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[amethyst73]

If it were earlier, I might post at some decent length about the two theater bits we've seen this week. 

Thursday night we saw the final dress rehearsal of Opera San Jose's production of Werther.  The very short version: Charlotte, a mezzo-soprano, is a Slave of Duty (tm).  Werther, a tenor,  is a depressive twit.  They sort of get together, but things end badly.  The music was good, though, and the voices were really quite good - especially the woman singing Charlotte the night we saw it.  I'm quite certain she could outsing any two of the other primary cast members.

Then today, we saw the Lamplighters' Annual Gala, in which they write their own show and put new lyrics to Gilbert and Sullivan tunes.  This year's show was entitled "Harry Patter and the Willing Suspension of Disbelief (or, A Series of Unfortunate Musical Numbers)".  It was... cute.  It should not have been interrupted with 15-20 minutes of live auction at the end of the first act which was then followed by a hideously long intermission (this is the Lamplighters' big fundraising event, and the intermission was for a silent auction).  And it really didn't need 2 different songs about Harry's scar.  Plusses: Equating Gilderoy Lockheart with Bunthorne from Patience was inspired.  Voldemort was rewritten as Wal*de*Mart (it's a long story; if people want, I can write up a summary later), and sang a version of "When the Night Wind Howls" from Ruddigore that involved the chorus of Death Greeters replacing the ghosts' "Haha"s in the original version with "Chu-ching!" (cash register noise).

nezumiko - that's where we were rather than being home to accept your invitation to an organ concert.  We ended up not getting home till 8:30.  (The show started at 4:00.)

Home.  Bed now.  G'night!

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[nezumiko.livejournal.com]

Yay, glad you were out having fun! It was very last minute that I got the tickets, so I figured the odds were slim you'd be free. My friend Victor who sang the tenor solo is amazing though. He's an intern (student) pastor at my church. I had no idea he was a professional classical tenor until he gave me tix on Sunday when I inquired as to why he had formal wear with him at church.