Michael and I went to see Sunday In The Park With George last night at the Rep.  Gorgeous.  It made me want to see it again just to catch all the little things I missed this time around.  I love the show because it has so many things about art, connections, timing, and I think everyone who sees it can walk away thinking that a piece of it was written directly for them, to describe how they think and feel.

Lots of people shared the experience with us last night, and I love standing around in the lobby unabashedly eavesdropping on other people – when they talk about what they are sure they know, or think they might discover, sometimes the comments are really funny.  It reminds me that we are all on a journey, and that maybe we’ve been somewhere or experienced something already, and the person next to us is just going through it.  It’s just delicious to hear the delighted surprise from the person sitting next to you as they realize for the first time something you feel you’ve always known. 

People were earnestly discovering what things “mean” in the production, and what they are trying to “tell” us about the characters.  I kind of wanted to tell some of them to relax, that there wouldn’t be a quiz right before curtain call.  They wouldn’t somehow “fail” their experience of the production if they needed time to process what they thought.  I hope it made them want to create something, because it inspired me to take a closer look at what’s around me that I can use to make something that will be new, fresh, different.  And on top of that I got to have the music in my head, too.  That’s the kind of earworm I can definitely live with.