A good day

[mdlbear]

... though not extremely productive. Went up to San Francisco to see the Lamplighters production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Carousel. Oddly enough, even the Younger Daughter wanted to come along. I think the kids were expecting something funny, though; the chaoswolf in particular was a bit depressed by it. I hadn't seen it, or I might have warned them what to expect -- they don't seem to like surprises much.

I found it excellent -- the Lamplighters were up to their usual standards, even in a "staged concert". I rather like the format -- there's all the acting, singing, and dancing (their new choreographer is excellent) -- but with only minimal sets, and the orchestra in the back of the stage where you can see them for a change. Unfortunately for anyone who hasn't seen it yet, the season is over. We'll be buying the next batch of season tickets shortly.

Afterwards we had dinner at the Elephant Bar. Good variety of the "Asian fusion" sort. My dinner was 20% off because I now qualify for a senior discount, which I found somewhat appalling. Not appalling enough for me not to take advantage of it, however.

No work to speak of on the album, no walk, and no hacking, though I did finally get around to moving the backup drive into another room (which has a faster computer than my current almost-thin-client desktop, capable of doing the backups in half an hour instead of nearly two). A good day nevertheless. Need more family time.

Comments

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Carousel *is* kind of a downer; there's no deus ex machina at the end to make a happy ending (or in the case of The Sound of Music, deus ex nunnery *rim shot*)... and there's not even the proper catharsis of a good tragedy... I'm not real sure what makes that play work other than the music, frankly. I do like the message of the song ("You'll Never Walk Alone"), but the whole play? meh.

[mdlbear]

"meh"

The Y.D. used exactly that word to describe her reaction. Of course, my favorite G&S is "Yeomen of the Guard", so...

[jilara.livejournal.com]

Hey, that's my fav G&S, too. And it's such a great piece of work!

However, I have always found Carousel to be a serious downer, and that includes "You'll Never Walk Alone." (This last was at least made tolerable by a seriously filkish spoof some of us wrote when the administration declared we had to sing it for graduation...)

[vixyish.livejournal.com]

Carousel is the most horrible, awful, appalling musical ever. And this is in the mind of someone who loves musical theatre.

Hello? A play based around "but he didn't really mean it when he hit me, because he loves me! He's just sad because he's out of work!" and "the ghost of your father hit you? Well, he didn't really mean it, because he loves you!"

Ugh.

[mdlbear]

Good points. Yeah; there are several disturbing things about it.