Monday Ramblings

* So Parkland College's production of Fiddler on the Roof (my review is below on this blog) sold a lot of tickets.  But, it failed to become the highest attended show in Parkland College history.  That honor still belongs to .... Pinkalicious! which sold, so I am told, 19 more tickets than Fiddler.

*  Did you see the summer theatre preview in Smile Politely?  No?  Then click this and read it!  Smile Politely's Summer Theatre Preview!   Besides the Twin City Squared productions - there are lots of things to look forward to.

*  Went to Annie, Kids at the Virginia.  And, surprise, this shortened version was actually enjoyable.  The cuts and revisions didn't make the show nonsensical, as other Kid and Junior productions did.  It was the last Champaign Park District show for Monica Samii as director/choreographer and Leigh Kaiser as a producer.  They did good.

* We buckled under and got season tickets to Broadway in Chicago, primarily to score Hamilton tickets.  But, now we may have a conflict on our date! After the short season ticket run, Hamilton will sit down in Chicago, so there will be other opportunities to see it.  Query:  Should I sell the existing three Hamilton tickets for sufficient money to pay for full season tickets?

* Wife and daughter headed to London.  Both will see The Play That Goes Wrong.  Daughter will finally get to see The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, which she missed on her last trip to London because the ceiling in the theatre had collapsed.

* My production of A Divas Cabaret was, in my humble opinion, a pretty darn good show.  If you didn't make it out - and shame on you! - you can see several of the performances on You Tube.  Go to the Twin City Squared channel.  This was the opening number of the second show:

We are going to try a couple of other Cabaret nights over the next few months.  Stay tuned.

* I did not manage to get up to Chicago to see Q Brothers' "Othello, the Remix" which is one of my favorite theatregoing experiences.  The Q Brothers have been doing hip hop Shakespeare for several years - long before that show about the first U.S> Secretary of the Treasury who was killed in a duel got praise for interjecting rap into a show.  Next time!  I do have the CD recording to listen to.

* Sponge Bob The Musical.  Part of me wants to go.  Then the other part of me slaps me around.  I think other people are having the same dilemma.

*  I need to find a way to do a concert version of Titanic, the Musical with the Champaign Symphony.
* Ten days until opening night for Green Day's American Idiot at Parkland's Miner Theater.  You'll have eight chances to see it.  Don't waste those chances!  Here's a short preview: