Miss Saigon: My Impressions
As I’m sure many of you know, Joyce and I are really into musicals (or more accurately, Joyce is really really into musicals, and I like musicals a bit less than opera… which happens to be a lot). However, the number of musicals that we’ve actually seen together (as opposed to listening to the recordings in my collection) is pitifully small.
Come to think of it, I think we’ve only seen one musical together (Fiddler on the Roof at Capital Theatre) before Miss Saigon.
Anyway, Joyce and I finally got to see Miss Saigon at Lyric Theatre last Friday. Many thanks to Grace and Chris for shouting us A-reserve seats. We had a pretty good view of the stage (albeit being off to the side), and the theatre itself was quite comfy and cosy.
[Rant: The only problem with where I sat was that I was just a couple of seats away from some uncouth, inconsiderate imbecile who thought that it would be in his best interest disrupt the performance by turning up forty minutes into the musical and then proceed to dig around loudly in a plastic bag of snacks and offering them to his friend who was sitting next to me.
Luckily, she refused or else I would have had no choice but to 'educate' him with some stares of disapproval... maybe even while shaking my head disdainfully at him...
Grr... there should be a rule that enforces the automatic ejection and subsequent banning of patrons who fail to observe signs like 'no food or drinks in the theatre' -- particularly those who do so and consume them loudly...]