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Also! Yesterday we saw Les Miserables at the Overture Center. It was okay, I guess? I kept losing track of the plot -- "oh, that was Cosette that Marius stepped on back there? So there was another unnanounced timejump, okay. And Valjean and Cosette are hanging out with beggars and prostitutes because, um, something." Probably if I was familiar with the story beforehand then it would have helped, but sometimes if your play needs someone to read the entire program (or the source novel) before they sit down then that means you're doing it wrong.
Technically speaking, though, the set design was really awesome. Giant bulwarks of fake-slums being moved back and forth across the stage with people hanging off them; creative use of video projected on a screen behind the actors to make it look like they were moving through a larger space. Definitely the fanciest production we've ever seen at the Overture.
Also exciting: I got a hat yesterday! I have somehow managed to come to the point where I will get sunburned after literally only an hour outside, and not even all of that in the sun since I was planting ferns under trees for cryin' out loud -- and sunscreen doesn't mix well with glasses unless you enjoy having said glasses always perched at the bottom of your nose. So I got a Stetson Panama, because by Cthulhu if I have to actually go out shopping for something then I am going to get the best one I can afford so as to put off as long as possible the point where I have to do it again. Plus when you don't look good in anything, you can pull off "just because I'm wacky that way" easier with a classy fedora than with a more casual hat. IT'S TRUE.
I have had a headache all day today. That's kind of lame.
Also! Yesterday we saw Les Miserables at the Overture Center. It was okay, I guess? I kept losing track of the plot -- "oh, that was Cosette that Marius stepped on back there? So there was another unnanounced timejump, okay. And Valjean and Cosette are hanging out with beggars and prostitutes because, um, something." Probably if I was familiar with the story beforehand then it would have helped, but sometimes if your play needs someone to read the entire program (or the source novel) before they sit down then that means you're doing it wrong.
Technically speaking, though, the set design was really awesome. Giant bulwarks of fake-slums being moved back and forth across the stage with people hanging off them; creative use of video projected on a screen behind the actors to make it look like they were moving through a larger space. Definitely the fanciest production we've ever seen at the Overture.
Also exciting: I got a hat yesterday! I have somehow managed to come to the point where I will get sunburned after literally only an hour outside, and not even all of that in the sun since I was planting ferns under trees for cryin' out loud -- and sunscreen doesn't mix well with glasses unless you enjoy having said glasses always perched at the bottom of your nose. So I got a Stetson Panama, because by Cthulhu if I have to actually go out shopping for something then I am going to get the best one I can afford so as to put off as long as possible the point where I have to do it again. Plus when you don't look good in anything, you can pull off "just because I'm wacky that way" easier with a classy fedora than with a more casual hat. IT'S TRUE.
I have had a headache all day today. That's kind of lame.
