The Broadway show we saw a week ago Monday....
This is a Broadway premiere of an old groundbreaking play that focusses on the early years of the AIDS outbreak in New York and the silence of America's political and media powers in addessing the issue. Whe it first showed at the New York Public Theater, the Play was a critical sensation and a seminal moment in theater history. Joel Gray directs the show as he was in the original production twenty years ago.
The leads were nominated for best actor in a play in the Tony Award nominations annouced yesterday. It was very moving and the cast was great. It was very powerful in its message, even today.
The author, Larry Kramer was out in front of the theater after the show passing out letters about the pharmacy industry and the lack of affordable medications for AIDS treatment. He is still an activist. He did not look like a famous author but rather some old hippie that came to the show to protest.
It was another exciting NYC experience.
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