{"id":3455,"date":"2014-10-25T18:32:49","date_gmt":"2014-10-26T01:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=3455"},"modified":"2014-10-25T18:32:49","modified_gmt":"2014-10-26T01:32:49","slug":"chilly-surprises-saguenay-quebec-10202014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=3455","title":{"rendered":"Chilly Surprises – Saguenay, Quebec \u2013 [10\/20\/2014]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The_Doll__s_Theatre_by_Juli_SnowWhite\"<\/a>It\u2019s been a long time since I encountered what I think of as \u201cChristmas card\u201d cold, the kind of cold where you take a deep breath and it feels like your lungs freeze just a little bit. The way I imagine that it would feel like if you could walk into the pages of a holiday poem.<\/p>\n

The weather in Saguenay was like that. KitKat and I ventured out on the gangway wrapped in hats, scarves and faux-fur collared coats and we were still shivering by the time we reached the warmth of the small terminal to wait for our crew tour. When it\u2019s that cold out, even the warmth of a tiny terminal-side market is welcome.<\/p>\n

As for the tour itself\u2026or rather, as for the show we went<\/em> to.<\/p>\n

Well, we were left unsure whether or not we\u2019d all seen a show, or if we\u2019d all just experienced some very very<\/em> strange shared dream.<\/p>\n

This was truly the most bizarre spectacle I\u2019ve ever seen put on stage. That\u2019s not to say it was bad<\/em> at all, just\u2026utterly bizarre. If you were to take a relatively high end community theatre production (and nearly the entire town takes part in this presentation), and somehow give it a massive<\/em> effects budget, as in the level of budget you would give to a small professional touring broadway show; you might have something like this. That\u2019s really the only way I can describe it.<\/p>\n

Nominally, it was a theatrical production telling the story of the history of the area in about an hour and a half. There was a show back home that played for years every summer in the harbor that did a similar thing (though they were considered a professional production and their show was only 45 minutes long), so at first I somewhat thought that this would be like Spirit of a Nation<\/em> only longer\u2026<\/p>\n

Er\u2026not exactly.<\/p>\n

Taking away from the fact that the story jumped around so much none of us were ever quite sure what was happening, this\u2026really the only word I can think of is spectacle had \u2013 within the space of an hour (in no particular order) \u2013 6 live horses on stage, 5 geese, a pig (which really did not<\/em> want to be on stage!), a cow, I\u2019m pretty sure there might have been a chicken in there somewhere, people rappelling from the ceiling, a tank<\/em> (I\u2019m pretty certain it wasn\u2019t a real tank, but honestly for a moment there none of us were certain), a random appearance by Elvis (because Elvis is so Canadian\u2026.?), balloons falling from the ceiling, a water show, fireworks, fire eating, full inferno flame effects, real axes being used to chop wood on stage, cannon fire, two different cars driven on and off stage at not-very-slow-speeds, a lazer light show, a couple of ballerinas dressed as Pocahontas, and a flood\u2026<\/p>\n

All surround a production that was, at its heart, no more than a highly enthusiastic community theatre show. House in a huge stadium theatre with a stage that had clearly been specially constructed to hold<\/em> all of the above.<\/p>\n

As I said\u2026utterly bizarre.<\/p>\n

And I would have loved<\/em> to see their back stage!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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