Always be a first rate version of yourself...: Broadway

What's Going On Here?

There are SO MANY wonderful book review blogs out there and I can't compete with them, that is for sure. So this is not a book review blog. This is just a way for me to organize what I have read so that I can be better at matching the right book to the right person. The blog title comes from the brilliant mind of the most talented woman who ever lived, Ms. Judy Garland. The full quote is, "Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of someone else." That is what I hope to do here and in ever aspect of my life.

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Sunday, December 16, 2018

Really Something

I didn't have SUPER GREAT expectations for Nate Expectations. I had decent expectations. I did enjoy the first two. Especially the first one, but the second one not as much. So I figured the third would be as good or maybe even a little less good than the second one, but I was so wrong. I really, really loved NE. Very much! Start with the first one, but the whole series is a keeper!

Sunday, April 20, 2014

On Broadway!

Five, Six, Seven Nate is a clever title, the second in the story of Nate, a tween we first met in Better Nate Than Ever. Tim Federle is rising star on Broadway and so all of the ins and outs of putting together a Broadway musical are here. I don't know much about the business, but if this is what it is like, it is crazy and tedious and frustrating and wonderful all at the same time. I gave this one four of five just because I got a little bogged down with the insider stuff, but that was more of a reflection of me than of the book. If you have always wanted to be on the stage, you won't mind it at all. This is a great, great book.

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

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!