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Bonnie:

Give a look at Belle of Amherst from your library.  Julie Harris is superb.
But the characterization of ED there is akin to the portrait of Mozart in
Amadeus, delicious, but falling far short of suggesting the power of his work.
Yes, of course, plays and movies, by their nature, never give full views of
characters, particularly, perhaps, of artists.  If you were here you wouldn't
find Belle of Amherst on Broadway.  I saw it a couple of decades ago.  And I
really know nothing of the show's history elsewhere.

When you come here, attend a college near enough to New York City so that you
can go occasionally to the Big Apple for cultural fixes of various kinds.  I
retired from NYC ten years ago, and came to Santa Fe, New Mexico, but I still
miss Manhattan.

Louis Forsdale