Day 12

6-24-06

The most exciting that occurred today was that my school--yes, my entire school--went to see a Japanese musical. As my school slowly filled up the theater, I realized that I was about to see the professional theater equivalent of a Shorecrest Drama Kiddy Show. Oh boy.

The play was called (and yes, this was the provided English translation) “Japanese Lady in Hawaii.” No joke. Because I had no idea what anyone was saying, I had to rely on body language and tone to figure out the plot, but as the play turned out to be a melodrama, I had no trouble following the rough story. It was vaguely reminiscent of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, what with a group of mortals thrown into a magical land with a warring fairy couple and mischievous sprites and love potions and so on, except the love potion device disappeared after the first appearance, the fairies and mortals ended up falling in love with each other, the older guy got together with the younger girl (which was a little strange), they all did the hula, and then woke up, because it was all a dream. Needless to say, it was weird. And it only had one song, which they sang about a billion times over.

Since there was much walking and train-taking to get there, I was pretty much exhausted already when I got arrived. Following the convoluted plot, while thoroughly amusing and enjoyable, was not enough to keep me awake, so I tried to avoid sleeping by occasionally critiquing the stage crew. Y’know, that transition could have gone smoother/faster/better, why does that follow keep accidentally putting his/her light on the audience, why does that drop take eight million years to fly in, they just had to restart the music there because the transition took too long, if this were a Shorecrest show we could have had that fly in and house off in a quarter of the time… Of course, now I feel snobby and critical, but seriously, it took close to a minute to get the stupid jungle background drop in. Plus, I didn't fall asleep.

(Due to extensive travel, did not get home until 9:00, and still had to have dinner, which is my excuse as to why this entry is late. :D )