A Musical To Do List

I love making lists. Always have, always will. Mom says I got it from Dad, who is also a list maker. We apparently both create lists of random things: to do, movies to see, movies we've seen, what we want to read, etc. etc. etc. Apparently we also leave them around and forget them (I sure as hell know I do). Over the years I've made various attempts to organize my lists and keep them. I write them in my diary; now I'm keeping a list of books I've read in 2009 on my blog; my Netflix queue (over 300 and going strong) is any movie I'm even vaguely interested in looking into; Amazon.com's wishlists are for books and music I'm even vaguely interested in looking at/listening to. Maybe it's because I'm such a naturally forgetful person that this helps me to avoid thinking, "That sounds awesome" and then having it drift away. The only things I can usually remember are quotes, actors in movies, and the lyrics to musicals. Or maybe it just makes me feel like my life has some order or direction, who knows. But I loves me a list. So here's another one: Musicals. I don't know why, I'm at work, it's lunchtime, I'm bored--all that points to, "Let's write some lists". Here we go:

Musicals I've Seen Performed (in no particular order):
1. A Little Night Music
2. Wicked (I want to say 3 times?)
3. Ragtime (3 times)
4. Phantom of the Opera (2 times)
5. Rent (at least 4 times, I think)
6. Miss Saigon
7. The Secret Garden (student performance)
8. Into the Woods (student performance)
9. Godspell (student performance)
10. Guys & Dolls (community theatre)
11. West Side Story (student performance)
12. Anything Goes (student performance)
13. LesMiserables (2 times)
14. The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
15. Aida (not the opera, alas)
16. The Lion King (I think 3 times? maybe just 2)
17. Spring Awakening
18. Cabaret
19. Jesus Christ Superstar
20. Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat
21. The Fantasticks (community theatre)



Musicals I NEED To See:
1. Marie Christine
2. The Music Man
3. [Title of Show]
4. Titanic
5. Caroline or Change
6. The Secret Garden (a non-student performance)
7. Into the Woods (a non-student performance)
8. Assassins
9. Sweeney Todd

And there are plenty of other musicals I'd willingly see if they were around and the price were right. Those are just the ones that I thoroughly enjoy and so I feel like my musical life truly would not be complete until I'd seen them. It's ever-changing, too, as I discover new musicals. Example: I'm probably going to go see Seattle Musical Theatre's production of Jane Eyre next weekend. That's right, Jane Eyre: THE MUSICAL! It's not life-changing, but it's fun to listen to and I am intrigued by the idea of seeing it (thanks, in large part, to Westmont College's amazing '08 production of the Polly Teale stage adaptation. Not musical, but still reminded me how much I enjoyed Jane Eyre).

At any rate, lunch is over now, so I suppose list-making time is done. That was fun! ...for me, at least. Maybe not for you. But I place the blame squarely on you for continuing to read. It's not my fault you don't like lists or musicals.