@fluffy2560 One thing I have to say, sometimes theater does not need language, can be a musical performance or even dance performance. -@cdw057I actually said that in my post. I've been to dance performances and it was OK. One of our kids was performing in the show so we had special interest. Concerts, sure, they are OK but I was a bit bored when I saw Omega (before they all died of COVID and cancer). Omega were the Hungarian "Rolling Stones". But ordinary plays etc, forget it. I was at one of those and I had ants in my pants fidgeting . Utter waste of time. The big blockbuster shows like Les Miserables that one would see in London etc., they are few and far between here. Mrs F has told me we should go and see Cats here in Hungary. More memorably, I saw Les Miserables and Starlight Express in London at famous London theatres. Both were stunningly well produced shows with very high production values. I am not sure if it'd be possible to beat that here. If the Abba holographic show comes to Hungary, we might see that as the tunes are timeless.What we do now if going to the cinema is to check the other films on at the same time. I might go to the film I want to see in English and the others go to a Hungarian one. We just wait for each other until both are finished. If there's a film we all want to see, we usually watch it in English.Must be a fairly typical dual language family life! -@fluffy2560
Yes, an Abba show would be fun.
Took my son to see , "Mama
Mia" in Las Vegas.
We had a good time, sang with all the other loones at the show.
I've seen the new Abba production partly on U tube, should be a fun time for an Abba fan.
My son ( silly nerd at times but loveable) was so into Abba in his late teens that all day long he blasted their music in the house and I had to sit with him and watch videos of their old shows.
He went to Sweden before the Abba museum was built there, to bad he missed that.
He however, God knows how he got it through customs, brought back in his suitcase a cobble stone from Sweden where Abba had a photo shoot one time.
He dug it up in the middle of the night? Good thing no one saw him or it would of been bad I think, Thankfully the satute of limitations has passed!
Must weigh in at 8 kilos or more! Good for an ugly door stop I suppose.
I couldn't believe he carried that stone all the way across the seas and didn't think of buying any other souvinire. A pair of wooden clogs even.
Never saw any opreas here in Budapest.
I can thank my SIL for that.
In her teens she bought herself a season pass for 2 for the opera.
My then preteen husband had to go with her all the time, get dressed up in his suit and listen to the fat lady sing.
He hated it so much that he will never see a show again.
A concert of rock music, he will jump at going but anything to do with opera or theather he will give a hard pass on.
I wanted to see the day time ballet show at Erkil theater in the past. He said I can go by myself.
I can't dance to save my life but as a child and as a 22 year old I went to ballet classes for the exercise and fun and for self control it takes to do it with others .
Loved it.
Patrick Swayze's mother, Patsy owned and taught at her dance studio in our small town. Simi Valley. My sister took tap lessons from her at her dance studio. When I was 22 I moved back to Simi for about 6 months and went 2 times per week to her free dance classes in a community center in a city park in our town.
A long, hard 2 hour class.
She was a wonderful teacher and person.
She had dreams of being a professional ballet dancer but was too tall, around 5'8".
She did more modern dance and tap . She later did the coreography for several movies.
I'm tall too, 5'9" so for me she was the perfect role model.
There were really only about a dozen or so of us who took advantage of these free classes.
Very odd how many people don't reach higher even if something is offered for free to them.