Junkie...

This past Sunday the Tony Awards aired on TV. I LOVE live musical theatre. To me it doesn't get much better than a brilliant Broadway voice that can bring me to the brink of tears. Usually a mans voice.
I grew up with an appreciation of musical theatre. It is how I spent my jr.high and high school stints, as well as my summers in Hingham...Different plays and companies. I was always had a supporting roll. I liked that. Never really wanted the lime lite. I liked back stage too. I would have loved to learn the real way to direct a musical from my high school teacher. The man had nothing but brilliance for choosing the right musical for the talent of the year.
Summer Theatre was also fun. It was a way of spending the summer screwing around with out getting into trouble. The plays and people, the fun we would have. Then when you were asked to work on the Adult shows....you know the plays that only two teens were cast in and the rest were all twenty something plus talent...this was serious business too...these guys in their mind WERE Broadway material and could not understand why they could not make it in the Big Apple...THAT was brilliant because of the cat fights, and how this person should not have this role and that person can't sing or dance as well as I can and blah...but when a drama club member was asked to work backstage on the plays, it WAS big time. You were someone...
Yeah, so each year a handful of us would work back stage and have a great time, cause now we were hanging with the biggies.....
. I loved drama in High school though. President of the Drama club my senior year. Thespian Society troupe #1982 and for some strange reason I was awarded Best Female Thespian...hmmm but all in all, the Drama Club and it's people is what kept me going in High School...
I did not pursue Drama or Theatre after high School. I traveled with Up With People for a year in 1989. That was more good will ambassador stuff and less, much less theatre stuff. So throughout the years I did try to keep up on this musical and that one. Living in Boston it was easy...living in DC was easy too, cause lots of show came and went. But living in Naples, there really is not much around. When shows come here, they are REALLY expensive. The stage at the Phil is so small that you don't get the full effect and the shows stay for three days. They don't camp out like in the bigger cities. Naples doesn't give people a chance to scrape up the money yo see a show...but that's okay
It's why I have the Tony Awards. Every year I watch a small portion of it, the opening numbers and then move on the Gene Simmons Family Jewels, but I get a chance to see and hear what is a new on Broadway. I get a chance tos ee Angela Landsbury win Another Tony for yet another brilliant piece of work. I get to see more and more "famous"people work on stage and develop themselves as "ACTORS" eight shows a week...it's not as easy as TV or movies. I get to see..people living their dream and doing EXACTLY what they love to do...
Yeah, I am still a theatre Junkie...