I have not forgotten I was going to post about Wicked, which I FINALLY saw in person (touring company) last time we went to see my sister C. (The year before we saw West Side Story, which was also fabulous, although the women were way better than the men and we didn't bother to spring for orchestra section.) We almost ended up not seeing it, ( Read more... )

Yup, I'm officially obsessed. The NPR streaming link is still up. It is also available to Amazon Prime members (free) and is on Spotify. It is possible to get a pdf of the official lyrics here.

Okay, now that I've had a chance to listen a second and third time, I… just want to talk about this ALL THE TIME. So! Things I Love About Hamilton:

( There are a lot of things I love: cut for length of incoherent squee. And, I guess, mild spoilers for history. )

You guys, I've been listening to Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton cast recording basically nonstop today and it is AMAZING. I don't even understand how a hip-hop rap musical about Alexander Hamilton even got MADE, but it DID and I don't even known anything about either hip-hop or Hamilton and it is completely awesome and I have been tearing up a ( Read more... )

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4/5 - The Royal Opera version from 2013. I really wanted to see this one because, well, Keenlyside, and the conceit sounded interesting. Then I read a whole bunch of lukewarm reviews, so I delayed buying it sight unseen (which I might otherwise have done). Well, someone finally put it up on youtube (first part here) and now I am gonna have to buy ( Read more... )

This Holy Week was less taxing time-wise than previous Holy Weeks I've done with the Catholic church I sing at. Due to the current admin of the church, we didn't sing Maundy Thursday or Good Friday, although we had rehearsal Thursday night anyway. And they've made the Holy Saturday service rather shorter than it was the first year I sang with these ( Read more... )

I am still alive, I promise! And the work crunch time is even over, but somehow my life still seems absurdly busy. I don't even know how all the other parents I know do this with multiple kids, I'm having enough trouble with one. (I have the bad feeling that it isn't actually possible: something gives.)

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...and I missed one by a day! Sorry
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So it turns out that the easiest way of motivating myself to do household chores / cleaning up, which I pretty much loathe, is to put on music really loudly in the background. And then
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