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Sandy MacDonald

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Theatre appreciator (Drama Desk voter), travel writer, translator, singer, blue check freeloader; BlueSky as exit strategy
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NewYorkNotebook by Sandy MacDonald

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Juliana Canfield (center) and company in Girl, Interrupted. Photo: Joan Marcus As a fellow teen suicide-manquée of the late ’60s, I had issues with Susanna Kaysen’s puzzlingly opaque memoir when it came out in 1992 and now find minor fault with the not-officially-a-musical production at the Public Theater. A musical is what this work assuredly is: chamber version, perhaps, or at minimum a song cycle.
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NewYorkNotebook by Sandy MacDonald

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Yerin Ha, Lydia Wilson, and Phia Saban in The Maids. Photo: Julieta Cervantes Jean Genet’s Maids this is not, but as a gloss it’s pretty slick. Over the decades, plenty of writers and directors have had their way with this headline-grabbing material. In real life, the murderous Papin sisters of Le Mans, scandal fodder in 1933, never turned on one another, directing their fury outward instead. But why not embroider a bit?
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Robert Aramayo as John Davison and Maxine Peake as Davison’s mentor Dottie Achenbach You know that feeling when an “inappropriate” word is about to burst out of you, against your better judgment? I recall riding up Park Avenue with my Social Register mother, oh, roughly a half-century ago, in a cab with shot shocks. We hit a pothole.
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