“The palaces of kings are built upon the ruins of the bowers of paradise.”įor the next 24 hours, Mac, who would later be named a MacArthur genius and Pulitzer prize finalist, would sing some of the most popular songs of each decade of US history: 246 in all, starting with Amazing Grace and a hit from the 1770s, Everybody Hates the Congress. “Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence,” Taylor Mac drawled. ![]() ![]() But I dragged myself to a draughty warehouse theatre in Brooklyn, New York, and was there at noon when the show’s star teetered on stage in heels and a giant 18th-century wig made of tinsel, and started reading from Thomas Paine’s Common Sense.
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