Well I thought because Brian keeps whistling tunes from musicals and Alan has shown a wide interest, as well as giving me some interesting information about musicals which I will come back to, I decided why not do a posting on my favourite subject, that takes me back to my childhood and my first musical at the Appollo cinema in Manchester.
The musical was Oklahoma and I was sold for ever, coming out singing the songs from the show, imagining myself as the hero riding off into the sunset with Shirley Jones to live happily ever after. ( what a shame real life is so different from the musicals)
Since that time I have enjoyed seeing a range of musicals from one of my favourites Singing In The Rain,in which never to forget Donald O Conner Dancing up the wall, to Barnum which although great to see did not have a memorable song. The scene that impressed me the most over the years was the scene in Oliver namely the street scene with Who Will Buy as the song in the street scene.
Alan tells me of a musical called Vaseline that he saw advertised abroad, how many of you realised that it was Grease with John Travolta & Olivia Newton John.
As some of you may know (if you have read my previous blogs or had to listen to me on my latest topic of conversation), to show how sad I am I have decided that for my 60th birthday, I am going to celebrate it with a fancy dress party on the theme of musicals, so all of you who are invited, need to start thinking about what costumes to wear for the occassion, there will be some sort of prize for the most original and best costumes ( possibly tickets to see a musical, only joking )
I would appreciate any comments from you readers either on this post or through my e mail address
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