Musical DVD Dinners

As Bruce mentioned in my birthday post, he gave me a collection of musicals on DVD for my birthday. Since then, I have been actively engaged in watching all of them over dinner. A TV dinner is a frozen tray that you put in the microwave on high for 2-3 minutes and eat in front of the TV. I don't have any TV dinners, but I have resorted to DVD dinners. I make my own dinner, take it to the living room, plop down in front of our laptop, and turn on a musical while we gorge down our dinner. On Saturday nights for the past couple of weeks, this has been our routine. With our dinners, we travel to exotic places like Oklahoma, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and even the South Pacific. (It's kind of funny how most musicals take place in the Midwest. I wonder why that is!) Musicals are one of the happy things in life. Wouldn't it be wonderful if we all lived in a musical? Not only could we go around town doing tap dances at train stations, but everyone would join in, and everyone would know all the words to all the songs. The world would be a much better place if we lived in a musical. Occasionally when I try to make life a musical, I am answered with odd stares and people I know trying to avoid me. I usually try to keep my dancing and singing for the kitchen in these instances. I often tell others that if I were more talented, I would love to be on broadway performing in these great musicals.

I've never seen a musical that I haven't liked (at least there is always something good about them); however I like some more than others.
I enjoy watching "The Music Man". My Grandma Porter used to put it in quite often at her house when I was younger. Plus, isn't there something grand about "76 trombones in a big parade with 104 Clarinets right behind." I remember walking around singing "Mariam, Madame Libraian when I was younger." At one time, it inspired me to become a librarian, and I started to make a card catalog for the books I had on my shelf at the time. Now, my card catalog is probably lost and completely out of date seeing as how I have added immensly to my collection since then.
I love "The Sound of Music" because: 1) Julie Andrews is amazing, 2) I've been to Salzburg Austria, and 3)it just plain rocks.
I recently saw "State Fair" for the first time. The 1940's version is by far better than the 1960's version. The old farmer in the bib overalls completely makes that show, and he is reason enough to watch it.
"7 Brides for 7 Brothers" is probably my favorite one. I don't really know why, just that there is something so great about a woman kicking a house full of scraggly, onery man into the shed until they can act civilized.
My 6th grade choir director was a musical nut, although I didn't know it at the time. Every song we sang came from a musical. It wasn't until I started watching musicals and becoming more "cultured" that I realized how many songs off of the musicals I knew. This must have contributed to the love of musicals I have deep down inside.

In closing, if any one is ever up for a musical DVD dinner, I'll make the dinner, you bring the treats, and together we'll share "a wonderful night for singing!" (State Fair).