Old School Theatre

Yesterday we caught a David Mamet play at the Mark Taper forum, pretty intense and not a feel good show but then you don't go to a Mamet play expecting Neil Simon dialogue. But maybe this audience did. I haven't been to a theatrical matinee in so many years I had forgotten how the crowd differs from evening performances. This group was about 80 or so. I don't mean how many seats were filled, the audience members were mostly Civil War vets. I would bet that at least half the women went to school with Jefferson Davis. I don't mean to say that they were all old people but I've never seen a theatre lobby selling coke, sprite, wine and Geritol shots.