Thrill Me!

Watched a musical play last Thursday with Martin, Neneng, and Michael.
It was called "Thrill Me!".

It was really great. I like it alot.
Was performed by 2 guys accompanied by a piano and it was a small theatre.

Neneng n I were planning to go see jazz at Dallas Museum of Art (DMA). They have jazz nite every thurday (6-8ish PM) all year long and also jazz under the stars in summer (8-10ish PM).
They have different bands every week.

We met Martin n Michael first for happy hour after work hehehe...
Then we parted our ways. They went around the mall first coz it started at 8PM.
We went straight to DMA.

When it was about 7:40ish, Martin called and asked if we wanted to go there and watch the play. It cost $20 something. $25 I believe. And it was quite close to DMA, so we could get there on time.

We decided to go there. After the play, we went out to eat and then hung out with Riko and Chris (his friend who visited from Armsterdam) at Phases, a gay bar til 12ish... hehehhee...
Neneng n I went home, but they still continued til 3AM.
I guess we started our weekend early, eh?!

It was a 85 minutes long play NONSTOP! No intermezzo.
Those guys acted and sang nonstop... awesome! They sang really good too. I like the other one though, the Nathan character. He has an awesome voice.

The play was based on a true storty that really happened in 1924 in Chicago.

2 childhood friends, Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, were inseparable until college when Richard decided to go away.
They finally met again after some time.

Nathan was so dependent on Richard, always following him around and always doing what Richard told him to.
Richard was a selfish psycho bastard, my personal opinion but true nonetheless...hehehhe...

Both of them were from a rich and powerful family. They were geniuses, went to college at the age of 16 and then went to law schools.

Richard was always doing crazy things to thrill himself.
He burned down a warehouse just for the sake of it, stole things from the neighbors' while the neighbors were inside. He said it was better and more exciting with them inside.
He was also obsessed with Nidgi (I think that's how you spell it, not really sure and couldn't found it anywhere in the program).
Always following Nidgi, according to Nidgi blablabla, Nidgi says blablabla...

And of course, he forced and blackmailed Nathan into helping him.
They even made a blood-signed contract so that they couldn't betrayed each other.

Richard was growing crazier and crazier each day.
Finally, he decided to kill someone coz nothing else could thrill him anymore.
Nathan was totally against it but he was binded by the contract. So, he couldn't do anything else other than following what Richard said.

Richard wanted to kill his brother but then after he thought about it with Nathan's help who tried to stir Richard away from killing his brother, he decided to kill an elementary school kid.
The unfortunate victim was Bobby Franks, their neighbor.

They were going to ask for ransom for $10,000 and never give Bobby back. They killed Bobby right away, before asking for any money even.

Everything was settled and went smoothly..... until.... Nathan realized that he had lost his eyeglasses.
From then on, everything was a mess!

They finally got caught and jailed. They were sentenced for life and plus 99 years.
Richard was killed in prison in the shower in year something... I don't remember, I belive it was sometime in 1930ish.
After 33 years in prison, Nathan had a parole hearing and was freed.

He wrote a book Life Plus 99 Years, married Trudi Feldman Garcia de Queveda, a former social worker from Baltimore and widow of a Puerto Rican physician in 1961 and died in 1971.

Oh and did I mention that they were gay and that this was a gay musical play?? 0_o

Uptown Players Dallas.