Impressed again by Messiah theatre
I went into the weekend with a fair amount of anticipation — Jeff was coming home from California and The Police were playing together for the first time in years! It promised to be a good weekend, and it didn’t disappoint. Between The Police and Gnarls Barkley, the Grammys were wonderfully entertaining for me.
Speaking of entertaining, on Saturday night, Jeff and I went to see the theatre department’s performance of the hit Broadway musical “Urinetown.” I was anxious to see it for several reasons: some folks had been squeamish about the title; I had never seen a Messiah College-produced musical; and, the previous theatre production I saw — “Noises Off — was hysterical, so my hopes were high. “Urinetown” was hilarious. You absolutely cannot let the unsavory title dissuade you from seeing this play. Some of the humor is potty humor — the kind of stuff you might have heard on the school bus when you were in third grade — but mostly the play is funny because it makes fun of musicals…while being a musical. (Plus, as added entertainment for Saturday night’s crowd, a bat was loose in Climenhaga prior to the start of the show! It was on its best behavior the rest of the evening, thankfully.) So, take your sense of humor on a date this weekend and see “Urinetown” at Messiah.