Since February, which is a month I do like, is coming up and since February is all about love, I thought I'd entertain (or bore) you with a few posts about things I love. Let me say right now that these are in totally random order; I don't want anyone thinking that I don't love my family.

So, one of the things I love is.....

Musicals!

I like lots of different kinds of music and I may have to do another post about music, but musicals are just so darn entertaining. One summer, we checked out a bunch of musicals on video from the library and watched them. We saw some pretty good ones and some pretty obscure ones. We spent one fall being entertained by "Fiddler on the Roof" when Ben was in high school and was part of a pretty sophisticated production. I remember when I was a young teenager, Dad wouldn't let me watch "West Side Story" because it was immoral. I'm pretty sure he said that same thing about Rogers and Hammerstein's "Carousel". One musical that I didn't really even know about until we saw it at Rene's parents is "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers." Once, Sarah was invited to a sleepover at a friend's house and the girl's mom wanted to rent each invitee's favorite movie and Sarah said hers was "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers." The mom called to ask me "Really?"

Anyway, here are some of my favorites:

"Annie, Get Your Gun" has my favorite, favorite music. I would have loved to have seen the modern production of it with Bernadette Peters and Tom Wopat. That's the soundtrack shown here.

"The Sound of Music" has long been a staple at our house. I think the girls can all pretty much quote it. I'm old enough to remember when it first came out. And that's pretty old!

No mention of musicals and our family would be complete without including "Saturday's Warrior." It will always have a special place in our kids' hearts. And yes, they know it's not doctrine; they know it's dated; they know it's corny.

One of my favorite CD's is this one, entitled The Only Broadway CD You'll Ever Need. I highly recommend it!