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Letter from Chip Northrup

More About Mango Street

Edmond Rodriguez, the nephew of Chip Northrup’s brother-in-law, performed at The Glimmerglass Festival this year in productions of “The House on Mango Street” and “The Rake’s Progress.” (Photo provided)

I read the book, “The House on Mango Street,” and I was particularly interested to see how it worked as an opera. The answer is that the Glimmerglass production, which Sandra Cisneros helped write, is as good as the book.

As a theatrical production, the characters and their interactions are brought very much to life. It helps that I know people like the ones portrayed, that the female lead reminded me of my first girlfriend in Texas, Olga Gonzalez. That they epitomized the taco sellers, carpenters, lawyers, policemen, and cowboys that I knew in Texas, good people that came to America to work and, in doing so, have kept America the great country of immigrants that it has always been.

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