I Love Lucy!

I'd been waiting for this show for WEEKS!  Hubby decided to buy me tickets to this showing of "I Love Lucy Live at TPAC" for my Christmas present, and I was STOKED!!  You have no idea how hard it is to get this man to the theater.  When he first brought it up, I thought he must not have been feeling well, but then I realized the boy was serious!

I have to mention here the look of utter betrayal on our 8 year old's face when I told him what we were going to see.  "What, without ME??" he asked in disbelief.  Yeah, buddy!  [Insert evil laugh here.]  Turns out he actually likes to watch Lucy as well, thanks to YouTube.

(Yes, I'm working on schooling my boys in a little culture besides Ninjago and the Power Rangers.)

So...Sunday was the big day.  The kids were at my parents' house from the night before, and Hubby and I would be able to enjoy the show in Nashville without being parents for a few hours.  Sweet!

The crowd was, inevitably, mostly older than we were.  But you have to understand how much I loved watching this show when I was younger.  One year, my brother even brought me back a mug from his travels with the famous "chocolate factory" scene on it.  I still use it to this day.  :)

Anyway, the cast of the show we went to see did a splendid job.  Not only did they look the part, but most of the time, if you closed your eyes, you'd swear Fred, Ethel, Lucy, and Ricky really were on stage in front of you!  It was amazing to see such craft in action.

The performance is centered around the taping of two episodes of "I Love Lucy."  You, as the guest, are part of the studio audience at Desilu in Hollywood, California.  Not only did we get to see the taping of the shows, but we also sat through some pretty cheesy live commercials for all kinds of products, including Brylcreem and Alka Seltzer, complete with jingle singers.  A lot of people in the audience could probably remember when those commercials were on back in the 1950's, but that was definitely way before my time!

Still, by the end of it all, it was a very enjoyable performance.  We later stopped by a hole-in-the-wall sushi place on Union Street called Sam's (the proprietor wasn't very pleasant, but the food was actually really good), then later headed to Bar Louis in Murfreesboro for a quiet one while we waited for the grandparents and little children to come home.

All in all, a wonderful date night.  Or day.  Whatever.  :)