Excuse me, do you have gruel on the kids' menu?

I have beautiful children.  Would you like one (or both) of them?  *giggle*

Just kidding.  Yes, really.    Although Princess Crybaby has started screeching at us.  Now, I know you're saying to yourself, "but Mom, you've been talking about your pterodactyl for almost two years.  How is this any different?"  And to that I tell you "meat, madam.  Meat." (that's from Oliver)

Meat, madam, meat. You’ve overfed him, madam. You’ve raised an artificial spirit in the boy unbecoming of his station in life. If you’d kept him on gruel, madam, this would never have happened.

Really.  I think the key to docile children must be how much meat they eat.  There might be something to that gruel diet after all.

Y'all know I'm kidding, right? 
*arching eyebrow* 

An Actor's Wish List

I don't know that this is really a bucket list, per se, because some of them are total fantasy but these are the roles I'd love to play. These are not in any order and they are not all musicals/operas - I want to play them ALL! 

1. Fantine, Les Miserables
2. Tosca, Tosca
3. Liu, Turandot
4. Elphaba, Wicked
5. Lucy, Jekyll & Hyde
6. Lucia, Lucia di Lammermore (hahaha - the music would kick my butt but what a fun part to play)
7. Donna Elvira, Don Giovanni (I was 19 when I played her before; how much heartache had I really experienced? NONE)
8. The Countess, Marriage of Figaro
9. Cio-Cio-San (Butterfly),  Madame Butterfly
10. Lily Craven, Secret Garden
11. Narrator, Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
12. Mary Poppins, Mary Poppins
13. Donna OR Tanya, Mamma Mia!
14. Mimi, La boheme
15. Lady Macbeth, Macbeth
16. M'Lynn, Steel Magnolias
17. Vivi, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (younger Vivi)
18. Grizabella, Cats
19. Roxie Hart, Chicago

 Oh, I'm sure there are more but this is a good list.  *giggle*