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Toronto: Day 2
A rainy, misty day today, and quite cold too. Figures, since I didn't pack for chilly days at all. Mostly the day was spent in the "Beach" area, walking along Queen Street, checking things out. Stopped off for some coffee, then lunch at an Italian restaurant, then checked out an Arts fair in Kew Gardens park.
Tonight we went downtown to Massey Hall to see the John Malkovich play "The Infernal Comedy." I don't know what to tell you, but I wasn't at all thrilled with it. A sort of combination "One man show" and "Opera" (That's right). The scenes where Malkovich performed were pretty damn good but quite too often the scenes morphed into the Arias, and there were quite a few of them. Six in all. Now unless you are a big Opera fan, I will have to say that most of this will probably disappoint you. It would have been much better had Malkovich spoke more, in the tradition of the "One man show" and used the Arias sparingly, however, they dominated the show. It was more like a performance of Arias with John Malkovich (taking the roll of serial killer, Jack Unterweger) filling in the gaps in between rather than the other way around. Who knows? Perhaps you may enjoy this play. I didn't, really. For more information, check out the link....
Now sitting back in the apartment. Exhausted from all the running around. Time to hit the sack, I think.
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