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Dear Opinion8ed, Just a quick note to say that I am enjoying the web site. We were away for a few weeks and will
be pretty busy for a while, so we're falling behind in our "cultural" activity. Enjoyed reading about the Seeger
concert and we're sorry we couldn't be there. We are trying to see if we can make it up to Clearwater this year since Seeger
is supposed to be there. We really agreed with your take on Rachel Getting Married. I felt it was a very moving and
realistic picture of family tensions and struggles, albeit not of a "typical" family.
We saw a very interesting play
from South Africa - "Groundswell" which was reviewed in The New York Times. It was partly a thriller but with a lot to say about what has been happening there
since the fall of apartheid (and with plenty to argue about !)
Anyway, keep up the postings.
Regards,
Jack
M.
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Dear Opinion8ed,
We went to see Next to Normal last night. I have to say, I found it exceedingly brilliant -- harrowing in fact. Honest, brutal, sharply funny, oddly exhilarating, heartbreaking, a ray of hope yet
an air of hopelessness, jolting and painfully moving. The lack of genuine resolution
and assumptions of what may be yet to come was bold, mournful and quite uncompromising.
Unbelievably fine performances; have to presume Alice Ripley will win the Tony for best leading actress in a musical. My only disagreement with Brantley is his comparison to Duncan Sheik and Spring Awakening
-- I actually think the far better comparison is to William Finn's Falsettos, both in musical style, wit, and bitingly poignant
tone. High praise indeed, as that is a piece very near and dear to my heart.
Andrew Stern
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Opinion8ed,
Thanks for the Exit Cuckoo review. Hopefully some of your readers will go see it [before it
closes on May 17]. How about doing a "where to eat in the Theater District" piece?
Peter Bernstein,
Mr. Bernstein is on the Board of Directors of Working Theater
Editor's Response:
Hmmmm... If I take your advice, in order to write that piece I'd have to eat out a whole lot more often
in lots of interesting restaurants and order way more food than I could possibly eat. You're a genius!
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Dear Opinion8ed,
I enjoyed “Volume II”.
And if this was true feedback, the best thing you could have done was figure out how to supply a taste of those fabulous
looking macaroons. Just to karp a little, I believe that Steve Herrell (of Steve's
ice cream, Somerville, Ma) was the originator of the mix-in (circa 1974). Waiting
on line at Steve's was our Saturday night activity during the time we lived in Cambridge.
Since we had no money, it was good that obtaining ice cream could take an entire evening.
Speaking of an evening's entertainment, the clip of N2N was so inspiring that I bought a ticket- lest it become
impossible to obtain one- given the terrific reviews.
Looking forward to the next installment,
Kay Pinitreal
Editor’s Note:
An earlier edition of Opinion8ed mistakenly attributed the invention of mix-ins to Ben and Jerry. Thanks to Ms. Kay Pinitreal this inaccuracy has been duly noted and corrected.
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Dear Opinion8ed,
If I hadn't been so occupied watching Hell's Kitchen, I would have baked up a batch of macaroons myself. (My specialty is lemon coconut.) But
I am now one totally frustrated immediate gratification loving dessert fanatic. Of
course, I would love to take the short cut and just taste one from your freezer stash but I am not above taking a special
trip to Manhattan and even waiting on line (supposed to be nice weather tomorrow). But
I cannot find a trace of Mandy or his Macateria on line. Even usually trusty
Google has failed me. So now I don't have any macaroons and not even a hint of
where to obtain one myself. Help?
Frustrated Dessert Fanatic
Editors Response:
Dear Frustrated,
Unfortunately in reading “Mandy’s Macaroons: They’re Not Just for Passover Anymore” you
passed over the not so fine print disclaimer indicating the fictional nature of the piece.
Regrettably, while the FedEx package of macaroons were very real indeed (and figuratively other worldly), not one shred
of the rest was literally of this world (except ironically the quotes from the NY Times which are real). One can only hope. | | |
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