This coming Saturday, May 3, we will meet to watch a performance of Mozart's The Magic Flute, a simulcast broadcast into Nationals Park from opening night at the Washington National Opera. We will have a block of seats together in the stands, or those who prefer can sit on the ground in the outfield. Our reserved seating section will be labeled with our group name “Reed College Alumni Association” and is located: SECTION 128, ROW H and J
The performance begins at 7 PM, but the gates open at 5 PM for a series of pre-performance activities, aimed at children of all ages. In addition, most of us are planning to gather at 5 PM at the Maine Avenue Fish Market, a short drive away (or half hour's walk) on Maine Avenue. This is the oldest seafood market in continuous operation in the US -- you can get food prepared to order, or a variety of raw seafood; if you are not up for cleaning your own fish, there is by-the-pound service at the cleaning shack (filleting costs a bit more).
There are of course scads of parking lots around Nationals Park (Lots B and C, south of N Street between South Capitol and First Avenue, SE, will be open at the very discounted price of $10 per car), but it is also metro-accessible. Closest are the Navy Yard and Waterfront stations on the Green Line; L'Enfant Plaza, on the Green/Yellow and Blue/Orange Lines is also within a fifteen minute walk of the fish market.
RSVP to Paul Alan Levy '72 (plevy AT citizen DOT org).
