In “The Wind and the Rain,” which is staged in the harbor and begins during Hurricane Sandy, Sunny’s Bar, in Red Hook, Brooklyn, is the subject of and the actual location for the final act, Ben McGrath writes.
Not long afterward, in the barge’s southeastern corner, a professional juggler in bare feet opened a refrigerator and retrieved a drink, not because the script called for it but because he lives on board, and it was Friday. “It’s like college has let out, and a huge group of kids has come home,” he said, gesturing at the cast and crew.
Sandy, with its extended blackout, had marked the beginning of the end of the nostalgist’s own Red Hook days. The mention of the tornado, long since forgotten, stirred a vivid flashback: an image of an irredeemably inverted umbrella. He’d been on his way to the ninetieth birthday party of a revered colleague, on the Upper West Side, and making the interminable trek to the subway when the storm spun up the Gowanus. No one else at the party looked rattled, let alone dishevelled, when he arrived.
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