Wicked!!!

I'm in New York this week for the 3rd time in my life. Each time I've come to NY I have wanted to see Wicked but every time the people I'm with have seen it already or don't want to. This time around I decided I don''t care. I'm going to go alone. So I did! If you ever have the chance to see this show you have to! Its amazing and something that is just indescribable.

Its takes a really strong voice to sing a lot of the songs which proves the talent of these Broadway actors and actresses. Its so awesome to see that much talent on one stage, not only with the cast but with the set, sound, costumes, prop... All of it, everything you need to make a good performance.

The show is basically The Wizard of OZ, from a different perspective. In the show you learn about the Wicket Witch of the West (Elphaba) and the Good Witch (Glinda) meeting at school. At first they are enemies but eventually become friends. Elphaba is actually a really good person. I don't want to give anything away but it was a really awesome story. If you really want to know more details about the show just message me on Facebook or email me.

This is a YouTube clip of the lead character in the show I saw. Her name is Lindsay Mendez and she plays Elphaba. Its just behind the scenes with her.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvfSMr70jH8

This next video is in celebration of the 10th anniversary of the shows run. Its shows previous cast members and clips of their songs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdhpwXmLtJA

This is their official website. You can see the cast pictures and faqs about the show.
http://www.wickedthemusical.com/cast-creative

Original Cast. 

A Knights Tale

An oldie but a goodie!

I've loved this movie since it came out in 2001. I was in 4th or 5th grade and watched it non stop with my best friend! We use to reenact scenes from the movie and we were constantly listening to the awesome soundtrack! I recommend everyone watch this movie is you have not seen it yet.

I wont give to much away in case you have not seen it but basically, William (Heath) is homeless after his master dies. He had been with his master since he was a small boy and now he had no home or income. Afters a series of events William and his friends come up with a crazy idea. They decide he should pretend to be a Knight so they can win money to survive. I'll let you guys figure out what else happens.

It soo sad that Heath Ledger is gone because I know he could have should us so much more of his talent like he did in this movie! What a great actor and soo cute :)

This is a funny line in the movie. it happens right after a serious argument between William and his love interest Jocelyn. She refers to the lance as a stick and one of William's best friends sarcastically corrects her. 

This is Williams love Jocelyn teaching dancing a the ball.

This is Geoffry. He has a gambling problem and is found by the boys without his clothes because he lost them in a bet. They take him in and he helps hide their secret. Very entertaining character. 

William before as he is coming up with the idea to pretend to be a Knight. 

One Direction - Story of My Life

So I'm not crazy over One Direction but I definitely think they are a great group. I really love this song and the artistic value of the video. When I opened this video there had been 31,808,569 views and it was only released on Nov 3rd. I wish I would have done this before Jon came yesterday. Does the number of views on YouTube includes the number of views on the website? I think it all links back to the YouTube video but I'm not sure. 

Story of My Life

I went to their website to learn a little bit more about them and I found a behind the scenes video of Story of My Life. Its short but its pretty cool to see the guys making the video and how much fun they had in the process. 

Story of My Life-- Behind The Scenes

If you don't know anything about One Direction they are a group of 5 guys who were discovered my Simon Cowell in the UK X Factor competition in 2010. They all auditioned individually and did not know one another before the auditions. The X Factor judges decided the the group of boys would be a hit together and they were right! The boys only got 3rd place in the competition but in 2012 they hit the top 200 Billbord at #1 on the charts! 

Its really amazing how quickly a person or a group can become famous. Their lives changed almost instantly. It kind of makes you think about why so many stars who traveled to fame so quickly end up in rehab. I hope this doesn't happen to this group. 

Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson, Niall Horan, Harry Styles and Zayn Malik.

Celebrity Costumes 2013!

Well of course Chris and I are celebrities!

We ran into each other at a Halloween party last week! I was a lumber jack NOT a thug  and Chris was a referee. (Does anyone else think that word is spelled weird?)

We had so much fun and saw some crazy costumes. In all honesty I just wasn't feeling creative so I put on a Carhartt hat and a flannel shirt. 

