How Can I Resist Ya?
This entry was posted on 3/12/2010 9:29 AM and is filed under Family Fun.
Anyone watching the Orpheum Theater on Wednesday night would've seen the usual crowd of happy, excited theater goes flocking into the lobby before the 7:30 show. They also would've seen, fifteen minutes after curtain, a lone figure in a red coat, carrying an enormous back pack, get off a bus and sprint four blocks to the theater doors.
It was Katie's idea for she and Josie and I to go see Mama Mia!'s return engagement. I had seen the show a few years ago (loved it) and we all loved the movie so when she saw that it was back in town, she made the plans. Wednesday was the only night we could all go. The plan was to buy rush tickets pre show, which we could get for only $20.00 each with the girls' student I.D.s.
Trouble started when a client of Kate's didn't show up for his 3:00 appt, but moved it to 5:30. He still hadn't shown when we came to pick her up at 6:00 so we took her I.D., left without her and got the tickets. We left hers at the will-call window and the result was Katie sprinting down Hennepin Avenue and missing the opening number of the show.
She still looked cute as can be in her "I'm a grown up and a lawyer" costume; a short sleeved, knee length dress with a white bodice and black skirt. Her face was flushed from excitement and exertion and her hair was pulled back in twists or braids and as usual, she looked like a very pretty twelve year old in her older sister's clothes. On the other side of me was Josie, in skinny jeans and her Calvin Klein pea-coat, trying to look as bored as a super model on a cat walk. Josie can't keep up the cool face for more than a few minutes at a time and she kept wrecking the illusion by giggling.
The show was a lot of fun even though the girl playing Sophie (understudy) kept hitting wrong notes. It was the best Rosie (the fat dynamo) I've seen. In fact, I think she stole the show, which was no easy feat, as Tanya's "Does Your Mother Know" and Donna's "The Winner Takes it All" were both show stoppers. Rosie and Bill's "Take a Chance on Me" was a comic masterpiece. Rosie got the biggest ovation at the end, so I'm not alone in my appreciation of her performance. I think Julie Walters is the weak link in the movie as Rosie. She was trying way too hard to be funny and merely proved the point that comedy is the most difficult art.
It was a blast.
