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Apr. 24th, 2005 06:20 pmI'm too tired to write the whole thing, so no complete Chicago trip write up. I'll just stick to the fandom stuff and the highlights/lowlights.
First of all, Les Miserables was stupendous. Ealier we had taken a tour of the theater (and I had gotten yelled at by the group for taking a picture of the "no photography" sign next to the theater doors. What you aren't supposed to take pictures of is the stage and the preformance, because that is a camera is taken/film destoryed offence.) we saw the main stage piece, which was about 20 ft tall and 10 ft back and 40 ft wide and I had thought there was no way they could have moved that. Then I saw it seperate and move apart and flip up at the same time! I cried. The waterworks was kinda constant thoughout the preformace itself though.
And we saw them building the set for Wicked, which was very cool as well. It had this big dragon thing above the stage and clock gears making up the portion that canilevered over the pit. The design harkens back to a clock in the book which I plan to read ASAP.
I also plan to get the soundtrack for Wicked as well, because I listened to the "No One Mourns the Wicked" at Borders (and I saw the new MST3K box set as well) and heard "Defying Gravity" during the little improtu concert in the airlock at Navy Pier (I sang in it, eventhough I'm not in choir because I had learned all the songs on the way down. And I declared myself to be in pep choir, the choir in which no talent is required!), and I decied that I have heard the soundtrack for the Forrester/Joel pairing, be it friendship or not. At the very least, "No One Mourns the Wicked" should be used in a Dr. F soundtrack.
And since we went to the Musem of Science and Industry in Chicago but didn't get to see Bodyworkers, somthing I wanted to for the last year but twarted yesterday becase it was a paid exhibit, Dad promised to take me sometime this summer. Woot!
First of all, Les Miserables was stupendous. Ealier we had taken a tour of the theater (and I had gotten yelled at by the group for taking a picture of the "no photography" sign next to the theater doors. What you aren't supposed to take pictures of is the stage and the preformance, because that is a camera is taken/film destoryed offence.) we saw the main stage piece, which was about 20 ft tall and 10 ft back and 40 ft wide and I had thought there was no way they could have moved that. Then I saw it seperate and move apart and flip up at the same time! I cried. The waterworks was kinda constant thoughout the preformace itself though.
And we saw them building the set for Wicked, which was very cool as well. It had this big dragon thing above the stage and clock gears making up the portion that canilevered over the pit. The design harkens back to a clock in the book which I plan to read ASAP.
I also plan to get the soundtrack for Wicked as well, because I listened to the "No One Mourns the Wicked" at Borders (and I saw the new MST3K box set as well) and heard "Defying Gravity" during the little improtu concert in the airlock at Navy Pier (I sang in it, eventhough I'm not in choir because I had learned all the songs on the way down. And I declared myself to be in pep choir, the choir in which no talent is required!), and I decied that I have heard the soundtrack for the Forrester/Joel pairing, be it friendship or not. At the very least, "No One Mourns the Wicked" should be used in a Dr. F soundtrack.
And since we went to the Musem of Science and Industry in Chicago but didn't get to see Bodyworkers, somthing I wanted to for the last year but twarted yesterday becase it was a paid exhibit, Dad promised to take me sometime this summer. Woot!
