{"id":1224,"date":"2009-05-30T12:27:57","date_gmt":"2009-05-30T16:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/judykat.com\/ken\/?p=1224"},"modified":"2010-09-18T10:41:33","modified_gmt":"2010-09-18T14:41:33","slug":"1916-fourth-avenue-my-annex-theater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/1916-fourth-avenue-my-annex-theater\/","title":{"rendered":"1916 Fourth Avenue – My Annex Theater"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"DSCN1434.JPG\"<\/a>1916 Fourth Avenue. I spent ten years here as a company member at Annex Theater.<\/p>\n

The old Fred Astaire Dance Studio with the sprung floor and light booth permanently improvised on top of the bar is gone. <\/p>\n

In its place is a new high-rise.<\/p>\n

The tower’s street level facade evokes the building it replaced. <\/p>\n

The ghosts of “Captains”, “Annex” and “7-11” keep the old tree company — the same tree that shaded our front windows and hid our rotating anarchy A sign.<\/p>\n

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Some familiar landmarks.<\/div>\n

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The platonic ideal of dive bars, Patrick’s 1911 is now a flyfishing shop.<\/div>\n

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Outside “Olivers”, where Susan always remembered your drink, the tower rises from behind Cameras West — or as it actually appears in some nirvana-latin memorium, “Came as u est”.<\/div>\n

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A-man now walks a less upscale neighborhood. I wish the current company the best. I acted, directed, produced, stage managed and designed sound but think my legacy is the background image they for some inexplicable reason still use on their website<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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