Summer Mummers

This weekend, Cody and I experienced some of Midland's traditions. A couple months ago, I bought tickets to Summer Mummers.

The show was held in Yucca Theater in downtown Midland. This theater is pretty cool - the inside of it is all old-timey with the balcony and everything!

Summer Mummers is a melodrama with the classic hero, heroine, and antagonist. I think the theme is different every year, but it's always the same basic story where the hero has to come in and save the heroine from the antagonist.

So this years theme was a magic show. The hero was a good magician who gets transported to Midland from Las Vegas by the antagonist (an evil magician). So the hero gets to know West Texas and Midland and is invited to have his own magic show at the Yucca Theater by the owner who is the heroine.

Yadda, yadda, yadda, you know how it goes. The antagonist gets jealous of the hero's new magic show and comes to Midland to hold the heroine captive and try to take over the show.

So part of the Summer Mummers tradition is popcorn wars. Everyone gets these huge bags of popcorn and whenever the bad guy comes out, you're supposed to throw popcorn at him.

But really, people just throw popcorn at other people.

Whenever people would run out of popcorn, they made hats out of the bags. These guys in front of us had their popcorn bag hats on and were dancing around during the intermission. Pretty entertaining.

I had a huge bag of popcorn dumped on my head by a complete stranger.

Not gonna lie, I wasn't the biggest fan of that...there was SO much popcorn.

It looked like snow, and this isn't even at the end of the show. This was the end of the first act!

Did I say there was a lot of popcorn?

Cody was sad at how much popcorn was wasted. I don't think I saw him throw one handful...I think he ate a whole bag by himself.

Overall, the show was entertaining, however, it was sort of ruined for me by the people in front of us WHO WOULD NOT SIT DOWN!!!  It was so annoying! I couldn't see anything that was happening on the stage while they were standing up.

I threw lots of popcorn at them.

It was a good memory of our lives in Midland though :)

TV Shows

There are some new TV shows out on my list to watch this year that look to be pretty good!

First up is Siberia on NBC:



I've watched the first few episodes of this show and I must say that I find it fascinating. It's like Survivor, but it's in Siberia and there are no rules...no games...just a group of contestants who have to survive in the Siberian forest through the winter.

And the best part is that it's scripted!  It's not reality TV, it's all made up. And it's pretty good so far - all these weird things keep happening to the group.

Next up is Under the Dome on CBS:



I've not seen any episodes of this one yet, but I've heard some good things about it. It's about a town that gets a mysterious dome put around it and they can't get out and no one can get in. Apparently, there is some kind of nuclear bomb or something that gets dropped on the country around the dome and everything around them gets destroyed and leaves them in perfect shape...

It has my interests piqued.

Then we have The 100 on the CW:





This one is about a group of people who were living on some kind of space station after a big nuclear holocaust or something like that on Earth...it's been a really long time since anyone's lived on Earth (supposedly) and the people on the space station can't survive much longer so they send a group to Earth to see if it's inhabitable again. The catch is that they send the prisoners they had on the space station, only one of them isn't really a criminal or some business like that.

And then they find that they aren't alone when they get back to Earth....imagine that.

The CW has more new shows, but I think this one looks the best.

And here we have Agents of Shield on ABC:



The Avengers, need I say more?

These are the newer shows that I've been excited about, but of course we have the ones that are returning this fall to look forward to as well!

Revolution, Bones, Nashville, Parenthood, Once Upon a Time, Revenge...these are just a few that I'm excited for!

Revolution

Has anyone heard about the new NBC show called Revolution?

I just watched the pilot episode, and I am intrigued! It's a TV show about what happens when the whole world loses power. Very interesting, I'm looking forward to the next episode to see what will happen next!

Bunheads

Has anyone seen previews for this new show on ABC Family?  I watched a special presentation of the pilot episode earlier, and I think it may be a decent show!  At the end, I wanted to see more!  The TV premier is June 10th I think, so I'll have to wait until the week after that to see what happens next...

I'm loving all these new dancing and singing TV shows that are coming out lately!

(Smash??? LOVE that one)