I lied in a post earlier this week. I will not be seeing Idina Menzel in Wicked as they announced the closure of her show. I used my refund credit to book a ticket for Maybe, Happy Ending. 10 Tony Nominations. We shall see.
my son saw that recently... with Darren Chris? my son loved it.
speaking of- he's basically done with HS. his school has the seniors do "senior initiative", which is a last 6 weeks of school independent project of their choosing, that they can do from home or anywhere.
he's writing songs for a musical for his initiative- planning on 5, but he'll see how it goes +/-. I'm not sure if it'll just be him on a keyboard singing, or if he's going to bring in friends (including a classmate who's been on broadway herself).
he's in his second term of a musical theater songwriting class with NY Youth Symphony that has been amazing for him. each term, they've had current broadway stars (friends of the teacher who is an active Bwy writer) come in for a class and the kids collaborate in groups of 2 or 3 to write them a song specific to their voice and background. I've never seen him so excited about something as he was the first time he came back from that. the class has songs performed at Joes Pub (where Hamilton started) by students from Manhattan School of Music (similar to Juilliard) who were amazing last year. and it was really cool for us to hear the two songs he wrote the music for (assisted on the lyrics) sung by people who can really sing. I'll try to dig up a video from that....
