Theme Song

My mother, who's chronically beset by earworms to the point that my sisters and I aren't allowed even to mention songs from The Sound of Music in her presence because they're too catchy, once told me that she lay awake in bed one night for hours, staring into the darkness as a single line from the theme song to Fran Drescher's sitcom The Nanny raced through her brain. The line: "That's how she became . . . The Nanneeeee!"

For some reason this image of my mother breaks my heart.

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My review of Shattered Globe Theatre's The Beauty Queen of Leenane is in this week's Chicago Reader.