I'm going to see Boozy tomorrow night (Live Performance). The show tracks the life of Robert Moses, the man who transformed New York City's landscape in a series of public works projects from 1924 to 1968, including the [Triborough Bridge], the [West Side Highway], [Jones Beach], [Shea Stadium], and [Lincoln Center]. The press release says, "With guest appearances by [Benito Mussolini], FDR, and the ghost of [Baron Von Haussmann], Moses learns from the greats until true power is finally his. [Free Mason]-s dance, FDR levitates, and Daniel Libeskind silently weeps. None shall be spared.".. Among the principals, I was especially taken by Nina Hellman as Jane Jacobs. Jacobs is the thread that ties together the play's real-world story (more-or-less accurate biographies of [Le Corbusier] and Moses) and its off-the-rails counterpart (see the description of the Goebbels/Mussolini rabbit conspiracy, above), and Hellman finds both the seriousness of Jacobs's passion for Emerg Ence theory and the camp in the revenge fantasies of a scorned Frenchwoman. Characters also include Fiorello La Guardia.

Update: very funny. The narrator, [Elizabeth Merriwether], was great, as were all the key players (and the rabbits). Ya gotta love a play where someone cries out "Frank Lloyd Wright has a crooked penis!", and where a running joke is Single Use-Zoning. The group has done other pieces.

Hmm, I think I need a WWJJD TShirt.

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