aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South

Thursday, November 23, 2006

Happy Thanksgiving

James Wolcott:

Take pity this Thanksgiving morn on those poor castmembers of Broadway musicals forced to lipsync and dance in the cold pelting rain as part of the Macy’s Parade festivities. The castmembers of A Chorus Line, their leotards offering scant protection the elements, going through the motions to canned music to an audience more intent on waving at the camera--this is the down side of show business no one ever talks about. I remember once walking on the Upper East Side when I came upon a group of actors in faux armor and leggings clapping coconuts together to promote the just-released movie version of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. As they passed, I heard one coconut-clonker say to another, “And to think I went to Julliard...”