all that jazz

Last night - yes, on a school night - Jenn, Alison, and I went to see CHICAGO on Broadway. Alison went down in the morning and nabbed student rush tickets for us, while I worked away on a group project for school. Student rush tickets. That means we payed $26, and we sat in the third row!! Close enough that we could smell them. And see the sweat dripping down their cheeks. That wasn't so pleasant, but there were definite benefits of sitting close. Like we had a darn good view of those ripped guys' muscles. Woo! And we were able to see every detail of the (scant) costumes. And we were able to see the actors interacting with one another - little things on stage, and a little bit just off stage in the sight lines. And we could hear their individual voices as they sang all those wonderful songs... "And all that jazz!" Another bonus of seeing CHICAGO now is that Roxy, the lead, is being played by Bebe Neuwirth. Previously, Bebe played Fraiser's wife on the sitcom, and she won a Tony award playing Velma Kelly in CHICAGO in 1996 (Velma is the other female lead). The show was fantastic, and we sang all the way home.