I was creeping online and saw some great celebrity costumes so I thought I'd share. 

The Rock as The Hulk

Lea Michelle and friend

Hugh Hefner and Wife as Miley Cyrus and Robin Thick

Ellen as Nicki Minaj

Fergie and Josh Duhamel

Danielle Jonas as Hotdog lol

Honey Boo Boo's Family

I dont even know.... Gross

Heidi Klum

This is awesome! I wish I knew how long it took for her to do this!

Joan Rivers

Fat Miley Cyrus- I personally do not like Joan Rivers. Shes annoying and inappropriate almost all the time. 

John Stamos as the devil. 

Neil Patrick Harris and Family as Alice in Wonderland

Neil Patrick Harris and Family

Paris Hilton as Miley Cyrus

Perez Hilton as Miley Cyrus

Sandra Bullock and son

Snookie and J-Wow

Mariah Carey, Nick Cannon and Twins as Goldie locks and the three bears. 

Brody Jenner

Snookie and family as Wizard of Oz

Julianne Hough  as Orange is the New Black character

This one was very controversy because of the recent black face comments made through twitter. Julianne felt terrible and released an apology for her costume. 

Here is an article about the racist twitter comments made by two teenage girls if you have not read it. Its terrible. I feel bad that Julianne was put in a bad position because of the way these girls acted. 

http://newsone.com/2748798/white-teen-blackface-twitter/

Captain Phillips

I went and saw Captain Phillips at the movie theater with my mom this past weekend. I was such a great movie! Tom Hanks and Barkhad Abdi stole the show! The completely consumed themselves into these character both physically and emotionally. The last ten minutes is amazing and will bring you to tears.

What I don't get, is when I read headlines like this on the newspaper... "Some saying real Captain Phillips was not like character portrayed in new film"

This article basically says that says that Captain Phillips was not the true hero depicted on film. He had been warned by the crew to not get so close to the Somali waters but he didn't listen to them,  For this reason there are 11 crew members that want to sue. 

I just think all of this is silly because the film was amazing and the credit should be given to the film makers for making it so well and for giving us a little bit of an idea of what happened in our history. Credit should also be given to The actors for giving us such and emotionally intense film. Barkhad Abdi was a bad pirate but still I felt sorry for him. He played his role so well and I just felt for him and his situation. 

I wont go any further before I give everything away but I hope you all see the film and read the article and give me your feed back. 

Noah

ACBU has invited Noah to come preform at Bradley this weekend!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsvlsuLau5c

http://noahguthrie.com/

I'm so excited for this! My little brother discovered this Noah video I''m Sexy and I know it a couple of years ago and we were so surprised that this awesome voice came out of this kid. For some reason his appearance and his voice just don't match up to me. Them more and more I watch him it makes sense but at first we we so surprised. Noah does a lot of covers! You should all check him out online and/or come by this weekend to see him perform. Its in the student center ballroom. There will be hot chocolate. BYOM (Bring your own mug!)

Glee #RememberingCory

So I finally got myself to watch the Glee episode where Finn's sudden death is announced.... It took me almost two weeks to get myself to watch it because I was worried about how sad it was going to be.

We should probably all know by now that Cory Monteith passed away over the summer from a drug overdose. I followed this story a lot because I am a big Glee fan and Finn Hudson was definitely my favorite character by far.

Not only did Finn have a great relationship with his on screen girlfriend Rachel but he also had an off screen relationship with the star behind Rachel, Lea Michelle. This episode was so hard to watch because it was so real. Lea Michelle and the rest of the Glee cast had to film a very personal mourning period and play it for viewers all around the world.

I'm not judging them for their choice to follow through with this but I don't know how a person can physically do that. If you have ever gone through a loss you know it is definitely not something you really want the whole world to view.

The episode did not yet say how the character Finn passed they have only said that he is gone.

Since this goodbye episode there has been another episode which was probably equally as sad but I have yet to watch that. Please don't spoil it if you have.