Riverdance

One of the most exciting mail deliveries of the spring is the calendar of events for Wolf Trap.  It is brightly colored and folds out into a poster (which my boss coincidentally has hanging on his wall).  We all love Wolf Trap and we always vow every summer to go to more events than we did the year before and really take advantage of it.  Well there was one event that caught my eye right away, Riverdance.  Let's all admit it, we've seen the tv commercials of the loud banging tap dancing and wished we had trained since age 3 and lived in Ireland and had no job so we could tour around the world and dance too!  It was Father's Day weekend and I was determined to go.  We ordered our tickets (box seats of course (but matinee because we're not into spending a ton of money), packed a picnic lunch and a change of clothes, and left right after church.  We got there and parked next to some picnic tables, ate lunch and walked over to pick up our tickets at will-call (which was run by incompetent high schoolers who needed summer jobs.  In other words the line moved very slowly).  Once we found our seats I was decidedly depressed to discover that I had packed the camera and the new zoom lens but had left the battery charging in the wall at home!!! :(  Sad day.  Mom made me feel a little better when she pointed out that the program told us not to take pictures of the show for copyright purposes.  So before the show started I whipped out my trusty blackberry (with not a very good camera) and snapped some shots.

Here is the left side of the stage.  I just love the wood and the architecture of Wolf Trap.  It makes me smile.

Hello ma famille, how are you doing?  A little chilly because of the breeze?  Yeah me too, but we would have sweated on the lawn and not been able to see as well anyway.  So good choice.

And here's the right of the stage.  And yes the stage decorations look like they're straight out of the 80s and 90s.  So did the costumes.  The dancing was fun and exciting though.  I could have done with less flamenco dancer and less musician playing, but lowly matinee ticket holders can't be choosers, and apparently this was the last US performance forever (or until they get a revival going.  Hopefully they will get better costumes and set pieces . . . ).  So I'm glad we got to see it and happy we all had fun on Father's Day.  Next time we'll eat the picnic lunch after the show and wait for all the traffic to leave!