by Jack Filsinger.
NEW YORK, NY – Audiences at the Richard Rodgers Theatre were left shocked after native New Yorker Ed Lowery left the house midway through the curtain call, even though friends and family of Lowery suggest that Ed is a firm believer that the moral arc of the universe will eventually bend towards justice.
“I don’t see what all the hubbub is about,” said Lowery, who was wearing a “The Future is Female” t-shirt. “The show was over, and I wanted to make sure I had a good spot at the stage door. And yes, before you ask, I do think that there’s an inherent goodness in people that supersedes our lowest animal instincts.”
Despite Lowery’s insistence that the natural state of the human psyche is kindness, another theatergoer, Paula Murray, claimed to see Lowery pushing his way through the crowd, and accosting the hardworking cast at the stage door later that same evening.
“He’s got at least two dozen playbills he wants signed, plus other unlicensed merch,” Murray explained before being bodychecked by Lowery, who was trying to catch up with an ensemble member he had mistaken for Lin Manuel Miranda. “It just seems very obtuse to me given that he also berated me after the show for not donating to Broadway Cares.”
Jennifer Lowery, Ed’s mother and a fellow audience member, also found her son’s behavior to be at odds with his innate belief in the indomitable nature of the human spirit.
“I kept seeing people side-eye him as he traipsed up the aisle,” Jennifer remarked while wearing a small crucifix as a necklace, implying that her son had been raised in some kind of religious moral upbringing. “But he’s a good man deep down. He even volunteers at soup kitchens from time to time. Or at least that’s what he told me.”
Lowery was spotted the following day at the Gershwin, exiting the theater before intermission had officially begun to take a call, where he could be heard loudly insisting that “we’re are all on this big blue marble together, and we have to, above all, be kind to one another.”
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