Since we operate this website, occasionally we will stray from the Gas Pipeline mission to make a personal note. Today we offer two:
1. Brother Doug Harbour of (NGP Photo) is defending America's constitution and the free enterprise system from his outpost in Eastern Colorado. Here is his Op-Ed from this weekend's Denver Post and an earlier story (Pueblo Chieftan). Tuesday, he'll be appearing on Mike Rosen's talk show on Denver's big voice, KOA.
2. We attended Sunday's Anchorage Community Theater's production and were both impressed with the excellence of our kids' acting/singing and saddened that their director, a local teacher named David Block, required them to memorize and recite a series of snippets of socialistic drivel throughout the 80 minute performance. We were inspired to write a review and here it is:
The Fourth Wall: Great Anchorage Actors Burdened With Left-Agenda Script
A Review By:
Dave Harbour
Wikipedia
reports that lefty playwright
A.R. Gurney created “The Fourth Wall” in 1992, currently presented by Anchorage teacher
David Block at Anchorage Community Theater (ACT). We saw it Sunday at the tastefully designed theater on East 70
th Avenue.
While the script launches a predictable attack on America’s free enterprise system, it also blasts former president George W. Bush whose presidency didn’t begin until 2001.
Since New York professor turned playwright Gurney is noted for taking potshots at capitalism, he might sympathize with much of the anti-capitalist script in Block’s Anchorage production. But he couldn’t have written this version of the script in 1992.
We lament that Block’s version of “Wall” requires us to endure such a seemingly endless drivel of leftist propaganda for the privilege of seeing our kids perform in our otherwise wonderful, Anchorage Community Theater.
Here are two good things to report:
First, ACT’s upcoming season is filled with traditional, wholesome community theater productions featuring great works like, “A Christmas Story”, “Little Women” and an Agatha Christie mystery.
Second, ACT provided a great venue enabling four of Anchorage’s best young actors/singers to be noticed. Lindsey Leonard, David Powell, Nicole Diana Chamberlin and Justin Birchell sang and acted like champs. They smoothly migrated from machine-gun-paced dialogues to diaphragm-bursting Cole Porter hit song bravado without missing a beat. Chamberlin, in particular, exhibited Hollywood / Broadway potential. The set was beautifully designed.
The show runs through August 8. While Block's anti-free enterprise message won't give much comfort to most ACT contributors--we urge readers to see the play, support our kids and continue patronizing ACT!
7-25-10
