A long time ago, my friend Nick (and our friend Utkarsh) joined me in a band called Midnight Echos. If you need a visual reference, take a gander at this:
Nick gave me a receding hairline with his Photoshop skills, and then life gave me a real one with its aging skills. Anyway. Fast forward a few years, and Nick has become one of the best artists I know: confident without being cocky, and humiliated without being self deprecating. He wrote a show at 19 that grew and grew and became one of the most talked about shows in our local theater community. Four best friends from high school return from a year away at college, and go to pull a prank on their old stomping ground.
There’s no set change and no intermission, but over the course of 90 minutes, the guys transform from a gang of identical white kids from suburbia to four incredibly diverse and faceted young adults. As this transformation unfolds, the characters play a game of trying to figure out how to merge nostalgia with reality. It reminds me of a quote from the last episode of Six Feet Under: “You can’t take a picture of this - it’s already gone.”
Now, it seems Broadway is in on it. Click for a screenshot of the NYtimes.com front page today. The full NYtimes story after the jump.