Two thumbs up - a movie and an opera

Wanted to pass along the info for two really excellent shows I saw in the past week.

One, you can still see. The Pioneer Theater in the East Village this Friday will again screen "In Sickness and in Health," a very moving documentary about same-sex couples in New Jersey who sued to be allowed to marry. The heartbreaking part comes when one of the partners is diagnosed with ALS and it becomes so obvious so quickly how "partner" means second-class citizen to the medical and legal world. I cried.

Unfortunately the other show I saw and loved was the Puccini opera "Il Tabaro" that was staged on the Mary Whalen oil tanker in the Brooklyn container port last weekend. Only two shows left and they're sold out. A very crazy only-in-NY experience. Near the very final dramatic scene, unbeknownst to the actors, the Tribute in Light came on in Lower Manhattan. But for the whole audience, we watched the end of the tragedy unfold on the deck of the boat with Lower Manhattan and the lights in the background. I wasn't the only one who cried.

Labels: brooklyn, movies, nyc

- posted by Amy @ 9/12/2007 02:31:00 PM