I spent a night at Boston Ballet’s Romeo & Juliet last week and, as usual, had a lot of thoughts. Are you getting tired of these yet?
I meant that as a rhetorical question. Now buckle up, here we go.
1. P2E, P2E, P2E. Don’t forget that our car is parked in P2E.
2. What is it about theaters that make you have to use the ladies’ room as soon as you sit down?
3. No just me?
4. May this first act please be worth the amount of discomfort I am in.
5. Shoot it’s been a while I probably should have pulled out the SparkNotes to freshen up on this.
6. Ah, Paulo Arrais. So glad he’s not the victim of typecasting post-Nutcracker.
Mom: I love this set. It looks like a painting.
7. It is a painting.
8. Gosh sometimes I’m just really, really routing for the males in ballets.
9. Does that make me a bad feminist?
10. Well sure of COURSE now we have to go ahead and give the boys swords and make the girls cat fight how original so progressive.
11. Right so Dumbledore the Duke thinks he can just swoop in here and talk these people out of generations of the most famous rivalry in history?
12. Anyone else getting major Rose/Ruth/Titanic vibes from this mother-daughter scene?
13. OMG was Titanic really Romeo & Juliet fan fiction?!
14. Shit why is everyone laughing what’d I miss.
15. Seeeerious Handmaid’s Tale vibes right now with those hoods.
16. When does that show come back anyway?
17. Ugh I’m struggling to keep up with all these characters and the masks are cute and all but not helping.
18. IT’S THE RUSSIANS!!
19. Right so there are men with this much poise and charm in the world and we have Arie Luyendyk Jr. as our Bachelor.
20. You know when there’s a song you know but you don’t know how you know it?
21. Ooook that ain’t Romeo sizing J up right now.
22. He’s on one knee.
23. IS HE PROPOSING?
24. Reminds me I have some Married at First Sight episodes waiting for me on my DVR.
25. J’s mom just swooped in like a middle school dance chaperone like ok kids have your fun but not too close NO TOUCHING.
26. Is that Pastorale Man?
27. YES JAZZ HANDS YES.
28. He is soaking up this spotlight like me in a dance circle circa 2010.
29. Paris is like choose me! Choose me for a lifetime of tour jetés and chauvinism!
30. Gosh that back is flexible though.
31. I think I drooled a little during that pas de deux.
32. Mom’s crying successful Act I.
33. There is a MASS exodus of every woman in this theater to the ladies’ room so I guess that answers my first question.
34. It’s like High School Musical up in this carnival!
35. Ok but why is a dancer wearing her hair down always code for “peasant”?
36. This girl was 100% prominently featured in her college’s hip hop crew.
37. Shit I hate clowns.
38. Wow so these teenagers get married after knowing each other one day and people are offended by The Bachelor ok.
39. I am on the edge of my seat DOES HE LIVE I CAN’T REMEMBER.
40. Do you think the dancers pillow talk while lying there every show?
41. LOL like the nurse doesn’t know her side boy just snuck out.
42. Do we feel bad for Paris or nah?
43. Sorry but how does a friar know how to make a coma-inducing potion anyway?
44. Juliet is me after three glasses of wine rn.
45. WHY DIDN’T HE GET THE MESSAGE THOUGH.
46. U mad bro?
47. If Romeo stopped and thought things through for longer than like 8 seconds then we really wouldn’t be having this discussion would we.
48. Wait so what happened to Rosalie?
49. Maybe I’ll reread SparkNotes the play.
50. Where did we park again?
Joking aside, this might just be my favorite Boston Ballet performance yet. Three hours went by in a blink! Boston Ballet’s Romeo & Juliet is at the Boston Opera House until April 8, and tickets {as always!} start at just $35. I spent more than that on my lunch delivery this week.
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ps. Here’s the hydrangea coat I’m wearing above!
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