A pretty good day. The main event was the Lamplighters gala, which was steampunk-themed this year and gorgeously silly as usual. I was particularly amused (as in laughing out loud) by some of the musical references.

This was preceeded and followed by food -- brunch at El Torito (no chili ( Read more... )

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Today's outing was up to San Francisco for the Lamplighters' performance of The Mikado. I'd recommend it, but tonight was the last ( Read more... )

Yesterday was the last show of the season for the Lamplighters, the mostly-Gilbert-and-Sullivan company that we've had season tickets to for over three decades. So the flower_cat, chaoswolf, B. (WINOLJ) and I headed up to San Francisco a little before noon. (The Y.D. doesn't usually like to go, for some bizarre reason, so we take a friend.)

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For, um, a very long time, we've had season tickets for the Lamplighters, a mostly Gilbert & Sullivan group in San Francisco. They're simply wonderful -- and they've won prizes. Today we went up to hear their production of The Secret Garden (book and lyrics by Marsha Norman, music by Lucy Simon, from the novel by Frances ( Read more... )

... but not before at least briefly mentioning what I did today. Went for a half-hour stroll by the creek -- not much exercise, but a nice morning, all muffled in fog and comfortably cool.

We had bagels and Scottish salmon for brunch, then headed up to San ( Read more... )

... though not extremely productive. Went up to San Francisco to see the Lamplighters production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Carousel. Oddly enough, even the Younger Daughter wanted to come along. I think the kids were expecting something funny, though; the chaoswolf in particular was a bit depressed by it. I hadn't ( Read more... )

Well, two out of three, anyway. We went to San Francisco this afternoon to see the Lamplighters' production of Franz Lehar's The Merry Widow. It was stunningly beautiful ( Read more... )