United States: Missouri: St. Louis: The Muny

simultaneously
St. Louis

taking charge

i often find myself doing something i don’t really want to do (and don’t even HAVE to do) but feel that i SHOULD do. but a couple weeks ago, when it was intermission at the MUNY (my first time there) during “joseph and the technicolor dreamcoat,” i realized that it was very hot (probably about 90. at NINE pm.), that i hated the overpriced trendy malt beverage i was drinking, and that yippity-skippity-type musicals have never been my thing. so i up and left.

i was sorta proud of myself.

but the muny really is pretty neat, especially if you like the particular show and if it is not august.

Comments:

zgare
St. Louis

OK. You don’t sound like someone typical of the 8-10,000 nightly attendees. All by yourself, drinking a trendy malt beverage, and expecting a rock concert in Air Conditioning, I guess.

We bring in our own bottled water and wear shorts. That musical was last done in 2007—not one of Weber and Rice’s best in my opinion. Normally, the temperature is way down into the pleasnt 80s or 70s by showtime, and they have giant fans for intermission. It is rarely that unpleasant temperature wise in my 4 years of season ticket holder experience.

Summer nights in St. Louis are great. Not too cold or windy like in the West. But not too hot like in daytime. You can do anything outdoors—hence the large open air theaters, no-dome baseball, outdoor evening dining, decks and screened porches, and swimming pools all over town.

The MUNY is the best of its kind in America. I don’t think you can buy a trendy malt beverage at the MUNY, so it must have been a sneak in. Just wine and Budweiser and soda.

Tonight my family and I are going to see Hairspray at the Muny, which is getting rave reviews.


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