I enjoy perusing my Playbills and usually there are some fun features… But sometimes they are not so good…<\/p>\n
From the opening night Playbill of the flop musical Jimmy, <\/span>by Maureen Cannon:<\/p>\n “Who’s with whom?” and “What’s she wearing?” There was a young usher named Marge The theatre’s sweet magic When is it that Granted, two-on-the-aisle Sardi Party:<\/p>\n Opinions are plain I enjoy perusing my Playbills and usually there are some fun features… But sometimes they are not so good… From the opening night Playbill of the flop musical Jimmy, by Maureen Cannon: “Who’s with whom?” and “What’s she wearing?”Seems the order of the dayWhile the actors wait, despairingOf the audience’s caringJust a bit – a … Continue reading "Ditties for an Opening Night"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2477,2177],"class_list":["post-764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-jimmy","tag-playbill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Seems the order of the day
While the actors wait, despairing
Of the audience’s caring
Just a bit – a flop? a hit? – about the play!<\/span><\/p>\n
Who said to herself, by and large,
As she led the elite
In the dark to each seat
“From where I squint, <\/span>the play’s a mirage!”<\/p>\n
Turns sour, or tragic,
Each time that I sit down to find
My legs and knees poking
Whoever, not joking,
Glares round to see who sits behind!<\/span><\/p>\n
A flower hat
Infuriates, enrages?
When, blooming, it’s
On her who sits
‘Tween me and where the stage <\/span>is!<\/p>\n
May be chic and in style,
But I’ve suffered, and more than a little,
Playing jack-in-the-box
To latecomers (a pox
On ’em all!) Give me two-in-the-middle!!!<\/p>\n
And not murky:
The playwright’s new brain-
Child’s a turkey!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"