Dinner and a Show

This post is about a month and a half overdue. :-) For Valentine's Day this year, John surprised me with a very thoughtful date. I had mentioned a few weeks before this that there was a theatre owned by the actor Jeff Daniels in a nearby town and there was a restaurant there owned by someone who had a show on the Food Network. Well, John remembered and planned out a date of dinner and a show!

This was in the nearby town of Chelsea, MI. The restaurant is called "The Common Grill" owned by Craig Common. It turned out that he does not have a show on the Food Network, but he does have a cookbook out and I guess is fairly well known. The food was excellent and the atmosphere was very nice. It was nice feeling like a grownup again. :-)


Chelsea is a very tiny town, and was kind of like a miniature Ann Arbor, about one block long. There were lots of art galleries, the restaurant, and a few other stores.

The theatre is called The Purple Rose, and is very small. The audience sits around the stage, so it is very intimate. The play we went to see was called "Vino Veritas". It was an interesting story that revolved around 4 characters. They were two married couples who were best friends and neighbors. One of the couples had gone on a trip to Latin America and came into possession of this wine made from the skins of blue tree frogs. It had the power to make the consumer tell the absolute truth. On Halloween night, the two couples get together and drink the wine. All secrets come out and it threatens the relationship of one couple while repairing the relationship of the other. It was really good and well acted.

The lobby.

Entering the theatre.

Some photos from the show.