Play #1: Menopause, The Musical

PLAY (MUSICAL) #1 MENOPAUSE, THE MUSICAL
DATE SEEN: March 11, 2006
WHERE SEEN: ACT Theater, Seattle
SEEN WITH: Vicki, Cathi, Judy, Kacie, Carol, Elisa (from work), Diane (Elisa’s mom), Linda and Lori (Cathi’s sisters), Jessica (Judy’s daughter), Donna (former coworker)

COMMENTS: This was such a fun show! We made the trek from Port Townsend to Seattle for a Saturday afternoon matinee. The theater we were in was a very intimate setting allowing for great viewing. There are four characters in the musical - Power Woman, Earth Mother, Movie Star, and Iowa Housewife who all meet in Bloomingdales in NYC and the entire play is set on different floors of the department store. They sing parodies of songs from the 60s and 70s, We went from whooping and hollering to laughing so hard we were crying. And we could each nod with understanding nearly every step of the way. One of my favorites was done to “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” - the one gal was complaining about her husband not wanting to sleep with her and they start this song with the backup singers playing kitchen utensils and singing "She's a b*tch, She's a b*ch, oooooh, etc" and the lead singer singing, "On the couch or in the guest room my husband sleeps at night" Another scene has the characters doing the Staying Alive dance changing the words to “Staying Awake, Staying Awake”. And then there is a Beach Boys Medley "I Wish we Could All be Sane and Normal Girls" to the tune of California Girls and "Thank You Doctor" to the tune of Help Me Rhonda. The parodies were all very clever and when the one gal came out as Tina Turner singing “What’s Love Got to do With It” it nearly brought the house down. I can’t remember laughing so hard. We capped off the evening by a wonderful meal at the Gordon Biersch Brewery at Pacific Place before taking a ferry across Puget Sound and driving home. We had such a good time we’ve decided we’ll definitely have to do this more often!