sunday breakfast and shows

 during the night i soaked a cup of almond flour in yogurt and then baked a pancake in the oven after adding five eggs. it was very good and we had it with honey and st. dalfour fruit juice sweetened jam.

chanda picked out the poem again this sunday:

'tis merry in greenwood

by sir walter scott

'tis merry in greenwood -- thus runs the old lay, --

in the gladsome month of lively may,

when the wild birds' song on stem and spray

invites to forest bower;

then rears the ash his airy chest,

then shines the birch in silver vest,

and the beech in glistening leaves is drest,

and dark between shows the oak's proud breast,

like a chieftan's frowning tower;

though a thousand branches join their screen,

yet the broken sunbeams glance between,

and tip the leaves with lighter green,

with brighter tints the flowers;

dull is the heart that loves not then

the deep recess of the wildwood glen,

where roe and red-deer find sheltering den,

when the sun is in his power.

it was a very busy morning getting ready for the play. i had to make a batch of chocolate chip cookies and put together a salad for selling at the concession we have during intermission. we also had to do morgana's hair, feed all of us, pack a lunch and make sure jack was set for the day. morgana left for the theatre at 11:30, chanda and i left at 12:12 thinking we could still buy flowers! instead we just ran for the theatre to drop off the food, make sure there was help backstage for the quick costume changes and then take our seats. 

  morgana's babysitting friends came to see her.

 and good friends came to see both shows (one o'clock and five o'clock . . )

 janet's pearly queen lambeth costume. she did half paint and half buttons. it looked so good on sarah. she's also wearing chanda's black beret with a feather sewn on.

 afterwards, we went out with deychen's family to "company" on ninth avenue just a block from the theatre. everyone had pizza, but morgana and i had salad (radicchio and artichoke).

back at home, morgana arranged her flowers into vases . . i am so tired!! and so relieved that we can return to a normal week. no more rehearsals! i can't believe it's over. i'm glad. of course i'm still singing all the songs over and over in my head . .

a bit of saturday . .

backstage pics

 chanda and i worked backstage tonight. our friend deychen went on as sally smith (and sang beautifully . . i could hear it all from the dressing room hallway).

 in between costume changes . . 

 I love this outfit she has on with the purple hat.

morgana was feeling a little under the weather at the end of the show and we took a cab home.

pre-show breakfast

 morgana slept late this morning, trying to sleep off the slight cold she has acquired. (unfortunately, i don't think it worked). when i returned from the impromptu garden meeting, we had a delicious breakfast that she had put together. she wanted to try making eggs like our friend carol: eggs folded over in a frying pan with a little ghee. it came out very well and she said it tasted just like carol's (well, there weren't that many ingredients . . she expected it to taste differently?) we had hibiscus tea with it and homemade crackers, and fruit shakes (each a different kind . . vanilla, strawberry and raspberry).

running lines with chanda before meeting deychen and traipsing off to the theatre (they like to take the high line every day).

opening night for "me and my girl"

 morgana went on as sally smith tonight. it was the first night they ran the whole show, so no one knew if it would come together, but it did. it was really fabulous and morgana gave a heartfelt performance. she made us all cry when she sang her solo "once you lose your heart." (to hear how the song goes, click on the arrow button next to the title on this amazon website).

 

 morgana and deychen in rehearsal for "the lambeth walk." (i found this on youtube just now when i was searching for the tune to "once you lose your heart.")

opening night preparations

 the "doo."

the dinner . .

load in

 our dented car all packed up with black plastic bags of costumes.

 we were out at 9:30 this morning to help janet load in to the theatre.

 it was just us girls this year. lucien, janet's third in line, stayed home with the younger ones to make breakfast. we missed his muscle . . just a little . . j and company were up to the task. i stayed with the car.

 morgana hauled the steamer in . . 

 and then she and chanda set everything up while i drove janet to the art store for pearly paint for the pearly queen (she'll use half paint and half buttons . . )

 when we returned i hemmed a few garments while they started sewing the buttons on the pearly queen's costume. we stayed until noon, drove home for lunch (and for a parking spot), and then returned in the evening (chanda went to ballet).

 rehearsal went until 8:30. walking home via the high line we came across the astronomy club. one guy had his telescope focused on the moon. it was very large and you could view the craters and really see how the earth casts a shadow. the next telescope was aimed at jupiter and four of it's sixty seven moons. they angled off in a straight line to the left and down from the planet: io, europa, ganymede and callisto. these were the galilean moons, discovered in 1609/1610 by galileo.
 it was a beautiful night.

costume shop visit

unbelievably, me and my girl moves into the theatre in less than a week!! thus, it was time to lend a hand in janet's costume shop.

the red dress on the right will actually be made to fit both deychen and morgana . . i think it's the only dress they are sharing . . 

an outfit for one of the aristocrats . . 

combing through the racks to see what needs to be hemmed . . 

the window stars feel especially bright on cloudy days . . 

it was fun to see many of the same books from the library about ancient greece that we had out last year.

gabriel's work . . i think he has very nice handwriting.

his map of ancient greece . . 

and yet another book about the ancient greeks; this one is by isaac asimov, whom janet and i are great fans of. i was not aware that he had written this book. i think i'll have to read it.

chanda met me here after ballet and hemmed a pair of pants before we headed home.