The Old Man and the Pool
I had never heard of Mike Birbiglia. There he is on Netflix in a monologue called The Old Man and The Pool, taped before a packed house at the Vivian Beaumont Theater, at Lincoln Center. He walks on stage. There's nothing there but a sloped backdrop for projections. Mostly the projections are of a swimming pool at the Y.
He does t…
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