WICKED

I saw WICKED a couple years ago, and I fell madly in love with it. It was my first live broadway show EVER, and it blew me away. Before I went to see it, I had no idea what it even was. I remember hanging out with my friend, Emily, and she put in the CD, playing all the songs for me. They didn't make any sense at all, and I was like... what is this? I still was confused even when our show choir back in middle school, call KEYS, performed one of the songs from the musical. Then when my parents took me to the show and I watched it, everything fell into place.
The musical is like the story "before" the Wizard of Oz. It tells how Galinda (the good witch) and Elphaba (thought to be bad witch) used to be best friends and the true story behind the OZ and how Elphaba came to be thought as evil. I could go into a lot more detail, but just watching the show explains it all.
I had only liked a few songs, like Defying Gravity and Popular, before going to see it, but after wards I was in love with them all. During the performance, every character carried out their part in such a magnificent way that I believed every single one of them. They sang their hearts out, all of them sounding unbelievably good, so who couldn't love every song? I remember leaving after the performance, after we had bought our souvenirs and soundtrack, and we were listening to the soundtrack the whole way home from Chicago. The show was just that amazing!
Watching the musical really made me want to star in one. I love singing and performing, but I have never really gotten the chance to perform in an actual play with an actually decent part; I have always been in the chorus or with a part that had at most, two lines. Even though I saw this show a while ago, thinking about it still makes me want to be in a play so badly! The show was just that good; it even made my dad fall in love.
Today I was talking to my dad about Mamma Mia! And he blurted out,
"NO ONE MOURNS THE WICKED!"
He is so silly.

MAMMA MIA!

"Chikateetah, tell me whats wrong!" Quote from one of the many songs that make up this amazing musical! I had only seen a majority of the movie Mamma Mia! But I fell in love with it from the moment the movie started. This past summer consisted of my sister and I spending late nights watching it together, singing our favorite songs everytime. As summer ended, I had found out we were going to see the actual "musical" live; I was thrilled! Today was the day I went to see it, and the songs are still buzzing through my head.
From Super Trooper to Lay All Your Love on Me, it was all spectacular! It was so awesome to see the live performance of these two and other songs, and how they were played out. Of course it wasn't exactly like the movie, but it was still good in its own way.
The show, if you didn't know, is about this girl who is about to get married to her fiance. All her life, she was raised by her tough and loving mother, but never knew who her father was. It starts out with her sending three letters to three different men pretending to be her mom asking them to come to her wedding. Throughout the performance she tries to figure out which one is her dad; it is basically a comedy with little turns here and there and ends with a crazy ending!
Although I loved the show as a whole, I don't think it reached the potential that I thought it would. The only other musical that I have seen is WICKED, and if I had to compare that to this, there would be a major difference. I saw WICKED in Chicago, the theater there could have been equipped with a better sound system, but even so the theater that I went to today was perfectly good. The singing just wasn't as mind blowing and spectacular as I thought it would be. No matter that, the show was very, very cool. I would definitely go see it again!

Halloween... disaster

I haven't gotten the chance to read other peoples blogs this week, but I can guarantee that a lot of them have something related to Halloween. It is kind of hard NOT to blog about the little holiday that seems to be the spark of the weekend, so I caved in and decided to tell my story of this exciting day, or so I thought...
As most get their costumes on, may they be a fairy or a gorilla, they get together with their friends and either go the traditional way: trick-or-treat until the candy makes them throw up. Or, they go to that one party that everyone is going to to... well PARTY. This year wasn't the luckiest for me...
For starters, I wasn't really looking forward to this years Halloween. The cute little costumes and all the food that was going to be put in front of me just didn't seem too appetizing, so when I made plans to go to a little party with people and was able to make a costume that didn't cost me 50 dollars, I was beginning to look forward to the scary day.
Me and some of my friends went to the party, being the coolest cats EVER! It was really, just kind of relaxing to chill with everyone without all the hubba bubba; things started to go wrong. For starters, as the night went on, the host of the party stated that we couldn't stay the night. We were all a little shocked, considering we kind of needed a place to stay. It was already getting late, so I didn't want to go home; my result? We slept in our cars. How eventful, right? It was freezing, I was tired, and I couldn't sleep with all these people squeezed in beside me. I kept thinking... what kind of night is this? Why didn't I just go home and be lame? We finally found a place to stay the night at, and I ended up going home the next morning with about 3 hours of sleep. Next morning meaning this morning, so you can probably guess that I wasn't THE happiest camper today.
The other crazy thing is the stories I hear from other people who had crappy Halloweens. For instance, my sister had a night that will stay with her for quite a while, literally. My parents and I went up to Cedar Falls to pick her up for the musical Mamma Mia! When we see that she has a huge scab on her cheek. The first thing I thought? Another girl fight, eh Sarah? No she doesn't do that, but what DID happen was she was walking on uneven ground with 4 inch heels, early in the morning, and ended up tripping and hitting her face on the wall; classic. Its a funny story, even though it sucks, but it makes me feel so much better about my Halloween! It is sort of strange how our Halloweens turned out so bad, maybe it is a sign?
Nah, probably just sign, if any, that next year is gonna be 10 times better!