I Waited Over 350 Years for This.

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Tonight I went with my friend Ron to the Frederick P. Rose Hall at Columbus Circle in the new and swanky Time Warner Building that looks out over Columbus Circle and Central Park South. Amazing view from up there. And the lower deck is taken up by a HUGE Whole Foods with tons of people buying expensive food items. It was a sight to see. The salad bar is $7.99 a pound there. I could swear it is $6.49 in LA. Will someone check for me?

After some spinach and a coffee at the Whole Foods we went upstairs to see Zélindor, roi des Sylphes put on by the Opera Lafayette. It was a whimsical piece, or divertissement (a word I will be using tomorrow in conversation no doubt) commissioned by Louis Ex-Five for his court at Versailles in 1745. Though populaire @ les temps it hasn't really been performed since...until now. [Can't you just hear this all read in a movie-trailer, slasher film voiceover? Well, I can.] I thought it was amusing as any in King Louis' court, but we got extra added amusement when one of the dancing sylphes pants kept falling down. To his ankles. He didn't break character, but did have to finally leave the stage to get pinned up before his big number with the dancing lizards. But then his hat fell off. That must have been one pissed off sylph. Good thing he didn't dance in the original as that would have cost him his head.