Destiny: The Great Caretaker

Destiny: The Great Caretaker, Eric Diehl, 2024

A year ago, Life and Trust opened and promptly closed after only 210 performances. This Emursive production was the successor to Sleep No More, a much longer running show. Pictured is the bar at the Conwell Coffee Hall, a shop that doubled as the lobby for Life and Trust. Located a block south of Wall Street, we met Dan there for lunch. He had been doing set construction on this project for almost a year. The set was huge, six floors, 160 rooms. Both of these Emursive productions are part of a new theater trend called immersive theater. In these shows both the audience and the cast roam about the set and are allowed to intermingle. Dan and Britt got to see Life and Trust before it closed. I tried to take us all to see Sleep No More before it closed but was too late. As it turns out Emursive owed their landlord $4.5M in back rent. This may also have something to do with the quick demise of Life and Trust, which closed after only a brief run. Its reviews were positive too. I am reminded of The Producers, a show about theater flimflam artists. Dan got paid and got comped tickets too.

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