What, Why, How: Ann Rosenquist Fee

WHAT?

Playing “Rita” in “The Best of Hank and Rita: A Barroom Operetta by Joe Tougas.” Joe and I play a fictional husband-wife country-pop duo who hit the Top 10 briefly in the 1970s and, after a declining decade that followed, are performing tonight (circa 1986). They’re on the brink of divorce, but Hank doesn’t know that, but the audience does. It’s eleven original songs firmly grounded in the aesthetic known as “1970s AM Gold,” with a lot of improvised back-and-forth leading to a...