Well, I've done it. I've turned my kids into musical theatre geeks! Yep, my oldest is starring as Kelsie, the "Sawed-off Sondheim" in the sold-out production of City Youth Players HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL, and she just finished a school project on Kander and Ebb, while my youngest falls asleep listening to [title of show] every night, and makes jokes about "je me souviens...THE HAPPY TIME..."

Case in point: We're watching The Bob Newhart Show on DVD (Season One, Disc 2 -- FYI -- the first episode on this disc has a disturbing change in decor at Bob and Emily's apartment, which then vanishes in the next episode) and they're enjoying it, I guess... (of course I'm laughing my face off).

Then comes the part when Howard is describing that the ditzy women he dates are usually "blond and a little Light in the Piazza". Well my kids thought that was hilarious!

Case in point: We're watching the Sonny and Cher Show Christmas Specials DVD and my husband and I are just loving it, and my kids are, well, wondering what planet we're from, until they announce their guest this show is Bernadette Peters. Let me tell you, their ears perked up and they watched intently from then on. Actually on that particular show they had a really cool theatre piece about a bunch of different lonely people on Christmas Eve at a hotel restaurant who are brought together by some sort of angel (played by none other than Captain Kangaroo...yes, the '70s was a decade unto itself). Bernadette Peters played the young actress trying to make it in New York who misses her family.

My work here is done.

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