I've had a lover too
Last night I went to see a play with Mum, Becky and Gramie. It was for a school assignment; for my theatre class we have to see a play and write a review of it. So we went to see a production of The King and I which was playing nearby. (I didn’t know this beforehand, but it was actually done in the same building that my middle school graduation ceremonies took place at.) Now, I’ve seen the film of The King and I, so I know what the story was and some of the songs and everything. But there’s something quite special about just seeing it there on the stage, done in real life before your eyes…It was a really good performance, let me tell you that. For my review I’ve got to talk about things about the play and acting that could have been improved on, but the only thing I can think to say is that once, the boy playing Louis made a little mistake on one of his lines (he had a small bit of trouble getting the word “allow” out, but that was so minor I would never have remembered it had I not had to mention it in my review).
I really like the songs in The King and I. When I saw the film, my favorite songs were “A Puzzlement” (the song the King sings when he’s confused about whether or not people can be sure of what they absolutely know), “Getting to Know You” (I think that’s the song from The King and I that almost everyone seems to like) and “Shall We Dance?” (the song that the King and Anna sing when they dance). Now, when I saw it this time around, I liked all those ones too, but I also liked “Hello, Young Lovers” a whole lot. A whole lot…it made me really happy, of course, because this time I understood everything that Anna was talking about in that song. I really like the line “I know what it feels to have wings on my heels” or something like that…she’s talking about this sort of rosy, almost love-high feeling you get when you’re in love and you’re thinking about the person you love…I’ve experienced it a lot myself. And I felt it again during that song. It was kind of silly of me, but when she was singing to the young lovers, I almost felt like she was singing directly to me…I think that every time someone plays Anna in a production of The King and I and she sings “Hello, Young Lovers”, she should always keep in mind that somewhere in the audience, there almost certainly will be a young lover listening to her words and agreeing with everything she’s singing.
I also really liked the song that Princess Tuptin and her lover sing when they meet (I can’t remember what it’s called…) I actually identified with it an awful lot. I remember agreeing with everything they said and feeling along with them. I feel like them and I wish I could be open about my love too. That is all.
My mum has come up with a wonderful idea. Today she sent an e-mail to Kolya and her stepmother proposing the idea to them. Yes, it’s one of those ideas that involves Kolya, and you know that to me, any idea that involves Kolya is a marvelous one! But, the idea was that, sometime on May 29th (which is in exactly one week and is two days after my birthday), we meet with Kolya and take her home with us, where she will spend the night with us. So we’ll do, well, our fantastically stupid and fun little 12-dimensional things together on Friday (and I think I’ll make her read what I’ve got written of Close to the Edge), and on Saturday, which is the day I do Faces in a Crowd, she’ll go see the play. (And, because my grandparents and a few other relatives are going to the play, I may actually have the opportunity to introduce them to Kolya after the play. I’ve told Gramie specifically a lot about her, and I also told her what it would mean if she and Kolya went to the play. She thought it was fantastic that she might actually meet “Various Parties.) But we’ll goof off in our own little way for the rest of the Saturday until evening, when we’ll go see the play that a different theatre class for my school is doing. They’re going to be doing a production of Bye Bye Birdy, which my mum wants to take Kolya and me to go see. So I suppose we will. Now, knowing us, we’re going to see the play, and we’re going to be all 12-dimensional, and she’s going to ask me which character I think David Bowie would be the happiest playing, and I’ll say “Probably [insert female character’s name here]” and I’d say something like “What if Syd Barrett and Jeff Mangum wrote all these songs together?” and that’ll set us off laughing and Mum is going to have to tell us to be quiet, like, 50 times. And also knowing us it’ll leave us with a bunch of inside jokes. But then after that we come home and Kolya spends the night again. (We get to spend the entirety of one day together! ALRIGHT!!!!!!!!!!) And then she goes to church with us on Sunday, and we loiter the rest of the day, and we do something (I don’t know what) and it could either end there, or, if we really want to stretch it, she could stay with us on Sunday too and we’d go to the park on Monday and that’s when she’d leave. Sorry I didn’t tell you about this before, Kolya, because we’ve actually had those plans in our head for a while, but I didn’t have all the details until today.
