So, Jeff and I went to see West Side Story at the Theatre Royal last week. We took the tram down the hill and were early, so we had to wait awhile in the lobby of the theater before they let us go to our seats. So we’re waiting, and making small talk, and debating buying tickets to see Evita next month when we noticed something strange. About a third of our fellow theater-goers were wearing cowboy hats and fringe. Lots of British people dressed like cowboys.

And it wasn’t just like, one big misinformed group, people that clearly didn’t know one another showed up to see West Side Story in cowboy boots.

So Jeff and I are like, “Well, I guess West Side Story does take place in America, so a stereotypical American costume isn’t entirely inappropriate.”

Finally we realized that we were in the Lobby of the Royal Concert Hall, which shares a building with the Theatre Royal. And who was playing that night at the Royal Concert Hall?

British people love Kenny Rogers.