Bridges of Madison County

This new Jason Robert Brown musical I had never heard of. I knew it was a movie and a book and the theater made sure you knew that too, pushing both products at the souvenir stands. I didn't know what to expect, only that the playbill had an article saying that this show was about an "affair to remember" so I had a feeling that the main characters were going to have an affair. Kelly O'hara played Francesca and I was happy to see her on stage again, this time not as an ingenue but as the adultress. The scenes were sexy and I remember saying to my friend at intermission "wow, now I want to go home and bone my husband." The show was slow, but the music WAS beautiful. My only real complaints were the people hired to play the children. I say people because the son kept saying he was 16 and he was clearly 36! lol

 I loved seeing Hunter Foster in a show again. He sounded great, looked sexy, and I felt bad for his character. The scenery was nice, but we both mentioned that the chorus has very little to do in this show. Not a bad gig, right?

We had perfect seats, sitting in row M of the orchestra. Nothing was blocked, we were in the center section, and other than the fidget monster in front of me, the people talking near us, and the fat woman eating candy and taking up a 1/4 of my seat, it was nice.