Whats the pull of Provincetown?
I composed music for plays. There was one called P-Town Stories, by Roger Skillings, and one of his statements in the play was: “What Provincetown does is make you unfit to live anywhere else.” And it does. You feel so comfortable with the way this is, that when you go somewhere else, you’re really an oddball. So, are you here forever? No, I’m likely to leave. I’m a Latin-American freak. I might end up in Ecuador. My wife was a Spanish major, and I took her down to Honduras about 12 years ago, and she got a job in the circus. She was a chica sexi, which was hilarious. They had this tent on a cow pasture, and they would say, “Now, ladies and gentlemen, the chica sexi,” and these overweight Honduran girls dressed up in little tutus would come out and pretend to dance. When Marcia came out the first time, I must admit, I blushed right out of my mind, because here was this gringa dressed in this scanty costume, and I could just feel the sexual energy of the place. In her mind, she was
