Locals will get free admission to the Key West Museum of Art & History on St. Patrick's Day. The museum is located in the architecturally-restored Custom House, built by more than 100 Irish brick masons who braved rampant yellow fever and blistering sun in 1890. The original masons, mostly from the Boston area, were imported to ply their skills in mortaring together almost one million red bricks and terra cotta pieces that enclose the four-story structure. The workmen went to work early and, after a midday break for refreshment, returned to the job in the afternoon.
"If you study the brick courses carfully, you can see those that were put in after the lads had their `lunch,'" said Claudia Pennington, executive director of the Art & Historical Society.
The museum is open from 9 a.m. `til 5 p.m.. For free admittance, residents need only to show identification with a local address.
Theatre aficionados into premiers of the latest award-winning productions are familiar with the famed venues of New York, London, L.A., Dublin, Edinburgh, Prague and Key West? That's right, our own Waterfront Playhouse is hosting stop number three on the world tour of the award-studded play Moscow.
"We are thrilled to be able to bring this quality of play to Key West, direct from L.A.'s Playwrights Arena," said Scott Gilmore, Artistic Director of the Waterfront Playhouse, "it's a great play, the music is wonderful and the story line will appeal to our Key West audiences. Called brilliant, original, absurd and clever by the London Guardian, who commented that the play "puts its faith in the healing power of art." The surreal story opens with three gay men in a theatre. They don't know each other, why they are there or how they got there. So they decide to perform Chekhov's, The Three Sisters. . . with hilarious, impromptu songs.
Moscow runs through April 13: Individual tickets are $25. Info: 294-5015.