Last night’s dinner theater celebration of “The Magical Season” was packed with snow-bound islanders ready to enjoy the warmth and humor of the holiday season. And they got a wassail bowlful, thanks to the Victorian Room Readers’ Theater, under the direction of Patty Monaco, and the production genius of Leslie Ginnis.
The room was packed, and unfortunately, folks had to be turned away. The audience was primed to boo the pompous professor who didn’t want the world to know he’d written the jingle, “A Visit from Saint Nicholas,” to applaud Rhys and Gracie Thompson as they spiritedly recited that poem and to guffaw along with the auction-bound husband who saw “the bowling ball of fate rolling right down his alley.”
In that spirit, as we race out of the house for the ferry and pack Christmas presents and clean up the mess from the garbage the dog got into (thank heavens I put the pork chops back in the fridge), here’s the old Walt Kelly “Pogo” version of “Deck the Hall”
Deck us all with Boston Charlie
Walla Walla Wash. andKalamazoo!
Nora’s freezin’ on the trolley,
swaller dollar cauliflower alleyga roo!
Don’t we know archaic barrrel
Lullaby Lilla Boy, Louisville Lou
Trolley Molly don’t love Harold,
Boola boola Pensacoola
Hullabaloo!
