furniture, pandora and HSRT

How much do I love free, wonderful theatre? I can't describe it. There's this wonderful thing called Hope Summer Repertory Theater. I've been ushering for about six years and you get free tickets. it's the best invention on the planet. Usually, you usher and everyone knows where they're sitting anyway. It's easy. Most attendees are regulars and know the theater pretty well. However, last night Josh and I ushered at the Knickerbocker, which was a new experience. It's a taller, narrower theater, and the seats are numbered funny, in my opinion. It was horrendous. There were people in the wrong seats, several times where I led them all the way up one side only to find out their tickets were for the other side...a tiny old lady sitting in the front row of the balcony who couldn't see over the railing and we had to move her, cane and all, to a higher seat? holy hannah. we definetely earned our free tickets last night! we sat in the back in the mezzanine.

as much as i complain about this, though, the show made up for it. we saw "Suds", which i've seen before, but hadn't remembered all it's charm. it's about a young girl, working in a laundry mat, devestated about lost love on her birthday. her guardian angel, named marge, arrives, along with a "trainee" guardian angel named deedee and 60's song and dance commences, trying to cheer up the suicidal cindy. it's marvelously cheesy, as is all good musical theatre. cindy was played by a wonderful recent college grad and she was very impressive. we had a blast. I'm blessed with a husband who can enjoy cheesy theatre as much as i can.

the best part about HSRT is not that we get to see shows for free, but that they're worth about $26/ticket apiece! awesome. great date night for free! they also attract acting, directing and artistic talent from all over the country. marvelous. i love holland.

on a different note, we're going furniture shopping tonight! we were going to do that last night until i got the call that we were supposed to be ushering at HSRT...so it was postponed until tonight. this is exciting! this means that we're between 6-8 weeks out from moving and we need to order the furniture in order for it to be here on time!! yay! i can't wait to move in.

the third subject in my heading is pandora. simply this: if you're not on it, shame on you. you should be. it's the best invention.