A theater experience....

Classy ladies like myself enjoy a little culture in our lives. So when some office friends came up with the idea of going to a holiday Nutcracker performance I was in. I mean, it is a classic Christmas show and with all that Christmas spirit just exuding from me, it's a perfect fit.  Of course I was not disillusioned enough to believe that this was going to be a good opportunity to scope out potential candidates (the chances of single straight men going to see the Nutcracker= 0%), but rather a fun evening. Little did I know that it was not going to be your typical classic Nutcracker performance.

The Nutcracker on horseback? Now that's a bit of a peculiar concept. I didn't realize there is actually a horse stable right in the heart of Old Town, but yep, there it is. The Noble Horse Theater. So apparently they have these seasonal performances, from what I gather are basically the same show with just different music with the differing seasons.

The scene: A rustic little stable, welcoming with an old fashioned wood-burning stove in the lobby, teenage ushers scurrying around to seat groups of families with packs of little rugrats children, excited to see the horses. The smell of buttery popcorn mixed with horse maneur lingering in the air...... me wondering why we were foolish enough not to bring alcohol to this BYOB performance.

The performance: Imagine Tchaikovsky playing in the background while watching the same teenage ushers performing tricks on horeseback. It would be a stretch to say the Nutcracker storyline was really incorporated into the performance, but there was a feable attempt to do so.

Not even Heidi Klum is landing an unmarried straight man in this place. So why am I blogging about this? Aside from putting the word out that this is more like a family/child birthday party-place than a cultural experience for you classy ladies, we did go for drinks in the neighborhood to a placed called the Fireplace Inn (don't let the name deceive you, I didn't see any fireplace). This might be a potential spot for research but I would need to go back and investigate in a smaller group. But the place seemed pretty cool. There's a restaurant side and bar side with nice big screens, seems like a great place to watch a game. The drinks were good and food was decent.

It was early evening but yet it wasn't dead. It was slowly filling up, so it seems there might be some good prospecting at this joint. Yes, there were a few couples having dinner, that I could tell (from the googly eye contact and the intense interest in conversation that is only lost as you spend time with someone), were on a 1st or 2nd date. But there was a variety of men around the bar area that could be chatted up and assessed.

So I will put this on the fence for now but will have to make it back to this place and investigate further to give my final ruling on this one. As for now...still not having sex in the city.