Romeo and Juliet -the ballet

Back in February at Charity Ball I "won" tickets to the National Ballet of Canada's show of Romeo and Juliet. [I say "won" but it was a silent auction so I got to pay for the tickets. It was an okay deal, the $ went to MacWheelers, and I would never have bought the tickets for myself otherwise]

So I had these Tickets and the first person I thought of was my best friend from elementary school Em (Emilie). She had done ballet for YEARS when she was younger so I knew that she would appreciate it. That and I hadn't seen here for a long time. (she and her husband live in Toronto- so it works out well)

Friday I got all dressed up and went to work at MUSC for the day, then I went to Toronto via GoBus. I met up with Em at the theatre and listened to the ballet talk before the show (we didn't really actively listen ;)
when the bell rang we found our seats- they were pretty good on the main floor about 20-25 rows back right in the centre.

Then it started, it was breath taking. the costumes were amassing and the dancing seemed so effortless but was so impressive. Knowing the story line helped a lot but the beauty of the movement was much more important.


I thought that they would just be dancing but they really acted out the show with great characti- zation (especially the Nurse and Mercutio)













[I found that I have so associated the roles with the people that played them in MTC last year that I started thinking "Oh there's so and so...". I even thought of Jared when Mercutio dies, which is funny cause the dancer was Asian LOL]

It was a wonderful evening and something truly special, I would love to go again.


That night I stayed at Em's place and I spent all day Saturday catching up with her. It was wonderful seeing this great friend again (she's one of those friends that you haven't seen or talked to each other for months but when you get together it's like you hung out just last week)