With the impending two house mortgages, Mer and I have relegated all of our social activities to the free kind or to ones where we already have paid. This last weekend was the latter category. We have season tickets to Actors’ Summit Theater, and so this last weekend was an official goin’ out on the town date night!

As an added bonus, we are in the middle of graduation parties, and we eat very well at them. We had a fun party on Saturday afternoon, where we got to visit with some of Mer’s students and I got to chat with Ombudsman and his family for about 30 minutes. All this, AND food!

After the party, we went home and puttered. We ate a modest supper while watching Angel on DVD. We then headed north to Hudson to the theater to see Musical of Musicals, the Musical! This is a very funny…um…musical where the same story is told five times in five different musical styles. Here is the plot:

– You MUST pay the rent!
– I CAN’T pay the rent!
– You MUST pay the rent!
– I CAN’T pay the rent!
– I’LL pay the rent!

All done in the style of Rogers and Hammerstein, Sondheim, Webber, and more. If you know basic musical theater, the show is a riot. The musical styles are right on, and the parody of Oklahoma, Carousel, The Phantom of the Opera, Evita, Hello, Dolly!, and others is funny all the way through. The set was minimalist, but that worked just fine – the show was in the acting and the songs. The actors did a bang-up job, having fun on stage. The show was about an hour and a half long, and it went by much faster than that.

Ohio readers should rush out and see this play here.
Chicago readers should see it here.
NOW! Why are you still reading? Go get tickets!