After completing the work on the Winter One-acts this weekend, we had ourselves quite a superb Sunday. We got some great tickets to the Fox and saw the off-Broadway production of "A Light in the Piazza" (a winner of 6 Tony awards)! It was a delightful performance and a lovely and unusual plotline. The music was beautiful but not particularily hummable.... which is not always a bad thing. I recall coming out of "Les Mis" last summer with "Can You hear the People Sing" stuck in my head for the next 2+ weeks! Anyway, having been to Italy made "Piazza" doubly enjoyable as it was set in Florence... the sets were amazing and the ensemble cast of only 16 did a marvelous job! Very little dancing... nice for a change too.
After the show, we wandered south on Grand and tried a new restaurant. Just next door to our favorite Vietnamese haunt, Pho Grand, is a place called Sameem... and Afghani restaurant... and we struck gold! Great food, great prices and you feel like you've stepped into another land! I had a dish called Muntoo... sort like Afghani tortellini, the house tea comes black or in chai, and the flavors are exotic and delicious! What a find! The family who owns and operates it just arrived in St. Louis in 1991, and we hope they stay forever, this is a spot we'll go back to!
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