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Birthday presents
Jan. 17th, 2018 02:57 pmChuckro got us reservations at Aureole and tickets for The Play That Goes Wrong for my birthday. Most excellent husband, I shall keep.
Highlight of dinner was definitely the goat cheese risotto with aged balsamic, but everything was excellent. Also, my drink, which featured apple-apricot shrub, was called "I am Groot." Just in case you were afraid the Michelin star meant stuffiness.
I was rather impressed with the athleticism of the cast - acting in a farce with a Broadway-sized and quality set means some fairly terrifying pratfalls and pyrotechnics. It's not as clever as Noises Off! (at which I laughed harder than I ever have in my life, to the point of physical pain), but still quite entertaining. There are also a couple points at which audience participation becomes inevitable - I wondered if they ever needed audience plants to get people to respond, but the urge to tell the actor the thing he was looking for was literally under his feet was irresistible. As Chuckro put it, "they turned us into a theater full of four-year-olds." It was like watching Mr. Noodle from Elmo's World.
Highlight of dinner was definitely the goat cheese risotto with aged balsamic, but everything was excellent. Also, my drink, which featured apple-apricot shrub, was called "I am Groot." Just in case you were afraid the Michelin star meant stuffiness.
I was rather impressed with the athleticism of the cast - acting in a farce with a Broadway-sized and quality set means some fairly terrifying pratfalls and pyrotechnics. It's not as clever as Noises Off! (at which I laughed harder than I ever have in my life, to the point of physical pain), but still quite entertaining. There are also a couple points at which audience participation becomes inevitable - I wondered if they ever needed audience plants to get people to respond, but the urge to tell the actor the thing he was looking for was literally under his feet was irresistible. As Chuckro put it, "they turned us into a theater full of four-year-olds." It was like watching Mr. Noodle from Elmo's World.
