Gene Kelly Awards

So on Saturday night I attended the Gene Kelly Awards with my amazing wonder mom!  We had a really good time and saw some great performances.  One other thing we saw was the author of Better Nate Than Ever, TimFederle, who was a CLO Mini-star back in the day.  Wait.  Maybe he wasn't.  Maybe he just performed in a musical that was up for  Gene Kelly Award.  I can't remember.  But anyway, he was a great presenter and they mentioned that he wrote this book and I had heard from my friend Joy that it was a great book so I bought and read it and yes, it was a great book!  Nate is a kid who is bound for Broadway!  But he is from a mini-town near Pittsburgh and that's about as far away as he thinks he can get.  Still he hops a bus with the hopes to making it to an audition for E.T.: the musical.  Very funny book about a boy dealing with bullies, his sexuality, his love of the theater and everything else.  Great stuff.  I hope there will be more from Federle and more about Nate!