For Christmas, I gave Micah a ticket to see the longest-running Broadway musical, and he seemed excited….until he read the name of the musical…CATS!
My mom laughed so hard, and said, “I have seen every musical out there except CATS! You couldn’t pay me to see that stupid show! I mean… who wants to watch a two hour show about…cats!”
We all laughed harder, when an hour later, she opened up her very own CATS ticket.
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Well…to say the least…not Micah, my mom or I was particularly excited to see this show. But because a friend of mine in college told me it was his all-time favorite musical, we decided to make a great night of it. We went to our favorite Indian food spot, and then headed to the show.
Then the disaster began.
First off…my mom isn’t usually in the cheap seats! So I was already laughing. Then the entire first half was HORRIBLE!!! It was literally the stupidest thing I have ever seen. And the guy next to my mom was a teenager, who crinkled his really loud candy wrapper the entire time. I shushed him once, and then finally said…”time for candy is over”. Someone please tell me why his father next to him hadn’t already put a stop to it!!! Maybe because he couldn’t hear it over his own thoughts of, “What on earth am I watching!” Or because we were in the cheap seats!!!
When the intermission finally came, my mom’s candy-eating sidekick left with his family for good. We contemplated the same, and were just appalled at the show. “This is the worst piece of crap I have ever seen in my life” was the exact quote. (She said she couldn’t act classy in the cheap seats!) Then my mom said her back was kind of hurting her. I asked why…and she said, “Maybe because I have had to slump the whole time because the bar in front of me goes right through the performance.”
I got to my mom’s level, and saw exactly that….the bar was literally blocking her entire view! And then I started laughing. Then my mom was laughing. And then I got the best tears-from-my-eyes laugh I have had in years! For 10 minutes straight we laughed, and I only stopped because my stomach was sore. Moments later, the lights dimmed…my mom slouched…and we watched a bunch of cats in tights sing and dance while Micah took a nap.
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