Highlights from the 2020 "Moby Dick" book club talent show

Thanks to everyone who came out to The Great Beyond on Herman Melville’s birthday!

For the show, I edited together a look back on the first major FrizzLit book club, the one that read Moby Dick over four months — a club that started in the damp, drizzly November of 2020.

In case you couldn’t make it out to The Great Beyond — or couldn’t hack it in that sweltering theater¹ — here’s that highlights reel you missed: the video above.

And here are two pics that an audience member snapped of all the artists in the show.²

The writers and musicians at The Great Beyond on August 1, 2024. Photographs by Ann Bieri

From left: Christopher Frizzelle, Julia Sweeney, Audrey Van Buskirk, Chris Lydgate, Amy Hirayama, Rebecca Brown (obscured by music stand), Tomo Nakayama, Debbie Miller, Will Spengler, Adam Haws, George Meyer, Sarah Rudinoff, Paul Matthew Moore.

Off stage: Quinn Franzen, Barrie Lobo McLean, and Keith White.

Seascapes by Heather McHugh were projected on the back scrim. I’ll show those photographs in a separate post later this week.

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1. Note to self: If we ever do The Great Beyond again, it needs to be in a venue with better A/C. Those stage lights were hot.

2. Further note to self: Next time, hire a photographer.