fantastic...

Princesses was fantastic. i don't know how else to describe it. just amazing. the music was {mostly} fun, the cast was awesome, the scenery was so detailed and exciting. in fact, a testament to how amazing this production was: matt is not a musical theatre fan. 99% of the time, he goes simply to humor me. when we got to the theatre last night, he was very, very tired, and in bad need of a nap. i decided that if he started to snooze as soon as the lights went down, i wouldn't be upset.

i was so wrong. he was wide awake from the first number, and he was laughing, and enjoying himself through the whole production, all two & a half hours of it. that's how good it was!

so, a little synopsis: a girl is shipped off to boarding school by her always-unavailable movie-star dad. feeling guilty, he comes to spend some "quality time" with her, and finds the girls preparing to perform A Little Princess. he volunteers to direct it, and play Captain Crewe, the little princess's father. of course, by opening night, something "more important" has come up, so he has to rush off, and leave them stranded. our protagonist is angry, and decides to quit, but her friends show her that she's just like her dad. determined to be anything but her father, she stays, and they pull off the production of A Little Princess. throughout the first act of the show, we see rehearsal of the early scenes of the play, so the later scenes of the final act are just the last few scenes of the play, in full. the writers did an amazing job of telling the *whole* story of A Little Princess, while still maintaining focus on the plot of the show itself.

so fun. i want to see it again.