There comes a time in all our lives when we are no longer as “with it” as we would hope. Maybe that one topic on which you were an expert is one where you are falling behind. You’re not listening to the cool music anymore. You’re not keeping up with the popular TV shows. Your […]
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Theater – Hamilton
I’m not going to beat around the bush here, you clicked the link. You see the title. The picture is right there – I saw Hamilton. And it was amazing. But humor me while I tell a story about all the drama leading up to the show. Tickets to Hamilton were difficult to get – […]
Theater – Camelot
It’s amazing the kind of things we let ourselves think we’re familiar with. So many movies, tv shows and theatrical performance has permeated our general pop culture that it’s easy to think, “Oh, I’ve seen that, right?” I am that way with a lot of movies. I’m pretty sure I haven’t seen Citizen Kane or […]
Theater – On Your Feet
One of the most frustrating parts of being a musical-theater aficionado in the past few decades is watching the laziness of the genre. By this, I mostly mean watching the focus on new musicals be either of jukebox style, or based on movies. Sure – when properly adapted, the movie musicals tend to be more […]
Theater – An American in Paris
There are a lot of classic movies I haven’t seen. Or that I haven’t seen all the way through. The one that drives the Boy the battiest is Casablanca. That’s meant to be one of the all-time greats, if not the greatest movie, and I have seen the first third, and maybe the end, and […]
Theater – A Little Night Music
Whenever you spend enough time with a subset of culture, you start to develop opinions and start to recognize patterns and tropes. Maybe you love all the Shonda Rhimes shows, and you notice her reuse of actors across different shows, or phrases that come up again and again. Or you ADORE sci-fi movies, and will […]
Theater – Natasha Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812
Ok guys, I’m going to do a little bragging up front: I’ve read War and Peace. I know, I know. I’m awesome. You can stop applauding now. How does one read a tome like that? By having a very long commute, and using audiobooks. I’m talking nearly 40 CDs. It was a lot. I think […]
Theater – The Sound of Music
When I was in middle school, I was in a production of the Sound of Music. I played the third von Trapp child/second daughter – Louisa. It’s not a particularly exciting role. But being part of that unit of “the von Trapp children” was very exciting. Probably the biggest part of the that production for […]
Movie – Beauty and the Beast
I am so behind the times. Like, ridiculously so. I used to go see movies all the time, and would often see them on opening weekends. But in addition to the sadness of not seeing any of the the Oscar movies this year, I hadn’t really seen a movie in the theaters in a long […]
Theater – Fun Home
I don’t know about you, but I love my mom. As in, we actually get along pretty well and we’re kind of friends. I don’t tell her everything that I tell friends who are closer to my age, but we have a lot of similar interests, and we email on a pretty consistent basis. One […]