Live Blogging a Live Stream

Tonight history is being made.  Broadway HD is live streaming a current Broadway show - She Loves Me.  This is the first time something like this has happened, and for theatre junkies, it's a dream come true.  Because hopefully it will be such a rousing success that it will continue to happen.  Unfortunately, She Loves Me is a show I've seen live already.  Don't get me wrong, I loved it.  The set and cast was fabulous.  However, it would have been much more fun to see something new.  But nonetheless, I'm sitting here with my bestie smiling like a nut getting ready to have vanilla ice cream and signing along.  It really is a fabulous thing!

And these are my thoughts - thoughts I pretty much had when I saw it live, but it's rude to blog when you're in a theatre : )

~ It didn't start out well.  There were definitely some technical difficulties.  Thank goodness for Twitter, where we learned that everyone was having the same issues.  Since then, it's been absolutely perfect!

~ This set is gorgeous! I'm so happy they won the Tony for set design.  It looks like a beautiful parfumerie that I would love to shop in.

~ Zac Levi is just so darn dreamy and likable!  And so darn talented.  

~ The only issue I have with the show is that Amalia and Georg are supposed to hate each other.  I just don't buy the dislike. 

~ When I saw it, there was another actor playing Ladislav.  The new actor is quite good.  Apparently this dude was on Frasier. So that's cool.

~ Laura Benanti has a beautiful voice, but I'm just not a fan of that Soprano in the middle of a show of non- classically-trained singers.  She just doesn't fit in with the sound.

~ The kid that plays Arpad is so going places.  He's phenomenal!

~ Gavin Creel is such a cutie (Shallow comment of the night...)

~ Jane Krakowski's ability to get her leg up on Gavin Creel's shoulder and then jump into a split is utterly baffling!  I can barely touch my toes and she's splitting across the stage...

~ I'm always shocked by the dark turn and how quick it comes.  Things lighten up pretty quick after but whoa, wasn't expecting it...

~ Knowing when I have to pee at intermission I won't have to wait in line with 332 other people might just be the best thing to come out of this evening.

~ I saw Peter Bartlett - the head waiter - in Something Rotten! and he was just as funny. In only one number, he manages to steal the show and nail every joke.

~ Zac Levi is perfect in this part!

~ Intermission! I'm loving that this is being billed as a Romantic-ish comedy.  So cute!

~ Vanilla Ice Cream Time!!!

~ "Well I'll have a little talk with myself..." : )

~ Where's my shoe?!  - I had this song stuck in my head for weeks after seeing it.

~ I'm more interested at the moment in Where can I get those pajamas?  So cute!

~ A whole song about Vanilla Ice Cream - how can you not love it?  Also, the whole reason we had a vanilla ice cream break - just in case you weren't sure.

~ Just as I was fascinated by Jane Krakowski's split, I'm equally in awe of Zac Levi's ability to do a cartwheel and that clever little hat trick!  I can barely walk down the street without tripping...

~ I have to admit, I've felt the need to sing a song about a library too.  Though, as hard as I've tried, I've never met a dreamy optometrist at the library, unfortunately.

~ I would totally wear every piece of clothing the women in this show wear.  Beautiful!  

~ So clever to do the 12 days of Christmas with carolers narrating!

~ The Christmas shoppers look like me about 3 days before Christmas...I'm stressing just thinking about it.

~ They keep going on and on about how "awful" Georg was - I just don't see it!

~ Hollywood kiss in the snow -  Perfect ending!

~ Using the "Please come again soon" after the curtain call - so perfect!

And that's that - a fabulous way to spend an evening and I'm now hoping all the shows follow their lead.  So exciting!