I’ve known for well over a month now that Cirque Du Soleil’s newest show Ovo would be coming to the Coney Island amusement park in Cincinnati this week, a scenic, riverfront location a mere five miles from our home. Neither of us have seen a Cirque show before, though we’ve both always wanted to. The spectacular acrobatics, the music, the staging, the costumes, the technical and lighting effects – what a dream! I originally figured this would be something we’d see when we visit Vegas one day. But upon learning that it was coming to Cincy I excitedly logged on to check out the ticket prices and book us some seats….and quickly logged right back off. At anywhere from $75-225 per ticket, I knew there was no way we could afford this right now. Not even the nosebleed seats. I tried twice to win us tickets – once at the Reds v. Brewers game and again through some Cincy blogger’s giveaway – both to no avail. The money was needed for rent, bills, groceries, and the oil change, tire rotation, filters, a new set of outer tie rods, and an alignment for Buick this week. This would be a luxury we just couldn’t afford right now. So I forgot about it.
Until tonight.
I was sitting in Ted’s office at CCM waiting for the final dress preview of Our Town to start at 8. Have I ever mentioned how much I love seeing the dress previews of all these awesome shows for free? Oh. Well, I do. To kill time (you know, because I have so much time to kill), I was enjoying http://llamafont.com/, which you must check out right this very minute!
Ted strolled into the office and I asked him to give me a phrase to type in Llama. He looked at me a crazy person for a second before suggesting “Nothing’s better than free!” A weird phrase is better than no phrase at all, so I typed it in and giggled at the adorable, flexible, and gymnastically inclined llamas. Then Ted plopped two free tickets to tomorrow night’s preview performance of Cirque Du Soleil’s Ovo down on the desk! Two free tickets! Great seats, worth $90 each! I KNOW!
Apparently a former CCM student is on the crew and dropped off a handful of comp tickets for the Wednesday preview show to CCM today and one of the department’s Technical Directors gave two tickets to Ted. I spent weeks contemplating ways to scrounge up the money or win tickets, and then I just gave up because it felt like it just wasn’t meant to be this time around – there would always be another time, way down the road in the future. And just like that, they appear! Fate can be funny sometimes :-) And by funny I mean freaking awesome. Man, we’re going to enjoy the heck out of this!
So, tonight – Our Town, tomorrow – Cirque Du Soleil, Thursday – mass & basement organizing, Friday – our 6 month anniversary (!!!) and Ted’s parents come into town, Saturday – another 5k walk we’re registered for and family time, Sunday – Easter, and in between all this, work. Soooooo, when again did I think I was going to have time this month to restart my theatre career? Maybe I’ll get lucky and things will just fall into place, just like those Cirque tickets.
P.S. I’d like to extend a big old Thank You! to God, the llamas, and to the kind and benevolent CCM grad who just made my soggy, dreary, and exhausting day a heck of a lot brighter! Time to think up a way to pay it forward!
