My last performance on the Hideout Theatre stage was February 29, 2020, an otherwise-typical Maestro where we gossiped in the green room about this “COVID” thing. My next last performance was a weird one—four months later, filming a political ad for a fictional audience in an empty, locked-down building. Then I moved to Amsterdam, but there were additional last performances too, on subsequent visits home.
So you’ll understand that I hesitate before declaring that my October 8th Out of Bounds performance with USS Improvise, the improvised Star Trek musical1, really was my final one at the Hideout’s current location. I’d love to be wrong! But I think it was. The Hideout’s losing their building at the end of the year and raising money for a new venue and their next chapter. I support this effort, but I also believe buildings can have souls, and this one sure as hell does.
