I was born to older women. My biological mom was 27 and my other mami was 34. This fact is probably the reason behind why I love musicals. Fiddler on the Roof, Sound of Music, you name it, I love it. Soooooo, you can imagine my excitement when I learned West Side Story Broadway was part of the lineup in the Dallas Summer Musical Shows!
West Side Story is playing all this month of October in Dallas, TX Monday- Saturday. Now Picture this: Center Stage, Orchestra seating, taking in all the amazing drama and musical scores, including my FAVORITE: ‘America’. It’s enough to make a gay boy squeal. My girlfriend, on the other hand? Not so much.
Ebony (my gf) was born to teenage parents on the south side of chicago. They then moved to California. So while I never watched Menace to Society or listened to Suga Free , she’s never seen ANY musical EVER. Luckily she’s always open to experience new things so I didn’t have to threaten her life to get her to agree to join me.Her level excitement, however, was under-whelming.
I intend on making her a loyal fan one musical at a time. ‘West Side Story, Ebony. Ebony, West Side Story!’
(pssst! if you’re in the Dallas Area and want to see the show go to http://www.dallassummermusicals.org/ )