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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Thomas C. White who wrote (42934)	11/29/1999 3:33:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (6) \| Respond to of 71178

The biggest problem for a modern audience was the bathroom situation after two acts. I sent Dan for a glass of wine while I "Repaired to the Ladies' Room." Isn't that a funny phrase? Now if they said, I went to the Ladies' Room to repair, that would make sense. But I don't repair to go. Prepare, yes. And by the time I made it through that line, I was impaired. Anyway, the line went down the hall to the men's room, turned around,and went BACK to the ladies room, and turned again. I faced a serious decision: I could NOT wait, go upstairs, drink my wine, and be miserable for the last act, or I could wait, and chug my wine. I decided I HAD to go and I know I am a capable chugger. Besides the women were fun to watch. There was a little older lady wiping her eyes and murmuring, "Wagner, ah, Wagner." She was clutching what looked to be a textbook against her heart. There was a cool lady in long black velvet with a plastic ram's horn helmet on. There was a beautiful young girl in back of me who said, "Did you recognize that music?" ANd she hummed a few bars of the Valkyrie theme that winds in and out of the first two acts. I said, "Yes, it's the Ride of the Valkyries and you'll hear it bigtime in the next act. It's why everyone is staying." She said, disappointed, "Oh, I thought it was the Star Wars theme." I finally got there. ALthough it was very close--- for some reason little old ladies do NOT believe they should have to wait in lines. THey just-- go in. ANd really, I wasn't about to stop some bluehaired, diamondclad matron and tell her to go to the back of the bus. I drank my wine in three gulps, not about to waste it- at 4.50 for a few ounces. I think actually it was a good idea and recommend it for last acts because I got real happy at first. And sang along with the Hojotohos! and Heiahas! It didn't start wearing off until the interminable final Wotan/Brunnhilde scene, when I realized that they weren't going to really set fire to the stage.