Today was a wonderful day. Although originally scheduled to leave for Denver at 8:00AM to go see a few movies, Sagar and I ended up getting up around 11:30– just enough time to get up, shower, and make it to Erik’s house by 12:05. We piled into Erik’s van, and started driving toward Loveland to pick up a friend of Erik’s from Grinnel, Jess. After lunch at Arby’s, the now four of us headed up the Thompson canyon to Estes park for the sake of giving Jess a taste of Colorado. Once in Estes we explored the historic Stanley hotel and found a delightful mom & pop candy store where we bought ice cream and some favorite childhood candies. From there we headed back to Fort Collins in time to meet Keto for dinner at Woody’s Pizza and to get to the Lincoln Center by 7:15 to see Copenhagen performed. After the play, we drove to Walrus and enjoyed more sugar-y heart attack and then back to Cheyenne for bing-cherry cider. Sagar and I made it back to his Dad’s place at about 1:30, concluding another wonderful day of break.
The performance of Copenhagen was nothing short of amazing. I’ve seen several Broadway performances, but none of them were the equal of what I saw tonight. Although the acting wasn’t flawless and the stage was spartan and the sound was often intrusive, it was still an ovation-worthy performance. Certainly my overwhelming love of Frayne’s masterpiece (the 2000 Tony Award winner for best play) played a part in my enjoyment of Copenhagen– it’s, perhaps, the most intelligent script I’ve ever read or seen, but what really carried the play was the outstanding performances by the three actors who managed to hold fast my interest for two hours plus without the aid of music, props or even scene changes. The direction of the play was exactly as I envisioned it but also managed to embellish and give life to the play in numerous ways that only a stage-performance can. Walking from the theatre, all we could feel was overawed– it was a great performance of a great play.
In the mean time, I’m supposed to meet Mr. Wacker for coffee at 7:00AM (a mere 5 hours from now) so I’m thinking about heading to bed.
