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I love musicals and I've seen many over the years including Jersey Boys, Mamma Mia, Lion King, and Miss Saigon are among my favorites but I've been putting off seeing this one, Menopause The Musical. It was supposed to be good, hilarious, and the parody of the songs entertaining... well, it was all of the above as my hubby and I watched it for the first time over the weekend on a Sunday showing. Saw ticket offers from $61 to $75/each but I purchased a Groupon deal for $89 for 2 people.
For those women who are experiencing "change"... hot flashes, insomnia, memory loss, expanding waistlines, failing eyesight, night sweats, mood swings, well, there's nothing fun about these symptoms... until now! Clever parodies of popular songs from the 60's, 70's and the 80's kept us entertained as they made fun of aging woes. Songs included music like "Stayin' Alive" (Bee Gees), "California Girls" (Beach Boys), "I Got You, Babe" (Sonny & Cher) just to name a few. Four ladies: a professional woman, a soap star, earth mother, and an Iowa housewife took turns doing solos, dance numbers, and chorus numbers.
While I had a great time my poor hubby had a difficult time understanding some of the issues and the topics. LoL! but he did enjoy the music! The cast was amusing and all were very talented and funny. I hope the soap star (one of the women on the cast) had her real hubby participate in the audience as she singled out a man in the center of the crowd and started to flirt and make sexual innuendos to him as part of her act.
All in all a fun evening. There was audience participation at the end where the cast asked women to come up on stage and dance with them. They were then each given a small gift after the show. Hope I didn't give away too much as far as the storyline... well, there's really no storyline, just little scenes of symptoms relating to the characters on stage.
Review #0455
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