I'd signed up on AARP Theatre to watch "Broadway & Beyond with Marin Mazzie and Jason Danieley", filmed at a NYC club on 1 June 2017.
It was the word "Broadway" that caught me, as I knew nothing about either of them.
But, as I watched the film clip a few weeks ago, I noticed something that was different about their duet: they were holding hands.
In fact, they had been in contact during the entire song, but this was when I saw the held hands.
Wow.
And when I watched the entire film tonight, I was again struck with their near-constant contact, but this time I knew two things about them.
1) This show was filmed on their 20th wedding anniversary and celebrated their first touch as Dido and Aeneus in the Puccini opera.
It had not mattered that she was 36 and he was 25.
2) She had died within a year after this performance at Feinstein's 54 Below.
The ovarian cancer had returned, possibly before this show.
No wonder the songs were ones they'd sung before, meaningful lyrics with an extra dollop of poignancy at this time in their lives.
I couldn't help but draw a parallel from them to JinHi and Mark.
Her omnipresent cancers - plural - have given them many scares in their 24 years of marriage, but they are still holding tightly to each other's hands.
Wow.
Why not make this post a celebration of that emblem of love and trust?
So, the film of Marin and Jason stands as the first entry, though it was not the first seen.
That honor belongs to "Warm Bodies", watched last week on Peacock.
It's in the "my stuff" folder, too, so I can see it again whenever I like.
I really love this zombie movie!
R shows Julie what a sensitive guy he is by playing appropriately-themed cuts on the albums he's collected.
Here, Ella and Prince Edward enter the ball holding hands, but her heart no longer belongs to him.
No, a couple of days in the real world has led her to Robert (and his darling little daughter).
Yes, even though it had been Edward who sang to, and with, her in the imaginary land of Andalasia!
It's so very important that a couple should be able to sing love - or play - love songs to each other to let each know know how they feel!
Language is important, and precise word choice more so.
How better than in song to express deepest feelings to a loved one?
This afternoon I saw the third film with hand holders.
Yes, the couple in this photo are my ever-helpful Sally with her beloved scientist, Jack, in "The Nightmare Before Christmas".
How glad I was that AMC gifted me with that for my dance card!
And I'm glad I was able to include this movie in this film festival.
(smile!)
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