{"id":3435,"date":"2014-10-07T15:31:02","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T22:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=3435"},"modified":"2015-04-08T16:17:32","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T23:17:32","slug":"island-through-and-through-charlottetown-p-e-i-10072014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=3435","title":{"rendered":"Island Through and Through \u2013 Charlottetown, P.E.I \u2013 [10\/07\/2014]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"59568fef9f5ec5a78c2dde1f9a0ebc8f\"<\/a>When you know to mind your business
\nAnd you mind yer neighbour\u2019s too
\nYou\u2019re Island, you\u2019re Island through and through..<\/em><\/p>\n

I walked past the marquee for \u2013 what has it been now \u2013 2 months? Nearly three? Every week I\u2019d saunter up Queen Street in Charlottetown on the way to the Irish pub and see the larger than life billboard poster staring down at me proudly proclaiming: \u201cAnne & Gilbert: The Musical\u201d \u2013 Anne of Green Gables is in love\u201d<\/em>\u2026<\/p>\n

I told myself I had other things to do, other places to be, and that I wasn\u2019t going to drag my Big Brother to a show (despite the fact that he would probably go for my sake\u2026if I perhaps paid for his drinks for a week afterwards \ud83d\ude1b ).<\/p>\n

The truth was, I think I was saving Anne & Gilbert<\/em> for when I really needed it. And yes, it\u2019s a need, I think it may actually be a health requirement of well \u2013 being me. In truth I need to do<\/em> a show \u2013 I know that pretty well at this point, I recognize the signs \u2013 but that\u2019s not an option right now, so at the very least I needed to see<\/em> one.<\/p>\n

And I almost didn\u2019t get <\/em>to at all. Y\u2019see, my work hours are flexible only as long as I clear them past my manager first, and keep the girls down at the reception desk advised of any changes because the PAX get somewhat internet-stressed if they don\u2019t know when I\u2019ll be back (I swear one day they\u2019re going to put a tracking bracelet on me!); I had thought the show would only be two hours, which would have put me on my way back to the ship at 3:30, plenty of time to make a 4pm shift. But when I got to the theatre to buy my ticket, I found out the show as a half hour longer<\/em> than I had anticipated. *gulp*, now, if I were a slightly less \u201ccare about my job\u201d kind of person, I could easily have just swanned off the 15 minutes late that this would cause, but I\u2019m not\u2026so I trekked back to the ship (thankfully I had left myself plenty of time) in the hopes of catching my supervisor in the office before she left of the day so I could properly<\/em> change my hours\u2026only to run into her as<\/em> she was walking off the ship.<\/p>\n

Can I ask you a really quick question?<\/em><\/p>\n

If you make it really really fast\u2026shoot.<\/em><\/p>\n

CanIpleasealtermydeskhourssothatIcangototheAnneofGreenGablesshowthisafternoon?<\/em><\/p>\n

It may have been the fact that I really did say it practically all in one breath, or the fact that my supervisor and I get along and I really don\u2019t ask for favours very often, but before I even got the sentence finished she had already said \u201cabsolutely\u201d.<\/p>\n

So that worked out.<\/p>\n

I had bought my ticket hours early, but the box office attendant was kind enough to move me to a better seat without increasing the price, because the theatre \u2013 which is small enough to begin with \u2013 was far from full this late in the season. Besides, in a theatre that tiny, pretty much every seat is a good one. I lingered for a little while in the lobby, watching them put out what little merchandise is left this close to the end of the show\u2019s run (it only runs in the summer, and we\u2019re at the tail end of tourist season out here, the original Anne<\/em> musical closed for the season a week or so ago). I eyed the tiny stack of CDs and official scripts somewhat warily, having vowed not to spend more than the price of the ticket.<\/p>\n

How many soundtracks did you say you have left?<\/em><\/p>\n

Ten\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

That\u2019s it?<\/em><\/p>\n

Pretty much\u202610 soundtracks, and 7 scripts\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

And passengers are coming? Like a ship tour is coming?<\/em><\/p>\n

Yeah\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

Something is telling me I should snag those now.<\/em><\/p>\n

Might be a good idea.<\/em><\/p>\n

As it turned out I was really glad I caved and picked up the soundtrack, because the music from this show is charming, and has proven \u2013 like most soundtracks \u2013 to get thoroughly stuck in your head. It\u2019s only a 17 person cast, but a 17 person cast in a black box theatre that only holds 100 people \u2013 sounds like a much larger cast.<\/p>\n

When you first walk in the theatre, you\u2019re really struck by how small a space it is. The set is nearly within arms\u2019 reach of the first row, all aglow in pastel colours that look like something out of a classic children\u2019s book. After the inevitable shuffling of seats is finished and the ushers have made their speech about no photography whatsoever do-not-make-us-intimidate-you, the lights dim, and suddenly you\u2019re in Avonlea. As though its residents walked right out of the books and onto the stage.<\/p>\n

Anne<\/em> is one of those stories that makes you laugh, and cry, and roll your eyes somewhat all at once; and there is\u2026a lot in the story I can relate to, which is, after all, the point of a good story.<\/p>\n

But really, it could have been any story; it could have been any show. That\u2019s not why I went, not really. The reason I went? The reason I had<\/em> to go? Was that feeling I still get when I hear a show-band tuning up for an overture that you just can\u2019t get anywhere else and that tiny little invisible whisper against my ear:<\/p>\n

Pssst\u2026hey Shaughnessy\u2026welcome home\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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