The fantastic blogger Wendi Aarons who keeps my personal blogosphere a rockin’ with laughs, sent me a YouTube video that another incredibly great blogger, Ann Imig, who is from Wisconsin, sent her.  (My sister and her family are moving to WI so I immediately feel like we’re all kin.) 
 
The whole thing was kinda like “The Telephone Hour” from Bye Bye Birdie minus [...]

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In life, it’s very important to have two, great girlfriends and plenty of silly songs to sing together.
 
 
 
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If Meryl can rock Bertolt Brecht’s “Mother Courage and Her Children” in the Delacorte outdoor theatre in Central Park during a hurricane, you can manage your paper route with a few raindrops on your head. 
 
 
 
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Daughters:  If you’re gonna date guys that are [...]

 
Dear Lauren Graham,
Hooray!  Welcome back to the television dramedy!
I am so glad you’ve returned and chose Parenthood, a show worthy of you– so the critics are proclaiming today.  My DVR is too full of ABC Family reruns of you as Lorelai Gilmore in your star-making turn in Gilmore Girls.  I’m happy to have NBC’s Parenthood fill that queue.  (Pssst… truth [...]

 
James Sims, one of the more forward thinking voices in the theatrical blogosphere, quite recently wrote a post for The Huffington Post in support of the conceit that music videos can quite possibly save the Broadway musical.  I am enthusiastic about this concept, have been ever since I got to watch the kids from Spring Awakening jump around on the stage [...]

Saturday night, I had the great fortune to spend the evening with sixteen of this country’s finest young singers.  In a stunning Manhattan penthouse, an invited audience listened to these kids perform.  Singing A Capella, Gold Company breathed life into classic songs from the Great American Songbook, innovative African chants written by Bobby McFerrin and reminded me [...]

 
 
Here’s some insight from a group of terrific moms featured on the awesome website Momversation.com.  Watch them share their thoughts on how to encourage our kids to find their passion, an important topic here at StageMama.com.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again:
 We should want to expose our kids to each and every opportunity and then sit back [...]

 
On top of being a freaked out, multi tasked whirling dervish of a working mom longing, honestly, for just one day to  listen uninterrupted to Liza’s At The Palace and play Scrabble with my hubby so I can calm the heck down, my to-do list is never completed.  That is the case, to be sure, with entering The American Theatre [...]