Gorgeous Sunday!

Another beautiful day in the ATX. Yesterday afternoon Lauren and I went up to St. Ed's to catch Spotlight on Opera's production of Suor Angelica. The campus is so pretty. I just love walking around there. They have a fantastic view of downtown, too. The Mary Moody Northen Theater sits on a perfect hill for reenacting the opening scene from The Sound of Music. Ummmm, not that we did that... Anyhoo... The show featured many amazing voices, and we enjoyed it, despite the fact that we hadn't done any research on the story and missed a major plot point until after the show when it was explained to us. Ahhhh!!

At the theater, Lauren and some of her friends were trying to decide what an Italian word posted on a sign meant. I can't recall the word, but we collectively decided it meant "cupcakes," because they were selling cupcakes at that table. We were pretty proud of ourselves, until after the show when we found out it was the word for the printed English translation of the opera... which would have been very helpful when we were all desperately trying to figure out why Angelica was killing herself.

Then last night Kathy, Alex and I saw the Broadway musical In the Heights. I had never heard of the show, even though it's won many Tony Awards in the past couple of years and is still playing in NYC. Fast-paced, great music, lots of hip-hop and rap thrown in. The dancing rocked. There are two very funny characters who kept us laughing throughout. It was a really good time!

Song Lyrics of the Day (Nina teaches Benny some Spanish...)

...Nina: Llámame
Benny: Call me
Nina: Azul
Benny: Blue
Nina: Amame
Benny: Love me
Nina: Perhaps I do
Benny: Well, how do you say kiss me?
Nina: Bésame
Benny: And how do you say hold me?
Nina: Abrázame... al amanecer... at sunrise
Nina/Benny: Anything at all can happen
Just before the sunrise...

"Sunrise" from In the Heights