Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
I want to take this opportunity to express my deep appreciation to every single reader who has visited Steve On Broadway (SOB) this year.
I’ve been honored to begin many online friendships during the course of the past five years, and I’ve been thrilled that so many of them have translated offline as well. What a blessing. I feel extraordinarily fortunate.
Ostensibly, I write Steve On Broadway (SOB) for my own personal enjoyment. If there’s one characteristic about myself that I hope rings genuinely authentic, it’s my love for the theatre. Perhaps it’s that passion that sways my reviews toward the favorable overall --although I prefer to think that I’m somewhat discriminating in what I pay to see in the first place.
Never do I go to see any show with malice in my heart. Since I pay for each and every ticket, I go to enjoy and be entertained or at least enlightened. Yes, there are those occasions where I find myself disappointed by a musical or play or by specific performances therein, but I also hope that ultimately, my critiques have provided anyone out there reading them with some heartfelt guidance from an honest-to-goodness theatre lover.
Please accept my best wishes for a very Merry Christmas -- and regardless of whether you celebrity this Holiday or not, here's wishing you and yours nothing but peace and love.
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Steve On Broadway (SOB).
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Merry Christmas From IowaGreetings from
Iowa, where I'm spending this Christmas holiday in the glow of my extended
family (including
Todd Lyon, who captured the season on the photo here).
I know, it's a far cry from
where I was last year and
the year before that. But sometimes, you just have to kick back and enjoy the warmth that only your loved ones can provide with complete acceptance and without prejudice.
Please accept my personal best wishes for a very Merry Christmas. Here's wishing you and yours nothing but peace and love.
This is Steve On Broadway (SOB).
Labels: Christmas, Iowa, Special Messages
Merry Christmas From TokyoGreetings from the incredibly vibrant, yet surprisingly
quiet city of Tokyo, where I'm spending this Christmas holiday catching a little theatre, but also getting acquainted with this magnificent city.
In seeing our show, it appeared we were the only westerners in the audience. I'll write more about the actual performance of the Japanese language version for this Broadway hit later, but I was struck by how incredibly polite the audience was. They hardly laughed or applauded during the performance (and you could hear a pin drop whenever the stage was quiet). But they clearly loved the show considering the six curtain calls.
After the fourth call, the orchestra started to play familiar strains. But it wasn't anything from the show itself. Instead, they played "White Christmas" with orchestrations lifted right from the show's familiar score. The two lead actors began singing -- in English -- and were soon joined by the entire cast. It made for a very moving experience. It was beautiful.
The rest of my Christmas Eve (it is Christmas Day here thanks to the 14 hour time difference) navigating the complex subway system before walking around (and walking and walking and walking). After toasting Chrismas with a glass of champagne in the
bar of the city's renowned
Imperial Hotel -- the Old Imperial Bar is the only remaining room with
Frank Lloyd Wright's original design -- we took in the 50 year old
Tokyo Tower (pictured), which purposely resembles Paris'
Eiffel Tower and affords some of the best views of this immense city. And strangely enough, with one Christmas hymn after another being piped out of the tower's sound system, it was easy to remember which holiday was upon us.
Please accept my personal best wishes for a very Merry Christmas. Here's wishing you and yours nothing but peace and love.
This is Steve On Broadway (SOB).
Labels: Christmas, Frank Lloyd Wright, Japan, Special Messages, Tokyo, Travels, White Christmas
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
