Tonight was a spectacular success of an evening to cap off a very theater-y day. We started our second seminars for Images today, and mine is Intro To London Theatre...along with six or seven of my closest friends in the program and various others. The professor is a real character who has acted and directed in London for what sounds like ages...part of the first day was having us all go around and explain our experience with theater-going, and when I mentioned seeing Shakespeare plays in Minnesota he immediately recognized that I was referencing the Guthrie! We got off on a bit of a tangent in the middle of class about Minnesota theaters, and it was so much fun to meet and talk to somebody who knew the significance of the Guthrie, Ordway, Pantages, Orpheum, etc. :)
Anyway, on our break in that class, Coleen and I decided that we really wanted to go see a play this weekend, and being the spontaneous, lovely girls that we are, decided that we should go tonight. All that remained was to pick a play...from candidates like "War Horse," "Billy Elliot," "The Little Dog Laughed," and "Love Never Dies," the new Andrew Lloyd Webber sequel to "Phantom of the Opera," we decided on "Jersey Boys." I was so excited...I've had a bit of a love affair with the Four Seasons since we played them freshman year in a halftime show.
After London Theatre ended, I went to my favorite Caffé Nero at the bottom of Trafalgar Square and read three or four chapters of the text for that class (yes, I am aware that this makes me an irrefutable nerd). The book focuses on the evolution of all arts in England from the Dark Ages on...I started with the first assigned chapter on Elizabethan English theatre and read straight through to the architectural revolution under Willam and Mary. Wow, I am a geek. Moving on...
Coleen and I got all dolled up and walked down to the Prince Edward Theater on Shaftesbury in time for student rush tickets at 6:30. After a bit of confusion in which the ticket vendor thought we wanted full-price tickets, we were offered "grand box seats" for the low, low price of 20 pounds. Needless to say, we jumped at the opportunity...HOORAY for awesome seats at a cheap price! We headed out to find a pub for the requisite pre-theater drinks, and were offered 50% discounts as a promotion if we went to this new place called Club 49. Half-off is too good to pass up, so we went there, and I had two great mojitos (mine and most of Coleen's, she wasn't a fan) before we headed back to the theater.
Our seats were great, the show was better. Super dynamic, jam-packed with the kind of hits that make you want to dance in your seat (I did the entire show, haha), and amazing acting throughout. I loved every minute of it...there were points where I was literally leaning out of the box over the railing, I was so enthralled. The second act was utterly fantastic, all the huge hits, a super-cool and innovative final scene, and a curtain call that exploded into a reprise of "December 1963," my FAVORITE Four Seasons song :) Needless to say, we both left the theater super happy and sang and danced the whole way home!
Anyway, enough for now. I'm exhausted and still trying to catch up on sleep after an unexpectedly hectic week, so I'm going to turn in. More on Paris to come tomorrow. Good night!!
Friday, March 19, 2010
who loves you, pretty baby?
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