Archives for May 20, 2005

Like the song
says, I’m goin’ to Chicago. (Back when I was in college, I used the wonderful old 1941 Jimmy Rushing-Count Basie recording of “Goin’ to Chicago Blues” as the closing theme of my late-night radio show, which my friends used in turn as an accompaniment to all sorts of illicit activities.) Our Girl and I have shows to see, meals to eat, and hours of intensive talking to do, and we won’t have nearly enough time for any of these things, since I must return on Sunday night and resume my regular rounds of Manhattan and its environs. We do expect to have as much fun as possible in the time available, though.

OGIC will update you on our activities some time this weekend. I’ll be back in the saddle on Monday, though I may not have much to say that morning, seeing as how I probably won’t have much time to get it said before I fall into bed on Sunday night.

In the meantime, enjoy your weekend.

It’s Friday, I’m in the Journal, and I’m in a raving mood. The causes this week are Orson’s Shadow and Kristin Chenoweth:

Now that Broadway has settled down for the summer, the show to see is Austin Pendleton’s “Orson’s Shadow,” first performed five years ago by Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company and currently playing Off Broadway (why did we have to wait so long?) at the Barrow Street Theatre. It’s “All About Eve” for eggheads, a thought experiment in which Mr. Pendleton, a veteran actor and sometime playwright, endeavors to imagine what might have happened when Orson Welles (Jeff Still) directed Laurence Olivier (John Judd) and Joan Plowright (Susan Bennett) in Eug

Goin’ to Chicago, sorry that I can’t take you

Goin’ to Chicago, sorry that I can’t take you

There’s nothin’ in Chicago that a monkey woman can do.

You so mean and evil, you do things you ought not do

You so mean and evil, you do things you ought not do

You got my brand of honey, guess I’ll have to put up with you.

Jimmy Rushing, “Goin’ to Chicago Blues”