Re: Re-review of That’s the Way It Is, By Golly [January 24]
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It is the intention of this letter to inform the re-reviewer of Nomenil theater company’s That’s the Way It Is, By Golly that fact has not been reported. The point which we address can be found smack-dab in the middle of a set of parentheses (that we feel sure fought against playing a part in this “report of fact”): “(Conkle is playing not only his roles but helping fill in for two actors who’ve left).” (Helbig, page 37).
Let it be reported that not one of our actors, since the show’s debut, has “left” the production. This reported “fact” is false. The performance that the re-reviewer witnessed, truthfully, was sans two actors (one actor awaiting a flight from a Nevada airport, where he was stuck, and the other absence a product of a miscommunicated reopening date after the holiday break). As it was “reported” and assumed in the re-review, it was made to sound that the actors quit the show. No one took the time to research the fact that the two missing actors gleefully resumed their roles the following show date. So, did two actors leave? No. That’s not the way it is by golly.
Opinion: Journalism with integrity separates fact from opinion and reports the unassumed truth.
Jack Helbig replies:
