Friday, April 24, 2015

Last night-“Oklahoma” U of M Ring Theatre – Very Good Production by those who are so talented! We enjoyed it! Not having been much exposed or aware of the musical as a younger teenager when I was allowed to join others as unpaid counselors in 1956, at a place, then in far off undeveloped South Dade, called Camp Matacumbe  (since re-named Boy’s Town of S. Fla. and which served the incoming Cuban refugee kids whose parents were not permitted to leave Castro's Cuba as the Pedro Pan program) Some of the more talent and knowledgeable counselors re-wrote the lyrics to OKLAHOMA to match up with the name of the camp – “MATA – CU - BE, where we all go walking down the Trail”!  Exciting time for me, grew up a little (OK, Very Little!) Might have been more significant than I have thought and I will have to consider that time and the influences on this “Old Complainer”! Thanks Fr. Claude Brubaker, John Hemmer and Maureen Bennett, et.al. - You to God!  Owe you all a lot! Belated: Thanks.

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