I was in class waiting for the lecture to start and the next thing I know I had purchased tickets for Hamilton Chicago. It's all still a blur as to how it all happened but before I knew it I had my wallet out and I was transferring money from my savings into my checking and thanking God that my final check from my internship came last night. So, yeah, I'm going to see Hamilton in Chicago next March.
So, why did this happen? How did this happen? Why did I have such an out of body experience that I can barely remember pulling my wallet out to buy these tickets? The same thing happened this past March when I was in New York and saw Hamilton and bought a signed playbill and prop to help support BC/EFA.
I truly would do almost anything for Broadway. But why? Why do I love it so much?
I remember being a really young child and just barely getting the grasp of television and I just assumed that everything I was watching was live, that anytime there was a rerun the actors would just do the show again. I thought that when I saw Corey Matthews and Shawn Hunter trying to straighten Corey's hair and it becomes rock solid twice in the same week, they were acting out the scenes once more. I attribute this to why I love theatre so much. The medium is so easy to understand, it's instant. I don't have to try to pretend that I understand how television or film or even radio matter.
Theatre is one of the oldest art forms. A person can perform without any technology at all and still convey the message.
I love the simplicity of theatre, the live aspect of it. Theatre has an ability that I so rarely come across in TV or film where I can be actually moved to tears. Theatre has a such a strange and wonderful hold on my heart that I wouldn't want it to ever be replaced.
I saw my first professional show when I was 12 and it was the Los Angeles production of Wicked and I fell in love. The picture below was actually my Facebook profile pictures when I was 13. When I was 15, I saw the tour of In the Heights and wept like a baby. To date, I have seen 62 different shows and really see no point in stopping.
I love watching theatre develop and, especially in a so connected world with social media, seeing new and emerging playwrights and composers grow their audience from Off-Broadway to Broadway. Its such an amazing community to support. There are always new things and exciting things happening on the Broadway boards and I can't wait to one day be a part of it.
It's been almost 10 years since I first saw Wicked and how I've changed and how Broadway has changed is such an amazing journey to be on.
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