Three shows in 3 days

 

View of Mt Mcloughlin as I depart the VA parking lot Fri pm 11/10/17

Last weekend when we decided to stay around town, we shopped for "things to do" around here.  Friday night the local Jacksonville theater troupe was doing a live show called Disney Musicals Mad-Libs. For $12 each, including free before the show food, we fell for it. We're total suckers for Disney musicals. We walked in the drizzle about the 4 blocks to the theater which doubles as Calvary Church.  We knew our way around (i.e. where the bathrooms were and where the food room was) as this is where the Chamber of Commerce had us meet up to dress/ get instructions for the Haunted Trolley Tours. Actors worked the audience before the show, asking for nouns and adjectives.   They didn't even have to say "kid-appropriate" nouns and adjectives.  The show then consisted of the actors singing/acting out some favorite Disney tunes with our mad-lib contributions embedded in the songs. It was a little bit improv as, at times, the audience could pick which actor they wanted to perform which number.  Of course a sing-along was included at the end.  I got every performer to sign my playbill. It was a cute evening and we walked home via the J'Ville Tavern, home of the  "Husband Day Care" sign.

Saturday we pondered going to the new Murder on the Orient Express in a local cinema but instead opted for renting the middle ages version (1974) Murder on the Orient Express on Netflix. (Albert Finney, Sean Connery, Lauren Bacall, etc.) There's an even older one (1934)  but we'll save it for a cold winter's night.

Don't forget:  Ginger Rogers "had to do everything Fred Astaire did but backwards and in heels"

On Sunday afternoon, after leftovers from our chef-off food weekend, we attended the Medford Symphony at the Ginger Rogers theater. We had tickets for the 2nd row from the front but that meant we saw the conductor and the first violinist real well, but had no view of the percussionists at all. **NOTE TO SELF**  next time sit further back. The pre-show wine was pretty bad but the half-time cheese- tasting-because-it-was-the-50th-anniversary-was epic. We thought it was adorable that there is designated walker-parking for all the grey-hairs who roll down to their seats, but can't leave the walkers in the aisle.

And what the what is this?  I get a message that someone has commented on my blog post called "Cheese, Please."  When I translate the Arabic comment, this is what it says: