All hands stand by for the move to New Digs! The Flying Castle now has permission to take off!
Posted on 07/08/2023 3:09:04 PM PDT by delta7
Great nite …. Hope your nite was Great
Lots of time outta the house yesterday.
Took my youngest two out for a local production of “The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe”; an adaptation of the book by C. S. Lewis.
The theater is “in the round” with the audience stepped up two rows deep on four sides of a square stage. Set pieces and props were few. The production used costuming, lighting, character dialog, and a few sound effects to bring Narnia to life in the imaginations of the attendees.
Impressively, the entire theater lobby was furnished as Professor Digory’s manse with wing chairs, sofas, end tables, desk, bookcases, a suit of armor, and — necessarily — a very large wardrobe, with the melded profiles of a man, a lion, and a stag engraved into the double doors.
The audience is immersed into the first scene as if they’ve all come to tour the mansion with Mrs. McCready. Near the end of the scene, first Lucy, then Edmund disappears into the wardrobe; the doors closed, their voices becoming distant, and then, silence.
Then the wardrobe is thrown wide open, a tall, graceful girl costumed as the white stag emerges and bids everyone “Follow me to Narnia,” and the entire audience files between the fur coats into the wardrobe, which — surprise — is positioned to mask the entrance to the theater proper.
The effect was nothing short of magical; anyone who’s read the stories has desired to step through those enchanted doors.
In under the wire late last night to log 4 strokes for part out on the 4th.
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I have a long sleeve shirt from the thrift store. It’s okay.
All hands stand by for the move to New Digs! The Flying Castle now has permission to take off!
Safe travels! :D
Only took me a single putt to hole in once I got there, but a little difficulty making it to the green left me with a Bogey here on the 5th.
With the encroachment of the seaside cliffs everything about this tee shot says, “Keep it to the left.” So I pulled a 5 iron and shot at the bunker to the left of the green, looking to drop it short, and make the small patch of fairway to set up a short chip shot that would have me in the green in two. I got the distance I wanted but my shot drifted to the right and bounced off the edge of the sloping fairway well into the rough. Now shooing up-slope from below the green, looking to loft the ball up onto it, I got more distance than height, skidded across the green, and hopped into the bunker beyond. I played very well out of the sand, though, leaving myself a putt of about 5ft to nab the Bogey.
On to the 6th, now, at even par.
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Are you coming with us??
Good to see you, too, z!
Wishing y’all a blessed week.
It sounds amazing. I hope you all had a great time.
Sounds like an amazing production, glad that you enjoyed it!
I had Bogeys on 4 and 5...
You too, SG!
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