Sunday 08/13/2023
Last night’s play, Happy Pleasant Valley, a Senior Sex Scandal Murder Mystery Musical, was all of that. The playwright, Min Kahng, does a great job with clever lyrics and some fun scenes. The main characters are a 20-something woman who is trying to build a career as an internet influencer, and her 70-something grandma who is a wanna-be amateur sleuth in the style of “Murder, She Wrote.” And the running gags are about how she and other residents of Happy Pleasant Valley are having very active sex lives, but unfortunately grandma’s last two partners dropped dead on her, possibly because someone poisoned their viagra.
As part of a new works festival, the brand new script had only had two weeks of rehearsal. It wasn’t fully staged; the actors were carrying their scripts and standing in a line across the stage reading or singing their parts. There were a lot of laughs and some nice singing performances. It ran about 20 minutes too long and the final resolution of the mystery was too complicated.
Going back to the trip to the SJ Historical Park, here is a picture of some of the 1940s cars.
OK, that’s a 1926 chevy in front. But the green one is a 1941 chevy, a two-door but otherwise just like the one I drove in high school.
Today by arrangement four of us drove “over the hill” i.e. west over the coast range to the San Gregorio General Store, which is a kind of general store, bar, bicycle refueling spot and general tourist trap near the beach. The point was to listen to the Keller Sisters. My neighbor Sandy and I had heard them at a house concert a few months ago. She had signed up for their email list so knew about this performance. I drove, and Sandy, Joanne and Erica rode along for the long twisty drive up 84 and down. And the even longer drive back via Alpine and Page Mill.
And tonight I went out onto the balcony to hang the hummingbird feeder and what do I see but a huge sunset rainbow.
Codgerville 