Getting to "Yankee Tavern" at the Phoenix Theatre and the opening of "Billy Elliot" in Chicago (more on these to come) meant missing an art opening at the Harrison Center, Melora Hardin at the Cabaret at the Columbia Club, Carrie Underwood at Conseco and more.
So fill me in here at our virtual water cooler. Share what you saw, heard or otherwise experienced this weekend.
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Friday was Spark A Revolution at the Earth House. My first exposure to Know No Stranger was bind blowing. 31 performance artists created a carnival like experience recreating your favorite internet destinations.
And Sunday was a trip to Buck Creek Players for Brain from Planet X. REALLY fun satire. Excellent set and costumes. And a great ensemble. Would love to see it with a more energetic crowd than what I saw at the Sunday matinee.
I also drove out to Danville to the Longstreet Playhouse, new home of the Hendricks Civic Theatre. "Grace & Glorie" is this all-volunteer community theatre's 4th production in their new space but it was my first chance to get there. It is a charming, intimate space in a renovated church. I was moved by the show, too. It is an inspirational drama about a hospice worker and the 90-year-old woman she volunteered to help.
I will, of course, write more about both of these shows on my own blog in a day or two.
I had planned to hear Anne Shimojima share stories at the Indiana History Center on Saturday night but decided I needed to stay home and catch up on my blog writing instead. But later, on a purely last-minute whim, I joined some family members at Radio Radio in Fountain Square to hear a Bloomington-based band called "Gentleman Caller." Very fun.
I also read and loved a new novel called Anthill, by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edward O. Wilson. It is about a boy growing up near Mobile, Alabama. He decides to try to save a tract of wilderness from developers...but it is a much more rounded story than that. Lovely writing, a pleasure to read. I will never think of ants, or the South, in the same way again.
I am in the middle of a new nonfiction book called The 188the Crybaby Brigade: A Skinny Jewish Kid from Chicago Fights Hezbollah, by Joel Chasnoff. It is funny and insightful and fascinating, about an American who joins the Israeli army.
Hope Baugh
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