The Chicago area is peppered with talented people and one of the latest to join this crowd is Robert Francis Goldthwait, tucked into a quiet and pleasant Western suburb.
“I have come to like it very much,” he told me. “I came here three years ago after living for 35 years in California because my girlfriend wanted to be near her parents. That’s three years … Three winters and I made it through.”
He has new work. He is writing. Movies are in the early stages. And he is celebrating the release of his first CD in decades, titled “Soldier for Christ” Wednesday night with a sold-out performance at the Lincoln Lodge, along with Russian American comic/actor Eugene Mirman. Proceeds from the ticket sales will benefit The Trevor Project, which provides crisis support services to LGBTQ young people.
It is a fine, refreshing CD, a freewheeling collection of thoughts on politics, family, his personal life and these precarious times. You can almost hear wheels turning as he talks. “There is really something exciting while I am performing and a new thought just comes into my head and I go with it,” he said.
“It all happened so fast,” he said. “It was really an exciting period. Venues always changed and so many of them. There was always a place to perform.”
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