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Originally Posted by moe.ron
Though I've also read that this year new batch of musicals has been meh.
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Hi everyone,
Saw Memphis a couple of months ago in NY. Also nominated. I thought it was great. Also saw Billy Elliot and Next to Normal. Good, but didn't like them as much.
Saw the national tour of Spring Awakening a month or so ago, and it was real good. We saw it in New York a couple years ago with Lea Michelle and the new guy in GLEE (can't think of his name right now) It was outstanding.
Seeing the national tour of In The Heights tomrrow and am really looking forward to it. Another show I saw on Broadway when visiting the son, and it was great. Hope it is here as well.
(It's great to have a son with a Chelsea apartment so we have a place to stay in the city -- even if it means an air mattress)
Taking a Scandanavian cruise out of Southampton, UK for our 40th Anniversary in July and tagging a couple of days of tours and theatre in London on both sides. Planning to see Love Never Dies (I also hear it's getting a "tune up" before coming to New York), but the last two ALW shows I've seen there pretty much died in the US -- A Woman in White and Whistle Down the Wind. That last one had some great music, but zero plot.
Oldest daughter was just cast as the lead in Chicago at a very good community theatre here.
Son is in an Equity show in Westchester after turing down a couple of shows in Austin this summer. The Off Broadway he just closed in is still on track to open on Broadway next season (money permitting although looking strong) and, hopefully, he will be cast in it again. No guarantee, but at least a good chance.
Wife (BFA, Theatre) is teaching an adult ed class in the History of Musical theatre in the University of Denver continuing education program in our community and I am her audio visual boy playing DVD's and CD's for her. It's fun.
That's the entertainment news from Denver.
All of you be well.