During the war, my mother used to take me to the local repertory theatre on a Monday night, and we used to get two seats for the price of one, for nine pence, in the gods.
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Mum and Dad paid me 50 pence, which was a lot of money when I was 8 years old, not to dye my hair.
In London, before I set out, I had paid one shilling; another was now demanded, so that upon the whole, from London to Richmond, the passage in the stage costs just two shillings.
In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships!
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
I was an altar boy and a choir member.
I was trained in the repertory theater. You would do Moliere one night and Sam Shepard the next.
My mom did costumes for the Pointer Sisters.
My mother came from an Irish family of 11 kids and, of course, had a sister who was a nun, so I spent time at a convent and with an aunt and uncle who lived in New York and took me to the theater.
I've sat in the theater for thousands and thousands of shows.
It was in England that I discovered theatre. I didn't have any money, but I would just eat yoghurt in order to get some money for tickets.
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