Yikes, this blog sure is going downhill with a quickness. All I did this week was talk about hot girls, Muppets and mice. I meant to write a dignified post about all-day theater and music marathons: how you can possibly convince someone to spend an entire day watching one thing, and how local businesses can profit from knowing that a very specific type of person will be in one physical location at one time. I guess that post will have to preview All Points West rather than The Norman Conquests.
Your homework, though – should you choose to accept it – is to go see the over-the-top-good Norman Conquests on the broad way this weekend before it closes. What better things do you have to do, I wonder, than fully immerse yourself in 1970s British sex farce? It’s well worth your time and money.
As part of San Francisco’s music marathon called the Switchboard Music Festival, we convince people to attend the 8-hour non-stop music fest by emphasizing that you don’t have to show up “on time”, or sit through something you don’t like. Come whenever, leave whenever. I wish I could do that the next time I’m unexpectedly subjected to a program with a Sibelius symphony (sorry, Sibelius fans). Also, since admission is for the whole day, you can hear something cool, go eat lunch with your friends, and bring them back with you to hear something else. And no rude stares as you come and go!
All music marathons should be required to have burrito trucks parked outside the venue.