If you had a time machine – and could visit 5 separate times\/places – what would they be?<\/p>\n
Off the top of my head, here are mine:<\/p>\n
1. To be in the rowdy groundling pit, at a performance of Hamlet<\/i> in the Old Globe Theatre in Elizabethan London<\/p>\n
2. The 2nd Continental Congress<\/p>\n
3. This one’s more general – but to be a flapper-girl in New York City during prohibition, partying in the speakeasies with Zelda and F Scott Fitzgerald, etc.<\/p>\n
4. To be in Paris in the 1920s – hang out at the cafes with Hemingway, Joyce, Gertrude Stein, etc.<\/p>\n
5. To have been in the audience at the Ed Sullivan Show when the Beatles first came to America – to have seen them live – and at that particular moment<\/p>\n
I also would have liked to been a witness to (or a participator in) the Boston Tea Party.<\/p>\n
I would have liked to been in class at the Actors Studio in the 1950s. Watch the work of a young Paul Newman, Shelley Winters, Ben Gazzara, Steve McQueen … and on and on …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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