Hamilton again!
Jul. 1st, 2018 12:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cosmolinguistI saw Hamilton yesterday afternoon! Piggybacking on another friend's birthday trip (my usual strategy, since my own birthday is never really celebrated, is to enjoy everybody else's a little more so that over the year I store up enough extra happiness and excitement that it equals a birthday for me), this time rmc28.
Who a month ago emailed us with a beautiful plan for the day so I knew where I'd meet people, what time, even the menu of the place we were going to eat beforehand. I luxuriate in plans like this, the best way to offset my anxiety.
When we were finally able to take our seats, I was so excited to realize that we were sitting in the third row of the stalls. Almost right in the center (of the four of us, I had the seat second from the left; I think the rightmost might actually have been right in the middle).
The set that friends of mine had to describe for me (from the second-to-last row in the first tier of circle seats) was much more sharp and clear to me now. The actors, when they came onstage, were so distinct and easily identifiable that I almost cried, I was so overwhelmed.
For the whole play it was easy to follow them, to catch some of the visual jokes and cleverness of the choreography (I know there was way more, but there's more than anyone could appreciate in one viewing and at least here it wasn't all lost on me). The whole thing was easy for me to cope with and I wasn't exhausted by it the way I had been the first time I'd seen it. It was such a special experience.
Here's a not-very-good phone camera picture I took before the performance started, hopefully good enough to give you an idea of the view from my seat.
rmc28.Who a month ago emailed us with a beautiful plan for the day so I knew where I'd meet people, what time, even the menu of the place we were going to eat beforehand. I luxuriate in plans like this, the best way to offset my anxiety.
When we were finally able to take our seats, I was so excited to realize that we were sitting in the third row of the stalls. Almost right in the center (of the four of us, I had the seat second from the left; I think the rightmost might actually have been right in the middle).
The set that friends of mine had to describe for me (from the second-to-last row in the first tier of circle seats) was much more sharp and clear to me now. The actors, when they came onstage, were so distinct and easily identifiable that I almost cried, I was so overwhelmed.
For the whole play it was easy to follow them, to catch some of the visual jokes and cleverness of the choreography (I know there was way more, but there's more than anyone could appreciate in one viewing and at least here it wasn't all lost on me). The whole thing was easy for me to cope with and I wasn't exhausted by it the way I had been the first time I'd seen it. It was such a special experience.
Here's a not-very-good phone camera picture I took before the performance started, hopefully good enough to give you an idea of the view from my seat.
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Date: 2018-07-01 08:11 pm (UTC)Also: thanks for describing why the planning was so useful, knowledge I'll deploy sometime.
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