Divamensch

There were four shows up for Best Director of a Play in 1978, they fit neatly into pairs: Diva: Dracula, Deathtrap Mensch: The Gin Game, Da Melvin Bernhardt was the winner for Da, a quiet little Irish drama about a man acknowledging the father figures in his life. Total Mensch territory. I bet there were about eight lighting cues in that show.

I just read in the NY Times about the death of Louise Lasser (age 87). I just read her Times obit and what a treasure trove of useful information! It was no surprise that she went to a private school in the Bronx and then Brandeis but I was not expecting to read that she was Barbra Streisand's understudy as Miss Marmelstein in I Can Get It For You Wholesale, the show that catapulted Streisand into semi-stardom. She met Woody Allen on a double date (she was with the other guy)