<p>@raellis123 Far From the Home I Love is in my opinion one of the most beautiful songs in all of musical theater. It is underrated and under used. Maybe it gets overshadowed by all the other “big” songs in Fiddler.</p>
<p>@Octaviar and @austinmt, just the train depot scene makes you cry? Take your pick in Fiddler on the Roof! Laughing one minute, crying the next. What a great musical!</p>
<p>D is in a community theater production of Fiddler that will open in 2 1/2 weeks… and she plays Hodel. I am going to need an entire box of tissues for the train depot scene! In the past week D was admitted to her #1 choice college, got her driver’s license, and has a solid summer job prospect. She is more than ready for all of these things but it is just happening all at once. Mother’s need an adjustment period! lol</p>
<p>Anyone seen Les Mis on Broadway yet? It just opened, but I know us MT fans are usually the first in line. The NY Times review wasn’t exactly a rave, but hey, what do they know? I want to know what you folks think! D and I are going on May 18.</p>
<p>NY Times didn’t rave about Pippin revival either. Humph - one of the most entertaining things I’ve seen in years. To each their own. </p>
<p>Agreed re: Pippin…it was superb; even better than the original, which I confess I am old enough to have seen!</p>
<p>LOL @eastchestermom! I saw the original too! I remember nothing but Ben Vereen vaguely. I imagine that my parents had no clue what it was about. They took kids aged 10 and 7 to see it! LOL</p>
<p>I was in high school, sorry to say, so I don’t know why I’M laughing…the original was amazing, especially Ben Vereen, but the staging of the revival just blows the original away. To those who haven’t seen it yet but plan to…get seats in the balcony; it’s the best way to try to take in as much of what’s going on onstage as possible…and a lot is going on!</p>
<p>We were in NYC last weekend and saw Heathers - The Musical. It’s in the workout phase 2 blocks off Broadway at the New World Stages. It was terrific - funny, bawdy, great music. The audience was really into it, which made it even more fun. We were in the 5th row stage left and the seats were only $75 each.</p>
<p>Full disclosure - one of the cast members is Tony Award winning actor Anthony Crivello, who also happens to be the brother of our D’s social studies teacher.</p>
<p>Ha, @EastchesterMom and GSOMTMom, I saw the original Pippin too (with John Rubenstein)–maybe we were all there together…I think it was in 1974! (and you thought YOU were old!)</p>
<p>Was Pippin 1974?! I’m sure we saw it later in the run then. I need to google it and see how old I really was when we saw it! LOL</p>
<p>UPDATE (in case any of y’all were just dying to know-lol): I had to have been 9 when I saw it.</p>
<p>I’m older than you :)</p>
<p>Me too!</p>
<p>I never was lucky enough to see the original Pippin, but I DO have the original album. Played it to death! To bad you couldn’t skip over out-of-tune tracks back then. Couldn’t really recognize one of the leads when I upgraded to the “corrected” CD a few decades ago. S is NOT in love with the updated vocal styling of revival. But maybe I’ll at least get to see this one. . . </p>
<p>I was 4 in 1974. >:)
(I’ve always wanted a reason to use this little purple devil icon and this seems like a good time.). </p>
<p>Oh my goodness, dramamom, you’re a baby! </p>
<p>I haven’t read the Times review but I never let them influence me, especially if it’s Brantley. I really wish that they had been able to keep the Toronto cast intact and move them all to Broadway. It was a spectacular cast who worked so well together. It’s a shame that more of them weren’t able to make the switch. Ramin Karimloo is outstanding.</p>
<p>You’re a baby!! ;)) </p>
<p>Lol @dramamom I like the purple devil!!</p>
<p>Haha yes I was 23 when I had number 1 and 25 when I had my D. (On purpose, no oops’). My husband and I have always been the “babies” in our circle of friends. My sister who is 2 years younger than me just had her first child- children, actually. Twins, who just turned one. So my oldest is in college and hers is in diapers. Almost a generation apart!!
But I digress.
Let the convo turn back to Pippin. </p>
<p>My D’s school did Pippin last year and it was absolutely amazing. Ben Vereen came to campus and did a master class and what the kids brought away from that will be invaluable. What a legend he is!! </p>
<p>I was also 4 in ‘74’ @dramamom0804… Did you graduate in '88? 88 is great! Also, I love Pippin, but the music sound like ‘Free To Be You & Me’ … Must be the era. </p>