Monday, April 26, 2010

Crazy Nights.

For those everlastingly entranced by the glamor and allure of Broadway, i am a fellow admirer. I've always found the grade A productions performed in this the world renown theater to be ones of incomparable grandeur.

What you're probably are unaware of, is that Broadway started off as a cult, in about 600 BC, lasting about 400 years thereafter. Annually, the cult would gather and perform rituals to gratify their God in the form of extravagant feasts and unrestrained copulation. Its purpose in creation was to praise Dionysus, the God of Wine, celebrating his him through unrestrained and impious behavior. (Whimsically thinking, knowing just this, one can infer of the etymology of "Broadway", however its name has little to do with its origin, and is rather a description of its physical range.)


So in conclusion: All the food and wine one could consume intermitted only by wild orgies, is the primeval of what we know today as the famous BROADWAY.

>Compliments of my surprisingly knowledgeable English teacher.

Post Script - For those who watch True Blood, I hope you've made the connection.
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