Journal

2023 IHSMTA Showcase - Des Moines Civic Center - 6/1/2023

We met up with part of our chosen family, The Mattas, and their daughter and our niece C to see her perform with her high school troupe. It was interesting to see what has changed over the years since I was active in high school theater. There are a number of things that the other high schools do, that we never did. I often wonder if more people are in it now, cause I remember struggling to find the money to pay for things like paint (I am still uncertain if our primary tech guy was kidding when he had a deal with a local hardware store to get “dented” paint at a discount). Anyways, performances ranged from “wow that was pretty good, with a bit of training and a few lucky breaks I can see them make it” to “I’m not sure why this person is here”. It was sure interesting to see what was judged as “best” in Iowa.

Tina: The Tina Turner Musical - Des Moines Civic Center 5/21/2023

Little did we know, the legend would pass away shortly after we saw this. I will admit that in the intermission and after we were shocked with the number of hits that she had. Songs that we remember from other artists (or sampled by), were led off by her in one of her many incarnations.

Great show, large loss for the world.

Bruce-O-Rama - Hoyt Sherman - 4/26/2023

Fun mix of an interactive quiz show, quiz show, and a bit of story telling and questions and answers. They also showed Armies of Darkness, and we ducked out on the movie, as we are both have seen it, and also it was pretty late. On the interactive quiz I was 134 / 787 and ranked highest in our group that went (even against Shannon).