Thursday, May 9th, Claude and I spent the morning and early afternoon in Georgetown. Claude had two events to attend and I spent the time with Papa. I informed Papa it was his time to take care of me!!
Papa and I went for a walk around his neighborhood. This completely wore him out. We made it back to his apartment and he headed for his chair.
As we sat and visited, he mentioned that he had no picture of his parents on his wall of pictures. I went to the music room and pulled out the photo album of his side of the family. The first few pages had great pictures of his parents. I took the album home with me and scanned these pictures and printed out ones in the right size for him to thumb tack on his bulletin board.
Claude and I drove to Cincinnati to the Aronoff Center in the early evening. We were to see Phantom of the Opera. The last time we saw this play was in Las Vegas at the Venetian. They constructed a theater there especially for the play.
We allowed time for traffic and arrived an hour and a half ahead of schedule. Geez!!
We had eaten our big meal in Georgetown after doing all our errands there in the morning. So we really did not need to eat. We opted to walk around the block and locate a place to sit and have a soda for a bit. We found a Penn Station. Claude purchased beverages. After a bit, we realized we were the only customers there and they were cleaning up the place. Hmmm...I asked them if they were now closed. The nice lady said they were but we were welcome to stay while they cleaned. How about that...we closed down a place in Cincinnati! Not bad for an older couple, even if it was only a Penn Station sandwich establishment.
This production of Phantom of the Opera was a little different than all others we have seen over the years. This one featured a round staging area. It literally was a huge cylinder shape covered a huge circle out of the entire stage and rotated for the different scenes. This huge cylinder shape would open a bit for the scene. That is not a great description but it made some things different in this production. Going into the pit meant walking down from the top of the cylinder on steps that slid out from the top of the huge cylinder around the cylinder to the actual stage level. There were other changes but they were all good and helped us to enjoy the play again.
The actors were all excellent vocalists.
It was a great evening and we managed to even find our way out of Cincinnati easily. Enough trips there and we'll eventually get that down pat.
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