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April 5, 2005 by Terry Teachout

Some shoes go dancing

Every night.

Some shoes go living it up

Left and right.

Places with music playing.

Laughter and noise and wine.

Hundreds of shoes all swaying.

Not mine.


Some shoes take cruises

Far away

Their skies are tropical blue,

Never gray

Toes up against the railing,

Watching the water shine

Hundreds of shoes gone sailing…


Right now they’re off

Exploring

Some exotic street,

Champagne pouring

In the moonlight…

Now they’re dancing

Feet to feet…


I see them tiptoe lightly

Up a winding stair,

Slipped off nightly

In the darkness

Next to someone else’s pair…


You won’t catch my shoes

On the town

They’re sturdy, sensible things,

Basic brown.

Not ones to fly away in,

Dance or make love or cruise.

Wish I could spend one day in

Someone else’s shoes.


Lynn Ahrens, “Shoes” (music by Stephen Flaherty)

OGIC: Same hard place, new rock

April 5, 2005 by Terry Teachout

Sorry gang, I’m still all jammed up over here–or, I should say, jammed up again after the briefest of respites. Both blogging and emailing remain on hold. She’s been busy lately, however, and during that lovely, lapsed break I recall taking great interest in this and its companion piece.


P.S. I ordered spring, but the kitchen sent summer. I’m sending it back to be cooled down about ten degrees.

Terry Teachout

Terry Teachout, who writes this blog, is the drama critic of The Wall Street Journal and the critic-at-large of Commentary. In addition to his Wall Street Journal drama column and his monthly essays … [Read More...]

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About “About Last Night”

This is a blog about the arts in New York City and the rest of America, written by Terry Teachout. Terry is a critic, biographer, playwright, director, librettist, recovering musician, and inveterate blogger. In addition to theater, he writes here and elsewhere about all of the other arts--books, … [Read More...]

About My Plays and Opera Libretti

Billy and Me, my second play, received its world premiere on December 8, 2017, at Palm Beach Dramaworks in West Palm Beach, Fla. Satchmo at the Waldorf, my first play, closed off Broadway at the Westside Theatre on June 29, 2014, after 18 previews and 136 performances. That production was directed … [Read More...]

About My Podcast

Peter Marks, Elisabeth Vincentelli, and I are the panelists on “Three on the Aisle,” a bimonthly podcast from New York about theater in America. … [Read More...]

About My Books

My latest book is Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington, published in 2013 by Gotham Books in the U.S. and the Robson Press in England and now available in paperback. I have also written biographies of Louis Armstrong, George Balanchine, and H.L. Mencken, as well as a volume of my collected essays called A … [Read More...]

The Long Goodbye

To read all three installments of "The Long Goodbye," a multi-part posting about the experience of watching a parent die, go here. … [Read More...]

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