Another relaxing lazy day, recharging my batteries. I did a lot of reading (and some snoozing). In the evening, I headed over to the Elizabethan Theatre to see Into the Woods. This is a Sondheim musical based around a mashup of a number of fairy tales, and it featured a 25 piece live orchestra. It started out with a lot of tuning-up and cast on stage in what appeared to be street clothes. Once it got going, cast members quickly evolved into their fairy tale costumes. There wasn’t a lot of stage setting, as the cast moved in, out, and around the orchestra, but the costumes were fun. The acting, as usual, was great, and the singing was really good. The story was fun, and the music moved things along well. Among lots of good singers, the performance by The Witch and Cinderella stood out. Even though I’m not that big a follower of musicals, this was fun.
It was a reasonably warm evening, but even with only a 25% forecast of rain, it started raining lightly about 30 minutes into the production, and kept it up, on and off, all the way through. Luckily I managed to to get drenched, and I didn’t get cold. At least it should wash a lot of smoke out of the air from all the forest fires.