6 Curtain Calls!

Well my whirl wind trip (8 hours on da train) to Stuttgart (Stuttgart for 10 hours) See the musical "Tanz der Vampire Gesamtaufnahme" - Dracula (then da train 11 hours to Venice) WOW what a show! I knew I would love it! would have loved it even more if I understood the words!!! LOL could not understand a fucken thing! LOL but I got the just of the plot. I played the 2 cd set on the train to Stuttgart so I would have a idea of the music and feel for what is happening! Gee what a huge Theatre like some 2500 seats! AND FULL HOUSE!!! boy this thing is popular in Germany! Won Most outstanding New Musical Europe or something! The sets were surreal very clever, very smart *VARI-LITES all over the light rig! (yeah I know you have not a clue what they are!!! *VARI-LITES the most complex, smart auto mated light in the world! can do any colour of the spectrum, any brightness, any projection i.e.: patterns, does spots and can do a entire 360 degrees turn - all light comes from complex sets of lasers & mirrors in side - They are the ones used mostly by huge Rock stars on the side or foot of the stage that can move and stuff - they are like SOOOOO expensive to hire! you can not buy them - always have to hire from *VARI-LITE and complete computer controlled! Very complex ok! Get it! ) not many shows use them as they are expensive, but they are creeping in here and there! there were like 50 of the little buggers!! spinning around like mad men! so you know I get excited looking at every thing! was in my element. the lead guy playing the Vampire - Dracula guy, was ok - I have a feeling he was the understudy! but it was very very good! normal plot, Cute str8t boy meets and falls in love at first sight with a cute str8t girl, then Vampire - Dracula wants the cute str8t girl, Vampire's GAY assistant wants the Cute Str8t boy (and doesn't get him - story of every poofs life!!! LOL) then they all turn into Vampire's!!! very surreal, funny in parts, (yes got some things - amazing what body language and acting can do) I was so lucky - (mmm maybe not just contacts) I had a house seat 6 rows from front smack bang in the middle! I would have died if I had to sit in that hall at the back - it was soooo huge! So I was a very very happy and excited little boy! and I had a ball! and so did the audience! 6 Curtain calls! - back to my hotel! was again cheap as! (5 star) xmas combined with lower travel = lower room rates!!! and I'm lapping it up!! 3 quarters of the way to my venue destination Venice. Well I tell you I was lucky in getting a seat in this train. Its BLOODY CHOCKERS! people pouring out off all the windows and halls!!!!! LOL thank goodness I get off on the next stop!!!! then swap over to another tran that takes me to my final stop. I quite like these trains! Good for reflection on things going in the world and life in general. cya in da new year! bye! Tim xoxo