Nonsensational Entertainment

The entertainment for the evening was Nunsensations at the Oak Ridge Playhouse. It was cute and full of good Catholic humor...something I think all of us Catholics appreciate. I found myself looking forward to the end, though. I examined the costumes (habits) and found myself thinking that I am a much better seamstress than whomever made those. In the program, I counted the musical numbers in the second act and then kept track of them as they were performed so I would have some idea of how close to the end we were. It just wasn't a sensational performance. There was, however, some audience involvement and that was fun--sort of interactive to begin with and then off and on throughout. Some of the audience thought a standing ovation was in order. I think standing ovations are too generously given. This was not standing ovation worthy. Theater crowds are followers, I've noticed. A few people stand to applaud more noticeably and then everybody else does. For stuff like this, the only reason I follow is because then when everybody in front of me is standing, they're blocking my line of sight. This evening when the standing ovation began, we made a beeline for the car.

Again, I wish I'd had a little notebook with me. I have these brilliant ideas for blog blurbs and then they leave me just as quickly as the brilliance struck. As we were driving from our modest supper at Panera Bread to the playhouse, I was relating something to Shalane and stated that I was going to make a blog entry out of it. I have no idea what it was. Neither does she. Darn! Sigh.