Well this is certainly cheerful news to come home too. Or, you know, maybe not.
I guess I'm okay with it, because I pretty much stopped believing it would be produced when they first made the announcement. Call me a pessimist, who knows maybe I am, but it just didn't seem likely that the money would fall out of the sky and/or be raised in enough time to keep the actors they have now.
I do hope that Damon, if no one else, gets to record his "baby" so that he can preserve the work he's done over the past several years (along with, obviously, Jon and Kristin) and if we get to hear it one day that would be even better.
The thing I might be most grateful for, besides the show itself, is that introduced me to a boatload of talent (both onstage and off) I probably would have never heard of otherwise. Wherever their careers may take them, I think they should still be proud of the work they did with this show and the impact it had on so many people.
I sound like I'm writing a dirge song but really I'm not. I actually feel better having more information and feeling at least some sense of closure. I'm sure the show will be reborn in some incarnation at some point, maybe not now, maybe not anytime soon, but it will be. I think the power of art is it's ability to stay with you, make you think, move you and color your world in different shades you may never have conceived of before. I think Bare is art and because of that, it won't ever really leave.
Now I go fling myself off my terrace.
"Too young to hold on and too old to just break free and run" - Jeff Buckley
Updated On: 10/21/04 at 12:28 AM