February 27, 2011

"I thought you said you were completely impervious to pain."

"Not my own!"

--A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

    Dreamed of a military school where the male and female cadets were trying to exterminate each other!

    Performed Madama Butterfly.  Moira saw it, but the parents will come later because Father's under the weather.

    Saw the DVD of the BBC production of Ibsen's Little Eyolf, with Diana Rigg and Anthony Hopkins.  I got sleepy once again.

    Then I saw the DVD of Richard Lester's movie of the musical A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.  It's a frantic, uneven adaptation.

Feburary 26, 2011

    Dreamed of Peter Brook's movie of Gurdjieff's Meetings With Remarkable Men (which I've seen); trying to find an entry on Gurdjieff in my biographical dictionary (he isn't in there).

    Dinner was curried pork.

    Performed Die Fledermaus.  Sandra (my dance partner at the start of the second act) wants to rely on me to remind her whenever it's time to go onstage, but that wasn't in my job description!

February 25, 2011

    Last night I baked gingerbread for the opera lobby refreshment sales.

    Dreamed of a fire in the fireplace of our old house in Sackville, N.B.

    Baked whole wheat bread.

    Dinner was KFC.

    Performed Madama Butterfly. (They had so much stuff to sell that my gingerbread didn't go out just yet.)