hi i'm carolyn and i'm carol and i teach high school theater and i teach high school english and when we're not teaching and putting on our own shows we often go out to lots of shows yes and this week we saw a disaster the i don't know if you can tell but i kind of farrah fawcett had my hair today because the show is based on all those nineteen seventy s disaster movie critics so like the poseidon adventure towering inferno earthquake air poor airport this war and jaws they do all of those zen you know yeah the little portions of all those shows right and it has all that's what she got me but it was a great gift and i listened to that all the time right and so for people like our age right this musical anybody can go see it but you find yourself which i did singing singing along  and that's and that's what i liked about it because as you know you know we when we saw glengarry glen ross that's very cerebral like you have to think you have to write tension you know sometimes i get tired of thinking like i think all day i don't wan think anymore and i went and i sat there and i sang the songs and i laughed out loud and i thought i love the show i love the show i thought the actors you know did a good job with it they had great voices for these one i read was that with the the critics said you know it was the first time in a long time that he had laughed out loud in the theater and last night i was laughing out loud there's there's the scene where  after the disaster yes some people die yes a disaster and they're going to do a burial at sea yes and there is that sea when they are up on the deck and they throw the body over the deck and they are singing once twice three times a lady and they are throwing one two three body parts and i know it sounds like you know distorted but it was it i have that to me was the funniest part in the whole show well was fantastic well tina magli and her her husband in the show so it was shirley and maury yes an hour and new york couple right and he's just retired and what you learn in the show is that she has this you know deadly disease you know she's dying and she won't tell him the way they handled the death is a little to me it was funny some people might take offense to it but i thought it was very funny because she starts saying all these inappropriate things and her hips gyrate and she was great she was great she was great but what i liked about it was the two of them together were were really good and you really cared about this older couple you know like when she's at the end when they're saying you're still the one right though you are all singing you're still the one right at the end when she's dying they kind of tone it down and sing and it's you know we recently had our prom and we get these kids who are all caught up in the drama of the prom this one zero and now he's not go and he loves me he doesn't love me but but what i say to the kids all the time is you know because i'm old  you don't know love like it when i see my parents or you're when you're at your parents right like when you've gone through all of that life that's really love and you felt that with more you know they didn't all of the  were fantastic there were there are there are a few moments that really i love i love the nuns so there's always there's always a nun in these kind of movie somewhere or priest you know and so she is she is you know she has this she's a gambler and well she she sings this song and again i was laughing out loud because she is singing somewhere in between to lov sister mary so she's she's outside when they're the premise is they're opening this casino in new york but they can't open it in new york as you can't have gambling so they're opening it on the on the river ties or they're not on the hudson river tied to the dock and know i'm going to go watch poseidon adventure again this one i probably will too but so anyway so the nun is the nun is outside trying to raise money for the orphanage because she's against gambling because she's a good n addict right and so she recognizes this super duper slot machine that's there mary and she's given a quarter or finds a quarter and she's she singing this song should she put the quarter in the slot machine or should she not and she sings torn between two lovers i was crying and i was laughing so hard i could not so the actress halle small back was she was just she has a great voice she has a great voice she was fantastic and every moment that she was on the stage  was just a lot of fun to watch and there's that scene where when she's singing torn between two lovers she rips off her yeah bit and she's got this desuetude dress underneath it was it it was really funny and i do want to say the customs were excellent especially especially jackie's jacket she's like the lounge singer which i have to say so this is something i'm not very proud of but some of my friends know i was in love with the bas o'clock watch michael dunn while i watch michael douglas and you weren't allowed to talk you don't strike me as a muslim the way i love them you were not allowed to talk with michael douglas was on and the first time i saw the base of the rollers they were on the michael douglas show and i was screaming like all the other kids were screaming email your base yeah i did too so when she's doing that yesterday night right you knew that was coming you know as you are ok yeah right because her son needed to know how to spell saturday and that's what she started singing and you could predict what songs were coming is ok that was part of it like for me those are songs that you know i was very young as you were we were actually young well i was older than you but you were still young we were in songs like listening on i had one of those radios that was like get twisted it do you remember the like a transistor in a funny shape and i would listen to it anyway that the letter was casey qas i don't know and i don't want to offend him if he's out there but his hair it was super seventy's and i thought it was pretty cool as well and he had the right voice yes to sing the song oh yeah right like i don't know if he tailored his voice if he