Bent 20
Theatrical Endeavors
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What’s in the name Bent 20?
A Bent 20 is a twenty-penny nail, bent. Just like it sounds. A twenty-penny nail is a
4-inch nail.
2
Why is that important?
The number 4 is a special number to our family.
Our father was an attorney by trade; he was curious about the world and his children’s lives; a man bent on seeing the world through a lens of numbers that connected in the simplest of ways; a person, who, unceasingly led with his heart.
A birthday was never just a birthday it was a number divisible by other numbers.
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What’s up with the number 4?
Four was a recurring number in our family’s history, with an inordinate amount of family members born on the 16th of many months of the year. Our father loved a good number, and we can hear him say, “16, divisible by 4 is 4.”
Our father was born on August 16, 1936.
He died on April 22, 2020.
If you love numbers as much as our dad did, you’d hopefully smile at his simple gesture of a last wave goodbye, with the number 2+2 and 2+2.
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What’s up with the “Bent” in Bent 20?
A Bent 20 is a nail purposefully bent, and used in the making of scenery at the Metropolitan Opera. We are coming up to the 20th year of a precious family member, who just happens to, as we like to say, “build big furniture at the Met.” You can read that as, running the scenic shop.
And, if you like a good omen, which we always do, legend has it that Luciano Pavarotti would always pocket a Bent 20 before he stepped onto the stage at the Met. His first performance there was on the 17th of February in 1972, where he hit 9 high Cs and took 17 curtain calls. On the 13th of March in 2004 he performed his last performance at the Met, a theatrical home where he performed 378 times in 20 roles. Upon his final performance he was met with a long, standing ovation.
Thank you for joining our Bent 20 family on the journey of conjuring magical moments in the lives of many. We hope to make every event we touch as extraordinary and as ordinary as a Bent 20.
