All in the Family

Theatre has a younger sister. She's a bastard child named Cinema and she came from a short lived affair between Father Storytelling and that hussy Photography. (they haven't spoken since)
She's beautiful and lusty and manages to seduce all the good artists in town sooner or later, but really she's all about the money and leaves them one after another high and dry in the end.
She's a real bitch but I love her anyway.

They also have a sister named Opera, but no one likes her anymore because she's gotten old and dowdy. She makes brief public appearances every now and again, but most of her lovers are dead and gone. Those few that are left remember her in all her glory and splendour--they carry around wallet-sized black and white portraits of a buxom young ingenue who was the talk of the town. Too bad all her sugar daddies died and left her penniless.
She did have one child though--Musical. Sometimes Musical gets along with her uncle Theatre, but more often than not it's a tenuous relationship. Theatre tried for awhile to adopt Musical, but in the end, she just moved out on her own. Theatre feels like his niece has sold out, and in a lot of ways, she has.

Good riddance I say, that hoebag was trashy anyway.

Sometimes Musical even dresses up like her uncle and pretends to be Theatre when really she's just screwing around pimping washed-up seventies artists catalogs into Broadway whoredoms. (Broadway is in fact a red-light district for Theatre, he rarely goes there because he knows he could get into a lot of trouble...)

Theatre, I know you may have fallen on hard times, but as far as I'm concerned, you are still the man of the house around here.



ps--I'm really sorry they made you change your name from 'Theatre' to 'Theater' when you moved to America. That was a real drag.