matinee

“It was fun,” McTavish said of his first rivalry matinee, which drew a sellout crowd of 17,174.

The jacket photo of “To Absent Friends,” which features Welty and Lyell in a theatrical pose, as if they were matinee idols, hints at the kind of personal theater in which they indulged as 20-somethings.

Well, I’ve faced the matinee crowds on the West End and lived to tell about it, but I’m all thumbs in the kitchen.

There was utter silence from the audience at the matinee performance on a rainy, wintry Saturday during the 90-minute performance.

For the three decades Kristal ran CBGB, he never stopped experimenting and wasn’t afraid to try something new: from serving 50-cent bowls of chili to staging all-ages matinee hardcore shows.