today, i went to a muse-ical in rincon!

And guess what?

Orpheus was there, singing "Time In A Bottle"!!!

He dedicated it to the long-gone Eurydice. 

That guy has gotten around, hasn't he?

First he was in the play last week, and now he's in Rincon at the Hive Repertory Theater's event!

Not that he was the focus of this jukebox musical.

Not hardly.

In "The Olympians", the spotlight is on the three goddesses having a grudge match about who was best.

To settle it, they each choose a human to set on a quest, with the winning goddess being the one whose choice reaches Mount Olympus first.

Here's warrior Zoey, to whom Artemis sings "You Make My Dreams" come true!

Wooo hooo, woohoo!

Aphrodite found Lexi as her champion!

The girl was singing about the "goddess on the mountain top... had what no one else had!"

Hey, "Venus" is just another name for the love goddess!

As for Athena, a goatherd named Sofia was the one she beseeched to "Breakaway" from her grandma and go on a quest to find the lost girdle of Hippolyta.

And what looks odd here?

Sofia is reading from a script!

Get this: she was tagged just two hours before the play to be on stage for someone who was sick - what a valiant trouper!

Aphrodite was another trouper, stepping in only a week ago for someone who had to leave - amazing!!!

So, here we are: three goddesses, three humans, with each expected to run their own quest.

Instead, the trio of girls mystify the goddesses by working together!

Here they are on the streets of Athens, trying to stay ahead of the police.

Why are they being chased?

Lone females aren't allowed to wander about!

That's what the gate guards told them and those mustache-wearing guys are serious!

Back and forth across the stage ran the guard!

"One Way Or Another", they sang, "we're gonna find ya, we're gonna getcha getcha getcha getcha!"

Fortunately for our plucky trio of humans...

and Lexi's younger brother, Zander...

the guards never even come close to getting them.

Whew!

Next stop: the Oracle, to receive clues to the girdle's location.

They didn't realize that the three goddesses hit that location first, to give the Oracle (actually the Narrator in disguise!) the scroll.

The goddesses lingered too long and had to pose as statues - lol!

But Zoey, Lexi, and Sofia finally arrive at the right place, receive their marching orders, and set off on their quest!

They're barely on it when Artemis' twin brother, Apollo, throws a monkey wrench into the mix, having all but Zoey "Walking On Sunshine" as a shortcut, kinda sorta.

End of Act One!

I sure did enjoy this very much!!!

Plus, the crew at HiveRepTh did me a solid, granting me a seat that was front and center of the stage - y'all know what I like!!!

Oh, and there was even a joke from Orpheus!

Zander picked up the other instrument, calling it a lyre.

Orpheus corrected him, saying "No, my lyre was stolen by luters [looters]... and they didn't even know how to play it!"

Hahahahaha!!!!

Yes, this was well worth the ride to Rincon and the $20 ticket!!!

fruitcake musical!!!

"What's that, dearie?"

It was an original play at the Hive Repertory Theatre! Lisa Wood wrote it. It's called "A Very Fruitcakes Christmas Musical Revue" and I was fortunate enough to stumble across the ether and right into it! Actually, I knew they were having a 7 PM showing, but not the 3 PM matinee. That daylight one was absolutely perfect for me!

"Oh, that's wonderful! I thought you were going to try for the one at Starcastle again..."

I was, but it was sold out. However, the Universe had this one up its sleeve and that made my afternoon! I laughed so much! The only downside was the lack of a printed program. What's up with that??? I made sure to tell them about the site that the SavChTh used.

"I do hope not printing a program isn't going to become a regular thing. If Garrison Arts Academy can print one, and it's a public school, then these private organizations certainly can. I'm not talking about a multi-page booklet. A single page with the names of the characters and the actors would suffice."

Hey, you're preaching to the choir! Anyway, as this musical was kinda sorta a result of a kids session, I let it slide. That's not to say it was all children! No, there were quite a few adults, just like in the SavChTh Christmas musical! Here's one of my favorite scenes, where the woman has come to purchase a tree, but not a real one. She insists on an artificial tree!!!

