About Last Night 2/19/2009

Looking for a little refinement, I took The Beez to the Ballet last night.

We have a beautifully renovated opera house not far from here and we have been blessed to be able to catch all sorts of amazing shows the past few years.

The best part about it, is that many traveling shows do educational performances during the day for local schools, and these shows are only $5 bucks...that's right, not the $25-$90 bucks that is charged  for the evening production.  So one or two days a month, we journey down to the opera house and catch a show.

Last night was actually the result of me not being able to use a calendar...one of my many faults.  I hate being tied down, and unless we are trapped in a sporting season like baseball where we have to be at varying places on different days, at different times, I pretty much just like to wing it.  Well, every school show this year has been on Friday.  So my week had been planned around spending this morning at the Ballet.

But, yesterday I realized that I needed one additional ticket so I called the box office and asked it any were available...to which she replied, "Oh, Honey, the Ballet was this morning.  You missed it Sweatheart....I am so sorry Darling."

So, I screwed up and The Beez was not going to be happy.  The nice box office lady did say that there were tickets available for the evening performance, but that they $35-$50 each.

I did not have $100 to spend on an evening out.  I was so bummed.  But then about ten minutes later, before I had built up the nerve to break the news, the kind lady called back.  She had shared my mishap with the director of sales, and he was going to sell me tickets for $12!!!!!   

So, after a little jiggling of our scheduled activities we decided to make it happen.  I failed to mention, that I had also invited a young lady from church, who loves to dance, to attend the morning show, which I of course missed, so she to was going to come along last night.

The show was amazing.  It was not a typical Ballet, as it was no a continuous story played out in dance, instead it was multiple vignettes with some audience particpation.  Here are a few of my thoughts on ballet:

1. I was surprised that some of the men in the dance company did not have what I would have considered dancers bodies...some of them looked like they could have been playing professional football, with very broad shoulders and short, stocky builds.  
2. The same can be said of the women, various body types and height.  This company also did something unique.  Instead of the women wearing pink tights and ballet shoes, as is the norm, they had their tights and shoes dyed to match their skin color.  That was neat because they had many nationalities represented within the dance company.
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