I am a student at Boise State University, studying for my M.F.A. in Poetry, and the editor of the student newspaper there.
I bought a used copy of “Player Piano” by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. at a local thrift store for 50 cents. Inside the book, on page 83 (the start of chapter IX) I found a ticket stub from the Fox Theatre, St. Louis Mo., dated March 16, 1978, 8 p.m. Sec. 4, Row Z, Seat 116.
I have looked around the Internet trying to find out what was playing that night in the theatre for a poem I am writing on this odd happenstance and I have come up empty. I understand the Fox closed that month, that year. Was this perhaps the last night? There is also the word “Doucette” across the top. Does that mean anything?
I would also like to know anything you would be willing to disclose about the player piano, the wurlitzer, still in use at the theatre. I am trying to figure this out and would be greatly helped with a nudge in the right direction.
To whom it may concern:
I am a student at Boise State University, studying for my M.F.A. in Poetry, and the editor of the student newspaper there.
I bought a used copy of “Player Piano” by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. at a local thrift store for 50 cents. Inside the book, on page 83 (the start of chapter IX) I found a ticket stub from the Fox Theatre, St. Louis Mo., dated March 16, 1978, 8 p.m. Sec. 4, Row Z, Seat 116.
I have looked around the Internet trying to find out what was playing that night in the theatre for a poem I am writing on this odd happenstance and I have come up empty. I understand the Fox closed that month, that year. Was this perhaps the last night? There is also the word “Doucette” across the top. Does that mean anything?
I would also like to know anything you would be willing to disclose about the player piano, the wurlitzer, still in use at the theatre. I am trying to figure this out and would be greatly helped with a nudge in the right direction.