"Hey, I recognize that young woman! She's been in a lot of their plays these past two years! What's her name again?"

Beats me... no program! Hahahaha! No, that's Cadence Wood. I still have the program with her as 'Dorothy' from an earlier play. I don't know who was playing 'Mack', the tree seller, nor the three cavorting kids in that scene. Speaking of kids cavorting, these were encouraging all to "Think Snow", so school would be called off! They had suggested they could claim to have chicken pox, but snow in Georgia seemed an easier thing to happen.

"Hahaha! Yeah, we don't want that again, do we? Did they get their wish?"

They did, amazingly! Little snowflakes flurried down from the ceiling tiles during a scene change, making magic on the stage! This is near the end of the musical, with all wishing "Happy Holidays" to everyone. Very nice! Santa even made an appearance, with a photo op for children in the audience to come on up!

"That sounds very nice!"

It was. Here's a scene from earlier that was an absolute hoot and a half! The cop was trying to locate "Buster The Christmas Hog" and asking for help from the folks hanging out near the tree lot. What a riot!

And here's one that was super nice. The lights blew out because the town tried to put too many bulbs on the town's Christmas display. That meant no fruitcakes could be baked - oh, no! So everyone gathered to "Light A Candle" to bring some brightness to their world. Wasn't that great?

"I liked that very much. It was all so well choreographed, too, as each would lean in to light their neighbor's candle with their own. That reminds me of what we do near the end of the Christmas Eve service at Asbury."

You're right! I'm glad the weather is going to be so nice this year. I'm looking forward to going to that sans jacket! Okay, gotta go and watch a few more Up Faith & Family flicks while they're available!

why this 2nd weekend is better in reboot 2025

By this time in the original start of this year, I'd only seen one musical.

True, that was on the 11th day of 2025, and this day is also the 11th day of reboot 2025.

However, "Sister Act" was performed by high school students.

Neither of the musicals today had high

schoolers, but one did have teens.

That one was "Into The Woods", by the Garrison Art Academy, at their Yamacraw Performing Arts Center, for the sum of only $17.

For a musical!!!

Yes, I am so glad that I have discovered that this school has public performances, too.

I'm doubly glad to have known of this specific show!

"Into The Woods" is one of my favorites, as it compiles several fairy tales into one story, via a childless baker and his wife. That couple serve to link four into a cohesive delight.

The baker has a family curse, brought on by his father stealing greens and beans from a witch's garden for his wife when she was pregnant with their second child, a daughter the witch took.

To remove the hex, the baker must procure a cow as white as milk, a cape as red as blood, hair as yellow as corn, and a shoe made of gold.

That makes for much laughter along the way for us!

The first photo is of the baker and his wife, followed by the one with Jack, his cow, and his mom.

Then there's Little Red Riding Hood, in constant motion trying to elude the rascally wolf!

And, in that final photo, there are the two princes singing of "Agony!" because they cannot find their two true loves!

The one on the ground seeks Rapunzel, the baker's sister, locked in a high tower she cannot escape because there is no door.

The one standing seeks Cinderella, who stole his heart at the ball and then ran, leaving only a shoe behind.

Neither prince can understand why a woman would elude them!

Very funny song!!!

And that was all before the second act!

Such a lovely way to pass a Saturday afternoon!

(smile!)

Then, I got a second musical for Saturday night!!!

That one was performed at Hive Repertory 

Theatre's site in Rincon.

"You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown" was a typical "children's" musical with a definite twist: all the performers were adult and all were women!!!

I wish I knew their names, but there were no programs for this performance.

This one-act show was compiled of sketches, making it very much in keeping with the movie about him that I saw around Thanksgiving.

Come to think of it, that makes this the perfect bookend for the earlier compilation of stories!

How about that...

I wasn't even trying for a theme with this double header and I got one.

Right place, right time.

(smile!)