I can't believe I haven't written about Paris OR Ireland. It's so hard to keep writing, when all I want to do is go out and do things! Rest assured that I'm still having an incredible time. Maybe I'll try to sit down this week and write about those trips.
My friend Emily from home has been visiting this weekend, and it's been so fun showing her around London. We've been all over the city, seeing some things I've been to already, and some things I haven't. Today we went to the Pop Life exhibit at the Tate Modern, which was really cool. Modern art doesn't usually do it for me, but this exhibit was cool.
For now, I'm going to take advantage of all the time I have left! Only a few weeks now till I'm back in the states!
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Theatre x3
Since Saturday I've seen three VERY different plays.
I got up early Saturday morning (Halloween) to wait in line to see Wicked! Like on Broadway, they sell the front row for the cheapest price on the day of the performance. Unlike Broadway, it's just first-come, first-served. And I got there early enough, so Erin and I went! I really love that show. The costumes are amazing, the music is fantastic--it's exactly what I want in a musical. We actually saw the understudy for Elphaba, but she was incredible. What a voice! Erin and I went to the stage door after the show and got a picture with her. It was a great time.
Last night my Drama in the London Theatre class went to see Inherit the Wind, starring Kevin Spacey. No, really. He was great! I like the play itself a lot. Pinkerton performed it when I was a freshman, and I remember really liking it then too. Except I'm pretty sure Pinkerton didn't use a live monkey, like they did at the Old Vic. (I was so excited at first... "Wow! A real monkey!" But then I got a little sad. Monkeys do not belong in London, let alone on stage. But I digress.) Anyway, lots of courtroom shouting, justice-seeking, and evolution-defending. A very good piece of theatre, in my opinion.
Aaaand, today Elizabeth and I went all the way to Greenwich to see Dracula. I will say, we certainly enjoyed ourselves. It's probably a pretty good play. This production was just so weird. There were some circus-y elements that were pretty cool, but we were more than a little distracted at how much Dracula looked like Keanu Reeves, and how much another of the actors looked like he didn't know anything about acting. No harm done though, the tickets were cheap, and we definitely had a good time talking about it afterwards.
I'm off to Paris this weekend! Look for updates on that early next week.
I got up early Saturday morning (Halloween) to wait in line to see Wicked! Like on Broadway, they sell the front row for the cheapest price on the day of the performance. Unlike Broadway, it's just first-come, first-served. And I got there early enough, so Erin and I went! I really love that show. The costumes are amazing, the music is fantastic--it's exactly what I want in a musical. We actually saw the understudy for Elphaba, but she was incredible. What a voice! Erin and I went to the stage door after the show and got a picture with her. It was a great time.
Last night my Drama in the London Theatre class went to see Inherit the Wind, starring Kevin Spacey. No, really. He was great! I like the play itself a lot. Pinkerton performed it when I was a freshman, and I remember really liking it then too. Except I'm pretty sure Pinkerton didn't use a live monkey, like they did at the Old Vic. (I was so excited at first... "Wow! A real monkey!" But then I got a little sad. Monkeys do not belong in London, let alone on stage. But I digress.) Anyway, lots of courtroom shouting, justice-seeking, and evolution-defending. A very good piece of theatre, in my opinion.
Aaaand, today Elizabeth and I went all the way to Greenwich to see Dracula. I will say, we certainly enjoyed ourselves. It's probably a pretty good play. This production was just so weird. There were some circus-y elements that were pretty cool, but we were more than a little distracted at how much Dracula looked like Keanu Reeves, and how much another of the actors looked like he didn't know anything about acting. No harm done though, the tickets were cheap, and we definitely had a good time talking about it afterwards.
I'm off to Paris this weekend! Look for updates on that early next week.
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