This One Time, On This Island...
A few awesome things happened tonight. Once On This Island Broadway was an incredible, moving, immersive experience. I thought of cousin's daughter (a fellow Broadway musical geek) almost the entire time, I wish she could experience this with us.
I’ve never had such mixed emotions at the end of a show like this - bursting with happiness and sadness and disappointment and hope pushed out some unintended tears. The cast was incredible.
They were really strict with pics so I wasn’t able to photograph our front row seats. The play takes place at the What we found out was that sitting in the front row, you are literally stepping on this island, our shoes on the sand!
I was sitting right next to Alex Newell’s (from Glee!) character’s cooking station. He was actually cooking, chopping a plantain and throwing it into a pan as people were still coming in and settling in their seats! You walk into the theater and there’s a little girl sitting in the middle of the “stage” drawing in a book, a live chicken in a cage close by. Then Merle Dandridge’s character comes in with a freaking goat (!!). And don’t worry these are not spoilers because the show has not even freaking started!! Then Lea Salonga’s character comes in and give the little girl some kind of vaccine shot?!. As I write this I feel like I’m describing a broadway musical geek’s dream.
Agggggh and I haven’t even told you about after, where we eat at the Palm Restaurant and while waiting for our Lyft in the vestibule of the restaurant, we meet Rosie O’Donnell and have a conversation about uber and lyft?!? This warrants a blogpost coz I’m not even close to finishing my thoughts.
1/14/17 Update: Annnnnd, the buzz is gone. I'm gonna have to tell you more about it, my friends, when I see you in person. This post has been sitting in draft mode for a week now. Time to let go.
I’ve never had such mixed emotions at the end of a show like this - bursting with happiness and sadness and disappointment and hope pushed out some unintended tears. The cast was incredible.
They were really strict with pics so I wasn’t able to photograph our front row seats. The play takes place at the What we found out was that sitting in the front row, you are literally stepping on this island, our shoes on the sand!
I was sitting right next to Alex Newell’s (from Glee!) character’s cooking station. He was actually cooking, chopping a plantain and throwing it into a pan as people were still coming in and settling in their seats! You walk into the theater and there’s a little girl sitting in the middle of the “stage” drawing in a book, a live chicken in a cage close by. Then Merle Dandridge’s character comes in with a freaking goat (!!). And don’t worry these are not spoilers because the show has not even freaking started!! Then Lea Salonga’s character comes in and give the little girl some kind of vaccine shot?!. As I write this I feel like I’m describing a broadway musical geek’s dream.
Agggggh and I haven’t even told you about after, where we eat at the Palm Restaurant and while waiting for our Lyft in the vestibule of the restaurant, we meet Rosie O’Donnell and have a conversation about uber and lyft?!? This warrants a blogpost coz I’m not even close to finishing my thoughts.
1/14/17 Update: Annnnnd, the buzz is gone. I'm gonna have to tell you more about it, my friends, when I see you in person. This post has been sitting in draft mode for a week now. Time to let go.
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