A Trip to the Black Madonna

Southern Gothic meets Midwestern kitsch, which is my kind of pilgrimage and just what I needed before this Holy Week.

Last week I was talking to my old friend, Kaitlyn, who tours the country with Broadway musicals. She’s in charge of all the costumes. This is an enormous job. Just thinking of all the ballet shoes in Phantom makes me pass out with organizational overwhelm. This is the first year in decades that she has stayed in one place. Usually she is wandering al…