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October 26, 2005

Chicago, Chicago

Last weekend the Hudson Family headed up to Chicago. The reason? Do we need one?

Friday night I hooked up with Kay and Eamon to see our friend Kristen star in Drury Lane Oakbrook's Once Upon a Matress. She rocked. The Chicago Tribune says so.

Saturday we shopped. Really not that much, but we looked at a bunch of stuff. I bought two pairs of shoes (same shoe in black and brown). You'll be seeing a lot of them over the next 3 years. Saturday night we ate at Nick's Fish Market before heading to see Purlie at the Goodman. While the show itself has its problems, I love it. It's one of the first shows I saw performed live. The music is great, and it's message good too - as Ossie Davis put it "the purpose of this show is to point a finger at racism, and laugh it out of existance."

However, this production... it just fell flat. It was inconsistent. It was amateurish at times. It had holes. I left frustrated that this is a high profile production (Pasadena Playhouse and the Goodman co-produced with the plan of taking it to Broadway) and it's just not top notch. That's just it. How is this ok? In what business is it ok to forge new ground, to move things forward with a product that is not top notch... If nothing it lit a fire under me... again :)...

Photos of the weekend here.

Posted by nikl at October 26, 2005 12:26 PM

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