Divamensch

My friend Donna alerted me to the death of Gloria Steinem, age 92. I'm a Steinemite from way back - - I took a Speech class in high school and in 1984, at the age of 15, I gave a speech about the Equal Rights Amendment and circulated a petition asking my classmates to support it. Steinem was fierce and wise and funny and tremendously strong. I will always admire her, we all owe her a great deal. This short interview gives a pretty good summary of her beliefs. It was done for

We've gotten to 1986 and the first Broadway show I ever saw! I was in New York on choir tour in the spring of 1987 and a group of us saw the show that had won the Best Musical Tony, The Mystery of Edwin Drood. It was delightful, a perfect first Broadway show. Diva: the show Mensch: seeing it a year after it opened The show is so well made you don't really need to have stars in it. This is what you need in a show, it should hold up to a lot. I was pleased to see George Rose in