West Side Story or Vital Therapy Copper? You'd think it would be an easy choice. I may be one of only 17 people east of the Mississippi who has a TV without cable so the choices are pretty slim on a Sunday afternoon. Yesterday the clearest of my 3 channels was asking "have you ever stopped to think how important copper is to the performance of your body?" Well, I didn't know the answer but I'd seen what magnets had done to some of my friends and it wasn't pretty so I have my doubts about copper cream.

OK, I could have gone in the other room and watched the rest of Tuck Everlasting, which is another variation on Romeo and Juliet, but I decided I'd try West Side Story at Trinity Rep ... it had to be better ... oops, wrong. I don't think you could have cast Maria any more poorly than Trinity did. OK she had a great, wouldn't an American Idol die for this, voice but not much else that would keep you focused on her while Anita the PR hottie (or just about anyone else and that includes the orchestra hidden in the back) was on stage. Possibly she had been exposed to magnets before the show? Sure the theater was sold out and the run has been extended ... it's West Side Story after all ... but I'd have never survived the rumble if it hadn't been for the Vital Therapy available in the lobby in the form of a Sakonnet Vineyard Red.