Too busy to write much, but I must record two performances before I forget them or throw out the programs. Watched "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson" with TH last Thursday at the Public Theater. A rock musical written and directed by Alex Timbers, with Music and Lyrics by Michael Friedman. Great production, rousing music, dark humor, a handsome star. I want to sleep with Andrew Jackson, aka Benjamin Walker. The ending moralized too much, about the abuse of power, about the genocide of Indians, but the references to Bush, and even Clinton, were thankfully not too heavy-handed. American history has never been more enjoyable. Another history lesson, this one seen with LW. Hotel Modern's production of KAMP at St. Anne's Warehouse in Dumbo, a part of the 9th International Toy Theater Festival. Moving about in an enormous scale model of Auschwitz, three actors manipulated the 8-centimeter tall handmade puppets that represented the prisoners and their executioners. Small sce...
