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[mrissa]

I said this over on Facebook, but I will repeat myself here:

markgritter and I are going to the Gilbert & Sullivan Very Light Opera Company's performance of H.M.S. Pinafore on Saturday at the Lake Harriet Bandshell. We'll be bringing picnic for ourselves, which will probably include enough bars and/or cookies to share with a few people if people turn up. The performance starts at 7:30. We will be picnicking somewhat in advance of that. If you're around and going to be there, look for us. We're likely to be on lawn chairs on the little rise behind the benches.

GSVLOC generally puts priority on music first, costume second, and dance third. That's for their stage productions. At the bandshell it's not a fully enacted performance, it's mostly just the music, possibly some funny hats. (For those of you who like dance a great deal, this may actually be a good thing: no need to worry that anyone will butcher the choreography.) They really want to get you out of there by dark, too, so the intermission is short and the pacing moves along at a really good clip.

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[sraun]

Grr. I'd love to - if it weren't for the Ghu-damned work schedule.

Announce it again next year, please?

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

It's perhaps worth signing up on the mailing list at http://gsvloc.org. I only get about three messages a year from them, two about the main production and one about the concert performance.

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

I'll wave to you from here - I've ALWAYS wanted to see a production of the Pinafore...

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

You've never seen one? What, never?

That's very sad. I hope something comes around your neck of the woods soon.

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

No never! (grin)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

The problem with that particular musical exchange is that when the answer really is never, reiterating, "What, never?" can be annoying for the other person who has to say, "No, really never, all right? Not as a musical reference! Just as me not getting to do the fun thing yet!"

I wish you fun thing soon.

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

thank you, and I wish you to have LOTS of fun at your fun thing.

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

Oh my...never? Very sad.

(Also greatly appreciating Marissa's joke here!)

The Gilbert and Sullivan Very Light Opera company is a great resource. They've done FAR the best amateur performances I've seen (I've only seen a couple of professional performances, and the best GSVLOC have been better than one of the professional ones). They've gone though the whole canon several times since I've been following them, at the stately rate of one performance a year (the concert performances are usually something from a recent year, rather than the same as the current year's fully-staged performance).

I can't tell if they don't care as much about dance, or if they simply have a small enough stage that it limits their choreography seriously. Since I don't care as much about dance, it's not a big worry for me, anyway.

[kitgordon.livejournal.com]

Have just emailed my wild and crazy partner to see if he's interested; if so, we may see you there.

[carbonel]

I will be at the Winnipeg Folk Festival this weekend, so not at Gilbert & Sullivan, alas.

Have a fine time!

[laurel]

I imagine kaustin may be interested and I might be up for at least swinging by to say howdy on the way to Sebastian Joe's or something. Not sure of our Saturday plans yet, but will keep this in mind. (I have a feeling I'm forgetting something that is going on, but I have that nagging feeling a lot.)

We are going to the Twins game on Sunday because there's the mascot game beforehand and we enjoy that way more than one really should enjoy that sort of thing.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I have a firm upper bound on how much one should enjoy a mascot game.

[careswen.livejournal.com]

Already having the other plans, and being interested in another time.