My unmediated impressions and thoughts on, especially, theater and other topics of interest to me.
[When I read of the death of Ralph Lee, the mask- and puppet-maker who also created the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade, I wanted to post something in his memory, but I didn’t want just to republish his obituary. A few days later, the report of the passing of playwright James de Jongh appeared, and I decided to post an homage to the two theater artists together.
[I began assembling various articles and reports to accompany the two obituaries. As I developed the memorial post, it began to grow longer and longer, eventually outgrowing my maximum length for a stand-alone post. So, now the memorial to “Two Theater Personages of Note” has become two posts. I’m starting with Ralph Lee and the homage to James de Jongh will be posted on Monday, 12 June.]