This morning, it was still hot and stuffy in our room. Nicole and I both wore summer clothes to class, but once we were off the tube and out of the station we discovered that maybe that wasn't such a good idea - it was a little chilly. I decided that I was going to go back to the room to grab a sweatshirt for me and a jacket for Nicole ater my class before we met up to go to the theatre for Wicked.
Theatre class was fairly uneventful. We talked about Chicken Soup With Barley and basically agreed as a group that it was really good.
After class was a meeting for people going on the trip this weekend. We talked through the itinerary and signed up for roommates and what we want for dinner.
After the meeting, I walked with KB and Ivy to get some bubble tea. While we were there, it started pouring so we stalled a bit before going back to the tube station to get home. It wasn't raining at South Kensington, so KB decided that she wanted Ben's Cookies (this store next to the station that sells amazing cookies). Well, while we were inside there, it started raining again. We all ate our cookie and by the time we finished it had stopped again. We debated taking a bus back to the res hall, but decided that we might as well walk (it's a 5-10 min walk).
After all this adventuring, I only had about 10 minutes in the room before I was going to leave to meet Nicole after her class. I changed into jeans and grabbed jackets for us and went back to the tube station.
When we got to the theatre, there was a line to the box office and I was afraid that we wouldn't be able to get tickets, but we did and they were pretty good ones too. The cool thing about getting tickets at the box office is that we get the cool looking tickets, not the ticketmaster printoffs. That was at 5 pm, the show wasn't until 7.30. We got dinner and that killed an hour, then we stalled in a Pret for another hour until the house opened.
I got carded for the first time at dinner. Nicole and I both decided that we wanted a drink with our dinner and so I ordered a Malibu and pineapple - and the bartender asked for ID. I'm glad I moved it into my ID holder, the people at the first pub I went to didn't ask me with either drink.
While stalling in Pret, I read an article in the Evening Standard about how the British education system 'no longer encourages children to read books, let alone absorb them or get lost in them'. Evidently time and testing constraints make it so they mostly teach in excerpts rather than whole books. I wouldn't survive very long int he system as it is today :]
Wicked is such an amazing show. There were a few lines that I understood better and were better now that I've actually seen The Wizard of Oz. Nicole had never seen Wicked before, and now she's in love with the man who played Fiyero. He was a rather beautiful man :D In Britain, you can go to the stage doors if you want and see the cast and crew as they leave, so we went down there and she got his autograph and a picture with him. I'm jealous :] Before he got out there, I saw a violinist leave and I think that was the fastest packing up of a violin that I've ever seen - they were still playing when we left the theatre and she walked out about three minutes after we got to the door. Other instruments followed, but they probably had their cases with them. We could never do that - our pits were rarely big enough for us, let alone all our cases and things as well.
We both agreed that Elphaba was a very pretty woman while looking through the pictures in the programme, and she also had a great voice once the show started. I'd forgotten that they went stright from The Wizard and I (her first big song) into What is This Feeling? (she sings this with Galinda), I thought that was impressive.
Glinda had a great voice, but anyone cast as her has an amazing voice in my opinion - Glinda has such a range. Glinda and Elphaba had an amazingly fas costume change going from the scene where they decide to go to the Emerald City together and they run off stage and come back in completely different outfits for One Short Day (the song that they start when they decide to go together). It was very good.
And, in addition to being very hot, Fiyero had a great voice as well. He also danced well :D
And now it's 12.56 am and I have class at 10, so I'm going to sleep.
Till then,
-Carly
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