Just two weeks before he’s scheduled to step on a Manhattan stage to play the central character in a new musical play for which he also wrote the text, Rinde Eckert hasn’t been busy rehearsing — he’s been revising.
“We just had an editing session on the last monologue which was very helpful,” says Eckert, after a three-hour work session with his collaborators on the music-theater work “Aging Magician.”
“We slashed and burned a number of things that didn’t need to be there, tightened it up,” says the singer, actor, and writer who has lived in Upper Nyack with playwright/actor wife Ellen McLaughlin since 1995.
