This was a musical act I enjoyed recently in one of the AT shelters in Shenandoah National Park. Musical theater was scheduled to begin promptly at ten. The opening number was a duet of owls and consisted of a call and repeat rhythm which lasted for perhaps thirty minutes. Intermission lasted for twenty minutes, during which time audience goers were invited to get refreshments, relieve themselves, or just snuggle more tightly into their sleeping bags.
The Second Act opened with a chorus of three, with intermittent duet numbers performed by the headliners. This lasted until I fell asleep. It was with regret that I could not stay awake for the following act, consisting of musical numbers performed by the Brethren of Micea, a mouse quartet that tried and succeeded on several occasions to rouse my slumber, but only long enough to bang my walking stick on the bunk above where they insisted on rehearsing until midnight. Afterwards, no amount of singing or scampering could disturb me.
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