The weekend in Hallowe'en Town.
Dec. 13th, 2022 09:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
luckykaaSo it's another What I Did At The Weekend post.
There was a showing of The Nightmare Before Christmas, with a live orchestra, at Wembley Arena. With Danny Elfman and Ken Page reprising their original roles as Jack and Ooogie Boogie.
So, we arrived in London. Checked into the hotel. Turns out this was the place where Alan Turing was born. Room was nice although they didn't provide us with bath towels, and breakfast was a bit limited with a cold selection of hot food.
Anyway, we found our way to Wembley Arena. Not too difficult to find. Right next to the Stadium, which is big and easy to spot. Went in, climbed the epic stairs to our seats right at the back. And after quite some time, the show started!
First up was a disney short - Skeleton Dance from 1929 witht he orchestra. And then we had the main show. Movie was projeted behind the orhestra. 5 main singers at the front. Danny Elfman doesn't arrive on stage until his first song. And he sang and it was awesome! Disappointingly, he didn't take off his head at that point in the song. Ken Page gave an excellent performance as Ooogie Boogie, and seemed to be having a whale of a time. And we had Phoebe Bridgers playing Sally in full Sally costume! Encore was Danny Elfman doing his rendition of Oogie Boogie. He admitted he wasn't as good as Ken Page - which is true, but only because Ken Page is so damn good!
Returned to hotel via high street so we could get food. Turns out that it's not easy finding a food outlet with seating late at night. But there was a long wait for the train home so we ccould at least sit on the platform and eat there.
Saturday, the plan was to meet Pete, see the Science Fiction exhibition at the Science museum, and go see the Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park. Felt that the £20 entry fee was a bit steep so skipped that and went to Hyde park. Where we found that Wointer Wonmderland was ticketed and old out. Had a look at the South Bank market, which was free but very small, and then to the Lego store and Leicester Square market.
The Lego store currently has a mini museum on the top floor. It includes that yellow Lego castle from the 1970s! I have no idea why they never re-relased that one.
Finished up with a trip to Nandos. Nandos has a queuing webapp. It gives a countdown to how long until you get a seat. It went all the way down to 2-12 minutes before shooting up again to 12-24! It then went down to 1 minute, up again and we were about to go in and ask what the hell was going on when the app said we can now go in. And finally I had that damn Orange and Maple chicken I've been after for so long!
There was a showing of The Nightmare Before Christmas, with a live orchestra, at Wembley Arena. With Danny Elfman and Ken Page reprising their original roles as Jack and Ooogie Boogie.
So, we arrived in London. Checked into the hotel. Turns out this was the place where Alan Turing was born. Room was nice although they didn't provide us with bath towels, and breakfast was a bit limited with a cold selection of hot food.
Anyway, we found our way to Wembley Arena. Not too difficult to find. Right next to the Stadium, which is big and easy to spot. Went in, climbed the epic stairs to our seats right at the back. And after quite some time, the show started!
First up was a disney short - Skeleton Dance from 1929 witht he orchestra. And then we had the main show. Movie was projeted behind the orhestra. 5 main singers at the front. Danny Elfman doesn't arrive on stage until his first song. And he sang and it was awesome! Disappointingly, he didn't take off his head at that point in the song. Ken Page gave an excellent performance as Ooogie Boogie, and seemed to be having a whale of a time. And we had Phoebe Bridgers playing Sally in full Sally costume! Encore was Danny Elfman doing his rendition of Oogie Boogie. He admitted he wasn't as good as Ken Page - which is true, but only because Ken Page is so damn good!
Returned to hotel via high street so we could get food. Turns out that it's not easy finding a food outlet with seating late at night. But there was a long wait for the train home so we ccould at least sit on the platform and eat there.
Saturday, the plan was to meet Pete, see the Science Fiction exhibition at the Science museum, and go see the Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park. Felt that the £20 entry fee was a bit steep so skipped that and went to Hyde park. Where we found that Wointer Wonmderland was ticketed and old out. Had a look at the South Bank market, which was free but very small, and then to the Lego store and Leicester Square market.
The Lego store currently has a mini museum on the top floor. It includes that yellow Lego castle from the 1970s! I have no idea why they never re-relased that one.
Finished up with a trip to Nandos. Nandos has a queuing webapp. It gives a countdown to how long until you get a seat. It went all the way down to 2-12 minutes before shooting up again to 12-24! It then went down to 1 minute, up again and we were about to go in and ask what the hell was going on when the app said we can now go in. And finally I had that damn Orange and Maple chicken I've been after for so long!
