Shakespeare in the Park

August 22, 2007

The Line

It had been raining for two days, and we were starting to get cabin fever. Taj also had a real fever. By wednesday, Mom called the Shakespeare in the park hotline ( a new thing she just heard about - the number is 212-539-8662) to ask if it was still possible to get tickets if we got there by 12:00 noon. Surprisingly, the woman said yes! We rushed out. Still a bit of light rain but we had raincoats on.

We got to a reaaaly short line! Wow, this was the shortest ever. The Macbeth line was really long and we reached the BIG ROCK - a bad sign - for Romeo and Juliet. We were not able to get tickets for Romeo and Juliet, which was okay with us. ( too much love interest).

The violin guy was there at the line again, but did not get to play too long because we got our tickets in 15 minutes!

We walked around the park in the light rain and threw pebbles at the mucky pond from the castle. We walked around taking pictures of the hand-made fences because mom wanted to make some up at the lakehouse.




We also saw the backstage of the Delacorte, and saw people working on the props. We wondered what the baby carriage was for. I like looking at plays and how they are made.



Children's Museum

We walked to the west side and decided to eat lunch and then go to the Children's museum. For a long time we did not like going to CMOM because we thought it was too kiddish, We changed our minds when we saw the Greek Exhibit. It is really fun. This is the second time we are seeing it, and we still spent a lot of time there. The wooden trojan horse is Taj's favorite. I liked the talking Aristotle. It was cool because he can guess things.

At 5, we left the museum, went to the library to borrow stuff, and then went to the Diana Ross playground. The sand was perfect! A little wet from the rain. We played with our clay guys we got from the craft hour at the museum. Sand and clay are nice to play with.

Dad came with soup from Ho Yip. Yumm. At 7:45 we walk to the Delacorte. We had invited Tita Mo, and mom's cousin, Isha ( we had 2 extra tickets.)

Midsummer Night's Dream

WE got the same bad seats from before - maybe because there is always 6 of us! But we were happy. The rain had stopped, and the stage had a nice set. We finally figured out what the carriage was for. It was for the Indian Boy!. When we read the play, we always thought it was a lad - like a toddler. I guess it was easier to have a little baby.

The play was really funny. My favorite character was the Wall in the play-within the play ( Pyramus and Thisbe). In the actual play, my favourite was Puck , because he is my kind of person. He was a cross between Cupid and Pan. Oberon , I did not like, because he wore a suit. Oberon was the name of the character in the Revenge of the Shadow King. I like knowing how authors use old ideas and finding out connections between texts. Oberon was even the King of Shadows!

T: My favourite part was the end, -- Pyramus and Thisbe. I think the funniest one was the Wall. In the actual play, I liked John Bottom ( the donkey head) the best. He was very silly. Also the one who played the girl.

We laughed so much- and kept talking about the funny parts as we walked through Central Park on the way home. This was also nice. We like walking home through the park in the dark a lot. The sky is a perfect circle looking up from the great lawn. I lost my jacket though and was upset for a while.