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In learning to appreciate art, you might come to better understand yourself.
Shes been in practice rooms for hours with a piano and the musical director and his nasty old assistant.
He slips into her perspective: Ive heard the cheers at curtain call, a life lived unlike anything.
But is that why I sing?
Why do I sing?
Plus theres an ex-boyfriend, played by Ryan Vasquez, who lingers at the edges of Creels consciousness.
All in all, thats just the right existential headspace for a museum trip.
For the most part, his bounding amateurism is the right approach.
Garshin, played by Vasquez, steps out to serenade us with stormy Russian angst.
Then it will be new.
One sees a hopeful daydreamer looking out that window, another someone crushed by the loneliness of the city.
Were both looking at the same thing, but were each seeing it totally differently, Creel muses.
Thats one of those little observations that might seem trite, but it does carry a lot with it.
If youre a museum novice, thats certainly not a bad place to start.
Walk on Through: Confessions of a Museum Noviceis at MCC Theater.
