Wish me luck. After work today I'm off to the Met for its new five-hour production of Wagner's Die Walküre. I've actually never seen a live performance of any Wagner opera, so I'm looking forward to testing my stamina on this one. Go big or go home, right? At least The Met agrees, with a 45 ton set (they had to reinforce the stage to handle the weight) that looks sort of like a big honkin' strand of DNA. Still, five hours is a long time. I might have to smuggle in a red bull or two.
Idiotically, I also bought tickets to see the new four-hour Kushner play down at the Pulic, The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism With a Key to the Scriptures. I should have known better from that title alone. Anyway, it's going to be two extremely long and intense days of theatre-going.
Wagner and Kushner, back-to-back - my head might explode. If I don't fall asleep first.
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