Dream CLVIII

I was staying in an area near a high school.  At all hours on the radio, I would hear advertisements that the school was going to put on a musical based on the comic strip Archie.

I decided to go.  The musical was very clever, particularly with the costuming which allowed a single actor to turn a flap on his costume and assume a completely different character.  The songs were also quite clever, though the jokes were uniformly terrible.

My seat was high in the bleachers, and once I looked down over a railed walk-way to see that I was the only person in the audience, other than various actors waiting to take their turn on stage.

Afterward, I met the student who played "Veronica."  She and I chatted, and I said, "Well, at least I won't have to hear those damn advertisements any more!" and we laughed.  We sat down near a tree and began hugging.

I noticed an odd sculpture, seemingly made of light, which kept cycling through an upright stage like a set of teeth and a collapsed state flat on the ground.  I pointed this out to "Veronica," and mentioned that it was a lost prop from another play about a tiny knight.  The hologram was supposed to surround him, giving the illusion that a dragon had swallowed him, but that he had defeated it.

Later, I returned alone to a large house where I was staying.  On the television was more Archie--specifically, an animated version.  I was seeing the end credits, where a male student with a single eye morphed into a flying one-eyed robot.  He then flew around the screen as the credits rolled.  I pointed out that the character--called "Rover"--was a lot less graceful in the actual show but no one was paying attention to me.

One young child was playing with breakfast-cereal toys, dipping them in flavored juices and adding them to a small tableau.  There was water on the floor, and there were pieces of laundry.  The child was waiting until the other child would join him, saying things like "Only a couple more minutes" to himself.

The other child was fitfully napping, and looking at the television screen.  "Only 37 more minutes of this," he told himself, "and I'll be able to do whatever I want."