I caught the matinee yesterday and was blown away my Ms( or Mrs.) McGovern's voice. I admit I didn't know much about her besides what I had read on this message board, but when she sang Days of Plenty, I lost it. I can't even explain what I heard in her voice....no words. I know this thread is for Maureen but I also just need to mention what a privilage it was to see Sutton, watching her sing Astonashing and a few of the other songs just really touched me and made my admiration towards her grow even more. Maureen, Megan and, Sutton just really struck a cord in me...maybe it's because since I moved out here to nyc a few weeks ago I feel really lonely, miss my family and friends and feel undoubtedly "failurish"... but seeing those 3 women on stage just helped erase any frustration or doubt I had in moving here and in coming here to do what they do. I can't wait for the cast recording and I can't wait to have enough money to go see it again, not so much for the show itself because I felt it dragged but for those three amazingly inspirational women and the voices they each posess.
The theatre is one of the most expressive and useful instruments for the edification of a country; it is also the barometer which makes its greatness or its descent. A theatre which is sensitive and well oriented in all its branches from tragedy to vaudeville can in a few years change the sensibilty of the people; theatre which has been destroyed, in which cloven hooves take the place of wings, can put to sleep an entire nation. A people that does not aid and encourage its theatre is moribund if not dead; the theatre which does not gather to itself the best of society, of history, the drama of its people and the genuine color of its landscape and its spirit, with laughter or tears, does not deserve to call itself theatre, but rather a place for that horrible thing which is called killing time.- Federico Garcia Lorca
