1/20, Sunday. Rain. One man show Buyer and Cellar opened today at Portland Center Stage. 90 minutes, no intermission. Playwright Johnathan Tolins inspired by Barbra Streisand's 2004 coffee table book My Passion for Design. In this production, Nick Cearley plays Alex Moore, who worked as a shop keeper in Streisand's basement. He also played 3 other characters without putting on different costumes: the manager, the boyfriend, and Barbra herself. Stage is simple and well done: silhouettes of shop shelves, a couch, a desk. Very funny. Entertaining.
I got out of the theatre around 9:15pm. Unable to find the moon. Total lunar eclipse tonight (~8:30-9:40pm), and supermoon at 9:17pm. A few train stops later, I was able to see the last end of eclipse, sill in a veil of clouds. One full hour after the eclipse, the sky was more of less clear, and the moon was bright and large.
