Barnum

This afternoon we had tickets to see the musical Barnum at the Fine Arts Center in Colorado Springs. We ran into more traffic than we expected but we still arrived early for the show.

Since we were early, we spent some time looking at the display of “curiosities” from PT Barnum. Those were interesting, although some were kind of gross!

The theatre was decorated like a circus. There were colored lights strung over the audience and huge posters on the wall. The musicians we replaying circus music. It was a fun atmosphere. Fifteen minutes before the show started a group of actors came out and interacted with the audience.

The two little girls next to me had several actors show them card tricks. We enjoyed watching them.
Once the show started it was filled with acrobats, jugglers and other stunts. It was a great show and Marina loved it. Marina waved to an actress we know at the curtain call.

As we were leaving the theatre, Marina mentioned we never got to see the mermaid mentioned in the show. But when we got to the lobby, there she was! Of course we got a photo with her. We waited in the lobby for our friend and talked with her for a while. As we were talking, the actors who played PT Barnum and Jenny Lind came by. So we took photos with them as well. Traffic wasn’t as bad going home and we made good time back to Denver, arriving around dinner time.