Carlyn’s Back!
It must be Tuesday if Carlyn’s back. Here’s a little background on Carlyn Wade. We’ve known each other since 10th grade. Both our fathers were stationed at The Pentagon in Washington DC. We played sisters in “The Diary of Ann Frank”, my first play in high school – she was Ann, I was Margo. I still feel she’s my sister to this day. We were known for our ferocious matches of tennis late at night during the summer. We pretended she was Tracy Austin, and I was Evan Goolagong. God, if that doesn’t date me…
She’s part guru, part drill sergeant. We cleaned up a lot of the movement, in particular the whaleboat sequences. You know, the men in the whaleboats used to do their best to sneak up on the pods of whales, so they’d be rowing as hard and as quietly as they could, and then switch to paddles as they got closer to the whales so the Harpooneer could do his job. Kind of complicated with no boat, no oars, no paddles and no harpoon…
The script, the words, the music, the acting were all amazingly fine. And what glued it all together was the extraordinary directing/choreography. It was an evening of the finest theater I have seen in years, if ever. Thank you all.