An evening with Johnny Cash

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Today’s highlight was an evening at the Actor’s Cabaret! AA is performing in the musical The Ring of Fire, based on the life of Johnny Cash, and tonight we went with DG (her husband) and his friend EK. We went early for the dinner seating, and I had a very tasty lasagna, then at intermission there was lemon cake and chocolate cake, which I nibbled at too. The performers were three women and six men, all playing the role of Johnny Cash and various people in his life. AA was especially good, I thought, definitely hamming it up at the right times and looking properly stricken when she was supposed to be teary. Her duo as June Carter Cash in “If I Were a Carpenter” was especially cute. They didn’t perform all of the songs in the original Broadway show (they skipped the one my sister was convinced I wouldn’t like), and they switched up the order some too. A few of the male solos were especially good. Since we were there for the dinner, we were right down in front, with the performers sometimes just 8 feet away or so. J was a “man in black” for me – he finally wore a short-sleeved black linen shirt I’d given him years ago, and he looked very sharp.