Sad for the news but... the show must go on. Ask Audra McDonald, back in 2007 she only missed the Saturday matinee to attend her father's funeral but was back at 110 IN THE SHADE for the 8pm performance.
Coming from a show business family myself, this is the way it is. I never missed a day of work when my father passed away in 2005. He would have wanted it this way and would have done the same.
The show must go on. Nothing more; nothing less.
So what does that make you, Brody? A zero-trick pony? - Wanna Be
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Foster
.........................The only power brody wields is in his own mind, joe.
But it's amusing to watch him pretend nonetheless. - tazber
I'm sorry for her loss I lost my father when I was 12 and I though there is a huge age difference i know how it feels to loose your rock.
On the bright side if ballots aren't due yet, since the theater community is truly a family that wants to make everyone feel better in their time of need, she is now truly a lock to win....(I know I sound like an ass, she deserves the win in the first place...this tragedy only cements the award she was already was going to win)
The words are "ballots" and "due." And I don't think it will have any impact on voters whatsoever. This "news" has not made any press, and I'm sure voters don't know and won't know.
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
Sad for the news but... the show must go on. Ask Audra McDonald, back in 2007 she only missed the Saturday matinee to attend her father's funeral but was back at 110 IN THE SHADE for the 8pm performance.
That's not entirely accurate, in this case. Several performances (I believe three in total) were cancelled when Audra's father died, to allow her to travel to California, attend the funeral, and travel back to New York.
It's different for everyone. Some people will choose to perform. My dear friend was Ruth Gordon's assistant for many years, and told me that Gordon never missed a performance for any reason. This included missing several family funerals. Others will take the time off. I think what's a general rule though, like with any other job, is that people who do take a personal day will try to get back to work as soon as possible.
My condolences to Judy and her family.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
I don't think it makes someone cool if they don't take any time off when they have a death in the family. I mean, I don't judge either, but everyone deals with their grief in their own way.
I agree with Phyllis. I know people mean well and are painting this portrait of a strong person who suffers tragedy then moves on without stopping their lives, which is always preferable for anyone, but having a very hard time happens to the strong, the weak, everyone. It just depends.
At any rate, my condolences to miss Kaye and her family. I saw her as Carlotta in the original Los Angeles production of The Phantom of the Opera when she returned to the show for a short time in September, 1992, and she remains one of my favorite in the role; it wasn't difficult to see how she got the Tony for her performance a few years back.
Recreation of original John Cameron orchestration to "On My Own" by yours truly. Click player below to hear.
A good friend of mine just lost her father, and she took no time off from work and did say that work helped. I'm a hide from the world kind of person when it comes to my grief.
A co-worker and I were talking about losing a loved one recently and we touched on the same issue about moving on and all that. She was of the opinion that grieving to the point of stopping one's life is weak. Not really. Again, depends, but it could be said that grieving in solitude away from view IS moving on with one's life. It's a different path and not an invalid one, much less one indicative of weakness. Maybe the person knows that, in order to move on as before, they'd have to face it head on, while those who appear to have moved on and are living life as before may be suppressing that confronting of those feelings and are in denial. Someone could simultaneously be back to before and grieving intensely.
I know I will not take it well at all when my mother passes. I also know it isn't a typical case of losing one's mother with me. There are experiences we've shared and situations we've struggled through that will add a whole different layer on my grief. Just talking about it makes me depressed because we all have to die.
Ahhhh! Must think happy thoughts!
*thinks Les Mis*
Recreation of original John Cameron orchestration to "On My Own" by yours truly. Click player below to hear.
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Posted: 6/2/12 at 01:05pm