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Thursday 20 November 2008
West End Wonderment
Meant to mention that we went to see Avenue Q at the Noel Coward Theatre on Tuesday evening, and a FANTASTIC time was had by all. It's one of the most entertaining shows I've seen in a long time, and the audience provided a whole extra level of entertainment to boot.
If you haven't heard of it, it's a Sesame Street style presentation telling the story of the inhabitants of Avenue Q in New York - there are human characters interacting with puppets, each of which is visibly 'performed' by the performers on whose hands they perch. Primarily the story of Princeton and his quest for a purpose in life, along the way it takes in repressed Republican Rod, the love story of Brian and his fiancée Christmas Eve, the porn-fixation of Trekkie Monster, and the evil manipulations of the Bad Idea Bears. (Don't worry - it all makes sense when you see it.)
The songs run the range from typical (but very well done) musical standards like There's a fine fine line (between love and a waste of time) to the more story-specific Everyone's a little bit racist and The more you ruv someone (the more you want to kill them).
The audience was very varied (and also the most vocally enthusiastic crowd I've seen in the west end in a very long time). The gays were out in force, as were a lot of young American women for some reason, plus odd individuals, like the man who sat next to me and started the evening my loudly sniffing his underarms (nice) and the family behind us who over-analysed everything and whose father's comment at the final curtain was "Well that was jolly entertaining."
Highly recommended. And unless you're a straight man or a lesbian, I defy you not to fall a little bit in love with the lead male performer. I know we did.
West End Wonderment
Meant to mention that we went to see Avenue Q at the Noel Coward Theatre on Tuesday evening, and a FANTASTIC time was had by all. It's one of the most entertaining shows I've seen in a long time, and the audience provided a whole extra level of entertainment to boot.
If you haven't heard of it, it's a Sesame Street style presentation telling the story of the inhabitants of Avenue Q in New York - there are human characters interacting with puppets, each of which is visibly 'performed' by the performers on whose hands they perch. Primarily the story of Princeton and his quest for a purpose in life, along the way it takes in repressed Republican Rod, the love story of Brian and his fiancée Christmas Eve, the porn-fixation of Trekkie Monster, and the evil manipulations of the Bad Idea Bears. (Don't worry - it all makes sense when you see it.)
The songs run the range from typical (but very well done) musical standards like There's a fine fine line (between love and a waste of time) to the more story-specific Everyone's a little bit racist and The more you ruv someone (the more you want to kill them).
The audience was very varied (and also the most vocally enthusiastic crowd I've seen in the west end in a very long time). The gays were out in force, as were a lot of young American women for some reason, plus odd individuals, like the man who sat next to me and started the evening my loudly sniffing his underarms (nice) and the family behind us who over-analysed everything and whose father's comment at the final curtain was "Well that was jolly entertaining."
Highly recommended. And unless you're a straight man or a lesbian, I defy you not to fall a little bit in love with the lead male performer. I know we did.
West End Wonderment
Meant to mention that we went to see Avenue Q at the Noel Coward Theatre on Tuesday evening, and a FANTASTIC time was had by all. It's one of the most entertaining shows I've seen in a long time, and the audience provided a whole extra level of entertainment to boot.
If you haven't heard of it, it's a Sesame Street style presentation telling the story of the inhabitants of Avenue Q in New York - there are human characters interacting with puppets, each of which is visibly 'performed' by the performers on whose hands they perch. Primarily the story of Princeton and his quest for a purpose in life, along the way it takes in repressed Republican Rod, the love story of Brian and his fiancée Christmas Eve, the porn-fixation of Trekkie Monster, and the evil manipulations of the Bad Idea Bears. (Don't worry - it all makes sense when you see it.)
The songs run the range from typical (but very well done) musical standards like There's a fine fine line (between love and a waste of time) to the more story-specific Everyone's a little bit racist and The more you ruv someone (the more you want to kill them).
The audience was very varied (and also the most vocally enthusiastic crowd I've seen in the west end in a very long time). The gays were out in force, as were a lot of young American women for some reason, plus odd individuals, like the man who sat next to me and started the evening my loudly sniffing his underarms (nice) and the family behind us who over-analysed everything and whose father's comment at the final curtain was "Well that was jolly entertaining."
Highly recommended. And unless you're a straight man or a lesbian, I defy you not to fall a little bit in love with the lead male performer. I know we did.
West End Wonderment
Meant to mention that we went to see Avenue Q at the Noel Coward Theatre on Tuesday evening, and a FANTASTIC time was had by all. It's one of the most entertaining shows I've seen in a long time, and the audience provided a whole extra level of entertainment to boot.