has you know like that broadway show voice he had the perfect voice to for the songs that he has singing he was he was i enjoyed him very much rest chad you know we do need to talk about the young man who played bed and i'm trying to to remember who he was musical and their kid his age and what i what i really liked was he saying whoa when he was ben yes and he saying hi when he was lisa right right and there's there's a couple of times that he sings d with one with the reporter right marianne and one with his mom jackie and the the one and i you know because this is probably one of my all time favorite you know we sometimes i have the kids right it's cool like what is the anthem of their youth right just to kind of get them to write and i would probably say this is been the anthem of my youth in my middle age is when they were you don't you know she says well what did anyone ever ask you what you want to be what do you want to be and she said well you know i want to be married and that's like no you don't have to be and she sort of teaching that i thought that was really great i thought they sounded good together it was funny but it was serious at what it needed to be i thought and then he did the duet with his mom jackie where they are doing when will i be loved which is the great like you know linda ronstadt and they did a really good job and he was understand the director is been in touch with one of the writers and they're kind of having this he's the he's producing it in connecticut they're producing it here which is kind of fun right that is you know to kind of dueling shows but it's a fun production too and the costumes you know i just it's a fun time you know and it was and you walked out of a there i laughed i was singing and i walked out of there and i felt we you know what i thought about was when i when i after i left the show what i thought about was like ok these disaster movies are so campy crap right yeah and i was when i was in class today and i always bring up what we see and i was talking to my students about it and they were that some of them knew this musical because they can watch the musicals on you tube and they like this musical and i said to them but they didn't understand these movies but it's no different then what my kids my sons like to watch like shark nato correct yeah that shark nato is very much the parity in the same way as as this musical is except putting them all together right into the music and i thought you know if you were not supposed to come out of there with some life changing message no right no and if that that's what you're looking for but you know but you weren't you you just laughed and sang and that's all it and i was i think what i did but i think that also with the i was just thinking about the whole you know all these kind of stories coming together from all these different movies and plotlines even if you don't have that kind of if you don't have the history with the movie you'll still be entertained by how ridiculous it is one of the tap number when they're tapping yeah and i realized that that's what they were kind of like the idea that oh you know you put an escape hatch in the floor but now you can't escape because of that on the ceiling like it's right and i remember in the poseidon adventure there's that sea where were shelley winters her character has to swim up the yes thing right and they were stay where they were swimming and they did a really nice job last night of using light to sort of make it look like brighter and at one point he comes winning and he's on a on a float like almost like a skateboard kind of yeah and i thought that was really clever right as a way to have him come across the stage and swim and you know but in the water rises you're right water rises and the thing is you don't need it to be realistic because you know this is all camp and it's just kind of fun and and that's what you enjoy about this production and i found myself sort of waiting for the song like just sort of playing the game with myself in my head  without me she burst into you know i will survive right and you so i was like oh i got that would right and then there was another time he would he did something and i don't i can't remember what it was but he was like supposed to not call jackson's voice has been in my head all day because a lot that's all right and then when the one i think i turned to you it really this really made me laugh so he has to walk across the be know rescue jackie and then the professor and he so they have this being on the floor which was great great so you get the idea and they're playing noddy is the name yanni a company cheese theme  laughing you know and there's the there's the opening see where they're the it's blowing up the kitchens blowing up your ass lines are blowing up and they're touching all this stuff and they're playing hot stuff yeah and that simple set yeah very simple but it was fun i think that the kids in my high school were talking to me about the kids at west we're talking about my theater kids today was this is how much they know about everything which always amazes me is that they're like there's so many quick changes in that show and i'm like yeah they really were and they were literally you know running off and changing and coming back and and and the ensemble members were becoming all these different character and well you know said when we were you know when we were talking about it that you were surprised that i liked it but i i did i should because you like mamma mia mama mia right and this is one of those kind of shows like mamma mia but it  just you sit there and you do find yourself i was going along and when i saw summer with the right almost you know i i loved it and there was all of these fifty year old women probably get out this weekend and go see it and go see it at the kelsey theatre disaster the musical yeah fantastic production yeah i thought i would i would probably and you know i don't go see things twice right because you would go see it again i might go see a show yeah we will go until the next time break a leg ok ready to eat our cake i'm ready to cake ok this is