Give My Regards to Broadway

The Hanselwomen went to the Theatre!

This was Kissy's very first Broadway show and we talked all day about seeing the BEAUTY AND THE BEAST.

We practiced our scared face ( bottom left) just in case. But, she didn't need to use that face at all. She was a perfect little patron of the theatre. When they finished the big numbers, she would turn to us and say, "more, more"! She also thought her Daddy was one of them!

I have had a love of the Theatre and musicals since the first time I saw MARY POPPINS and CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG. There's something that gets me really excited from the first note of the band's Overture to the last curtain call. I don't think I have ever been to one that at some time during the show, I haven't started to cry. Not, sad crying but, the kind of crying you have when music touches your soul. Or the kind of tears and chill bumps when a chord is sung by 20 awesome singers accompanied by an orchestra. Our kids all have this love and I am glad it has passed down. I have a small list of all the musicals I've seen and I would love to add more to it as the years go by. ( it's not a bad list coming from a Tallahassee gal) Here I go. This list is mainly for myself so, I can remember as I age.

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA ( twice in NY)

MISS SAIGON (NY)

LES MISERABLES (NY)

THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL (NY)

CABARET (NY)
THE LION KING(NY)
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN(NY)
SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER ( touring here in Tally)

CATS (Tally)
MY FAIR LADY(Tally)
FOSSE ( Tally)
JEKYELL & HYDE ( Tally)
FOOTLOOSE ( Tally)
SHOW BOAT( Tally)
CHICAGO( Tally)
THE PRODUCERS (Tally)
CINDERELLA(Tally)

OKLAHOMA(Tally)

INTO THE WOODS (Tally)
BEAUTY & THE BEAST( Tally)

FAME (Tally)

Another list would be the ones that my First Born Son has been in and we have seen locally:

CAROUSEL
SOUTH PACIFIC
YOU'RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN

SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD

THE FANTASTIKS

PIPPIN

A NEW BRAIN( ok, we didn't go to this one...bad parent award for the year.)

DAMN YANKEES

JESUS CHRIST, SUPERSTAR(ok, we missed this one too....I'm so ashamed.)