I guess you could say my life has been full of drama. No, not the kind that causes aches in your stomach, but the kind that takes you away to a different, and imaginary land in your head. I always loved musicals as a kid, especially if they had Elvis, Frankie and Annette, Ann Margaret, Julie Andrews, and Dick Van Dyke in them, to name some. I remember as a kid we would perform skits and plays in school, but of course I was never picked to play the lead roles. During our summer breaks my girlfriends and I would make up dance routines to our favorite music, and make our poor parents watch them. I was never able to take dance classes so when my daughter reached the age of 5 I signed her up for jazz and hiphop dance classes, and from then on, to the age of 18, I lived vicariously through her. I remember missing her first dance recital because I couldn't see her performance through my tears of joy. Thank goodness I bought a video of that recital so I could watch it over again.
The first musical I ever attended was "Moving Out", composed by the one and only Billy Joel. Was it ever amazing. Since then I have gone to community theater groups that have been very entertaining. One recently called "The Barn Theater" in Augusta MI. First we got to watch a theatrical play in a renovated barn that had two guest actors from the Guiding light soap opera that used to be on main stream TV. Then we moved into a little building next door where they served cocktails and appetizers while the waitstaff sang short musical numbers in front of a piano bar. These performers were collage students who attended The Barn Theater School of Advance Theater Training. To think at their age I was getting married and having kids. Sigh! Well, I probably forgot to mention that I really don't have any dance, singing, or acting talents, but I do preform once a year after a few cocktails at The Annex Piano Bar in Saugatuck.
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