back to duck soup.
jon's trying to get me off my addiction to the card game spider. and actually, it's not even spider, it's spiderette, but i'm only winning 10% of my games, and the drive to hit 11% burns inside of me. in his wish to shake my mac free of the spiderette game on my dashboard, he's "encouraged" me to log on to the internet and write up our november 4th date.
and only because our november 4th date was SO good will i leave my little addictive game of spiderette.
so, reflect back, if you will, to saturday, november 4th. a normal day. a badger game in the morning. a chill in the autumn air. the skies growing dark at 5 pm.
jon came over around 5:30 to make dinner with me and we lounged around until "date night" officially began.
for jon's date, he discovered overture center's silent film series, "duck soup cinema." according to the OC's site, "these light-hearted presentations bring back the Capitol Theater's early years as a silent-film era movie palace." a classic silent movie (in our case, they showed the great black and white "for heaven's sake") accompanied by live music played on an organ is preceeded by vaudeville style entertainment on stage, magic in the lobby and chances to win (often) extravagant door prizes.
a uw a capella group who sang a couple of beautiful songs followed a folk quartet. then we had a juggler and then giveaways. and then the movie. and i loved it all. i've watched and enjoyed at least a few silent movies in my day, but accompanied by a live organ and amongst a multi-generational audience the fun factor goes WAY up. in a world of aaron sorkin and gilmore girls shows where the dialogue is spit out so quickly that clearly it's been rehearsed a thousand times (seriously, you can't listen and talk that quickly), watching a movie without words is really refreshing.
we're definitely going back in february. check out the upcoming schedule here.
oh yeah, and make sure to get your tickets at the overture center beforehand. don't call on the phone or order over the internet because they add a $3 fee for each ticket. and if you don't get them in advance, it'll most likely be sold out. just a tip!
and only because our november 4th date was SO good will i leave my little addictive game of spiderette.
so, reflect back, if you will, to saturday, november 4th. a normal day. a badger game in the morning. a chill in the autumn air. the skies growing dark at 5 pm.
jon came over around 5:30 to make dinner with me and we lounged around until "date night" officially began.
for jon's date, he discovered overture center's silent film series, "duck soup cinema." according to the OC's site, "these light-hearted presentations bring back the Capitol Theater's early years as a silent-film era movie palace." a classic silent movie (in our case, they showed the great black and white "for heaven's sake") accompanied by live music played on an organ is preceeded by vaudeville style entertainment on stage, magic in the lobby and chances to win (often) extravagant door prizes.
a uw a capella group who sang a couple of beautiful songs followed a folk quartet. then we had a juggler and then giveaways. and then the movie. and i loved it all. i've watched and enjoyed at least a few silent movies in my day, but accompanied by a live organ and amongst a multi-generational audience the fun factor goes WAY up. in a world of aaron sorkin and gilmore girls shows where the dialogue is spit out so quickly that clearly it's been rehearsed a thousand times (seriously, you can't listen and talk that quickly), watching a movie without words is really refreshing.
we're definitely going back in february. check out the upcoming schedule here.
oh yeah, and make sure to get your tickets at the overture center beforehand. don't call on the phone or order over the internet because they add a $3 fee for each ticket. and if you don't get them in advance, it'll most likely be sold out. just a tip!
posted by Mary at 1:10 PM
3 Comments:
loving all your new posts - keep it up!
Duck soup was always one of my favorite Madison traditions...although it was even better when it was only $1 to get in, there were plenty of seats, and no one bought tickets in advance. -Amanda
$1? no one bought tickets in advance? sweet. ah, the old days when silent film wasn't so popular ...
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