Art Ginsburg, aka Mr. Food, has died. His daughter used to the music director at the Cohoes Music Hall back in the day when shows like "No Way to Treat a Lady" and "Angelina" and "Theda Bara and the Frontier Rabbi" got productions.
Yes! She was the MD for "Angelina," which almost had Carolee Carmello for its leading lady. My memory is that she was offered the role just after she was offered the tour of LES MIZ. She made the right choice, I think. I kept hoping we'd fire the leading man. He stank.
I liked her, but I've forgotten the MD's name. She left her husband and Albany to run off to Brooklyn with the handsome drummer at Cohoes. I don't remember his name either!
I didn't like Cohoes; it was a haunted ghost town: there were ghosts everywhere; it was terrifying walking down thw empty streets after dark, and my apartment above a pizza parlor was full of them. The Music Hall was also haunted but it wasalittle jewel boxof a theatre. Whatever happened to that awful director of "Angelina"? Hated him.
