Loved this article. Maybe it’s a generational “DNA” thing. My own parents got engaged on my mom’s 21st birthday after they went to see South Pacific at the movie theater. I grew up listening to that LP along with many others, as well as soundtracks for the Disney movies and the spin off records from the Partridge Family, The Monkees, The Jackson Five, Donnie and Marie, HR Puff N Stuff, that show Bobbie Sherman was in. . . I was also of the generation that perennially waited for Cinderella, Charlie Brown, The Sound of Music, the animated Christmas shows to come on TV (Burl Ives singing Silver and Gold anyone??) to come on TV. As preteens, we even made a night of watching those shows with friends. As my kids - all boys - were growing up, our VHS library was very heavy on Disney (how many times can watch Beauty and the Beast or Great Mouse Detective??), Thomas the Tank Engine (MT S could sing that theme song before he could utter his first words), and remember all those Wild Animal videos that had music videos “built in”? My H added in the pop/rock concert videos to the viewing/listening diet (non-MT Ss are both in rock bands). How could my kids NOT grow up to think musical theater was cool? OK, so the non-MT sons don’t think it’s quite as cool as MT S, but they ALL loved seeing Book of Mormon, and even my most curmudgeonly MT “hater” S - recovering cello player who at age 3-5 never got enough of watching Disney’s Cinderella (he LOVED the mice) - happily went with me to see Seth MacFarlane in concert singing the Great American Songbook. We’ve been programmed - and so have our kids. Here’s to coming out of the closet!