Fresh new from the Sibling:
"Star Trek" + Shakespeare!
Two of my favorite things! TOGETHER! Patrick Stewart live on stage as Macbeth! Here's the playbill cover.
Awesome.
The Sibling has suggested something utterly insane: trying to go see this when classes end in a few weeks. Yes, we are geeks! Yes, we are nerds! Yes, we love both "Star Trek" and Shakespeare, and we are in a state of nerdy excitement.
*MM runs off to ransack her piggy bank.*
PS: Here is "Macbeth" for you, too.
4 comments:
Go for it Minerva,
Be jealous of me. Patrick Stewart spoke at a U of M football game that I attended in fall 2007.
And I might add that I wrote a tribute for one of our legislators honoring the final episode of Star Trek TNG (since I was the only one in the office who even knew what the show was). :-)
Though I confess I rank TNG below Star Trek and Enterprise in my ranking and only above Voyager. TNG Federation always seemed like EU in Space ... With the Borg actually representing the United States.
I $%!"$%&*&*((* missed this in London - tickets sold out too quickly.
Do go, he's a great actor. I've seen him a couple times (in Marc Antony and in a one-man 'A Christmas Carol').
One thing I can't get is why show tickets cost more in New York than in London. The range for this show is $51 - $100, cut that in half to get the £ figure (£25 - £ 50). You almost never see a ticket for £50, at least not for a play. Sometimes musicals go that high or higher. But plays top out at about £40, and the RSC rarely goes that high. Last year I got a front-row dress circle seat for an acclaimed production of 'King Lear' for £30, a fantastic seat!
Brian, consider me duly jealous!
As for the Federation, I've always thought it was the EU/UN in space! Glad to see I'm not the only one. As for me, hey, I'm all for peaceful exploration and all that, but I want to be packin' big big-time photon torpedoes too.
Don, I did have a chance to see Picard -- I mean, Patrick Stewart -- in the West End a few years ago. He was great! He was in an Ibsen play (I think); I'm not a big Ibsen fan, but -- it was Patrick Stewart!
Haven't seen any Ibsen yet, Maddie. It's sickening the plays I've missed in London in recent years, mostly because I've been working elsewhere. 'Death of a Salesman' (though I did make 'The Crucible' and 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf', both in the same week. Fantastic.
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