ETA: I am proud of my Papa! He won 4 Emmys this weekend!!! <3

This comes from within the last month being introduced to two new musicals that I was completely unaware of: The Scarlet Pimpernel and The Secret Garden. The Scarlet Pimpernel was introduced to me by majean, and turns out to be hillariouly funny AND sung by Linda Eder, whom I love (if anyone has any more songs from this musical, I'd be grateful if I could hear them, as I only have 6. I went on youtube to watch clips of it and it cracked me UP! And of course The Secret Garden was tipped off to me by jaymark108, which apparently had in the original broadway cast MANDY PATINKEN and the guy who WROTE Hedwig and the Angry Inch, AND has music that I apparently adore. I listened to it all last night, I'm not even kidding. It's just cheesy enough to be perfect for the play, but really, really great! Also, I love how the musical likes to focus in on Lilly/Archibald angst as much as anything else.

----> Okay, so this is a call out to everyone who reads my lj and are apparently hiding wonderful musicals behind their back. Because what other musicals of my favorite childhood and adulthood books/movies/stories ARE there out there?! So, my lj readers! What is one of your favorite random musicals (That isn't like... you know, extra famous)? Do you have some of the music I can listen to? Expand my musical knowledge! XD

I feel as if I turned my back and they made musicals of everything I loved, even if the concept of it as a musical seems ridiculous to me. XD I'm afriad to look because I'm starting to think that maybe they made a musical of Land Before Time. HAhaha. XD

On that note, forgot to mention that this weekend I finally saw the film version of Pirates of Penzance and Kevin Klein was so funny I almost peed my pants. I feel lucky to have seen it when that New York Theater company came to Truman. Also much find the music to that somewhere....

Blarg, the day is finally over. I totally blew the Medieval English Lit midterm, that's no joke. But at least I have no homework for tomorrow, so maybe I can get a head start on Friday's homework. And also as I work tonight, perhaps I'll go to Cute Desk Boy's room and return the old movie and maybe ask for a new one. Or just return the old one. ~_^

because my student advisor is in Ghana for the semester, I have to look at my possible class schedule for next semester earlier than everyone else so I can get it approved. Of course I dont' even know if I'll be here next semester, but since I won't find out if I'm accepted into the Austria programme until December or summat, I have to have classes in mind anyway. Once again, there are a strange shortage of history classes, especially on M/W/F, and I was trying NOT to end up with two or three film classes. Here is what I sent as my possible 2006 spring class schedule if I'm in the United States:

Monday/Wednesday/Friday

12:20-1:20 HIST341 Ancient West Asia & Egypt -Rose
1:30-2:20 ENG330 North American Indian Lit -Bartter

Tuesday/Thursday
9:00-10:20 HIST333 Native Americans' Frontier -Mandell
1:30-2:50 HIST391 Latin American Revolutions -Becker
6:00-8:15 ENG322 Study in World Cinema:Film Noir -Woodcox


Back-up classes include
HIST322 The Western Film
ENG315 Studies in Shakespeare

so it's time to unwind from a long, stressful day. Not too much farther to go, at least before the weekend! And only two more until the CAKE concert! Haha, I also just totally bonded with my hall Student Advisor over Wicked. I think we're both seeing it the same day at the same theater in the same section. We talked for waaay too long about it and I was holding up her other students looking for advice or whatnot, but still... yay for that! I cant' beleive I'm seeing it in a month! THanksgiving and the lovely mental health break that comes along with it can not come along soon enough, let me tell you.