So we made a real day of it this Valentine's. The fact the kids are in Cardiff with their auntie and uncle helps. We headed by tube first to Kings Cross and then a bit of a walk past various hospitals and similar places and the London Welsh Club to Doughty Street and the Dickens Museum. From there we walked on to Cambridge Circus and the Palace Theatre. We went via the old Baptist Union building with its statue of Bunyan and Sicilian Avenue and managed to take in one or two bookshops en route including the Dover Bookshop on the edge of Covent Garden where I bought a little book of Puritan sermons. After collecting our tickets and having a meal we went into to see the current production of Singin' in the Rain. Eleri loves musicals and in a stroke of sheer genius I booked us in at the end of last year as a Christmas present.
I must confess to almost complete ignorance of the musical beforehand, except for Gene Kelly's famous title performance. I did recognise Make 'em laugh and Good morning too and the plot was fairly familiar (the change from the silent films to the talkies). Anyway it was all done brilliantly, especially the flooding of the stage for the key number which they wisely did twice - at the end of both halves. I don't really get musicals but this was enjoyable entertainment of a very high quality indeed. Details here. We came home by bus - enough walking for one day.
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