Mantra Theatre

I had an old friend called yesterday saying that he’s going to come and visit us next week from Boston. I’m excited because even though Boston and New York is not too far, we haven’t met each other for almost four years. I then invited him to see a theater show with my family during his stay here. He was thrilled with the idea and said that actually there was a musical he would like to see, Wicked. Fortunately, I had planned to see Wicked too so I said that we definitely could go together to see that show.

After the phone call, I went to my computer and saw if I could get Wicked tickets for us online. I’ve been buying Broadway tickets online for some time since I found it much easier and practical than going to the theaters’ box offices. I googled the sites this time because I always want to see what sites are available for online tickets instead of the ones I’ve been visiting. Soon I found many links to the sites which sell Broadway Theater Tickets in one Google search. I click on one site I hadn’t visited yet and started to search for Wicked Tickets NYC. Only in 10 minutes later, 3 Wicked tickets on Monday evening were already secured for us. Don’t you love the internet?

After I was done with the Wicked tickets, I started to search for West Side Story tickets. It is one of my favorite musicals of all time together with The Phantom of the Opera, A Chorus Line, and Cats. So every time it is performed in Broadway, I never miss the chance to see it. I bought two West Side Story tickets in Palace Theater for me and my husband for next Wednesday. With my friend’s visit and these two great musicals to see, I can’t wait for next week to come

This weekend, my class has an opportunity to do a short performance in a small orphanage in Chicago. The owner of the orphanage is an old friend of our teacher back when he was in college. To him, a small yet very rare stage performance is a special event that can cheer up the children. On the other hand, we all are very pleased to be given an opportunity for a stage performance and to be able to do a good deed for the children in a way that we can.

Since it is too late to perform any of Christmas story by now, we decided to write a simple play to be performed for the children. The story is about animal society, more or less similar to that in “Horton Hears A Who” story, just without the Whoville part. The story was done since last month, and we’ve been practicing to perform it during holiday. Right now, we are all set with the play and just need to prepare our trip there.

Considering the props and the remote location of the orphanage, we chose to travel by cars. There will be 8 of us in total, so we have two cars with 5 persons capacity each ready to take us in our trip, Angela’s Toyota Camry and my Prius.

Since it is a quite long trip there, I and Angela have gathered some necessary information about auto repair shops. We have noted down all the auto shops between New York and Chicago, just incase. Of course, we also noted down some Chicago auto repair shops with that. I have some uncomfortable experiences with check engine light during interstate trips so I will make sure that everything will be going just fine this time.

Now, I already imagine the smiles of the little faces we will see when we get there. No doubt it will be one of my memorable performances in my life.