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almamater
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Posted: Oct 02 2005 at 10:41pm \| IP Logged

I am trying to put together an evening for some adult and older children in which we would read a play. That is, I will choose a play, invite enough people so that each participant covers one or two roles, mix up a bowl of sangria, and we all sit around the family room and read the play aloud.

The first question is: Which play? I was kind of thinking Tennessee Williams, but dh is suggesting Our Town. Any suggestions??

No, I have never done anything like this. Actually, dh and I are professional musicians and I was planning to start a monthly musikabend ("music evening" a tradition from the eighteenth/nineteenth centuries)where we would invite various friends over to make music, maybe read poetry, etc. These would be mostly amatuer musicians. It would be a way to just have fun listening to and making music and to allow our children seeing music just be fun with other people! Anyway, then I saw an interview with, oh darn, I forgot who it was, an actress who is doing some plays on Broadway this last couple of seasons. Seeing the snippets from her performance reminded me just how much I love/miss performing on stage. So, I thought I would make our first musickabend a play reading instead.

Sorry to be so longwinded. Looking forward to your thoughts/suggestions!

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Kelly
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Posted: Oct 03 2005 at 10:40pm \| IP Logged

"A Man for All Seasons"...a GREAT play, clever, erudite,humorous,moving, all at once. St. Thomas More is hard to beat.

Kelly in FL

PS When we spent time in Austria, we discovered that a lot of our village neighbors belonged to groups that had "musikabends" during the winter. We had the pleasure of hearing them sing one day and was it ever wonderful.

We have periodic violin and piano recitals in our house, and they are always delightful. Just last week we had a piano recital with just our kids and their piano teacher. After the children played, our Bulgarian instructor treated us to Strauss. We made all the contractors who were at our house (ripping up the floor from a flood the previous week) attend the recital, as well as the yard guy who was their mowing. You don't have to get fancy or complicated to have an enjoyable "musikabend"!

Kelly in FL

Kelly
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Posted: Oct 03 2005 at 10:41pm \| IP Logged

Excuse me, I meant "there mowing" NOT "their"!! Ouch!

Kelly, ungrammatical in FL

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