Nutcracker...Sweet

[puppetmaker]

Today I am chaperoning for Caroline's kindergarten class. They are going on their first Field Trip to see the Nutcracker. The kids are excited about it according to Caroline. I am figuring that this will be a good chunk of my day and that's fine by me. I haven't seen a live production of the Nutcracker in a while.

Speaking of Theater, my sympathies both to Mr. Tennant who has undergone surgery for a slipped disk today and will not be back in Hamlet until after Christmas and to all those ticket holders who will not be seeing him as the Dane. I wish him a speedy recovery. His understudy is getting very good notices from the critics so the show is still worth seeing.

If you are in Atlanta and into Muppets, there is the Jim Henson Exhibit at the Atlanta Historical Society until January 18th. Also a couple of exhibits that are Muppet related at the Center for Puppetry Arts. I plan to try to see both when I am down there for Christmas.

I am hoping that the weather clears up before Saturday so we can make our Holiday trip into the city. Today is very wet and this evening will probably get wetter. This is the cold rain that drives me nuts because I know that a couple of degrees and this all turns to snow. But today is cold wet bone chilling rain.

I am grateful that I am going with Caroline to her first ballet.

Comments

[wookiemonster.livejournal.com]

Can I klepto that icon?

I remember watching the Nutcracker ballet on HBO when I was a kid. I have never seen it live, though :(

[puppetmaker40.livejournal.com]

Klept away.

[jenandbronze.livejournal.com]

I saw the nutcraker years and years ago, and sitting to see a theater production, I found very difficult to sit still, and it was hard enough we sat so far back, I don't remember seeing much!!!!

[beeker121.livejournal.com]

I remember my great aunt taking me to see my first Nutcracker - it was magical. Have fun.

[sushimustwrite.livejournal.com]

I won a pass to the Jim Henson exhibit at the Decatur Book Festival that I haven't used yet. It expires when the exhibit does, so I'm going to see it after Christmas.