There was an O’Malley extravaganza in Manhattan this weekend for my father’s 60th birthday. Aunts, uncles, cousins … My mom organized the whole thing and kept it a surprise (sort of. My dad is uncanny at guessing things like that.)
So funny how the two tables at the restaurant just naturally broke down into the “adults table” and the “kids table”. All of the “kids” are 15 and over. We’re talking about 40 year old men sitting at the kids table, because we are COUSINS, and of THIS generation, not the generation before. I loved hearing the ROARS of laughing coming from the “adults table”. My father seemed very happy. Family is the most important thing. Having his family all together around him is the most important thing in the world.
Good job, Mum! Planning such an event! It all was beautiful.
Then we went to see Urinetown: The Musical, which was, as my friend Mitchell refers to things which are so much fun you want to roll around the floor with glee, “sheer liquid joy”. I was crying with laughter. Jennifer Laura Thompson reminds me of Madeleine Kahn. She has THAT command of comedic possibility. She had a line in the middle of the love scene, “I didn’t either!”, where she is supposed to be surprised at something she has in common with her new love, and somehow, miraculously, the woman got a huge laugh out of it. She was wonderful.
And it’s just a little bit of a miracle that a musical which ends with the entire cast screaming, “HAIL, MALTHUS” is a huge hit on Broadway. Malthus on Broadway?? Who ARE these people? I am in love with all of them.
So it was a very good day. A family day.
Happy late birthday, Dad … It was a wonderful Sunday for all of us!
