Cue the Lights, Cue the Music...It's Broadway!

 I can't lie to you, dear readers; I have always been, and always will be, a Broadway musical fan. I just love seeing musicals, singing shows from musicals, and performing in musicals. I've done a bunch at my school and a few in the community theater in town. I just get such a thrill from performing! For me, nothing beats the roar of a crowd after you've just nailed that dance routine, or the thunderous applause after you've hit that high note.

I also love watching musicals. From classics like Music Man, 42nd Street, and My Fair Lady, to modern-day wonders like The Drowsy Chaperone, Rent, and Wicked, I can't get enough. Some people say that musicals are silly and cheesy. While that point is valid, sometimes, I still really love them.

One show that I would recommend for anyone who loves musicals or theater is the TV show Smash. Literally, this is one of the best shows ever! It's about a group of professional actors, writers, and directors putting on a brand-new musical about Marilyn Monroe. The musical in the show is called Bombshell. It features original songs, but the show isn't just about the play itself. It also follows the lives of all the characters, and you really get to know them over the course of the show. The best part is that the characters aren't black and white, but have a mix of good and bad qualities (except for Ellis, who is literally just bad).

I wrote this post because I really wanted to express my love of musicals. I hadn't done that yet on this blog, so I wanted to make sure there was at least one post about them. I hope that if I have any readers that are musical fans, they'll read this article and agree with me. Go Broadway! :-)

Summer Reading Approaches

Hello everyone. As the school year finally begins to draw to a close, I can begin to focus on spending my time on things I enjoy; relaxing, writing, and, one of my favorite past times, reading.


My high school requires that we read three books over the summer, one of which is the same one everybody in thew grade reads, while the two others are ones we choose off of a list. I imagine that this is a pain for some people, but I personally like it. It introduces me to new, classic, and challenging books. I'm a total nerd when it comes to reading, so I just love choosing the hardest books on the list and really pushing myself.

This summer, I plan to tackle two challenging but very interesting reads. One is Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison, which chronicles the adventures of a Black man in the fifties as he journeys from a university in the South to Harlem in NYC. I've just learned about that time period in my AP US History course at school, so I think that'll be interesting. My other goal is to read Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace. Yes, yes, I know; it's long. However, I read Tolstoy's Anna Karenina last summer and enjoyed it, so I'm hoping this one will be just as good.

There are other books on the list that I'm interested in, which I can maybe try and read if I have time or some other time. I just think reading is so great! It's like creating a movie inside your own head, where you can decide for yourself what the characters look like based on the descriptions in the story. Don't get me wrong, I'm not knocking TV; I love it. I just think there's something wonderful about opening a book, especially a good one by a talented writer (which I hope some day to be). With any luck, perhaps those of you are reading my blog can take some time this summer to read a book as well. Let's make reading cool! :-)