This past Monday night we went to a neat theater-pub in Anchorage, the Bear Tooth. This is a restaurant that also has a movie theater attached to it. They mostly seem to show second-run movies, but they also show classics and art house flicks. Tickets are only $3. The really neat part is that you can eat your meal in the theater. You place your order at the concession stand and they give you a smallish orange construction cone, which you put on your table in the theater. When your food is ready, a waitperson brings it in to you. Seating is still in rows, and the tables are rectangular and attached to the floor. The food is of the casual dining genre, but very good. There is also a bar in the theater, where you can buy beer and wine.
So we went to see the classic selection on Monday night, which was...get ready for it...South Pacific! Neither of us had seen it before, though my parents had a record of the soundtrack, so I heard it many, many times in my youth. We figured we could check out this theater pub concept at the same time as viewing a hokey little slice of the past. It was extraordinarily hokey, but fun. The best part was that the rest of the audience was laughing at the dumb parts too. When the French planter is telling the nurse that he had to leave France because he killed a man, and then she tells him it's all right, the whole crowd erupted into laughter and hooting. We felt we were among kindred souls. We are definitely going back there!
Oh - and when the movie let out at 11:00 p.m., it was still light out! The sun was just starting to set. Weird!
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