Taste of Tennessee comes to Hudson
A FORMER Marine was convicted Wednesday of shooting a man to death outside a Queens club, authorities said.
William Harrigan, 33, shot 22-year-old Boutin Williams five times after getting kicked out of club Flirt on 80th St. in Ozone Park on Aug. 27, 2012.
The pair got into a brawl before Harrigan went to his car and got the murder weapon, prosecutors said.
“As a result of his actions that night, the defendant now faces the prospect of being locked away for the rest of his life,” said Queens District Attorney Richard Brown.
Williams was hit four times in the back and once in his upper right arm, said Assistant District Attorney Peter Lomp.
At the three-week trial, Harrigan claimed that as a former Marine he suffered from post traumatic stress disorder.
A Queens jury found Harrigan guilty of seconddegree murder and weapons charges.
Harrigan faces up to 25 years to life in prison at his sentencing on April 25. “ARE YOU kidding me? What a shame.”
That was New Yorker Ava Lee Scott’s reaction when she learned of a “Wheel of Fortune” contestant who couldn’t solve this puzzle: A STREETCAR NA—ED DESIRE.
“I don’t know how I feel about that,” Scott added.
Actually, the actress who lives in Chelsea and plays a fortune teller in “Sleep No More” knows exactly how she feels. She’d like to buy an M — as in Mortified.
Seriously, who doesn’t doesn’t know “A Streetcar Named Desire”? And, for that matter, Tennessee Williams, the great American playwright who wrote it.
So if there’s one show the game-show knucklehead should see on Sunday, it’s “Tennessee on the Hudson.”
The show is all about Williams, and celebrates what would have been his 106th birthday on Sunday.
It also marks the inaugural presentation of the Actors Theater of New York City, which Scott helped to establish.
The show includes seven of the author’s one-acts, and weaves in music and dance.
Like the playlets themselves, the characters in them aren’t as well-known as doomed Blanche from “Streetcar” or faded Amanda from “The Glass Menagerie.”
But the fictional men and women have Williams written all over them, according to Scott. “He illuminates broken people. His characters could be your neighbors,” she said. “They’re people you think you know but really don’t.”
The array of eccentrics who will be in the spotlight includes an oddball in “Mister Paradise,” a mistress in “The Pink Bedroom,” and desperate loners in “Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen.”
You can catch “Tennessee on the Hudson” at 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Sunday, at The Box, 189 Chrystie St. Tickets are $75 and available at www.tennesseeonhudson.com.