So today I was at the local library, which is a pretty cool library, and I was down in the children's section and I kept hearing these bursts of song and seeing people in really strange fuzzy feathery costumes with horns wandering in and out of the little auditorium they have. So I went over to check it out and . . . it was so bizarre, it was like a musical/opera strange combination of Where the Wild Things Are and The Magic Flute and A Midsummer Night's Dream--they had Max and Puck and Papageno (and Papagena, a female monster with a moustache). And most of the music was from The Magic Flute, but they changed the words in all the arias to make them about the monsters and children. And half the dialogue made no sense, but it was so amusing, at one point the Papageno monster went running around the room with half the cast following him reading a list of foods for each letter of the alphabet, with other characters commenting on them ("V is for Vegetable Soup!" "Multicolored!" "Q is for Quizno's subs!" "We can share, they're big enough!"). And then later one of the characters shouted "Let the rumpus return!" and all of the audience members stomped and yelled and waved pieces of gauze. Oh, and what made it all more bizarre was when I looked at the program they gave me and found out most of the actors were trained professional opera singers who weren't even from Columbia. I don't know what it was, but I really wish other people had been there with me. I felt like I had walked into an alternate dimension.
Posted by linnea at May 5, 2007 4:02 PM