Went to a Barry Manilow concert at the Rose garden with Laurie for our anniversary. While I wasn’t super impressed with his singing. He’s certainly got the showmanship thing down. He’s been doing a thing where he’s singing hit songs of the 40’s, 50’s and so on. It made the concert seem like a bit of a time capsule – but in a good way.

At the intermission they handed out green glowsticks to everyone. This was a particularly clever thing to do. The Rose Garden is laid out as a sports arena, so for musical concerts, the majority of the people are sitting where they can see a lot of the rest of the crowd. So about 15 minutes into the 20 minute intermission, most people had cracked their glowsticks and realized that if everyone waved them in time to the music it looked really, really cool – and funny at the same time. There was a ripple of giggles and laughter throughout the auditorium as people figured this out.

With the lights out and people waving them in time to the music (but not all in the same direction) it looked like phospherent plankton gently waving in the water. At the end of a song, everyone would clap and the little green dots would wiggle violently in one place. I found this highly amusing.