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Aug. 16th, 2009 07:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
neadodsThe last play I saw was A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. It was supposed to star Bruce Dow, who has been playing the supporting character with the show-stopping song for several years now (for example, his Nicely Nicely Johnson rocked the house with "Sit Down, You're Rocking the Boat"). So Forum was supposed to finally be his star turn.
First he hurt himself, badly, then he got sick.
The new Pseudolis is one of the swing actors from West Side Story. It rather changes Forum to have Pseudolis be the same age as Hero, although as a piece of broad, crude farce it's impossible to get wrong - it was a total romp! Although if I were the director, I'd be switching roles - the actor playing Hero (my notes are still packed) was very much a young Rowan Atkinson, all charisma, dark curls, big nose, and impeccable sense of comic timing. He'd make a much more impressive lead; I look forward to seeing more plays with him.
M went to see The Importance of Being Earnest that night. She says it was a delightful production, but I was having an equally delightful time hanging out with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
wendymr.
And then to home. The border guard on the way up was a theater fan ("You're not seeing West Side Story? I shouldn't let you through!"); the one on the way back sort of grunted politely at us and sent us on our way. (It sucks to get up early to leave... until you fly over the Peace Bridge without a delay!)
On the way up, I'd gone by my notes of previous years' travel on the all-superhighway route. On the way back, we trusted the GPS, which has old maps and at one point was just showing a car in a blank expanse of white, repeating "recalculating... recalculating... recalculating..."
In the end, it gave us a route that wended through many stoplights and town centers (including one that was in the early stages of setting up a fun-looking Italian themed street fair). However, stoplights and all, this route had the triple advantages of showing off the scenery (Pennsylvania is a stunning state), cutting 90 minutes off the travel time, and cutting out all tolls. So I'm thinking I have a new route to Canada.
I've also learned the interesting facts that Cyrano de Bergerac was a real person (I've bought a book about him) and that Forum was based extremely loosely off of three Greek plays, which I will have to look up online.
And so, back to the real world. I have the notes for a 2.5-hour meeting to type up tomorrow...
First he hurt himself, badly, then he got sick.
The new Pseudolis is one of the swing actors from West Side Story. It rather changes Forum to have Pseudolis be the same age as Hero, although as a piece of broad, crude farce it's impossible to get wrong - it was a total romp! Although if I were the director, I'd be switching roles - the actor playing Hero (my notes are still packed) was very much a young Rowan Atkinson, all charisma, dark curls, big nose, and impeccable sense of comic timing. He'd make a much more impressive lead; I look forward to seeing more plays with him.
M went to see The Importance of Being Earnest that night. She says it was a delightful production, but I was having an equally delightful time hanging out with
wendymr.And then to home. The border guard on the way up was a theater fan ("You're not seeing West Side Story? I shouldn't let you through!"); the one on the way back sort of grunted politely at us and sent us on our way. (It sucks to get up early to leave... until you fly over the Peace Bridge without a delay!)
On the way up, I'd gone by my notes of previous years' travel on the all-superhighway route. On the way back, we trusted the GPS, which has old maps and at one point was just showing a car in a blank expanse of white, repeating "recalculating... recalculating... recalculating..."
In the end, it gave us a route that wended through many stoplights and town centers (including one that was in the early stages of setting up a fun-looking Italian themed street fair). However, stoplights and all, this route had the triple advantages of showing off the scenery (Pennsylvania is a stunning state), cutting 90 minutes off the travel time, and cutting out all tolls. So I'm thinking I have a new route to Canada.
I've also learned the interesting facts that Cyrano de Bergerac was a real person (I've bought a book about him) and that Forum was based extremely loosely off of three Greek plays, which I will have to look up online.
And so, back to the real world. I have the notes for a 2.5-hour meeting to type up tomorrow...
