The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is a theater buff:
These days Admiral Mullen throws regular dinners at his 19th-century home on a small naval compound near the State Department, where the walls are not hung with medals but framed show bills from nearly every Broadway show that he and his wife have attended.
Of course, it’s possible Mrs. Mullen is the theater buff and he just goes along for the ride. Either way, this is cool.
Oh my gosh, that is cool! I just finished writing a post on a rather depressing report from the National Endowment for the Arts on the state of theatre in America. So this is a nice antidote!
Hmm. I wouldn’t have thought military personal would be a allowed to collect Broadway paraphernalia, what with “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and all…
Reminds me of a song:
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I know the croaking chorus from The Frogs of Aristophanes!
Then I can hum a fugue of which I’ve heard the music’s din afore,
And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore.
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In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I am the very model of a modern Major-General.