If you haven't heard of it, it's a Sesame Street style presentation telling the story of the inhabitants of Avenue Q in New York - there are human characters interacting with puppets, each of which is visibly 'performed' by the performers on whose hands they perch. Primarily the story of Princeton and his quest for a purpose in life, along the way it takes in repressed Republican Rod, the love story of Brian and his fiancée Christmas Eve, the porn-fixation of Trekkie Monster, and the evil manipulations of the Bad Idea Bears. (Don't worry - it all makes sense when you see it.)
The songs run the range from typical (but very well done) musical standards like There's a fine fine line (between love and a waste of time) to the more story-specific Everyone's a little bit racist and The more you ruv someone (the more you want to kill them).
The audience was very varied (and also the most vocally enthusiastic crowd I've seen in the west end in a very long time). The gays were out in force, as were a lot of young American women for some reason, plus odd individuals, like the man who sat next to me and started the evening my loudly sniffing his underarms (nice) and the family behind us who over-analysed everything and whose father's comment at the final curtain was "Well that was jolly entertaining."
Highly recommended. And unless you're a straight man or a lesbian, I defy you not to fall a little bit in love with the lead male performer. I know we did.
West End Wonderment
Meant to mention that we went to see Avenue Q at the Noel Coward Theatre on Tuesday evening, and a FANTASTIC time was had by all. It's one of the most entertaining shows I've seen in a long time, and the audience provided a whole extra level of entertainment to boot.
If you haven't heard of it, it's a Sesame Street style presentation telling the story of the inhabitants of Avenue Q in New York - there are human characters interacting with puppets, each of which is visibly 'performed' by the performers on whose hands they perch. Primarily the story of Princeton and his quest for a purpose in life, along the way it takes in repressed Republican Rod, the love story of Brian and his fiancée Christmas Eve, the porn-fixation of Trekkie Monster, and the evil manipulations of the Bad Idea Bears. (Don't worry - it all makes sense when you see it.)
The songs run the range from typical (but very well done) musical standards like There's a fine fine line (between love and a waste of time) to the more story-specific Everyone's a little bit racist and The more you ruv someone (the more you want to kill them).
The audience was very varied (and also the most vocally enthusiastic crowd I've seen in the west end in a very long time). The gays were out in force, as were a lot of young American women for some reason, plus odd individuals, like the man who sat next to me and started the evening my loudly sniffing his underarms (nice) and the family behind us who over-analysed everything and whose father's comment at the final curtain was "Well that was jolly entertaining."
Highly recommended. And unless you're a straight man or a lesbian, I defy you not to fall a little bit in love with the lead male performer. I know we did.
Yes, I Know
Something went horribly wrong earlier this morning and I'm left with multiple versions of that last post. No idea what's going on with it, as there's only one entry in the data, so I can't even gimmick it by deleting db entries.
Isn't technology wonderful?
The 'Do'
We finally made a decision on what we're doing for the 'not-a-wedding', by the way.
After having run the gamut of fancy /plain /ceremony /no ceremony /hotels /'halls' /bars /fuck it let's not do anything, the final decision is:
No ceremony - we just go and sign the paperwork on the morning of the day.
Lunch with just our close family and the witnesses.
Big party for everyone we can think of in the evening, taking over a bar with two floors and lots of different spaces to allow for dancing, mingling, eating and quiet times.
And cake. Oh yes, there will be cake.
What The Hell Was I Going To Talk About?
Having said that I'd spotted loads I thought blogworthy while I've been silent, I can't remember any of it now I come to have a go.
Come on, come on:
Okay - I'll start with Big Brother, which David remains addicted to. There's a lot to be said for sitting reading or at the PC while he gets worked up by the freaks and nutters in the house. It's weirdly entertaining without at any time forcing one to get involved in what's going on.
Last week, after the evil bitchy one had been nominated and took it very badly, proceding to be even more bitchy, rather than less, the air was punctuated with cries of "and *that's* why everyone hates you". When the wannbe Footballer's Wife was also venting about having been nominated, David gained a new catchphrase: "Who *is* she? Who *is* she?" accompanied by an arms thrown out gesture with resonances of Servalan.
Honestly, it's better than the telly.
Ridiculous!
Eighteen days without an entry here, and yet on numerous occasions I've seen or heard things that I thought emminently bloggable. What on earth is wrong with me?
Time to try and do some catching up.