just as I've given up drink I'm an awards junkie who now finds them silly. however I do enjoy watching the Tony show because it's always been the most entertaining of the awards shows.
in preparation for tonite's event I remember back to the first play I ever saw on Broadway:
Henry James adaptd by Michael Redgrave & directd by Margaret Webster with costumes by Alvin Colt. the stars were Maurice Evans & Wendy Hiller (with Olympia Dukakis standing by for no less than 3 roles).
here's what I scribbld in my very first Playbill:
& borrowing a word from that mini-review here's my newest poem.
THE END OF MAURICE EVANS
he'd been Hamlet & Macbeth & Prospero
Caesar & Rev. Brock & H. J. too
then there was his ape warlock
& Rosemary's old friend Hutch
but time caught up
with the toast of Broadway
nearing 90 with dapper dampend
he took to bed in Brighton
his manager saw the flame within
& rentd young men
to lie naked beside him
gone were greasepaint & spotlight
but on that deathbed
the play of life still soard
in preparation for tonite's event I remember back to the first play I ever saw on Broadway:
Henry James adaptd by Michael Redgrave & directd by Margaret Webster with costumes by Alvin Colt. the stars were Maurice Evans & Wendy Hiller (with Olympia Dukakis standing by for no less than 3 roles).
here's what I scribbld in my very first Playbill:
& borrowing a word from that mini-review here's my newest poem.
THE END OF MAURICE EVANS
he'd been Hamlet & Macbeth & Prospero
Caesar & Rev. Brock & H. J. too
then there was his ape warlock
& Rosemary's old friend Hutch
but time caught up
with the toast of Broadway
nearing 90 with dapper dampend
he took to bed in Brighton
his manager saw the flame within
& rentd young men
to lie naked beside him
gone were greasepaint & spotlight
but on that deathbed
the play of life still soard
1 comment:
I love the newest poem.
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