Painting a Picture

For our Saturday matinee on the 8th we saw Sunday in the Park with George. I had been really interested in seeing this show because the Seurat painting that they recreate, which is traditionally done by painting (obviously), was done with projections. The set was gorgeous to watch. The designer employed animation so that when George was painting you could actually see his brush strokes or see inside his imagination as he talked to these characters in his world. I’m not sure I was ever really immersed in the story however. I mean I liked the show, it just wasn’t one of my favorites.

Saturday night we saw Paradise Park and honestly, this was my least favorite show of the trip,…or ever. I just have no idea what I was supposed to think or even try to think. We talked about it a little in class tonight and I was amazed people actually thought it had questions to ask us. I mean if it did, they flew right over my head just like the fruitcake was slung across the stage. There was just so much going on and nothing really connected for me. But, everyone is entitled to their own opinion and there were a few in the class who actually really enjoyed this show but may have hated something else in the week that I loved.

Sunday before we left we saw Is He Dead? which was on of my top 3 favorite shows of the week by far. It was a play adapted from Mark Twain and it was simply excellent. It is not often enough that you find a truly good comedy. The play just had such classic situational comedy and the actors were superb. The show we saw was the very last one which was sad But it made the actors all the more energetic! A few of us stayed outside the stage door and it was so bizarre because the actors were actually packing up their things from the dressing room and bringing them to their cars! They were all really nice and we got all their autographs and a picture with Norbert Leo Butz who was the lead and amaaaaazing. A truly wonderful show to end the trip on.

Also- Thanks Mom and Dad for an amazing trip!!!!!!!