Alright I have a couple confessions up front. First, I would not have gone to this had not my girlfriend had season tickets to the Broadway performances at the Fabulous Fox Theatre in St. Louis. She actually tried to sell these particular tickets, and could find no buyers. She tells me that normally when she sells tickets to these performances they are snapped up. 
My second confession is that I only vaguely knew the story line. I have seen maybe half of the first Shrek movie. So if I sound a little redundant on the story line, please forgive an old man.
Now I have another confession, I really enjoyed this Broadway musical performance of Shrek the Musical. If I really enjoyed it, my girlfriend’s level of pleasure of this show was in another dimension.
The Broadway production is first and foremost a first class musical. It is next a tried and true love story. It starts out as Beauty and the Beast and ends up as Beast and the Beast. It is also a tale about accepting Continue reading “Shrek the Musical”
Karol was a tall, somewhat overweight Jewish woman with a pouty lower lip. She had been attractive in her younger days, but age had definitely come to visit.
From the jacket cover of the book 
My Uncle Dutch is not a tall man, and he has what we affectionately call a Buddha belly. I know that he was skinny once upon a time. I have seen pictures of him when he was young and in the Navy, but that is not the Harry Dodd I know. He is elderly now, with white hair, and it is hard for me to not think of him in a suit and tie. The first thing that you will probably notice about my Uncle is his smile. While he doesn’t smile all the time, it is certainly there more than it isn’t. And it is the type of smile that just lights up his whole face.
It was summer, and we were in Oklahoma again. Back from the east coast, and our urban life style.