I Will Not Throw Away My Shot (to attack)

You know one thing that I’ve realized?

I haven’t seen enough Broadway musicals in my lifetime. Everyone knows that I would probably pass out if I were to ever see Hamilton or meet (and/or attack) Lin Manuel-Miranda.

So even though I live 30 minutes from a theater that performs Broadway musicals, for some odd reason, I haven’t been to it since I saw the Lion King 3 years ago (and that one CHANGED MY LIFE).

It’s amazing how many times my life has been changed by the smallest things.

Anyway…

Obviously, I convinced 2 of my best friends to come with me when I saw that Aladdin was being performed! Another Broadway musical? SIGN ME UP.

Now, the funny thing here is that I definitely have never seen Aladdin. Like I’ve never seen the actual animated movie.

I can definitely tell you what happens and who does what. Or at least I thought I could until a guy was talking for about 5 minutes in the musical before I turned to my best friend and asked “Who is that?”

Her answer?

“Jafar.”

So there’s another character that isn’t Genie, the princess, and Aladdin? Who apparently is poor and isn’t well-known! Clearly, I pretty much only knew “A Whole New World” and that’s pretty much it.

But, after I asked around to see how my co-workers enjoyed it, everyone kept saying “It’s different from the movie.”

How is that possible? It’s literally the same concept with more signing and real people?

They were quite right! It was very good though I can’t confirm or deny if it was different from the movie because I STILL HAVEN’T SEEN THE MOVIE.

Even so, it was absolutely amazing. If you didn’t want to be the Genie’s best friend after the show was over, then we clearly didn’t watch the same show.

And it just showed me that I need to watch more Broadway shows because why not?!

So that is what this post is going to be about. Though I could definitely write an entire blog post about Hamilton and my OVERWHELMING desire to see it (don’t tempt me, friends), I will spare you guys the details about something that I’ve never even see live yet the soundtrack itself has changed my life.

So the next time I write about a post, let’s hope by some miracle that is about Hamilton and that I’ve finally seen it!

Until then, let’s rejoice about the fact that it’s 47 days until my birthday!

IT’S SO CLOSE.

I would also like to point out that this began by being about Aladdin, and well we see how that turned out…

THE OBSESSION IS REAL.