"Man, those Musicals were Pretty Sick!"

It’s going to be a short post today because I feel just horrible.  Last night I came down with some sort of stomach thing.  I’ll spare you the grisly details, but if you’ve ever experienced any sort of gastrointestinal malady, you can imagine what I feel like right now.  I even had to miss work today because I felt so horrible, and I hate that.  

I turn into an incredible baby when I’m sick.  I just want to call my Mommy and have her take care of me, but she lives four and a half hours east of here, so that’s kind of inconvenient for her.  I laid on the couch all day, only moving to… do what I needed to do.  I did want to comment on my Broadway-filled last couple of days, so here goes.

Sunday was the Tony awards, and it was probably the most boring Tonys I have watched in a couple of years.  No surprises that I’m most interested in the musicals, and there just weren’t that many good ones this year.  I did like the performances from The Wedding Singer and The Color Purple, but none of the other ones really rang my bell.  And I was also thrilled to see Norbert Leo Butz and Sara Ramierez and Brian Stokes Mitchell and Audra McDonald presenting awards.  It was just a mostly boring show for me.  

Danielle and I decided that it had been too long since we experienced any new musicals, so we went to Barnes and Noble to check out what they had there in the way of new musical soundtracks.  I don’t know if I’ve mentioned it, but the Barnes and Noble in Springfield has the best musical theatre soundtrack section in the world.  Danielle got See What I Wanna See, The Color Purple, and The Drowsy Chaperone, and I got The Wedding Singer.   We listened to See What I Wanna See on the way home and it was fantastic.  Idina Menzel was in it, so of course she was amazing.  It was just really well-written and well-sung.  I would have liked to have seen it when it was running (I think it’s closed now.)

Then, last night, I watched The Light in the Piazza on PBS.  It was really neat.  I had never been that interested in learning more about it, for some reason, but what I watched last night was great.  I liked all the actors and the music was really dense, it did a good job of weaving the Italian lyrics with the English ones and making it all interesting and easy to understand.  There was one really great tenor-soprano duet that I want to sing with Daniel someday, and I really liked all the soprano songs.  None of the roles were belter roles, which, as a non-belter, I also liked.  And yes, I cried at the end.  That’s the mark of a good musical for me.

So, anyway, since I feel like crap, I’m going to cut this one short.  Adios!

Brianne <><