sometimes i'm a snob. . .

So last night my family and I went to see Rent, I’ve now seen it 3 times (including once in NYC) and it has always been one of my top 3 favorite Broadway plays so of course I loved it but it could have been better. The two main guys were the originals from the 90’s so of course they were perfect, I would have thought that since they’ve been doing this role on and off for 10 years they would become bored with it but Anthony Rapp (who plays Mark) had so much passion for his role and the music still, you could see it that when he was singing he was all caught up in the moment still. I think he feels the same way I do about the songs, I’ve loved that soundtrack since the beginning of high school and have every song memorized but it never gets old, it’s not like Brittany Spears where you hear “oopps I did it again” and you want to rip your hair out because it’s too overplayed. This is different, the music just makes your hair stand up and makes you want to sing with passion along with everyone else, just beautiful. But this is not what I wanted to write about… I wanted to take this moment and show one of my snobbish sides. My entire family loves Broadway shows, it’s definitely something that’s talked about on holidays and everyone on my mom’s side of the family have season tickets to ‘off Broadway’ at Gammage in ASU and have had them for years. One of the happiest days of my life was when my parents decided to get a third season ticket so I could go to all the shows (it meant I was old enough). So being to over 50 shows at Gammage and 2 in NYC I must write about Broadway behavior and etiquette. Here is a link showing all of the etiquette: http://www.wikihow.com/Practise-Proper-Etiquette-for-a-Broadway-Show I agree with all of it. The main things it states is that you need to:
- Dress up. Broadway used to be a very fancy thing that only rich people used to go to, they dressed up for it because it was a special occasion and it shows respect for the actors who worked so hard. Last night I don’t know how many pairs of shorts, jeans, and t-shirts I saw. The only reason why it would be ok to wear jeans is if it was a contemporary, high energized, younger generation show, and only if you are wearing dressy pants, nice shoes, and a super nice shirt. (Rent would fall into the ‘ok to wear jeans’ show, but the people were not wearing nice tops!)
- This is not a rock concert, don’t yell! When Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp came on stage people were screaming and hollering! This is sooo not appropriate! It’s definitely appropriate to clap when a famous person makes their first appearance but no yelling, it’s not Aerosmith.
- Only clap when appropriate. What I’ve learned in going to so many shows is that its only appropriate to clap, at the beginning, when a famous actor comes on, when a really good song is over (the best 1 or 2 songs of the whole show), a completely soloed song, at intermission, and at the end of the show. The people at last nights shows clapped at the end of every song and sometimes in the middle of songs! The actors are not used to that because it’s not what you are suppose to do so there is not a scheduled pause so they keep going and you miss some things over the clapping.

I noticed that a lot of people were there because of the movie which is awesome, if a movie got you interested in Broadway then that’s cool. I hope that those people had a good time and realized that Broadway is not some boring show, and that it can be really upbeat and fun. They have shows about anything you can imagine, there is really something out there for everyone. One of my favorite Broadway songs is about prostitutes looking for someone to screw, not all of the shows are plain boring crap, most of them are super interesting.


Other then that I went goofy golfing and to chucky cheese with Ty, Mike, and James on Saturday. Jakey was sick so he didn’t come. : ( then I went to Lucia’s baby shower, it was kind of sad, nobody showed up, there were 3 girls, the host, and Lucia’s mom. But hopefully she got enough stuff to get her started. Then on Sunday we went to the park with James, Mike and Ty again and flew a kite! Everyone had the best time! I got the cutes pic of Jake and James helping ty fly the kite, I’m going to put it in his room. We were there for a good 2 hours just having a blast.