Tuesdays with Morrie

[BarryG]

Hi All, I just heard about this on CBC radio. Maybe someone in the Toronto area would be interested in seeing it.

http://www.als.ca/tuesdays.aspx

Barry

[patricia1]

I read the book It was wonderful
pat.

[BarryG]

I read it too and really enjoyed it even though the subject is a little too close to home. But I guess that's probably the reason why I read it. I hope that this play doesn't try to hide the fact that Morrie has ALS or pass it off as some unknown neurological ailment. We really do need more people to know what we are dealing with and that it has a name.

I wish that it was a little closer to me, I would go!

[redneck charger]

I read it too, when Mom was first diagnosed with ALS.. Great book..thinking to myself.. should pick it up again, and have another read..

[BarryG]

Hal Linden is being interviewed this morning on the CBC radio show Q about his part in "Tuesday's with Morrie". It is probably over for most of you in time zones east of me and isn't available to most of you in the US off the air but it will be available at cbc.ca/radio and may be available as a download. If it is downloadable I'll try to post a link.

Barry

[Zaphoon]

I saw the play version of "Tuesdays with Morrie" over a year or so ago (got a couple of free tickets in exchange for a piano tuning) and had no idea what ALS was about. A few weeks later I was at a local high school and saw a girl from the sophomore class with ALS being helped by a friend of the family. It still didn't register with me.

I had a tuning appointment a few weeks later and the lady I was working for had a copy of the book, "Tuesdays With Morrie" on her bookshelf. Ha, a few months later I was examined by a neurologist who suspected I have PLS. Figure the odds...

Zaphoon

[Valya]

I purchased the book from Audible. It was narrated very nicely by the author. An advantage to getting an audible version over the book, is at the end of the book, there is an actual recording from one of their sessions. You can hear Morrie speaking and that really brings it all home.