Denise is getting ready for our evening out... we've been planning this for a couple of months or so now, and I'm pretty excited. We're having dinner at a a Thai restaurant in Arlington, then heading over to Wolf Trap ("the only national park dedicated to the performing arts") to see Riverdance. This is going to be my second time seeing Riverdance, and I'm looking forward to it, especially since I'm going to have someone special to share it with this time. :-)
Wolf Trap is an open air venue, and going to shows there has always been a really neat experience for me. This is going to be my third show there; the first time was Riverdance in Summer 2001, and the second one was Mannheim Steamroller last year. It rained during Mannheim Steamroller, but that was OK, and actually even kind of nice to have a bit of "cool mist" drifting in from the side of the theater (sitting on the lawn, though, must have been rather unpleasant). The really neat part, though, is that the show starts at 8 PM, which is fairly close to sunset, and the stage faces West. So the show starts with natural sunlight basking the stage, then ends three hours later in the dark. I wish we had a full moon tonight to complete the effect, but you can't have everything.
"The sun is our lord and father,
Bright face at the break of day,
Comfort of hope, cattle and crop,
Lord of the morning, lord of the day.
Lifting our hearts to sing his praise,
Dance in his healing rays..."
The first concert I ever went to was at Wolftrap. 5 yrs. old - ma and pa took me to see Pete Seger and Arlo Guthrie play.
...those were some wonderful days.
Posted by: Shaw at June 28, 2003 11:47 PMIt sounds similar to Ravinia, the open-air performing space just North of Chicago. The members of the chigoth e-list used to get together for stuff up there sometimes. Groups would meet each other by looking for clusters of balloons. Our group, of course, would have the only cluster of black balloons.
We'd always bring a pot-luck picnic to have on the lawn and it was fun to see what folks would bring. One time, a woman brought little bats made out of jell-o. Once I brought hummus and pita bread that came in a wrapper with bible quotes all over it and I thought it was just an ordinary thing to bring but everyone was excited to see the "Jesus Bread" and took a bunch of pictures of each other holding the Jesus Bread.
Posted by: Sparrow at June 29, 2003 05:52 AM