Les Miserables

I have never attended a Broadway play but have always loved the theatre.  See I even spell the word like a thespian would instead of theater.  I loved being in the plays in high school and taking my kids to a play at the local HS last fall.  When I was 16, my family went to NYC to visit when my brother graduated from Princeton.  Most of us got tickets to see the Broadway musical - Les Miserables.  The afternoon of the performance I gave my ticket to one of my family members in exchange for the $80.  I, in my teenage stupidity, thought Id rather have the spending money.  I regretted it even that evening when they all went and had a brilliant time. 

So when the show came to Cleveland and our friends asked us if we wanted to go with them I readily said yes.  On Saturday we went to the matinee showing of it.  Our friends were able to procure really good seats through their employment and we were thrilled to see we had our own box right dead set in the middle front row balcony.  They were the best seats in the house.  The view was spectacular and the show was everything I could have imagined.  I love the story of Les Miserables and it was a real moving thing to see it performed.  Our seats gave us access during the intermission to some fancy pants lounge with complimentary snacks.  I felt like royalty.  It was awesome.  We even had a personal waiter to take an order for us in our box for refreshments when we resumed our seats.  Of course that meant we had to order something right?  We did and it was there in less than 5 minutes - transmitted through his little computer thingy.    The pictures below are of us at afterwords in the lobby of the Palace Theatre in Cleveland.  It was a pleasure to go with Andy to the show.  I sort of felt like Elizabeth Darcy being escorted to the theatre by Darcy in the Darcy Box.  Yeah I know - Im obsessed.