ANYTHING GOES Is a Winner!

It's so embarrassing when you invite someone to join you for an afternoon at the theater and the production is less than stellar.  Thus it was with a certain degree of anxiety that Husband and Fio trekked into Georgetown to meet with Nephew Barrett and his wife, Rachel, for a Sunday afternoon performance of Anything Goes, the 1934 Cole Porter musical.

Fiorella started getting nervous when the overture blared forth, over-loud as usual, but her fingers in her ears saved her,  Then she noticed what looked like bad champagne-blonde wigs on a some of the cast.  Then she met Reno Sweeny and the show went uphill from there.

Except for the black outfit the ingenue was cursed with, the costumes were great--Fio loved those slinky 1930s slip-like dresses,  And the choreography was great too--so many people dancing at once and so well coordinated. And the scenery was really good--Fio kept staring at the brig scene, trying to figure out if the background was real or trompe d'oiel.

And the songs.  Fiorella never realized the songs that came from this show: "I Get a Kick Out of You;" "Easy to Love;" "It's De-Lovely"; "Blow, Gabriel; and, of course, "Anything Goes."

Anything Goes is a silly story requiring the audience's total suspension of disbelief, and the Georgetown Palace pulled it off. All in all, the show was worthy of its standing ovation, and more besides.

Family Tidings

Fiorella is writing this last night because she'll be sleeping late this morning because she and Husband were invited by Son's fiancee's parents to have dinner with them at Austin Land and Cattle last night and had a wonderful time, which means Fio won't be able to fall asleep till after midnight.

Fio is very fortunate with the female members who have been added into her family--her brother's Patsy, Older Son's Jennifer,  Nephew Barrett's Rachel.  And now Younger Son will bring Lauren into the fold--and he'll be included in hers.

And lest Fio forget, she thinks she got a pretty good deal with Daughter's Todd also.