Karen and I became engaged on Valentine's Day in 1985, so on Sunday we celebrated the 25th anniversary of the event with dinner and a show.
First, we went to a matinee performance of "Love Letters" at the Morristown Community Theatre's Mayo Center. The show starred the husband-and-wife team of Jill Eikenberry and Michael Tucker, best known for their roles as husband-and-wife lawyers Ann Kelsey and Stuart Markowitz on "L.A. Law."
A.R. Gurney's play chronicles the lifelong relationship of two people through their correspondence. It's a clever idea, often with the silences between unanswered letters saying as much as the letters themselves.
However, if you go for live theater, it's kind of a rip-off. Seeing just two people, however talented, just sitting at a desk reading the script (even visibly turning the pages) isn't my idea of live drama.
After the show, we went to one of our favorite restaurants, the Black Horse Tavern in nearby Mendham. The historic inn has been completely refurbished in recent years and looks stunning, inside and out.
The food has always been great here, and this time didn't disappoint. Karen had the chicken saltimbocca, and I had a salmon and spinach stuffed phyllo. Both were excellent.
But the most memorable menu item was the drink special: a concoction called a "Lovers' Lava Lamp." It consisted of Prosecco, Grand Marnier and diced cranberries. The carbonation in the Prosecco made the berries rise and fall just like the globs of wax in a real lava lamp.
For the price of a drink, you got a show too! It took us back to those good old days in the dorms in the '70s.
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