The other night, I posted on Facebook about watching musical theatre clips on YouTube and how I wish I had someone to share that with. It's true. But not necessarily the way you think. I was not referring to a boyfriend or a partner or a date, even though I would not turn that down. I just meant having those theatre friends who get excited to just sit and listen to show tunes. Ah, those were the days. Bonding with people over a cast recording is pretty damn cool to me. In high school, all of us drama club kids new the scores to Phantom and Les Miz and we could just talk about those for hours.
When I got to college, the first time, I encountered many other musical theatre enthusiasts. Marcia and I would spend hours listening to music and watching musicals. We were not in a musical theatre program, so we had to make our own fun. If I had a dollar for every show choir concert I sat through, I would at least be able to buy myself dinner LOL It started to become easy to spot the people who loved show tunes. Sometimes it's because they had the t-shirt on. Sometimes a random lyric would come out and you instantly recognized it. Hell, we even had parties where we sat around listening to cast albums.
It's just a part of my life that I have let fall behind and I need to bring it up to speed. I know very few of the shows from the last 15 years of Broadway seasons. It is almost impossible now to go to the music store for the latest cast album. I have picked up some good ones at the used bookstore, though. But I need more of that in my life. It makes me happy. And I want to find people to share that joy with. That is all.
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