I hope the previous paragraph is what happens. I have been looking forward to it for a long time. A real long time. Every day I keep counting down the days in my head and today I’ve been saying to myself, “Seven more days! Seven more days!” If it doesn’t happen then that will seriously put a dampener on my week.
Five more days until my birthday, everybody!
I really like the songs in The King and I. When I saw the film, my favorite songs were “A Puzzlement” (the song the King sings when he’s confused about whether or not people can be sure of what they absolutely know), “Getting to Know You” (I think that’s the song from The King and I that almost everyone seems to like) and “Shall We Dance?” (the song that the King and Anna sing when they dance). Now, when I saw it this time around, I liked all those ones too, but I also liked “Hello, Young Lovers” a whole lot. A whole lot…it made me really happy, of course, because this time I understood everything that Anna was talking about in that song. I really like the line “I know what it feels to have wings on my heels” or something like that…she’s talking about this sort of rosy, almost love-high feeling you get when you’re in love and you’re thinking about the person you love…I’ve experienced it a lot myself. And I felt it again during that song. It was kind of silly of me, but when she was singing to the young lovers, I almost felt like she was singing directly to me…I think that every time someone plays Anna in a production of The King and I and she sings “Hello, Young Lovers”, she should always keep in mind that somewhere in the audience, there almost certainly will be a young lover listening to her words and agreeing with everything she’s singing.
I also really liked the song that Princess Tuptin and her lover sing when they meet (I can’t remember what it’s called…) I actually identified with it an awful lot. I remember agreeing with everything they said and feeling along with them. I feel like them and I wish I could be open about my love too. That is all.
My mum has come up with a wonderful idea. Today she sent an e-mail to Kolya and her stepmother proposing the idea to them. Yes, it’s one of those ideas that involves Kolya, and you know that to me, any idea that involves Kolya is a marvelous one! But, the idea was that, sometime on May 29th (which is in exactly one week and is two days after my birthday), we meet with Kolya and take her home with us, where she will spend the night with us. So we’ll do, well, our fantastically stupid and fun little 12-dimensional things together on Friday (and I think I’ll make her read what I’ve got written of Close to the Edge), and on Saturday, which is the day I do Faces in a Crowd, she’ll go see the play. (And, because my grandparents and a few other relatives are going to the play, I may actually have the opportunity to introduce them to Kolya after the play. I’ve told Gramie specifically a lot about her, and I also told her what it would mean if she and Kolya went to the play. She thought it was fantastic that she might actually meet “Various Parties.) But we’ll goof off in our own little way for the rest of the Saturday until evening, when we’ll go see the play that a different theatre class for my school is doing. They’re going to be doing a production of Bye Bye Birdy, which my mum wants to take Kolya and me to go see. So I suppose we will. Now, knowing us, we’re going to see the play, and we’re going to be all 12-dimensional, and she’s going to ask me which character I think David Bowie would be the happiest playing, and I’ll say “Probably [insert female character’s name here]” and I’d say something like “What if Syd Barrett and Jeff Mangum wrote all these songs together?” and that’ll set us off laughing and Mum is going to have to tell us to be quiet, like, 50 times. And also knowing us it’ll leave us with a bunch of inside jokes. But then after that we come home and Kolya spends the night again. (We get to spend the entirety of one day together! ALRIGHT!!!!!!!!!!) And then she goes to church with us on Sunday, and we loiter the rest of the day, and we do something (I don’t know what) and it could either end there, or, if we really want to stretch it, she could stay with us on Sunday too and we’d go to the park on Monday and that’s when she’d leave. Sorry I didn’t tell you about this before, Kolya, because we’ve actually had those plans in our head for a while, but I didn’t have all the details until today.
I hope the previous paragraph is what happens. I have been looking forward to it for a long time. A real long time. Every day I keep counting down the days in my head and today I’ve been saying to myself, “Seven more days! Seven more days!” If it doesn’t happen then that will seriously put a dampener on my week.
Five more days until my birthday, everybody!