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Sunday, January 13, 2008 @ 11:24 AM
Baby-sitting yesterday morning went great, even though I was very, very tired. I had fun with the kids and they ate lunch for me. Michael is incredibly independent, he doesn't ask much, he just likes for me to watch him play video games. Shannon and I watched him play video games, and we watched "Wonder Pets" and "Dora the Explorer" and "The Backyardigans" on Noggin, and we played with blocks, and ate bananas, and I got paid. It was fantastic. (Though now I have the "Wonder Pets" theme stuck in my head.) I came home, napped for a couple of hours, and then hung out with Amanda the rest of the day.
We went to see You Can't Take It With You at Liberty High School. The first bad sign was the fact that they call themselves the Liberty Indians. But they had a cute little auditorium with red curtains. Their director... probably had no training whatsoever in directing. Or theatre of any kind. Or public speaking. The set was nice. The kid who played the grandfather was adorable, and the actor playing Penny did a nice job as well. The romantic leads were incredibly boring. The mics were a disaster. And Donald was a white kid who played his role like a black stereotype. He was a one-man minstrel show. It was really offensive. And not remotely funny. Amanda suggested that maybe it was supposed to be an Inbred Southerner stereotype... which would be less racist but still, not remotely funny.
All in all, I had a nice time. It brought back lots of fond memories about the U-High production. (Andrew Hesse was the grandfather, Allison Borst was Penny, Josh was Paul, Allissa played Essie, Jonathan played Ed, Zach Ploense was Mr. DePinna, Megan the Red played Reba, Zeke played Donald, Becky Goodrich was Alice, Rob Turner was Tony Kirby, Kathryn Brown and Adam Bruss played his parents, Doug Borst was a brilliant Kolenkov and stole the show, Libby Kalmbach was Olga, Melanie Snow was the drunk Miss Wellington, and David Nolan was the main G-Man. See, I remember it like it was yesterday.) Enough time has passed so that making Rob Turner bleed is finally funny.
And even though the show was, all in all, pretty awful, there were some truly funny moments, and at least I got out of the house.
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1 Comments:
At 1:02 PM,
Larc said…
I love the Wonder Pets and listen to their song everyday at http://wonder-pets.littletoons.com
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