Once in a blue moon

My aunt posted this little nugget of an astrological fun fact to FB today.  I don't have any crystals to put out for recharging, but I am pretty excited to see what this blue moon has in store for me.

Tonight, my sorellina and I saw Anything Goes at the theatre where we were in The Wedding Singer two Summers ago.  We hugged & congratulated my "show crush" from that Wedding Singer Summer, a stellar tap dancer as it turns out and such a solid guy, who's been happily married now for a year I think and I walked away with two main conclusions from the viewing.

1st.  I don't know if anyone it means a hill of beans to will ever read this assessment/recommendation, but Dori Bryan-Ployer is, I swear, the best choreographer in Boston.  She shapes up a cast into a crisp troupe of dancers with a method I haven't seen since I was first directed and choreographed by one of the greats originally from CA twelve or thirteen years ago.  Feck, I'm old.  (I also cantered at an Irish Wedding this afternoon - amazing - more on that another time, but hence my feeling like saying "feck").  Anyway - Dori - she's so freaking good.  The Lyric or Speakeasy or the Huntington had better scoop her up sooner than later.  And when they do, I'll start coming to Boston to see shows at all three again.

2nd.  Here's the once in a blue moon tie in... The premise of Anything Goes is a guy & girl meet one night at a swinging 1920s or 30s party and fall madly in love driving around Central Park in the back of a taxi cab for 9 hours, but the girl's betrothed to a Brit, and the two lovers don't run into each other again until they happen to both be on the deck of a London bound Ocean Liner 3 months later...  many musical theatre antics unfold and ::SPOILER ALERT:: the guy gets the girl back (with the help of some offensively written scenework and the singin' and dancin' of his public enemy and nightclub crooner friends... it's one of the best).  And it's a riot to think that back when life spans weren't spilling into the 80 and 90 years on the reg, sometimes all it took was ONE NIGHT - one magic moment at a party to seal the deal.  Stick a fork in these two, they were done for, head over heals and ready to take the plunge...

There was no song and dance of an on again off again courtship.  No trial period spent testing out living together in a 2 bedroom apartment before the ring was bought.  It was bing bang boom.  A little moonlight, a little spin around the park, and (likely) a couple kisses combined with what one imagines could at most only have been a little heavy petting, and it was cause for the breaking of an engagement.

Once in a blue moon, I bet love still works like this: "at first sight," in reaction to a gut feeling, and because for all intents and purposes after all, anything goes.

But I haven't seen it do so to date in real life, so for the time being, even though I've been in it twice and seen two of my siblings perform it in middle school and high school productions, even though I've got pretty much every spoken line and no joke every song lyric memorized, I'll keep seeing this show time and time again, whenever I've got the opportunity to.  Because it's not just delovely, it's heavenly.

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Okay enough of that. Take me back to Manhattan ;)