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 Directed by Sharon Rosen as part of “The Receipt Plays,” The Milk Can Theatre Company, May 2004.
In this evening of short plays, each playwright pulled a receipt out of a hat. I pulled a Bowery Bar receipt. I looked up the Bowery in two New York City reference books, and read about a New Yorker named William Miller, who predicted that judgment day would be on April 23, 1843. When it wasn’t, he revised the date to Oct. 23, 1844, and after the world didn’t end then, Miller fell into obscurity. For both these dates, New Yorkers prepared by buying fabric from stores on the Bowery to make their angelic robes, so they’d be ready to ascend to heaven. Bowery explores what the reaction to Miller’s predictions would be now. Maybe the only thing that never changes in New York is that there’s always retail.
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Pictured are Kristian Leavy and Sarah Wolfman-Robichaud.
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