All for One and One for All!

On Tuesday we saw the first show of our Seattle Rep season. When the dear husband and I started dating in 2000 he got me a season package for my birthday. But that was when we were both under 25 and it was soooo cheap for the 5 show package.

Now we have to pay full price, sigh, but we got excited about seeing the 3 Musketeers and I have always loved Waiting for Godot. I am really disappointed that Godot got bumped and I am not excited at all to see the replacement!

But back to the Musketeers. Overall it was a good show. Not great, but good. The Seattle Times wrote an accurate (and slightly scathing) review and we had to agree with their conclusions. And like the reviewer, we both had a hankering to go rent our favorite musketeer movie on our way home.

Celine Dion

OMG. This - was - amazing!

First off, we took the Sounder train to the Tacoma Dome which was so easy. We will definitely be taking it again to see NKOTB next month. Correction- Sounder isn't available for NKOTB. I'm so bummed...but the lucky ticket holders for AC/DC will!

The opening act for Celine was great. He does impressions, mostly by singing famous songs and changing the words. Willie Nelson singing about all the pot he's smoke, Bob Dylan being intelligible in concert (he nailed that one as we've seen Bob Dylan and it wasn't pretty) Michael Jackson and his plastic surgeries...but the bests were Jack Nicholson and Tom Cruise.

We had awesome seats on the floor (thank you dear husband) in row 7. Celine was right in front of us and we felt like she spent most of the time facing us. Listening to other people discussing the show on the train, not everyone felt that way. The coolest part of the evening was when Celine walked RIGHT PAST ME. She was literally two feet away. And she walked past me TWICE. I could have reached out and touched her if the burly security guy hadn't been in the way. But totally cool. For some reason I had it in my head that she was really tall, but as she walked past me she is teeny tiny!

Celine changed clothes even more times than Dolly by disappearing into the stage and then popping up in a new outfit. She started out in the short pink and silver sequined number that I loved. Her costumes must be measured to the millimeter because they were so short that we were both expecting to see a panty shot (it never happened). Celine is in amazing shape and looked great in all her outfits. Next up was a black and white mini dress number that seemed to have lots of large beading with theigh heigh (or taller) black boots. Then she wore a western style outfit with black flared pants and a sequined vest. Then she changed into this white retro mini dress with these awesome theigh high boots that wrapped around. I need these shoes! Next there was something with this billowy cape, then it was this great gold and silver sequined minidress and then she ended in this black number that also billowed. Or something pretty close to that order! She changed clothes a ton!

Celine gives an amazing performance, you would be hard pressed to tell the difference between the live show and a CD. Amazing. The best part was how sweet Celine was. She connected to the audience and almost cried on stage at one point. You could totally tell that she and everyone else in the band were having a great time and loved what they were doing. My sweet husband commented how she looked like someone who was just about to make it big, not a performer that made 200 million in ticket sales while performing in Vegas.

One of the highlights of the evening was when she did a tribute to Queen (complete with photo montage) and sang The Show Must Go On. She sang one song in French which I really liked (I had been curious how many she would do) which I knew from her (duh) French Albumn. She also sang It's All Coming Back to Me Know (one of my favorites!!!) River Deep, Mountain High (anoter of my favorites!!!), Because You Loved Me, and she ended the night with My Heart Will Go On (oh come on, you know you like it to).