[2ndsetters] Wednesday, July 11 at the Red Devil Lounge

[Mario D. Santana]

Theater people are very strange. Last Wednesday was the opening night of
a most unusual production at the Red Devil Lounge. A musical Julius
Caesar -- the complete text in six hours with two intermissions. One man
did all the wardrobe, music, directing, producing and acting. The vision
was to sing all the parts, accompanied by a really great bongo player,
switching between characters by changing bits of costume: a hat, a beard,
a coat. And a full suit of armor for Mark Antony.

Unfortunately, the play did not last very long. Though not one mark came
to see the show, the play began on time. But very soon the actor, while
playing both Brutus and Julius Caesar in a crucial scene, had to stab
himself in the back. Weekly performances were cancelled and Second Set
was called to fill the first slot.

So thank God for Shakespeare, because this Wednesday Second Set will have
another in the long running Wednesday Night Series at the Red Devil
Lounge. Be a trooper and get to Polk and Clay in SF for the 8:30pm
curtain call. The show must, and will, go on.

Second Set -- All the World's a Soapbox