broadway production would
be trimmed for the Walter Kerr. So during the performance at the
Public, I kept waiting for the *long* shower scene. At the end of each
shower scene, I'd think: "Could that have been -- nah, that scene
wasn't very long." Finally, at the end of the third act (i.e., the
final curtain), I realized that someone had actually thought one of
the preceding shower scenes was "long."
Now I learn that someone thinks the ballplayers are nude during "a
lot" of the play...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63125-2003Mar8.html