The MUNY's popularity amongst seminary students is heightened by the set of free seats (in the back, of course) that have been set aside for every show and are ticketed on a first-come, first-served basis each night. This was how Heather and I had planned to view "My Fair Lady", our first MUNY performance.
But we were in for a pleasant surprise! No sooner had we gotten into line than a couple (named Mark and Laura, we later learned) came up to us and asked if we were in the line for the free tickets. After replying "I sure hope so", Mark handed me a pair of tickets for seats two sections closer to the stage! Although we managed to get a dumb-struck "thank you" out before they walked off while saying "we'll see you inside", we were certainly caught off-guard!
With assigned tickets, we no longer needed to wait in a long line to get into the show; so we availed ourselves of the opportunity to sit on a park bench next to one of the numerous ponds in Forest Park and enjoy the evening. (We did go in to the show early enough to greet our benefactors, thank them properly, and enjoy a pleasant conversation with them about their experiences in St. Louis and their children's theatre activities.)The evening was near perfect! The sets were beautiful and made very effective use of light and shadow. The troupe was "on". The weather was perfect (a rain storm had gone through right before the show and dropped the temperature and the humidity). Heather, who loves My Fair Lady, sang all the way through (despite admonitions in the program to the contrary). We even remembered to bring our field glasses to get a better peek at the sets and costumes that we typically have at past musicals.
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