Broadway shows (April 29-30, 2022)

Hadestown, set in jazzy New Orleans, is a modern take on the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, Hades and Persephone. The Wikipedia synopsis of Hadestown is that Eurydice, a hungry young girl, goes to work in a hellish industrial underworld to escape climate-change induced poverty before her poor singer-songwriter lover Orpheus comes to rescue her and together show others the way to escape.  I think the play unnecessarily addresses current political issues when the lesson of the Greek myth is timeless and enough by itself.  My takeaway: Basically, keep your focus on the goal. Do not deviate!

I was interested in MacBeth for two reasons: (1) Daniel Craig starred as MacBeth (2) when we studied MacBeth my junior year of high school, English teacher Papa C. J. MacMurdo said he was typecasting me as Lady MacBeth. Did he think I was cold, calculating, murderous? Seeing the play more than 50 years later, I still see no redeeming qualities for Lady MacBeth. 

After the play, the audience crowded outside in hopes of catching a glimpse of Daniel Craig leaving the theater. We didn't wait around as we are all too short to see over the crowd. Ja vel.