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Wow, I haven't made a non-poetry post since Sunday. But it's not my fault! I've been very, very busy. And now it all seems like too much to make into a post, heh.

While I'm sure stories of the endless talks I've had to go to recently or of running around to fill out forms would be terribly fascinating, I think I'll spare you. I did, however, manage to go to a Broadway show for the first time on Tuesday (only because people invited me, though I suppose eventually I would have gotten around to it myself). We went to see Coram Boy, which was amazingly excellent. It's set in England in the 18th century, and is about... well, lots of things, really. Music and orphans and angels and family and obligations and secrets; the plot revolves mostly around two boys (played by women dressed as boys!) studying to be musicians and the problem of unwanted babies in that time period. It's based on a YA novel I haven't read, but it was much darker than I expected.

The staging was also excellent. It was a mostly bare set, with only things like tables and chairs carried on and off by the actors as needed; everything else was conveyed through the choreography of the people on stage, which sounds strange but worked so very well. Despite that, it felt like a very big, intense production; there were often multiple things going on the stage at once, and a choir that came out during suitably dramatic moments.

Anyway. It was excellent! You should go, if you're around.