August 18, 2009 — After dinner at busy, unpretentious Grandma's Kitchen in Whitefield, New Hampshire, I drove up the road to the Weathervane Theater to see "Ain't Misbehavin'." Just five performers carried this lively production of Murray Horwitz and Richard Maltby Jr.'s 1978 Tony Award-winning musical set in 1930s Harlem. In the cavernous, un-air-conditioned Weathervane, the audience happily sat sweltering through the two-hour, high-energy revue as the talented cast, two male and three female, soaked their costumes in sweat as they maintained a high level of energy under the lights on the even hotter stage. Normally, I would make the 2 1/2-hour drive home after a Weathervane show, but this time I had been invited to visit friends the next day at their camp in Pittsburg, so I drove 10 minutes north to Lancaster where I spent the night at the Lancaster Motor Inn.
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