hi i'm carol and i'm carolyn and i teach high school english and i do you tell you school theater and when we are not teaching we are out seeing shows all over because we are the drama deep crisis and when we are not trying to clean up the drama of our own drama yes right we try to see as many shows as we can right before we get started today we do want to give a huge shout out to grateful bytes and fleming to new jersey who made this also looking cake for us right because i guess when they see us they think we eat a lot of cake will they do me the letter k ok so this week we're going to talk about getting the band back together right and getting the band back together just recently opened in broadway so we had a great time in new york city it is the story of mitt and mitch is forty years old and his life is a disaster right and he has lost his job he was a hedge fund manager and the opening scene is this chart with you know everyone else and their sales are going up and it just says mitch and his is going down so mitch has to move back to say or he'll new jersey right which is the home of jon bon jovi right and i did kept looking for jon bon jovi was on there and have it didn't come that i did not i was upset but anyway i bet he goes the mother is sharon is played by mary lou henner who is awesome and you know there were some young people sitting next to me who did not know who mary winner was well again and we've seen quite a few shows the year that are seventy's and eighty's correct so you know they don't get the referee well and i tried to explain to them because you know i talk to anybody right i tried to explain to them who mary lou had her was and you know t playing the typical jersey character and she's a jersey rocker chick right right who at some point in her life had an affair with joe perry you know and there's even a moment where bitches like you know is that my father and she's like no you know it's not but you know and they even sing this song what would joe perry do right which is probably one of the best numbers in the show that i thought and you know the so the struggle becomes you know mitch has reintroduced to his high school you know love interest who is the love of his life and who she now has a daughter who is you know sort of this guy kind of angry girl and you know her her now boyfriend is bitches a long time arch nemesis because they were the you know competition of the battle of the bands they are these forty year old man who are still you know reliving high school loans that's not you know that's that's the way of you know you know having a band i hung out with guys who had bands we i went to the clubs and you know listen to the local bands and and so they're still playing we we just went to see john head on at a johnny as us is a philly south jersey heresy kind of guy and we went to see him not too long right and he rock and you know the way they're still sort of this sort of competition and you you see take men who is the arch nemesis and he he is you know he's the one who's sort of trapped in time all the other guys so it's it's sali is one of the guys in the band he's the cop who doesn't want to be a cop he wants to be a broadway star and there's you know robby patel who is this indian doctor because that's what his parents wanted him to be and he's now getting in the syringe marriage that he does not want to be in and you know then there's barr who sort of the crazy kid next door who you know having an affair with macis mom and he sings th about american pie like those kind of movies of the get the late eighty's early ninety's that i don't know when american pie came out but that's around that so ninety s yeah those teen some really great moments right so the premise of the show it was developed through improvisation right right and you can see you see that as it's unraveling because there are these moments that kind of just go along and then there's this really great moment happen right  and so they they develop this as a this actually premiered in jersey at the george street playoffs in two thousand and thirteen so it's been around a little while well but not as long as it doesn't it didn't take as long as some other shows to get to broadway so but you know i can see like a new york audience a new jersey audience wanting to sit and like be like hey i live that life sitting there watching and there's this scene and all the sets are done like it's cartoon cutouts right which which i liked a lot right you know because you have you have the reality of these you know the awful reality of these people's lives because they're still trapped in time sort of contrast it with these this these cartoons which sort of made it funnier back to that that's jon bon jovi's home right town and i think most people who are bon jovi fan know that know that right and they and they also talked about you know that boy from asbury park who were they all know you know like you know and they and they talked about bruce being on broadway and how you know how that just shatters all ideas of you know this who they were is these they think they're these like real tough rockers and the reality is they are like these middle class suburban kids right which are they that's what they were which made it pretty funny too there there were there was one there were a couple really good standout performances the one that for me was the best performance of the best you know scene in the whole play was they do this sort of dance  very where they they are dancing and they are there to make you know there are parody saturday night fever and risky business and dirty dancing where they take him and they you know yeah jumps over and they carry him off the stage i love that that to me was like ok you know this is this is great and what what's great about it is that this is typically right now on broadway we have a lot of these these broadway shows that are based on movies like mean girls right school  rock and there's a few others and well this went out of my head but this is this is a original original writer in it and it's not like you know summer which is the story of donna summers lawyer rock of ages where they use they pull are they're got they have to play a wedding you know so that's sort of in my my references back to the wedding to the show the wedding singer right and they have is also based on a movie right right you know in that same time period right right right at same time period and so they have to they have to make money because none of them are working now right they are and so he's still working but he doesn't want to be so they play this they play this orthodox jewish wedding right and  probably not well they might they might but i don't know right so now everybody in alabama is going to tell me that i'm prejudiced but but i know people who live there so it's ok i'm jewish and there are jews in alabama but ok but you know but they had t day out of the women were on one side and then the other on the other you know and when i was it israel these men walked around with this big for hat yes it's you it's meant so they had one of those there and it was funny and they were i to this song i can't think of the  because wedding singer you know you go expecting the movie and so when you see something new with respect to more fun it was fun it was a lot more and this young man sore your new year's who plays you know richard goldstein slash ricky yeah wing was awesome really he was really awesome and he played his own guitar right that they all played their own instruments in the band so that made it really you know it gauging because right it wasn't like they were faking it first i thought he's not really playing that guitar what you need sometimes you know to go and see a show and just have a really good time and not have to think about it now and not have to think about it as sort of all the dark stuff that the kids are watching and there and you know confetti came out not once but twice i got confetti two times  confetti yeah and it was it was fun and the other you know the other the disappointment i had and i didn't realize i had the disappointment till the very end of the show is the woman who has the very best voice in the show her name is to make a warrants she plays this solely love into right the other cop and she comes out and seeing that the encore and you know it's curtain call and has this voice that just blows everybody away and she has like one little duet in the show that you never even hear that happen it does but but she was funny in her role right so it was it was good it was awesome yeah so so i go so you're getting the band back together and i believe and i could be wrong there is a night in october that is say or villa night so maybe i should go back and see of jon bon jovi sang and i might try to do that ok you know he maybe he