As I post this, Director Diane is winging her way to SXSW; if you see her, say hi (she’s the elegant blonde in the witty t-shirt.  Yes, that elegant blonde).  Or perhaps you’ll be sitting next to her at the Like A Pascha screening …. Not all brothels are the same, of course, and surely such tacky dollar store masks will never be glimpsed at the Poppy.

And while we’re on the subject of film, interesting to see, in last Sunday’s New York Times, this overview of the use of onstage projections in the theatre. Michael Mayer, director of the Green Day musical “American Idiot” about to open on Broadway, is quoted as noting that the growing popularity of projections reflects “a whole generation’s response to the media” and that generation’s comfort with that media’s ubiquity.  Which is not, as such, a reason to include projections, film, anything, to a story onstage, unless it suits that story’s story, which ours emphatically do.