The Best $15 Ever

Friday afternoon, after my wife and I saw the only current film one or the other of us hadn’t seen … Unknown (not so good, by the way) … I decided to look on Goldstar, the half-price ticket brokers, for something for Saturday Date Night.   I found a show at the Curtis Theater in Brea, California.  I’ll admit … I’ve been known to be both a theater snob and  a venue snob.  I never went to community theater and I never went to performances in public libraries, presidential libraries, or city community centers.   Goldstar has changed that by emailing me weekly listings of performances I’d never have given a glance in my past life.  We’ve tried some and most were entertaining, a few extraordinary.  But the last time I was in the Curtis Theater, it was to see my teenage daughter in a performance of Oliver.  Come on, my Inner Venue Snob whispered but in the interest of egalitarianism … and having something to do on Date Night … I read on.