November 5, 1993
Dear Everyone:
Ashland News…
Got the Brochure for the
Oregon Shakespeare Festival and I'm ordering the tickets today.
Since we agreed last summer which
plays we would be seeing next year, it was fairly easy to find an
acceptable lineup: All four
Shakespeareans, one non-Will play (as recommended by “Frankie’s” inside
source), no two plays can be showing at the same time, spread out over
three days, with at least one afternoon off and must end on a comedy.
I started by making copies of the schedules for the months of June and
July (Mother told me that August would be awkward for her).
Then I assigned a different color
to each of the five plays and underlined them with said color.
After that, it was simply a
matter of finding three-day combinations that had all five colors,
ending with brown (the comedy).
Our first choice days are June 23, 24, 25, 1994.
Second choice days are June 14,
15, 16, 1994. The reason the
earlier dates are second choice is that they are still in Preview at
that time; and I remember hearing people say of plays that we have seen
in preview, that they would rather see the plays when the actors are
little more seasoned in their roles.
Tickets are $26.50 each unless
we don't get our first choice. If
we get the second dates, the Preview performances are discounted and
I'll get a refund for the difference. Therefore,
SEND NO MONEY until you hear from me. I
ordered 6 tickets for each performance. If
it turns out that “Alice” and “Kelly” can't join us, because of the new
baby, we’ll either find someone else who wants to take their place, send
the tickets back for a refund, or sell them in Ashland.
I also ordered Backstage Tours
for everyone, using my membership, plus Mother’s, to get all but two of
them for free.
For those who don't remember what place we agreed upon last summer, they
are:
Extra points to anyone who can figure out which one Shakespeare
didn't pen, if only in part.
In other news…
Last weekend, in case you didn't notice, was
Halloween.
“Jeannie” was invited to a
costume party at her health club and, deciding that her
Renaissance
Peasant outfit was rather too warm, elected to wear a
Little Red
Riding Hood costume that I had made a couple of years ago.
It's an easy costume, consisting
of a short-sleeved peasant blouse, wrap skirt, and hooded-cape, all in
red, of course; and, most importantly, it's comfortable to wear.
However, it does have at least one significant drawback.
The party being rather dull,
“Jeannie” and some friends went for drinks instead.
When you're young (they
carded her!) and cute and
dressed like Little Red Riding Hood, can you guess how many gentlemen
suddenly get the "original" idea of introducing themselves as "Hi, I'm
the Wolf"? Whatever number you
guessed, it was probably too low.
Since last Saturday was exactly one day before Halloween, “Jeannie” and
I decided to reinstate the Sometimes Annual Bring Your Own Pumpkin
Party. Friends brought their
pumpkins (and sometimes kids) to carve into
jack-o'-lanterns (not the kids). The
weather being warm (I tried to bet “Jeannie” that it would go up to 80°,
but she wouldn't bite), we did the actual carving on a folding table out
on the patio. This was a stroke
of genius on “Jeannie's” part, since anything that spilled landed on
concrete instead of on one of my oriental rugs.
I think the ones who had the most fun were the children (one discovered
that cutting pumpkins was so much fun that he offered to do everyone's),
but the grown-ups did 0K, too. You
know how the genders will sometimes separate at gatherings, the women on
one side of the room, the men on the other?
Well, at one point, I noticed
that all the women were on the patio, cutting a pumpkins, and all the
men were inside, watching TV. What
made it seem strange is that the program they were so engrossed in was a
cooking class on PBS.
So much for football!
Love, as always,
Pete
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