"Curtain Up! Light The Lights! They've Got Nothing To Hit, But The Heights!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

                              I am so excited, girls, because tonight is the night the curtain goes up on that fun-loving Sister Act--namely Annette Bening and Jessica Hecht as Goneril and Regan in "King Lear."  That is Jess Collins, on the left, who will essay the role Cordelia, but for all us "Learities," it is the evil machinations of the two sisters that draws us bitchy queens to this play.  The Baby Jane and Blanche Hudson of their day.

                               Who else but Shakespeare could get away with the line, "Out, vile jelly!," in reference to the Duke of Gloucester's eyes being poked out, by Goneril, with Regan at her heels!

                                   And the storm scene--outdoors at the Delacorte!  Imagine, if it rains, and they kept on playing!   Talk about heightened realism.

                                     But I come to "King Lear" with a special relationship, darling, as some of the relationships in my family seem to echo it, and because, as I watch 'Lear', I am also thinking of Jane Smiley's novel,"A Thousand Acres," which I am currently rereading!  And the underrated 1997 film that was made from it, with Jessica Lange and Michelle Pfeiffer.

                                       So, I want all my sisters out there to come to the park, and see these sisters!
They are REAL twisted!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                         Imagine if Kay Ballard and Alice Ghostley had played them?  Or Pat Carroll and Barbara Ruick???????????