Playing Catch-Up
Wow, the past week has been so chock full of stuff, another mini list is due.
1. The afternoon before Matt's show I went to go see James Kudelka's Cinderella with my mom. The dancers of Boston Ballet where beautiful, as usual. Erica Cornejo and Nelson Madrigal were very fine as Cinderella and her Prince. Kudelka sets the famous stories in the 1920's giving the whole ball/aristocracy a very Great Gatsby kind of feel. It works. The sets were gorgeous and a giant homage to the Art Deco period. Overall, it was not one of my favorite ballets, (I find the score a little boring and repetitive - sorry Prokofiev) but the parts that I did like were very clever indeed. The "clock" was represented by a team of twelve men in tuxedos with pumpkin heads, making the whole spell section slightly creepy and wonderful. The ball, which I've already mentioned was definitely brilliant and the pas de deux was sweet.
Afterwards mom and I ate at a marvelous Thai place across the way called MonTien. The chicken satay was outrageously awesome.
2. We scooted back up to NH afterwards to meet up with Allison, and I got to play with her dog Peach's latest litter of pups. How could you not be happy looking at this:
They were very hard to photograph because they're so wiggly! I could seriously snuggle with these little guys all day long!
3. Matt's show, was great, except I didn't get to see him play. Allison and I drove aimlessly around Cambridge looking for parking for a whole hour while we missed the Growlers set. I was so bummed out, I almost cried a little really! I've seen them play a thousand times before, but this was Matt's big day, (it was the biggest venue that they've ever played), and I felt like a ninny for missing out on it. The kicker? We ended up parking at a garage that was only two blocks away...for $4! It was there the whole time. Urgh! Silly Boston!
I ended up having a great time though regardless...here are two of my favorite pictures from the night:
Crazily enough - that all happened within one day, and I think I've been recovering ever since! Yesterday was my first real day off in ages, but I think that I'll save telling you about it until tomorrow. Tonight I'm going to see the opening of Wait Until Dark at Matt's theatre. It's going to be perfect for Halloween. I've never seen the play, but I absolutely love the Audrey Hepburn movie. Alan Arkin is creeptastic in it!
Have a happy and safe Halloween everyone!
Today I am thankful for the cider doughnut that I ate for breakfast. Sometimes the little things are the best things! What are you thankful for today?
1. The afternoon before Matt's show I went to go see James Kudelka's Cinderella with my mom. The dancers of Boston Ballet where beautiful, as usual. Erica Cornejo and Nelson Madrigal were very fine as Cinderella and her Prince. Kudelka sets the famous stories in the 1920's giving the whole ball/aristocracy a very Great Gatsby kind of feel. It works. The sets were gorgeous and a giant homage to the Art Deco period. Overall, it was not one of my favorite ballets, (I find the score a little boring and repetitive - sorry Prokofiev) but the parts that I did like were very clever indeed. The "clock" was represented by a team of twelve men in tuxedos with pumpkin heads, making the whole spell section slightly creepy and wonderful. The ball, which I've already mentioned was definitely brilliant and the pas de deux was sweet.
Afterwards mom and I ate at a marvelous Thai place across the way called MonTien. The chicken satay was outrageously awesome.
2. We scooted back up to NH afterwards to meet up with Allison, and I got to play with her dog Peach's latest litter of pups. How could you not be happy looking at this:
They were very hard to photograph because they're so wiggly! I could seriously snuggle with these little guys all day long!
3. Matt's show, was great, except I didn't get to see him play. Allison and I drove aimlessly around Cambridge looking for parking for a whole hour while we missed the Growlers set. I was so bummed out, I almost cried a little really! I've seen them play a thousand times before, but this was Matt's big day, (it was the biggest venue that they've ever played), and I felt like a ninny for missing out on it. The kicker? We ended up parking at a garage that was only two blocks away...for $4! It was there the whole time. Urgh! Silly Boston!
I ended up having a great time though regardless...here are two of my favorite pictures from the night:
Crazily enough - that all happened within one day, and I think I've been recovering ever since! Yesterday was my first real day off in ages, but I think that I'll save telling you about it until tomorrow. Tonight I'm going to see the opening of Wait Until Dark at Matt's theatre. It's going to be perfect for Halloween. I've never seen the play, but I absolutely love the Audrey Hepburn movie. Alan Arkin is creeptastic in it!
Have a happy and safe Halloween everyone!
Today I am thankful for the cider doughnut that I ate for breakfast. Sometimes the little things are the best things! What are you thankful for today?
Labels: dance, friends, swaggerin growlers
posted by Geek+Nerd at 8:33 AM
3 Comments:
oh that parking - i should have told you about it. when i lived in boston i parked there all the time for shows at the mid east or tt's. it's the best and i seriously park there even if it's no where near where i'm going because it's so damn cheap!
Thor's huge huge pet peeve is parking and the lack or refusal to make stacked multi-level parking garages everywhere. He feels that if a business (or whatever) can expect more than 30+ cars then up should go the structure!
Ballet is lovely though and although I *really* am not a dog person, who can resist puppies?
Wait Until Dark? eeeeek! One of the all time scary fests! Hope you have fun at the play!
Those puppies are too, too adorable, they should jut can that cuteness to offset parking and how-missing woes.
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