Iolanthe

[avram]

My parents took bugsybanana and me to a performance of Iolanthe at City Center. It was so-so. It’s just not as good a script as the other Gilbert & Sullivan operettas I’ve seen (Pinafore, Penzance, and The Mikado, of course, and also Yeoman of the Guard, so I haven’t seen much). The big pattersong of the show — the Lord Chancellor’s description of his bad night — adds nothing to the show and is actually tedious (made more so by multiple encores). And our seats were way the hell back in nose-bleed territory. (Hm, if we were Japanese and at a strip club, that phrase would probably describe good seats.) Though some of the jokes about Parliament were funny, and there were at least two modern jokes added in.

Afterwards they took us to the Stage Deli for dinner. I’d never been there, so I had their specialty, one of the massive sandwiches with pastrami, and it was, well, eh. A bit dry and not very flavorful. Nothing to compare with Katz’s.

I got inexplicably sleepy on the ride home, so I took a couple-hour nap when I got here.

Comments

[jbsegal.livejournal.com]

You freak. The Nightmare Song is one of the best pattersongs.

Love...unrequited...robs me of my rest....
Love...hopeless love...my ardent soul encumbers.
Love, nightmare like, lies heavy on my chest...
and weaves itself into my midnight slumbers.

[avram]

Yeah, but then there’s all this tedious dream stuff. And it doesn’t even have to make sense, because it’s a dream.

[barking-iguana.livejournal.com]

Have you ever had a pastrami (or better yet, corned beef) omelet at the Carnegie?