Good Morning! Buongiorno!
Welcome to the Morning Open Thread, a daily post with a MOTley crew of hosts, who choose the topic for the daily posting.
Today’s host: RandomNeuron (that be me).
Hmmm… Munc18-1 loop mutant protein. No thank you.
moving on to ….
Rules
This Tuesday I’m going with the golden rule which exists in several forms, in many faiths. Apparently it’s also was a Factory rule.
Theme
the missus and I were fortunate to be gifted a pair of tickets yesterday to see a show. Good friends of ours realized they had doubled booked themselves and couldn’t make it to a performance of “something Rotten” playing at the Delray Beach Playhouse.
Those of you who have been reading my MOT contributions probably have me pegged pretty well musically. Post punk, new wave, familiar with 60’s and 70’s popular music….with some obscure stuff thrown in. Weirdly obsessed with dark droning numetal and trip hop. More than a few blanks in my musical knowledge that I enjoy filling in.
But Broadway musicals? Nah..
And you’d be right.
This was the first live musical I think we have ever attended and we Loved It. Dance! Wonderful songs (what voices!) humor! Fun!
From the original cast.
The theatre was packed and the audience loved it — standing ovation (and given the age of some folks …..that was not a given!) and lots of spontaneous enthusiasm through out.
The synopsis of the show is that two brothers, in 1590, are trying to one up Shakespeare and manage to create the first musical, which drops humorous references to actual hit broadway musicals and current history….
it was hilarious although our being broadway show illiterate meant more then a few jokes went over our heads -although the rest of the audience clearly understood!
so that’s the theme!
Broadway Musicals!
Educate me and the missus so we can retroactively laugh at the jokes we didn’t understand 🙂
‘oh…and I heard that someone was hoping for a train connection.
Trains?
what do you know! That would be the Broadway Limited. Before you get to excited about this perfect link to today’s theme….its not referring to Broadway as in Broadway. It’s referring to how broad the way was.
The train’s name referred not to Broadway in Manhattan, but rather to the “broad way” of PRR’s four-track right-of-way along the majority of its route.
Till next week….