“Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.” (Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility)
We attended a performance last night — in the Old Globe in San Diego’s Balboa Park — of the still-relatively-new musical adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility. (I’ve confessed before that I’m a very great fan of Jane Austen, and that my enthusiasm for her makes me worry about my masculinity.) The Old Globe is a very pleasant theater that gives the audience excellent sightlines and access to the stage, and (of course) it’s located in a very beautiful place. Moreover, the fairly minimal set design for this production was strikingly good, and the actors — to a significant degree, they were the originating cast from the Chicago Shakespeare Theater, where this play was commissioned and premiered — were superb. In particular, Megan McGinnis (as Marianne Dashwood) and Sharon Rietkerk (as Elinor Dashwood) were excellent.
En route back to Newport Beach, we counted at least 25-30 police cars heading southward on the freeway with their lights flashing and their sirens blaring. It was obvious that something big was up. I guessed that there might have been a police shooting, with a subsequent manhunt. And I was right. Very sad.
Posted from Newport Beach, California
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