Saturday, 19 July 2008

Legs are shaking

There's a good reason for this title as we went to St. Paul's Cathedral today. It's the place where Prince Charles got married to Princess Diana. It's huge and the inside it beautiful. We walked (yes walked) up to the whispering gallery, which part of the dome of the cathedral. It was 257 steps to just that part of the dome. The next part is the Stone Gallery which is another 119 steps. My legs were killed me after that. When I got back down I was standing with my friends and my legs were shaking! Yes shaking! It was weird, luckily it's stopped, but I really don't want to be doing that again sometime.

Last night was amazing. We went to see Romeo and Juliet at the same open air theatre where we saw A Midsummer Night's Dream. This time the show was much better and SO good. I was in awe the whole time with it. All six of the cast member's from A Midsummer Night's Dream were in this show. Nicholas Shaw, who played Lysander in AMND, was Romeo, Matthew Hart, who was Puck in AMND, was Sampson, Laura Donnelly, who played Hermia in AMND, was Juliet, Ben Joiner, who was Demetrius in AMND, was Tybalt, Annette McLaughlin, who was Helena (and was horrible) in AMND, was Lady Capulet, and Dale Superville, who was Bottom in AMND, was Peter. (Ok sorry, but I wanted to give a shout out to those six because they had to do that horrible AMND.) Anyway Romeo and Juliet was wicked awesome. Everyone in the cast was great and the setting was nice. They based it in the 1950s and it totally worked. It was like watching West Side Story without the dancing and singing. Romeo, Nicholas Shaw was so adorable.

So now I was eating lunch (and this ties in with the open air theatre) and noticed this guy walking in. I was like "That's Puck (Matthew Hart)." So after I was done eating and he was starting to I went up to him and talked to him about both shows. He was very sweet and lovely. I heart him mucho. He was nice about letting me sit with him while he ate. The funny thing though is that he told me the cast for A Midsummer Night's Dream doesn't even understand the whole concept of the show. I was laughing about that. Meeting Matthew Hart makes up for the whole walking St. Paul's thing.

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