New Skin For The Old Ceremony film-Columbus, OH- May 9

[bridger15]

Too bad this is a last minute notice, but I just found it in a tweet only minutes ago
Hopefully our friends in the Columbus area will be able to go
http://www.wexarts.org/fv/index.php?eventid=6313

Wexner Center for the Arts
tonight May 9 at 7 pm

---Arlene

[MaryB]

Who cares if it's last minute notice - schedules can be adjusted. We'll be there. Thank you so much for the alert Arlene!
Warmest regards,
Mary

[bridger15]

That's great, Mary.
Looking forward to your report.

---Arlene

[MaryB]

Getting to the viewing extremely late (half hour into the showing - so much for schedule adjusting ), the box office was closed down. We begged and cajoled (including us saying 'let us give you the money and you can add it to another show) the two young folks still there, to no avail - the register was balanced, closed down, etc. We begged and cajoled again - we finally got 'let me let you talk to the manager'. The manager came, show is almost over, so just go in, no cost. The cost of this was $7 per person to the general public, $5 to a bunch of specialties including seniors, students, alumni of OSU (this art center is part of the Ohio State University).....

We get into the theater. It seats 300. There were 26 people attending, including George and myself, plus 4 employees watching the viewing - so, only 10% full. Of the 26, 23 looked like seniors, the other 3 were probably students. I recognized no one.

Basically, this movie is the soundtrack of New Skin For the Old Ceremony with different artists creating videos to fit the various songs. We only got to see the videos of 'Who By Fire', 'Take This Longing', and 'Leaving Greensleeves'. At the end, there was applause from four attendees. Seeing what I had seen and knowing what this movie consists of, would I pay to see this - no - I would rather see countless videos of LC doing these songs anyday.