March 13 @ 7:30pm: I'm HICK again in SF!

 

Subscribe to My Blog! February 26, 2024 March 13 @ 7:30pm I'm HICK again in SF! PREVIOUS BLOGS: TERRYBAUM.BLOGSPOT.COM PLEASE FORWARD THIS TO ANYONE WHO MIGHT BE INTERESTED. PODCASTS, EVENTS, INFO, POSTERS: LilithTheater.com ONE NIGHT ONLY! The Marsh & Lilith Theater Present HICK: A Love Story Based on Eleanor Roosevelt's 2336 Letters to Lorena Hickock Wednesday, March 13 @ 7:30pm The Marsh SF 1062 Valencia St. MASKS REQUIRED! ORDER TICKETS TODAY! When Eleanor Roosevelt became First Lady in 1933, she had a lesbian lover: Lorena Hickok, the most famous woman journalist of her day. Their love affair and 30-year friendship is brought to life in my play. I have the permission of the Roosevelt estate to use ER's actual letters in HICK: A Love Story. And when you hear what she wrote, you will have no doubt that the two women had a lesbian relationship. Best of San Francisco Fringe 2019 Fringe Fave New York Fringe 2015 "Valiant, vivid & Valuable" BALTIMORE SUN "A performance full of love, pain & eloquence.... Baum is mesmerizing." DC METRO "A love story like no other." SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER The photo at left is ER and Hick on their honeymoon. Even the people who refuse to acknowledge that they were LOVERS admit that Lorena Hickok gave ER support and mentoring that enabled her to blossom into the amazing person she became. And, in my opinion, what she became was the greatest American woman of the 20th century. It was Hick's idea that ER should hold press conferences. It was a radical concept in 1933, that the ideas of a First Lady were of any interest to the general public. But Hick saw that ER was different, special, and she needed ways to reach the whole country. Below is a photo of that historic first press conference held by a First Lady. You'll notice that it's all women reporters. Although not worried about her own job at the Associated Press, Hick was concerned that so many women journalists were getting fired. If the First Lady's press conferences were for women journalists only, the papers would need at least one woman on staff. The only man who ever attended was the King of England. He was not invited. He crashed it. I guess he was offended by the idea he could not go absolutely anywhere he wanted. I love Lorena Hickok the historical person and I love performing HICK: A Love Story. It's my dream to perform HICK forever. AND BLOGGELINIS, I NEED YOUR SUPPORT TO HELP MY DREAM COME TRUE! THIS PERFORMANCE AT THE MARSH THEATER IS AN AUDITION for the director of the Marsh, so she can see two things: The quality of my art (not worried about this) the size of my audience (just a tad worried about this). The Marsh actually gives actors a open-ended of one performance a week! Several of their current solo performers have been doing their show in this format for years. If you live in the Bay Area, please come and see the latest version of HICK and show the Marsh that I can sell out the house! Bring a friend! Two! Three! It's not a big theater, so.... ORDER TICKETS TODAY Thanks for your help and please forward this email to any friends in the Bay Area MORE INFO ON HICK, THE PLAY & THE PERSON Bloggelinis: Can you imagine writing 2336 letters to one person?!? And Eleanor Roosevelt wasn't exactly spending her days lying around eating bonbons and dashing off lovelorn missives! She was actually MOCKED for how hard she worked. Of course, the letters that weren't about their love could be dictated to her secretary. But the special ones she had to write herself. Actually, there were MORE than 2336 letters. Hick did two major letter burnings. The first was with her sister. The second was with ER's daughter, who Hick remained close to, even after ER died. I guess she couldn't face throwing ER's letters in the fire without moral support. Were the incinerated letters even more explicitly sexual than the ones that survive? We'll never know. Terry