It's always something...Shakespeare in the Park

Got to see Romeo and Juliet last night in the park. I honestly didn't think we'd get in--or I wouldn't, because I was far back on the line from petiteseour. We got worried when it wasn't raining--for ten years it seems like every time we go to SitP it pours, so it seemed like a bad sign when it wasn't. This year we bought ponchos and weren't afraid to use them.

So it turned out there was just another problem. Curtain was at 8 but at 9:45 we were still waiting. There was a problem with the turntable thingie that took a while to fix. I was next to an interesting guy on line, though, who said he had just finshed a script on comic book history. I asked him what part and he said EC comics. I was all, "I LOVE EC comics! And a friend of mine in high school's father worked for them." I told him who it was and he was all, "OMG, he's awesome! Look, he's in my script!" Anyway, it was an interesting conversation--and his son was there too and we talked about the books he read in school that year that were all coming-of-age stories. Catcher in the Rye was his favorite, his least favorite was The Chocolate War.

( And then the show... )