Given I'm a Broadway fanatic (I'd rather not admit it so openly, but I hear that's the first step to recovery), people usually ask me what my favorite musical is. When I was in high school, I came up with the perfect answer to this impossible question: Rent My Wicked Mamma (Mia)! It's a combination of Rent, Wicked, and Mamma Mia—about a green girl with AIDS who sings ABBA music. Well, the plans to write that musical fell through, but even so, I've continued to push musical theater-going habits to new extremes, especially now that I'm only an hour and a half from NYC.
Since in the past two years at Princeton, I've seen 29 shows (not all on Broadway; the number includes two shows at Baltimore's Hippodrome, an opera at the Met, 1776 at Ford's Theater DC, Ragtime at Niagara on the Lake, and the Rockettes), I figured I would at least write about them. These won't be "reviews," in strict terms. I wouldn't dream of telling people what to go see and hoping they would believe me. It will mostly just be a way for me to write what I thought of the shows I've seen, funny stories from the experiences (there are quite a few), and a place to record memories while they're still freshest. That's why I'm going to start with the most recent "Kinky Boots" and work backwards. By the time I'm home from Paris and Urbino this summer, maybe I'll have actually finished all 29!
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