Things we TALKED about...

Northlight’s wonderful production of Outside Mullangar.

Anticipating our visit to Theo Ubique in Rogers Park to see Jesus Christ Superstar.

Memories and facts about the iconic Broadway watering hole, Joe Allen

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/03/30/trifecta

Hobohemia (you’ll have to listen) and the Dill Pickle Club. Frequent visitors included:

*    Clarence Darrow

*    Upton Sinclair

*    Carl Sandberg

*    Ben Hecht

A visit to the Chicago Flower & Garden Show featuring such things as:

* Insect petting zoo featuring baby cockroaches from Madagascar

* Painted lady butterflies

* The G-Swing (hammock-like contraption)

* No Miracle Grow or other things one might expect.

* Navy Pier…

Chita Rivera on Broadway in The Visit. Roscoe reports the show is “spellbinding!”

Kiss of Death:

-- Big Al Boope   Chicago Tribune obit

-- Albert Maysles  Documentary Filmmaker

-- Mary Healy  Actress dies at 96

-- Bernice Madigan  One of the world's oldest people dies at 115