I love Chicago. I do.

[tzikeh]

I adore Chicago. It has everything New York has -- in many cases what it's got is better, actually -- and that includes the live theatre. There is so much good theatre in Chicago, and it's cheaper by far than New York theatre, and it's both riskier and more available than most of what you'll see on Broadway. But I grew up going to Broadway - it's more a state of mind than it is a place - and I've said over the years that the only thing I really miss about New York is Broadway. Friends who currently live in NYC are quick to say that Broadway is on the decline, that Broadway costs too much, that Broadway no longer offers a cultural night on the town, but more of a broad-stroke shallowness which passes for entertainment. And I nod, and I think, yeah, I really shouldn't miss Broadway all that much.

And then I read that the play The Exonerated is taking a page from The Vagina Monologues (and before that, Love Letters) and featuring a rotating cast.

This week's cast? John Spencer, Robert Vaughn, Ben Vereen, and Harold Perrineau.

::goes off to look at airfare to NYC for three days from now::