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"Esther bunny"
2019-Mar-21, Thursday 09:52
That was the winning costume at the Purim spiel I went to yesterday, the second Mishkan event I went to after going to Kol Nidre last year. Much like that event, Mishkan rented out a space, the Davis Theatre in Lincoln Square, though this wasn't filled to capacity.
I admit, I thought the Megillah was only okay. Maybe as part of my overly-serious personality, I'm not generally a fan of sexual-innuendo-based humor, and while I admit it's an easy route to take when you're working from lines like
The actual reading of the text was great, though. Especially the reading of chapters 6 and 8, done by someone in a Commander Riker costume, who did character voices for the dialogue.
At the party afterwards in the bar connected to the theatre, when I finally had a chance to eat--there was food before the spiel, and it looked like most of the other people there were not keeping Ta'anit Esther--the head rabbi came over to talk to me, I assume because she didn't recognize me on sight. She asked me what brought me to Mishkan, and I told her I had been to Kol Nidre and to a few OneTable Shabbat dinners hosted by Mishkan folks, but that I had never been to Shabbat services because I'm friends with a bunch of theatre kids. I said I really had a great time so far but thought I wouldn't get the full experience until I went to services. She agreed, and said that when I did manage to make it there, to come over and say hi after. I do want to go eventually, but Mishkan services are the first Saturday and second and last Fridays of the month, and I'm almost always busy those days. Someday...
I also had more than my share of drinks thanks to the generosity of others. Our $25 ticket got us free popcorn, dinner, and two drink tokens, and I had five drinks. Two from my drink token, one from the bartender handing me a drink and rushing away to serve one of the twenty people behind me without taking a token, and two from strangers. One man gave me a drink token as he was leaving, telling me that he really liked my hair, and one woman gave me a drink token after I took a picture of her friends (but not her). After a whole day of fasting it was maybe a bit much, but everything wrapped up around 10:30, I took a Lyft home, and I felt (mostly) fine after jerking awake out of a dream at 6 a.m.
I didn't meet or really talk to anyone, but some of that is because I didn't make any effort to. It once again convinced me that I need to make it to more Mishkan events, though. My attitude will definitely be better than the person who complained there wasn't any gluten-free cheesecake at a Shabbat oneg and asked for their money back that got called out in the Megillah commentary broadcast on the theater screen.
And finally, I have to link to this Emoji Megillah I found which searching for the exact text of that quote above.
I admit, I thought the Megillah was only okay. Maybe as part of my overly-serious personality, I'm not generally a fan of sexual-innuendo-based humor, and while I admit it's an easy route to take when you're working from lines like
As soon as the king saw Queen Esther standing in the court, she won his favor. The king extended to Esther the golden scepter which he had in his hand, and Esther approached and touched the tip of the scepter....it's still not to my taste. Though neither is the Rocky Horror Picture Show, which was the theme for most of the skits. There was a Time Warp parody at the end. I guess.
The actual reading of the text was great, though. Especially the reading of chapters 6 and 8, done by someone in a Commander Riker costume, who did character voices for the dialogue.
At the party afterwards in the bar connected to the theatre, when I finally had a chance to eat--there was food before the spiel, and it looked like most of the other people there were not keeping Ta'anit Esther--the head rabbi came over to talk to me, I assume because she didn't recognize me on sight. She asked me what brought me to Mishkan, and I told her I had been to Kol Nidre and to a few OneTable Shabbat dinners hosted by Mishkan folks, but that I had never been to Shabbat services because I'm friends with a bunch of theatre kids. I said I really had a great time so far but thought I wouldn't get the full experience until I went to services. She agreed, and said that when I did manage to make it there, to come over and say hi after. I do want to go eventually, but Mishkan services are the first Saturday and second and last Fridays of the month, and I'm almost always busy those days. Someday...
I also had more than my share of drinks thanks to the generosity of others. Our $25 ticket got us free popcorn, dinner, and two drink tokens, and I had five drinks. Two from my drink token, one from the bartender handing me a drink and rushing away to serve one of the twenty people behind me without taking a token, and two from strangers. One man gave me a drink token as he was leaving, telling me that he really liked my hair, and one woman gave me a drink token after I took a picture of her friends (but not her). After a whole day of fasting it was maybe a bit much, but everything wrapped up around 10:30, I took a Lyft home, and I felt (mostly) fine after jerking awake out of a dream at 6 a.m.
I didn't meet or really talk to anyone, but some of that is because I didn't make any effort to. It once again convinced me that I need to make it to more Mishkan events, though. My attitude will definitely be better than the person who complained there wasn't any gluten-free cheesecake at a Shabbat oneg and asked for their money back that got called out in the Megillah commentary broadcast on the theater screen.
And finally, I have to link to this Emoji Megillah I found which searching for the exact text of that quote above.
