THE MILLAY SISTERS AT DON'T TELL MAMA

MARCY MACDONALD'S CORNER

The Millay Sisters

From the moment her sister, Norma (well, AbNorma in her case) flounces inside Don't Tell Mama wearing a tutu-with-a-bustle, Edna St.Vincent Millay -- American poetess extrema -- comes alive. A third sister, K-K-K-Katie (left back in Maine) and the remains -- literally -- of the Millay family appear like an Irish poetry plague on this tiny New York City Broadway stage. Vincent, as she preferred to be called, was not only famous for her world class poetry, but for her fabulous body, revealed in, among other places the proverbial "Tavern in the Town" as well as in bedrooms of almost everybody at her Alma mater, Vassar, and male Ivy League universities up and down America's East Coast, perhaps an early form of audience participation! Vincent came to Manhattan where she gathered fame, fortune and a long list of lavish lovers. Rachel Murdy as the zany Norma is the perfect foil for Margi Sharp's tall and delicate Vincent who was, coincidentally, born at St. Vincent's hospital in lower Manhattan. Pick up a volume of her original work, then see Don't Tell Mama's website for future performances.

Photo By: Corey Szopinski