Broadway in Chicago

We both have a couple of days off for New Years...so I can blog about it! Yay.

Disc0 took me to see Phantom of the Opera for Christmas!



It was fantastic! I haven't been to see a Broadway show in a number of years, but if I remember correctly tourists had stopped dressing up for the theater...not in Chicago. Everyone looked fabulous, including the 12 or so year old boy in a tuxedo.

I love Phantom of the Opera. I love Andrew Lloyd Webber and his crazy synthesizers that pop up out of nowhere in what is otherwise quite an operatic show. The actors were wonderful--and this was maybe the understudies, since it was Sunday night. Sarah Lawrence was pretty much perfect as Christine, Raul (Sean MacLaughlin) was a wonderful singer and HOT (totes important in this show) and the Phantom (Stephen Tewksbury) had a beautiful voice and was fantastically tortured. I did not feel like I was watching regional theater, you guys. Bless his heart, disc0 missed the big game to take me to the show.

It is New Year's Eve and we're going to have New Year's Eve dinner at Uncommon Ground...and it's snowing which means (a) it is pretty out there and (b) it isn't as cold as balls. Yet.



Happy New Year!

I wanted the news, not the weather

The weather was fine! I found out that the key to living comfortably at any temperature is: LONG JOHNS! Long johns are the bomb. I felt great today waiting for the el, and walking to my building! Yay long johns!



What in the name of Superfudge did I do without them before?!

Also it's supposed to snow tomorrow and that's fantastic!

did I hear a niner in there? are you on a walkie talkie?

FIRST: According to the weather channel, it is going to be 9 degrees tomorrow. Fahrenheit. Nine. Fahrenheit. NINE DEGREES. NINE. Degrees. FAHREHNHEIT. During the commuting hours. But don't worry, it will be a balmy 17 by the time we leave work. NINE DEGREEEES.

But I still love Chicago. I think I will still love Chicago tomorrow morning, but we might not be on speaking terms.

SECOND: Does anyone want to take a sabbatical from work and do this with me, because it's the coolest thing I've seen since Christkindlmarket: