I Wish My Life Was a Musical

I love musicals. I mean I love them. If I was talented my dream would be to sing and dance on Broadway. My problem is I can't sing to save my life and I have two left feet. I choose to blame my parents for this. Although they were supportive by enrolling my sister and I in "creative arts" programs, their genetics passed to us didn't really help in performing arts. If I were auditioning for American Idol I would be one of the bloopers edited into some horrible montage in the first week of the series. Not to say I haven't tried improving my performing 'skills'... kind of. About 4 years ago I tried tap dancing... FAIL. When I was 7 I had the courage to perform in two elementary school musicals Harlequin and Burning Rice Fields. I played an angel in one and a kite runner/log carrier in the other. Then puberty hit and that was the end of my acting career. So performing isn't my calling. But I can't help it, I love musicals and I want to be in them, but it's not going to happen.

Although some shows are better than others, there is nothing like being entertained for 2 hours with catchy songs and huge dance scenes. Living in NYC I had time to win lottery tickets where the seats would only be 25 dollars. My luck was amazing for these shows. I won the Wicked tickets my first weekend there, some strangers offered us the Phantom tickets for FREE, and the fact that I got to see the others made my year. I got to see:
Hairspray (Loved it!)
Chicago (Just okay)
Ave Q (Hilarious)
Putnum Annual Spelling Bee (perhaps my favorite of all, so original and funny)
Phantom of the Opera (played out)
Rent (ehhhh)
Drowsey Chaperone (not worth the money)
Chorus Line (ehhhhh x2)
Wicked (liked it)

So the fact that I'm living in Morgan Hill kind of sucks. Unfortunately, American Musical Theater of San Jose just closed down about a month ago (I really wanted to intern there.) So there hasn't been too much musical influence in my life lately. I still try to keep up with The Great White Way. I would love to see Billy Elliot, Jersey Boys, South Pacific, Lion King and Little Mermaid (ya, I'm a Disney fan). But for now here is just a bit of musical fun that made me smile.

Also I loved this as well. I can't help but smile watching it. Life should be like this: