Tee party
Our Own CruzSF has devised a delightful new pastime, which consists of posing in a parterre box t-shirt “in front of the great and not-so-great opera houses of the world.”
First up: the Napa Valley Opera House.
That’s after the jump.
The cher public are invited to join in the game. The signature parterre box tee is available at CafePress.
Love the baseball cap…
Don’t mind what’s underneath it, either…
Send one of those T-shirts to Sam Ramey!
I see there are available online. I guess I’ll have to order the black one for the next dark dance.
Napa Valley has an opera house?
Amazingly, YES! As far as I could see, a company called “Pocket Opera” performs there in the next month, but they also have concerts (for example, stand-up comedians, the Wailin’ Jennys, and ukelele wunderkind Jake Shimabukuro).
Small towns all over America have theaters called “opera house.” They were generally the largest theater in town — frequently the only one — and felt the name granted certain distinction on the community. Also, booking touring artists and companies was easier if you could tell them they’d play in the Leadville Opera House, for example.
Yes, after posting that I did a google. The ukelele guy looks kind of cute.
I suppose I was just worried that it was some kind of lunatic tourist trap, offering wine tastings, singing sommeliers, and endless rounds of the Traviata brindisi.
Oh lord. THAT would be scary.
May I request that tank tops (or better yet, string tank tops) be made available as well? Ercole does not wear T-shirts. He only wears tank tops not concealing his muscularity.
I would buy every shirt if that model comes with it!!!
OK, I guess I am the first one to say it (but surely not the 1st one to think it): Cruz is surely a hottie…
I would like to see him without the shirt. Handsome Cruz.
(blush)
Blush, my ass. You knew you were going to get this the moment you posted it, you throbbing hunk of Post-Mayan man-meat, you.
Hahaha. Oh Betsy, I love you. [FYI: It's post-Boriquen, not -Mayan.
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I chose “Mayan” for the alliteration. “Post-Boriquen ban-beat” just doesn’t cut it.
Don’t knock ban-beat ’til you’ve tried it.
Betsy, I will have to agree. As nice as mayan meat is 9and i have had some) we boricuas have the perfect combination of spice, salt and flan to make it the complete meal.
Cruz, I had no idea we were both boricuas. Contact me privately, please.
Tres boricuas parterrianos: CruzSF, Lindoro Almaviva y Nemorinopr. BEWARE LA CIECA!!!
You wait. I found out recently that if you go beyond the East End scratters which make up my more recent ancestors, you end up at the French Protestant Church of London in the 16th century… which makes me a Huguenot. So if you’re not all careful I’ll sing you some boring coloratura.
I’d join you, Armer, but the Amish just hum.
I like the idea, armer. The more so that my great grandfather was an officer of the Tsar, which means that I will sing Boris Godunov to your coloratura
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Oh, dear. If we’re to continue with these critiques of musculature and mien, it will limit the participation drastically, I fear.
Darn.
Cruz, you are so much cuter than I had imagined!
What city, specifically, does the Napa Opera House live in? I’d like to see a Pocket Opera (been around a long time now) there, instead of @ Legion of Honor, anyhow.
La Cieca cara, may persons with boobs wear the shirt as well? I’m talking moobs, either.
LOL. (Blush) Camille, the Napa Opera House actually resides in the city of Napa. I don’t know the history of the building but imagine that it used to present operas regularly when the A-listers escaped the San Francisco summer fog during the late 19th century. You can find similar opera houses in just about every wine valley in Nor Cal.
I was shocked to see that Pocket Opera moved so far north (for those not familiar with the SF Bay Area, Napa is about an hour’s drive from SF). I remember when they used to be at the Legion of Honor theater and then at the Fort Mason Center Theater. I’m just happy to see they’re still making a go of it. As you know, some of the other small local companies closed within the last year.
Correction: I obviously meant to say “I’m NOT talking moobs, either”.
You got a problem with moobs? eh, eh? LOL!