Discount Tickets to "Falling," A Family's Struggle with an Autistic Child

From Mustard Seed Theatre in St. Louis to Minetta Lane Theatre off-Broadway in New York comes the new family drama Falling. This powerful play follows the struggles of a family trying to hold on through the teenage years of the two children, a daughter and a severely autistic son. Eighteen-year-old Josh throws everything out of balance on a normal day. When a relative comes to visit, everyone loses equilibrium completely as they each try to do what's best for the family while still pursuing what's best for themselves.

Cost: Free - $34.75
October 2nd - 10th
Must register via GoldStar.com for discount

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Rent is Due in Valley Stream This Weekend

A few years ago, hubby and I went to see "Rent" on Broadway.  It's a classic and we just had to see it.  I admit I knew nothing about the production.  Just that it was a classic and we just had to see it.  I do remember the signature song and after the show, we left singing, in various versions, "Five-hundred-twenty-five-thousand-six-hundred-minutes. How do you measure, a year in the life...." That was a cool song.  The theatre department at Central High School will present this very same musical about struggling friends and artists in New York's East Village.  The play covers poverty, AIDS, addiction, and love.

Rent: The Musical
Central High School
135 Fletcher Avenue
Valley Stream, NY
Friday, February 4th @ 7 p.m.
Saturday, February 5th @ 2 p.m. & 7 p.m.

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South High Presents "Once Upon A Mattress"

There's nothing like community theater and tonight, South High School's adaptation of "Once Upon A Mattress" opens it's curtains to the community at 7 p.m. in South Hall.  I have never seen the play and unfortunately won't make tonight's performance as I prepare for the "Wear it Again" Costume Party tomorrow, but here's a brief description of the performance I found here.

Once Upon a Mattress was written and composed in 1959; its Broadway debut is what made Carol Burnett, as Winnifred, famous. The musical is a farce that takes place in the 1400's in an imaginary Kingdom.

The story is narrated by a Minstrel, who tells us that the tale of the "Princess and the Pea" is not quite like what all of us were led to believe. He tells the real story: By decree of the tyrant Queen, no one in the Kingdom is allowed to get married until a suitable wife if found for the young prince, Dauntless. But the Queen, for various reasons, does not want Dauntless to be married. For each princess candidate, she and the court Wizard devise impossible tests--tests to see if each Princess is good enough for her boy.

As a mother of a son, there probably won't ever be a girl good enough for my son.  I'm siding with the Queen, but we all know how this story ends.

Today's Question:  What's your favorite fairytale?

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