Holy Ghost hunter

I caught Passing Strange tonight in Berkeley with a trio of PhD students from the U. I always get a little nervous hanging around people who are that far along in their education. But they were cool. They didn't even bore me with econ theory. We talked a lot about break-ups, and boys...and pedicures...and marshmallows.

Passing Strange, for those of you out of the know, is a musical about, um, something. Life? Music? Let me put it this way: It took place in LA, Amersterdam, and Berlin, then back to LA. There were some REALLY good songs, but they could have been longer. All the songs could have been tighter, too. If you broke it up into quarters, numbers 2 and 3 were solid, while 1 and 4 were kind of lost. It was fun though, and I think has lots of potential. Theatre, unlike film, is dynamic. They can add stuff, change things, etc. Hopefully Stew and the crew will do just that.