The Magic and the Music

 

Same day.  Evening time. We discuss going to the side of the Palladium Theatre in London  where the actress who plays Evita, Rachel Zegler, comes out onto the balcony singing “Don’t Cry for Me, Argentina”  to delight  passerbys around 9 P.M. We will never make it, I think, as Bill is still napping peacefully after our stressful afternoon. Suddenly, his head pops up to announce, “Let’s go hear Evita.”  Honestly, my feet do not want to cooperate, but my head thinks, why not?

How to get there? Here we go again. As you may conjecture, London is a confusing place to navigate even for a GPS. We study Maps and off we pop. Amazingly, we experience no difficulty arriving at the theatre and are even early.  When Rachel Zegler steps out onto the balcony and begins to sing the beautiful melody of Evita, I tear up. Bill and I got here successfully, we are in fabulous London, and the magic of the moment and the  music hugs and reassures us that life is beautiful.