The Drowsy Chaperone

We went to go see The Drowsy Chaperone Friday night with the Rascon family. It was a great show! My favorite actor, by far, was Adolfo. HiLARious. Oh, and another fun tidbit. The actor who played the narrator throughout the show (known as "Man in the Chair") was Jonathon Crombie (aka Gilbert Blythe in the Anne of Green Gables miniseries). I was infatuated with Gilbert Blythe for a good portion of my elementary school and tween years.








"Man in the Chair" was an entirely, ENTIRELY different role. If you ever see this show, you will know what I mean. He did a fantastic job. Here we are posing outside the TUTS theatre.



Stop trying to hand us the camera, Art. Can't you see we're posing?

The next morning, Patti and I sang a very tearful rendition of "Some Things Are Meant To Be" from the Broadway musical, Little Women, during her students' annual, end-of-the-year voice recital (Patti is a voice teacher). It was wholly embarassing, and I will tell you why. She sang the part of Jo, and I sang the part of Beth who is, of course, dying. At the end, the lyrics for Beth go like this...

"Some things are meant to be:
The tide turning endlessly,
The way it takes hold of me
No matter what I do.

"And some things will never die:
The promise of who you are,
Your memories when I am far
From you.

"All my life I've lived for living you.
Let me go now..."

And then Beth dies. During my solo at the end, Patti started shaking with tears, and you can take a good guess as to what I started doing as soon as I made eye contact with her. Sweet, sweet Patti. It was all very dramatic and emotional. Not a good song choice for us under these delicate circumstances. Although moving away is not quite as dire as passing away... I'm sure all of Patti's students and their parents now think we are lunatics.