L'Hotel (a new play premiered at the Pgh Public Theater)

[Dave (imported)]

L'Hotel is a new play written by Ed Dixon that premiered this month at the Pittsburgh Public Theater. I saw it Thursday. I had a good time.

It (and I shall borrow from a review) brings together six famous inhabitants of the celebrated Paris cemetery Pere Lachaise – Italian composer Gioacchino Rossini, French author Victor Hugo, French actor Sarah Bernhardt, Irish playwright Oscar Wilde, American dancer Isadora Duncan and Jim Morrison (of the Doors), and a waiter who brings endless coffee and food.

(side note - The Doors sing the ring tone on my cell phone - the ALABAMA SONG)

It is a comedy where the inhabitants of the cemetery talk and their talk is fascinating, such diverse characters meeting in one strange place, and eventually the characters and the audience learn that there is a way to leave this cemetery's day after day existence of the dead in a dead hotel - and therein lies the fun and drama. Who will leave and how will it happen?

[gareth19 (imported)]

L'Hotel is a new play written by Ed Dixon that premiered this month at the Pittsburgh Public Theater. I saw it Thursday. I had a good time.

It (and I shall borrow from a review) brings together six famous inhabitants of the celebrated Paris cemetery Pere Lachaise – Italian composer Gioacchino Rossini, French author Victor Hugo, French actor Sarah Bernhardt, Irish playwright Oscar Wilde, American dancer Isadora Duncan and Jim Morrison (of the Doors), and a waiter who brings endless coffee and food.

(side note - The Doors sing the ring tone on my cell phone - the ALABAMA SONG)

It is a comedy where the inhabitants of the cemetery talk and their talk is fascinating, such diverse characters meeting in one strange place, and eventually the characters and the audience learn that there is a way to leave this cemetery's day after day existence of the dead in a dead hotel - and therein lies the fun and drama. Who will leave and how will it happen?

Morrison covered Alabama Song on the first Doors album but it is by Kurt Weil from the opera The Rise and Fall of Mahagony.

[Dave (imported)]

I often think to myself that if the vast audience that loves and adores THE DOORS and Morrison ever really knew where the song came from they would stand wide-eyed in horror. I heard the THREEPENNY OPERA long before I heard THE DOORS. That started with Bobby Darrin and I sought out the entire. I also heard "September Song" and "Lost in the Stars" earlier. "Pirate Jenny" was another introduction, too. Some of those songs were sung by Johnny Mathis and Nat King Cole and I still have my Aunt's recordings of those two singers. When I speak about playing electric organ, it was bar and popular music from that era.

I never saw "Mahogany" until PBS produced it for their broadcast a few decades ago.