{"id":9873,"date":"2014-02-07T20:52:13","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T20:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/?p=9873"},"modified":"2014-02-10T21:27:43","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T21:27:43","slug":"mary-poppins-at-the-theater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/mary-poppins-at-the-theater\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Poppins!  At the Theater!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My brother P\u00e9tur and family gave us three tickets\/giftcards to see Mary Poppins at the theater for Christmas!<\/p>\n<p>Super-luckily for us, Sign\u00fd (P\u00e9tur&#8217;s fiancee), works in the ticket office of the theater, so when I asked her to find us ticket at a particular showtime (which was filling up fast), she emailed back a couple of hours later informing me that a new show had just been added (the third last of a year-long run), and that we had been the first to get seats to it!<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes having &#8220;connections&#8221; is particularly sweet! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Lo and behold, soon the day of the show was upon us, so to the theater we went! (4 images total)<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_9874\" style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_20140207_185541.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9874\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9874\" alt=\"Bjarki with the stage backdrop behind him.\" src=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_20140207_185541.jpg\" width=\"660\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_20140207_185541.jpg 660w, https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_20140207_185541-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9874\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bjarki with the stage backdrop behind him from our excellent seats!<\/p><\/div><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9875\" style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_20140207_185558.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9875\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9875\" alt=\"Excited kids!\" src=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_20140207_185558.jpg\" width=\"660\" height=\"442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_20140207_185558.jpg 660w, https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_20140207_185558-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9875\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Excited kids!<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_9876\" style=\"width: 593px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_20140207_203946-MOTION.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9876\" class=\" wp-image-9876 \" alt=\"Sign\u00fd very very kindly reserved a table for us during intermission, and stocked it with some drinks and sweets aaaand...\" src=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_20140207_203946-MOTION.gif\" width=\"583\" height=\"438\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9876\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sign\u00fd very <em>very<\/em> kindly reserved a table for us during intermission, and stocked it with some drinks and sweets aaaand&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_9877\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_20140207_204814_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9877\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9877\" alt=\"... the show soundtrack CD!!  Thank you Sign\u00fd!!!\" src=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_20140207_204814_1.jpg\" width=\"440\" height=\"660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_20140207_204814_1.jpg 440w, https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_20140207_204814_1-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9877\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8230; the show soundtrack CD!! Thank you Sign\u00fd!!!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The show was EXCELLENT! \u00a0The adult cast worked really well together, the kid-actors were surprisingly great performers, the music, the sets, the dancers\/chorus were all fantastic, and even the translated lyrics worked pretty well.<\/p>\n<p>The kids really enjoyed it, Bjarki&#8217;s eyes almost popped out of his head when some &#8220;statues&#8221; came to life and started dancing, and Anna was all smiles. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The only drawback was that I&#8217;d picked a 7-pm show so that Finnur would have an easier time putting Emma to bed, so Bjarki was getting pretty tired towards the end, but he made it through. \u00a0(Ironically, Emma was teething, so Finnur didn&#8217;t have an easy time at all!)<\/p>\n<p>Some may remember that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/new-york-day-five\/\">Anna and I actually went to see Mary Poppins on Broadway a few years back<\/a>, and this was no less great!<\/p>\n<p>Thank you P\u00e9tur, Sign\u00fd, and Fannar! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My brother P\u00e9tur and family gave us three tickets\/giftcards to see Mary Poppins at the theater for Christmas!<\/p>\n<p>Super-luckily for us, Sign\u00fd (P\u00e9tur&#8217;s fiancee), works in the ticket office of the theater, so when I asked her to find us ticket at a particular showtime (which was filling up fast), she emailed back a couple of hours later informing me that a new show had just been added (the third last of a year-long run), and that we had been the first to get seats to it!<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes having &#8220;connections&#8221; is particularly sweet! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Lo and behold, soon the day of the show was upon us, so to the theater we went! (4 images total)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9874\" style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_20140207_185541.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9874\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9874\" alt=\"Bjarki with the stage backdrop behind him.\" src=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_20140207_185541.jpg\" width=\"660\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_20140207_185541.jpg 660w, https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_20140207_185541-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-9874\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bjarki with the stage backdrop behind him from our excellent seats!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/mary-poppins-at-the-theater\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-container col-md-12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9873"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9879,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9873\/revisions\/9879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}